ARH 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Court Painter, Tenebrism, Counter-Reformation
28 Apr 2016
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More realistic tendencies compared to the mannerists. Baroque = dramatic and choosing moment during the fact. Audience back then would have interpreted it this way: notice other jug is more ornate, this depicts the exchange, right in the middle of the moment, kid looking at his right chest, not eye. That was where jesus was wounded by the romans = waterseller = jesus: counter reformation wanted these kinds of paintings that were emotional and religious. Feast of bacchus (seeing the theme again: left grouping. The ancients and we see one is bleached out so we can tell who the god is. Figure reclining looks like figure from sistine chapel (creation of adam) No use of tenebrism after his trip to italy. Figure layout looks like perugino"s delivery of the keys. 8 shows they are happy after drinking, not a condemnation of drinking: mix of realist and classicizing tendencies.
