Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture
Written by a leading scholar, Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/e is the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries. The text engagingly and effectively combines analytical discussions with an expansive collection of vivid, illuminating illustrations that teach students the major developments of art, painting, and architecture that emerged from seventeenth-century Western Europe, as well as...
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Written by a leading scholar, Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/e is the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries. The text engagingly and effectively combines analytical discussions with an expansive collection of vivid, illuminating illustrations that teach students the major developments of art, painting, and architecture that emerged from seventeenth-century Western Europe, as well as the socio-political and cultural background of the period.
PrefaceIntroductionPolitics, Religion, and ArtThe Economics of ArtGeography, Cosmology, and AstronomyConcepts of the Body, Ancient and ModernEducation and LiteracyArtists’ Changing Status and TrainingNew Subjects, New GenresTransforming the Renaissance and “Baroque” ArtChapter 1 ItalyThe Decline of Mannerism Architecture and City Planning in Rome Bolognese Painting: the Carracci Reform Painting in Rome Annibale Carracci in Rome Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio Caravaggio’s Italian Followers The Carracci Succession in Rome and Bologna Architecture and City Planning in Rome Italian Sculpture Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Early Career Bernini, Algardi, and the Portrait Bust The Competition: Alessandro Algardi and Francesco Duquesnoy Bernini and Urban VIII Algardi and Bernini during the Papacy of Innocent X Painting in Rome Pietro da Cortona Andrea Sacchi Pietro da Cortona in Florence and Rome Carlo Maratta Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)Painting in NaplesChapter 2 FlandersPeter Paul Rubens Rubens in Italy, 1600—1608Rubens in Antwerp, 1609—1622Rubens, Diplomat and Artist, 1622—1630Rubens’s Last Decade, 1630—1640Anthony van Dyck Van Dyck in England and Italy, 1621—1627Van Dyck’s Second Antwerp Period, 1627—1632Van Dyck in England, 1632—1641Jacob Jordaens Still-Life and Genre PaintersChapter 3 SpainSpanish Architecture Spanish Sculpture Spanish Painting, 1600—1650Jusepe de Ribera Francisco de Zurbarán Diego Velázquez in Seville Velázquez in Madrid, 1623—1648Velázquez in Italy, 1648—1651Velázquez in Madrid, 1651—1660Spanish Painting, 1650—1700Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Juan de Valdés Leal and Claudio CoelloChapter 4 FranceArchitecture and City Planning Paris: The Pont-Neuf, Places Dauphine and Royale and the Palais du Luxembourg Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin: 1630—1660Expansion under Louis XIV; The Louvre and Versailles French Sculpture Pierre Puget François Girardon and Antoine Coysevox French Painting and Printmaking Simon Vouet Valentin de Boulogne Georges de la Tour Simon Vouet’s Successors Philippe de Champaigne Nicolas Poussin in Paris and Rome Poussin after 1630Poussin and Landscape Painting Poussin’s Last Works Claude Lorrain and French Landscape Painting Charles Le Brun and the AcademyChapter 5 The Dutch RepublicHaarlem and the Creation of a Dutch National Style The Haarlem Mannerists The Utrecht “Caravaggisti”Frans Hals and Dutch Portraiture Town Planning and Architectural Developments in Haarlem and Amsterdam Painting in Amsterdam Rembrandt van Rijn and his School Rembrandt’s Early Years in Leiden Rembrandt in Amsterdam Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits Rembrandt in Amsterdam, 1639—42Rembrandt’s Landscape Prints and Drawings Rembrandt after 1642Rembrandt’s Artistic Heirs Dutch Genre Painting before 1650Judith Leyster Dutch Genre Painting after 1650Johannes Vermeer Jan Steen Landscape Painting before 1650Early Tonal Landscape Painting Landscape Painting after 1650Chapter 6 EnglandEnglish Painting before van Dyck Portrait Painting in England after van Dyck Palladianism and Architectural Planning in London Inigo Jones Christopher WrenEpilogueNotesTimechartBibliographyPicture CreditsIndex
