ARTH 12001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peter Paul Rubens, Baldachin, Hunt Oil Company
7 May 2019
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During the 17th century, flanders, comprising the southern part of the low country. Artists were highly skilled at drawing and painting the human figure from every possible. Baroque refers to the 17th century period and style of european art. Artwork was typically exuberant, large, ornate, and filled with swirling lines and intense color and light. angle, delighting in theatrical and extravagant artworks. Tenebrism: the use of strong, exaggerated contrasts of light and dark in a picture. Baldachin: a canopy of wood, stone or fabric over an altar, throne or doorway. Baroque in flanders, holland and spain provinces, was catholic and under hapsburg and spanish domination. Holland, the northern part of the low country, had gained independence from spain and had become protestant and democratic. These changes meant that art in holland was no longer financed by the church, court or nobility. Dutch artists were mainly supported by middle class customers who wanted paintings for their homes.
