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High Renaissance & Baroque

By ramieve
  • Period: 1490 to 1527

    The High Renaissance in Italy

  • Leonardo da Vinci, Mona LisaMona Lisa, 1503–19, oil on wood panel, Louvre, Paris
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci, Mona LisaMona Lisa, 1503–19, oil on wood panel, Louvre, Paris

  • Period: to

    Spanish Baroque Art

    • intense naturalism -focuses on everyday life -psychological presence -religious symbolism in still life -royal and catholic propaganda -bodegon / representation of common objects of daily life, most of the time including food / still life images -major artists include: Diego Velazquez, Francisco de Zurbaran, and Josepe (Jose) de Ribera
  • Diego Velazquez, Kitchen Scene, 1618-1622, Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 104.2 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Spanish Baroque

    Diego Velazquez, Kitchen Scene, 1618-1622, Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 104.2 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Spanish Baroque

    This type of artwork is known as a bodegon, given the focus on everyday life scene. This artwork shows an African American woman at work, she is surrounded by kitchen objects like a jug a pot and a pestle mortar. Probably to emphasize that she is a type of maid who is doing her daily tasks.
    https://www.pubhist.com/w32194
    https://www.pubhist.com/w32194
  • Diego Velazquez, Philip IV in Fraga, 1644, oil on canvas, 129.8 x 99.4 cm, Frick Collection, New York, Spanish Baroque

    Diego Velazquez, Philip IV in Fraga, 1644, oil on canvas, 129.8 x 99.4 cm, Frick Collection, New York, Spanish Baroque

    Diego Rodriguez de Silvia y Velazquez worked most of his career working for Philip IV as his personal Painter. This piece of art was created to commemorate the Kings successful military campaign in Aragon, where he recovered the city of Lerida from the rebels/French. This is consider part of the Spanish Baroque style given the deep tenebrism that is being.