humanities_day_8.docx
Humanities day 7
Baroque: 1600-1700
Italian, Counter Reformation: Caravaggio, Bernini
French Baroque: Louis the 14th, Versailles (Propaganda)
Dutch: Rembrandt, Vermeer
Spanish: Velazques
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Vermeer paintings are full of silence & light. A lot of his pictures involve a woman at a window, alone, reading a letter. The dutch were fascinated with lenses & light. The Netherlands is a country where the microscope was invented. He used a Camera Obscura, point at the pictures to get light and gives out real texture, makes the lips moist etc. Girl with a Pearl Earring “The Dutch Mona Lisa” Going to the Red Sea, they were bringing back/finding a lot of pearls and sell. Teenage girl becomes a housemaid at Vermeer’s house, then Vermeer fell in love vice versa.
Spanish Baroque
The great painter Velazquez (top 10 ever lived) enormous variety, official court painter to the king & queen of spain. Similar to Vermeer, used great texture.
Las Meninas (like el nino how u pronounce it) it means ladies in weddng (or wedding?) virtuosity means showing off and he had it. To show off messages like the mirror of the king & queen and the map of the pregnant woman.
The significant of this era was the introduction of science and it was established in Europe. Science/Physics/Astronomy etc.
1700-1800
The Enlightment
Age of Reason
Big impact on Humanities. Physics and Astronomy were established in the 1600s. The Enlightment means (superior and understanding). Historically, very important time because this is how the United States was born. The Enlightment originally took part in France and not Spain because it was falling behind (dealing with southwest) France becomes in literature the major enlightment country. Then shifts to England. French humanities were dominating and they were called Les Philosophes (group of intellectuals) very important in the history of ideas. Known for tolerance, science, civil liberties, reason, secular (these characteristics have in common = the USA). The names are Voltaire and Diderot.
Voltaire was a writer and an opponent of religion and aristocracy. His famous work (Candide)
Age of expanding knowledge and technological breakthroughs. Diderot came up with a prototype of the internet (French Encyclopedia) This was an important tool to put a lot of tools within the humanities in the 1800s. Religion was looked upon superstition and science was enthusiasm. The conflict between science & religion began at the time of 1700s (more secular and less sacred)
Secular means here now not hereafter.
In paintings of the time, the emphasis was on pleasure (pursuit of happiness)
example of this painting is Fragonard “the swing”. Paintings were very secular at that point, celebrated pleasure.
Another example boucher “Diana”. Another famous painter specialized in female nude. Diana was the goddess of the hunt symbolized of the moon (hence the pearl crescent her necklace) Reading books in the painting was a sign of being enlightened.
Painting is dominated by the French and key was female nudes or pleasurable sujects. From the serious religious pictures from Caravaggio, etc. Long away from that.
1789 French Revolution
Napolean was a self made man, not a traditional man of the aristocracy.
The romantic period bounces off the Enlightment period. For the midterm focus on the renaissance & baroque.
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