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European Art & Culture in the 17 th Century Unit One/Ch. 15 AP European History Slide 2 Mannerism Break down of Renaissance principles (balance, harmony, moderation) Deliberate distortion Michelangelo, Pontormo, Parmigianino, El Greco Slide 3 Jacopo Pontormo, Entombment, 1528 Santa Felicita Florence, Italy Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time by Bronzino, c. 1545; National Gallery, London. Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women, 1583, Florence, Italy Slide 4 El Greco, Laocoon, 1614, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Slide 5 Baroque Began in Rome in late 16thC Catholic Reformation Classical ideals with spiritual feeling Peter Paul Rubens The Last Judgement 1617 Slide 6 Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640) Peter Paul Rubens The Disembarkation at Marseilles 1625 Peter Paul Rubens The Lion Hunt 1621 Slide 7 Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 1680) The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa 1652 Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome, Italy Piazza San Pietro 1667 Vatican City Slide 8 Slide 9 Baldacchino, 1623 - 34 St. Peters Basilica Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, 1651 Piazza Navona Rome, Italy Slide 10 Caravaggio (1572 1610) Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1601. Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome. Slide 11 Trevi Fountain, 1762 Nicola Salvi Rome, Italy Slide 12 French Classicism 17 th C France replaced Italy as cultural leader of Europe Return to classical values of High Renaissance Louis XIVs Style Versailles Nicolas Poussin The Death of Germanicus 1628 Slide 13 Slide 14 Dutch Realism Coincided with Golden Age Realistic portrayal of everyday secular life Johannes Vermeer (1632 1675), Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 1669) Judith Leyster A Boy and the Girl with an Eel and at Cat Slide 15 Rembrandt The Syndics of the Drapers Guild 1662 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Night Watch 1642 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Slide 16 Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earing 1665 The Hague The Geographer 1669 Frankfurt, Germany Slide 17 European Theatre Elizabethan England William Shakespeare Spain Lope de Vega France Racine, Moliere