Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture

For courses in 17th Century and Baroque Art. 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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Politics, Religion, and Art The Economics of Art Geography, Cosmology, and Astronomy Concepts of the Body, Ancient and Modern Education and Literacy Artists’ Changing Status and Training New Subjects, New Genres Transforming the Renaissance and “Baroque” Art Chapter 1 Italy The 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 Naples Chapter 2 Flanders Peter Paul Rubens Rubens in Italy, 1600—1608 Rubens in Antwerp, 1609—1622 Rubens, Diplomat and Artist, 1622—1630 Rubens’s Last Decade, 1630—1640 Anthony van Dyck Van Dyck in England and Italy, 1621—1627 Van Dyck’s Second Antwerp Period, 1627—1632 Van Dyck in England, 1632—1641 Jacob Jordaens Still-Life and Genre Painters Chapter 3 Spain Spanish Architecture Spanish Sculpture Spanish Painting, 1600—1650 Jusepe de Ribera Francisco de Zurbarán Diego Velázquez in Seville Velázquez in Madrid, 1623—1648 Velázquez in Italy, 1648—1651 Velázquez in Madrid, 1651—1660 Spanish Painting, 1650—1700 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Juan de Valdés Leal and Claudio Coello Chapter 4 France Architecture and City Planning Paris: The Pont-Neuf, Places Dauphine and Royale and the Palais du Luxembourg Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin: 1630—1660 Expansion 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 1630 Poussin and Landscape Painting Poussin’s Last Works Claude Lorrain and French Landscape Painting Charles Le Brun and the Academy Chapter 5 The Dutch Republic Haarlem 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—42 Rembrandt’s Landscape Prints and Drawings Rembrandt after 1642 Rembrandt’s Artistic Heirs Dutch Genre Painting before 1650 Judith Leyster Dutch Genre Painting after 1650 Johannes Vermeer Jan Steen Landscape Painting before 1650 Early Tonal Landscape Painting Landscape Painting after 1650 Chapter 6 England English Painting before van Dyck Portrait Painting in England after van Dyck Palladianism and Architectural Planning in London Inigo Jones Christopher Wren Epilogue Notes Timechart Bibliography Picture Credits Index