European Artists: 1450-1700

A survey of notable painters and styles

Renaissance

• Italian Renaissance– Masaccio– Piero della Francesca– Fra Angelico– Botticelli– Leonardo da Vinci– Michelangelo– Donatello– Raphael

Masaccio

Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation

Piero della Francesca:

The Resurrec-

tion

Botticelli: The Birth of Venus

Fra Angelico: Nolo Me Tangere

Leonardo da Vinci: Madonna of the Rocks

London Paris

Michelangelo: The Holy

Family with the Infant St.

John the Baptist

Michelangelo: David

Donatello: David

Raphael: St. Catherine of Alexandria

Raphael: The School of Athens

Renaissance

• Northern Renaissance– Dürer– Jan van Eyck– Hieronymous Bosch– Hans Holbein

DürerFour Horsemen of the Apocalypse

CompareSelf-Portrait, DürerChrist Pantokrator,

6th century Byzantine icon

Bosch: The Garden of

Earthly Delights

Jan van Eyck: Ghent Altarpiece

Jan van Eyck: Arnolfini Portrait

Hans Holbein – PortraitistAnne of Cleves Henry VIII

Hans Holbein: Erasmus

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Battle Between Carnival and Lent

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Wedding

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Hunters in the Snow

Spanish Golden Age

• The height of Spanish power in Europe• Great painters and unique styles• El Greco - Mannerism (earlier)• Velazquez (later)

El Greco: The Burial of Count

Orgaz

El Greco: View of Toledo

El Greco: The Holy Trinity

Velazquez: Las Meninas

Velazquez: Venus and Cupid

Velazquez

Pope Innocent X Philip IV

Velazquez: The Drunkards

Velazquez:The Water-Bearer

of Seville

Baroque

• Caravaggio• Rubens• Rembrandt van Rijn

Caravaggio

The Conversion of St. Paul The Martyrdom of St. Peter

Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus

Rubens: The Elevation of the

Cross

Rubens: Daniel in the Lions Den

RubensThe Disembarkment at Marseilles The Three Graces

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Return of the Prodigal Son Samson and Delilah

Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch

Vermeer: The Allegory of

Painting

Vermeer: The Geographer

Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl

Earring

French Classicism

• Nicholas Poussin

Nicholas Poussin: The Rape of the Sabine Women

Nicholas Poussin: Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicholas PoussinThe Arcadian Shepherds: “Et in Arcadia Ego”

Rococo

• Fragonard• Watteau• Boucher• Gainsborough (influenced by Rococo)

Fragonard: The Swing

Watteau: The Music Party

Boucher: Vulcan

presenting the

weapons for Aeneas to Venus

Gainsborough:Blue Boy