Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Landschaft(landscape) first emerged in German literature as a characterization of an artistic genre(category of art) when Dürer ...

Bruegel’s Netherlandish Proverbs (FIG. 23-20) depicts a Nether- landish village populated by a wide range of people (nobility, p ...

COLEGIO DE SAN GREGORIODuring the 15th century and well into the 16th, a Late Gothic style of architecture, the Plateresque, pre ...

was the palatial residence of Francisco de Montejo the Younger (1508–1565), the Spanish conqueror of the Yucatán who founded Mér ...

EL GRECO Doménikos Theotokópou- los, called El Greco(ca. 1547–1614), was born on Crete but emigrated to Italy as a young man. In ...

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE ❚Widespread dissatisfaction with the Church in Rome led to the Protestant Reformation, splitting Christendom i ...

24-1Gianlorenzo Bernini,interior of the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy, 1645–1652. Bernini was the quin ...

A rt historians traditionally describe 17th-century European art as Baroque,but the term is prob- lematic because the period enc ...

reestablish its preeminence. He augmented the papal treasury and in- tended to rebuild Rome as an even more magnificent showcase ...

totally new concept for Saint Peter’s. Moreover, the two outer bays with bell towers were not part of his original concept. Henc ...

during the Counter-Reformation. Bernini himself referred to his colonnades as the welcoming arms of the church. Beyond their sym ...

embossing) of the bronze casts, he contracted out much of the work for the project to experienced bronzecasters and sculptors. T ...

Verrocchio’s Davids and is more emotionally charged even than Michelangelo’s (FIG. 22-14). The tension in David’s face augments ...

theatricality and sensory impact were useful vehicles for achieving Counter-Reformation goals. Bernini was a devout Catholic, wh ...

CHAPEL OF SAINT IVOBorromini car- ried the unification of interior space even further in the Chapel of Saint Ivo (FIG. 24-12) in ...

Powerful pilasters restrain the forces that seem to push the bulging forms outward. Buttresses above the pilasters curve upward ...

LOVES OF THE GODSAmong Carracci’s most notable works is his decoration of the Palazzo Farnese gallery (FIG. 24-16) in Rome. Card ...

Annibale Carracci, felt that Caravaggio’s refusal to emulate the mod- els of his distinguished predecessors threatened the whole ...

Caravaggio’s figures are still heroic with powerful bodies and clearly delineated contours in the Renaissance tradition, but the ...

here holds Christ’s legs in the foreground), the stark use of darks and lights, and the invitation to the viewer to participate ...