A History of European Art

of the same scene in that the father welcomes his son with an embrace. To the left, we see a child and a man bringing in the cal ...

Lecture 36: Baroque Painting in Spain victor to the vanquished. Spinola would normally be mounted; instead, the men are on equal ...

It is also possible that Velázquez is painting something else, a subject that didn’t require the presence of models, and the kin ...

Lecture 36: Baroque Painting in Spain Francisco de Zurbarán: Saint Serapion, 1628, oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 41” (1.2 x 1 m), Wadswo ...

Brown and Garrido, Velázquez. Tomlinson, From El Greco to Goya. Using the paintings discussed in this lecture, describe El Grec ...

Lecture 37: Louis XIV and Versailles Louis XIV and Versailles ................................................................. ...

king. In their palatial imprisonment, their estates were left unattended and their power base was out of reach. Louis’ Superinte ...

Lecture 37: Louis XIV and Versailles aligned. This arrangement is called en¿ lade and, in the winter, resulted in cold winds blo ...

on Horseback by Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720). This relief depicts Louis XIV as himself, not in the guise of Alexander the Great, ...

Lecture 37: Louis XIV and Versailles seems vulnerable and inert in this painting; the other actors in the troop are below and be ...

Chateau de Versailles, 16611710, Versailles, France. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Louis XIV, 1665, marble, 31 ½” H (80 cm H), Musée Na ...

Lecture 38: French Art in the 18 th Century French Art in the 18th Century ..................................................... ...

The painting is created with a high degree of illusionism. The windowsill and the vine that partially frames it press against th ...

Lecture 38: French Art in the 18 th Century the composition, whose unity is ¿ nalized by the light that grazes the handle and ri ...

from ceiling but allows them to À ow together. The windows push toward the ceiling; the structure is masked by the decoration. T ...

Lecture 38: French Art in the 18 th Century in other countries—in architecture in Germany, for example, and in some paintings ma ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Denis Diderot, c. 1765, oil on canvas, 32 ¼ x 25 ½” (82 x 65 cm), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. The Mee ...

Lecture 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism .............................. ...

a record of some of the key events of modern history, from the French Revolution through the coronation of Napoleon as emperor. ...

Lecture 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism Te r ro r. The committee condemned to the guillotine many people perceive ...