Peter Paul Rubens, Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici, 1621-‐1625. Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701. Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, ca. 1655. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642. Johannes Vermeer, View of DelJ, c. 1662. Pieter Claesz, SLll Life with Tazza, 1636. Reading Stokstad, 711-‐735 Range ~1600-‐1700 Baroque Terms/Concepts Vanitas, genre scene, tazza, Roemer, regent queen, allegory, personificaSon, puT, fleur-‐de-‐lis, Calvinism, camera obscura,
What significance did this type of subject have in the Netherlands? 2. What are some key differences and similariSes between the art of Protestants and Catholics? 3. What are the “Vanitas”? What religious and cultural significance might such works have? 4. What is the increased regard for landscape in painSng? What is the significance given to the landscapes of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain?