SPANISH BAROQUE Francisco de Zurbaran Saint Serapion, 1628.

Zurbaran was also influenced by Caravaggio and the Caravaggistic

style.

Saint Serapion, who participated in the Third Crusade of 1196, was

martyred while preaching the Gospel to Muslims. According to one account

of his martyrdom, the monk was tied to a tree, tortured, and decapitated.

In this work, Zurbaran conveys the fierce devotion of Catholic Spain

In the painting, two tree branches are barely visible in the background. The

small note on the right identifies him for the viewers.

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Diego VelazquezWater Carrier of Seville,

Wellington Museum, London 1619.

Created when he was only twenty years old, this masterpiece impressively

displays the command that Velazquez had for his craft. He rendered he figures

with clarity and dignity, and his use of tenebrism shows an intense interest in

Caravaggio’s work.

The contrast of darks and lights, along with the plebeian nature of the figures,

reveal the influence of Caravaggio, whose work Velazquez had studied.

The artist present this genre scene (one from everyday life) with such care and

conviction it seems to convey a deeper significance.

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Diego VelazquezWater Carrier of Seville,

Wellington Museum, London 1619.

Created when he was only twenty years old, this masterpiece impressively

displays the command that Velazquez had for his craft. He rendered he figures

with clarity and dignity, and his careful depiction of the water jugs in the

foreground, complete with droplets of water, adds to the scene’s credibility.

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Diego VelazquezKing Phillip IV of Spain

(Fraga Philip), 1644.

Also known as the Fraga Philip, because it was painted in the town of Fraga in Aragon. Such a designation differentiates the many royal portraits

from one another.

Philip IV appears as a military leader, arrayed in red and sliver campaign dress. Because the king was not a

commanding presence and because he had inherited the large Hapsburg

jaw (the result of dynastic inbreeding), Velazquez had to find creative ways to

“ennoble” the monarch. He succeeded by focusing attention on

the dazzling military regalia while not idealizing Philips appearance.

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Diego VelazquezKing Phillip IV of Spain,1656.

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Carlos II (King Philip’s inbred son Charles, with a serious case of the Hapsburg Jaw)

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SPANISH BAROQUE Diego Velazquez Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656.

Velazquez painted his greatest masterpiece, Las Meninas, after he

returned to Spain. In it, Velazquez showed his mastery of both form and content.

The painter repreented himself in his studio standing before a large canvas, on

which he may be painting this very picture or, perhaps, the portraits of King Philip IV

and Queen Mariana, whose reflections appear in the mirror on the far wall.

The young Infanta (princess) Margarita appears in the foreground with her two

maids-in-waiting, her favorite dwarfs, and a large dog. Velazquez extended the

pictorial depth of his composition in both directions. The open doorway and its

ascending staircase lead the eye beyond the artist’s studio, and the mirror device

and the outward glances of several of the figures incorporate the viewer’s space into

the picture as well.

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Diego Velazquezdetail of the artists, Las Meninas

(The Maids of Honor) 1656

SPANISH BAROQUE Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656. SPANISH BAROQUE

SPANISH BAROQUE Pablo Picasso, Las Meninas, 1957.

TOP 10Greatest Paintingsof all time…

According to art experts at Illustrated London News, 1985.

Rembrandt van Rijn

Return of the Prodigal Son

1669

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10

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. CUBISM

9

Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515. HIGH GERM RENAISSANCE

8

Giotto, The Lamentation, 1305. LATE GOTHIC

7

El Greco

Burial of Count Orgaz

1586

HIGH SPANISH RENAISSANCE /

MANNERISM

6

Piero Della Francesca

Resurrection

1463

EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

5

Botticelli, La Primavera, 1482. EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

4

Giorgione

The Tempest

1508

HIGH ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

3

Jan Vermeer, View of Delft, c1661. DUTCH BAROQUE

2

Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656. SPANISH BAROQUE

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Peter Paul RubensAnthony Van Dyck

Jan Brueghel

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Peter Paul RubensSelf-Portrait, c1623.

Paul Ruebensa.k.a. Pee Wee Herman

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Peter Paul Rubens, Raising of the Cross, 1609-1610. FLEMISH BAROQUE

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Peter Paul Rubens, Decent From the Cross, 1611-1612.

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Peter Paul Rubens, Erection of the Cross, 1609-1610. FLEMISH BAROQUE

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Peter Paul Rubens.St. Sebastian. c.1618,

Oil on canvas.

Andrea Mantegna,St. Sebastian. c.1480.

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Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.Allegory of Sight (Part of the Five Senses series). c. 1618.

FLEMISH BAROQUE Peter Paul Rubens, The Judgement of Paris, c1636.

FLEMISH BAROQUE Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Marie d’Medici, 1622.

The Marie de' Medici Cycle is a series of 21 paintings by Peter Paul Rubens commissioned by Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. Rubens received the commission in the autumn of 1621. Twenty-one of the paintings depict Marie's own struggles and triumphs in life. The remaining three are portraits of herself and her parents. The paintings now hang in the Louvre in Paris.

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Peter Paul Rubens,Marie Arrives At Marseilles,1622-1625.

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FLEMISH BAROQUE Peter Paul Rubens, Marie Arrives At Marseilles, 1622-1625.

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Peter Paul Rubens,Henry IV Receiving the Portrait

of Marie d’Medici, 1621-1625.

FLEMISH BAROQUE Peter Paul Rubens, The Marie d’Medici Cycle, 1622.

FLEMISH BAROQUE Anthony Van Dyck, Self-Portrait with Sunflower.

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Anthony Van Dyck,Charles I at the Hunt, 1635.

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