Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture » (2nd Edition)

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.

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