Two current news related to 19th century art

The following are two current news related to what we've recently studied in class and the projects you've made: 

- Yesterday Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam reopened, after seven months closed. The museum has prepared a special exhibition to celebrate the reopening. It's called Van Gogh at work and is focused on how the Dutch genius worked and improved his technique. Here you have some interesting links, just in case you can learn more about the exhibition, the different periods of the life of Van Gogh and the letters he wrote to different people, especially to his brother Theo (many of them include drawings and sketches)

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=309018&lang=en

http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=425&lang=en

http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/

Source: http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0077v.htm

And this link includes all Van Gogh works of art: 

http://www.vggallery.com/

- The second news refers to today's celebration in Madrid. The 2nd of May is holiday in the autonomous community of Madrid. The date of the official holiday of the community was elected due to its relation with the uprising of the people of Madrid against the French Army on the 2nd of May 1808. Today the workers of the public health system in Madrid have performed a special version of the shootings Francisco de Goya depicted on his painting The Third of May 1808. They have gathered outside El Prado Museum to protest against the privatization of several public health services. Here you have the photographs: 

Source: http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2013/05/02/album/1367494774_494715.html#1367494774_494715_1367494813

Goya's series of etchings

These are some links with very complete information about Goya's etchings: 

http://www.museodelprado.es/goya-en-el-prado/

http://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/goya.aspx

http://goya.unizar.es/InfoGoya/Work/Grabado.html

And here you have one of my favourite etchings, from the Caprices' series. It's Caprice Number 37 and was  published for the first time in 1799. Its title is  Will the disciple be wiser?(¿Si sabrá más el discípulo?). 

Source: http://www.museodelprado.es/goya-en-el-prado/obras/ficha/goya/si-sabra-mas-el-discipulo/?tx_gbgonline_pi1%5Bgocollectionids%5D=26&tx_gbgonline_pi1%5Bgosort%5D=d

On it Goya criticized the education of his time. He was influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment and trusted in education as the best way of changing and modernizing society. The notes that accompanied this etching were the following: "Braying is the only think a donkey teacher can teach" ("Un maestro burro no puede enseñar más que a rebuznar"), "Donkey teachers can only get little donkeys" ("Los maestros burros no pueden sacar más que borriquillos"). 

Guidelines for your art projects and one example: A bar at the Folies Bergère, by Édouard Manet

Here you have the scheme to prepare your art projects. The text you write will have to include this basic information 

- Title of the painting

- Image and source

- Author

- Chronology

- Material used and dimensions

- Present location of the painting

- Information about the person or institution who commissioned the work of art or bought it.

- Description of the work of art: what is represented, positions of the figures, colours, shapes, use of light, technique (brush-strokes, movement...)

- Meaning of the work of art: symbols used (if there are), purpose of the artist...

- Why it can be considered to be a work of art included in the style it belongs to.

- Additional information: relation with the work of art with other works of the same artist, importance in art history, influence in other artists, curious information

- Why you like this painting

- Sources of information you've used 

Useful advice: 

- First, look for the information in Spanish. You have to make sure that you understand all the information before starting to write your final text. 

- When you have understood the information, check different sources in English and look up for the words you will need to explain what you want to say

- Prepare a previous scheme and be sure that you don´t forget any part. 

- Review the main features of the style and try to find them on your work of art. 

- Don´t copy and paste (I will discover it)

- Don´t use the computer translator (Again, I will discover it)

- Write simple and understandable sentences

- Copy the links of the websites you visit to include them at the end of your explanation and file them on a Word document. This way, you won't lose time looking for the links you've used when you finish your project. 

- The names of the paintings have to be written in Italic font (cursiva) and with all the words in capital letters (nouns and verbs, not prepositions). For example: Saturn Devouring His Son

If you need any help, please contact by e-mail or during the break time in the high school.

Where to find good information: 

- Museums' websites

- Smart History: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

- About.com: http://arthistory.about.com/

This is an example of what you should do. You don't have to include the titles of every part. I've included them so that you can better understand how to organize the information: 

 A BAR AT THE FOLIES BERGÈRE

Source: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/fourpaintings/manet/picture/the_sketch.html

TECHNICAL DATA 

The painting I’ve chosen is A Bar at the Folies Bergère, by Édouard Manet. It was painted in 1882 and exhibited in the Paris Salon of the same year. This was Manet’s last important painting. It’s an oil painting on canvas and its dimensions are 96 cm x 130 cam. The painting was bought by Manet’s neighbor, the composer Émmanuel Chabrier, In 1926 the painting was bought by Samuel Courtauld, an art collector who founded the Courtauld Art Institute in London, where the painting is located at the moment. Courtauld paid 22,600 pounds for it. 

DESCRIPTION (explain what you see) 

The painting represents an interior scene at the Folies Bergère, the first Paris music hall, where customers could have a drink and watch a show. The central figure of the painting is a barmaid (identified as a woman could Suzon), who is standing behind a marble bar full of bottles, a glass with a white rose and a plate with oranges. There is a mirror behind her, which shows the audience watching a performance. On the right of the mirror we can also see the image of the barmaid reflected from the back and a man she’s speaking with. On the top left of the mirror we can also see two green feet belonging to a trapeze artist who is performing above the audience. The background reflected on the mirror shows that the Folies Bergère is full of people enjoying the show. 

ANALYSIS (explain what is not evident at first sight) 

Manet represented a real scene of modern life in a real place and a theme considered to be scandalous, because the Folies Bergère was famous as a place where men went to pick up prostitutes. Barmaids sold drinks and also sold themselves. The barmaid of the painting is a real person, known as Suzon, who worked at the Folies-Bergère in the early 1880s. Manet made different preparatory sketches of the painting at the Folies Bergère, but Suzon went to his studio to pose for the painting. The oranges in the foreground indicate that the barmaid is a prostitute, because Manet usually associated oranges with prostitution in his paintings.

Manet's preparatory sketch for the painting

Source: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/fourpaintings/manet/picture/the_sketch.html

The foreground of the painting is very detailed, while the background is blurrier, painted with an impressionist technique (loose brush-strokes and colour stains). Even the brand of the beer bottles can be identified: the red triangle on the label belonged to Bass Pale Ale, and English beer. The presence of English and not German beer in the foreground has been interpreted as an evidence of anti-German sentiment in France after the Franco-Prussian War. 

The composition using the image reflected on a mirror evokes the influence of Velázquez’ s Meninas. Manet admired Velázquez and used the same play with the images: the main figure of the painting looking directly to the viewer and the image reflected on the mirror as if it was connected with what is happening outside the painting… 

This painting received several critiques for different reasons: the theme, the perspective (considered to be imperfect, because if the girl is supposed to be talking to someone in front of her and the reflection of the man shouldn’t appear on the right of the painting, but to the centre). In 2000 a photograph was taken at the Folies Bergère trying to reproduce what Manet had painted. The photograph allowed the discovery of the point of view Manet had used to paint this scene: he broke up with the traditional way of watching paintings, when the viewer takes a central position to observe the work of art. He represented the scene from a left point of view and this explains that the reflection of the man who is speaking with the barmaid appears on the left and not to the center of the painting. 

CONNECTION WITH THE STYLE

Édouard Manet is considered to be the precursor of Impressionism, because his paintings broke up with the traditional way of representing scenes as a copy from reality. The themes of his paintings were non conventional as well and many of his works were rejected by the Academy of Painting and the critics. But the impressionist painters considered him as his master. There are impressionist features here, such as the representation of the background with loose, imperfect brush-strokes. The theme (a prostitute as the main figure) was also common in other impressionist and post-impressionist artists, such as Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. 

WHY I LIKE THIS PAINTING 

I like the play on images with the mirror and all the details that allow us understand the painting better. I also like the contrast between the joy of the customers in the background and Suzon’s sad face. 

Sources: 

http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/collections/paintings/imppostimp/manet.shtml

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/oct/21/art

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_bar_aux_Folies_Berg%C3%A8re

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye5kbf2_wdI

http://artforus.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/bar-at-the-folies-bergere/

Read the comments' section of this post. You'll find the work of art I've assigned you there. I've tried to respect your choices, but in the cases this hasn't been possible, I've assigned you interesting paintings. 

19th century art presentations

These are the presentations of the contents we are going to study in the next unit. Remember that you have to watch them and choose three works of art (sculptures or paintings) you like or you consider interesting to make a project. You can write a comment with your choices. 

On Wednesday I'll take note of the sculptures or paintings you've chosen and assign one to every student. I'll also write the guidelines for the project and an example to show you how to do it. 

The Pantheon and Napoleon´s tomb at Les Invalides

Last day I made a mistake about Napoleon´s tomb: it´s not located at the Church of Sainte Geneviève, transformed in the Pantheon for illustrious French citizens, but at the Church of Les Invalides.  The Church of Les Invalides was built by Mansart in French Late Baroque style and the Church of Sainte Geneviève was built by Soufflot in New Classicist style. 

Former Church of Sainte Geneviève, Soufflot, (1758-1790)

This is the former Church of Sainte Geneviève, transformed into a secular mausoleum in 1791. Some of the distinguished French figures buried there were Mirabeau, Voltaire, Marat, Rousseau,  the explorer Bougainville, the mathematician Lagrange and the writers Victor Hugo and Emile Zola. Here you have the complete list of men buried there (not even one woman): 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panth%C3%A9on,_Paris#Full_list_of_people_interred

Napoleon´s tomb is located in the Hôtel National des Invalides, a complex of buildings related to the military history of France that includes the Museum of the Army and a hospital for war veterans. Napoleon´s remains are there since 1840, when King Louis Philippe of Orléans and his prime minister Adolphe Thiers decided to bring his corpse back to France from the island of Saint Helena, where Bonaparte had been exiled in 1815 and died in 1821. The process of bringing back Napoleon´s remains to France was called the retour des cendres (return of the ashes). Napoleon didn´t rest in his definitive tomb until 1861, when the works ended in the Church of Les Invalides. Here you have a short history of he tomb: 

http://www.invalides.org/pages/anglais/dome_a.html

And this is a complete list of the military men buried together with Napoleon: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invalides#Tombs_and_vaults

And these are some pictures of Les Invalides complex: 

Aerial view of Les Invalides complex

Chapel of Saint Louis of Les Invalides, built by Mansart at the end of the 17th century

Napoleon´s coffin

All the pictures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invalides

More about Rococo

Here you have some short videos about Rococo art style: 

- The first one includes short texts and a lot of images. The music belongs to Jean Philippe Rameau, a musician of that period: 

- And this is the trailer of Sofia Coppola´s film Marie Antoniette, which tells the story of Louis XVI´s wife. Sofia Coppola decided to tell the story of Marie Antoinette using a contemporary music soundtrack.  Also known as Madame Déficit, Marie Antoinette´s lifestyle could be defined as Rococo: naïve, playful, superficial and frivolous. Have a look on the clothes, the parties and the decoration of palaces and gardens. They reflect the atmosphere of the royal court and nobility entertainments very well. 

Presentation about art in the 18th century

This is the presentation we´ve used today in class. Please, use it to do the True or False exercise. It would be also interesting that you make a summary with the main features of every art style. 

Interactive activities to review for Wednesday´s exam

Here you have some interactive activities made with HotPotatoes software to review about some of the contents of next Wednesday´s exam. They refer to the 17th century and Baroque art. If you want to check your knowledge about these contents, please click on the images below and start. You can also leave a comment about how your final score has been. 

Some links to end with Baroque art

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Source: http://www.diegovelazquez.org/home-1-96-1-0.html

If you like to learn about the hidden side of History, here you have an interesting link about Caravaggio´s life. This Baroque Italian painter was a brilliant artist, but had a very controversial personality. He killed a man on a fight, spent some time in jail and earned his living as a pimp (exploiting  prostitutes). If you want to read more about him, click on the link below: 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/7840043/New-Caravaggio-biography-casts-light-on-Renaissance-hellraiser.html

And this link includes Velázquez´s biography and his complete works (244 paintings)

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/home-1-96-1-0.html

Venus at her mirror, (1647-1651)Velázquez

Source: http://admirersofbaroqueart.blogspot.com.es/2007/04/velazquez-venus-at-her-mirror.html

Presentation about Baroque in the Hispanic Kingdoms

Here you have the presentation we´ve used today to study Baroque Art in the kingdoms of the Hispanic Monarchy. Pay special attention to Velázquez´s paintings: 

Some Baroque paintings in deep

These are some of the projects the students of 4th year made about Baroque art. They  studied some Baroque paintings. If you want to learn more about these paintings, read the texts, because they are verey well explained: 

- The Anatomy lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp, by Rembrandt, studied by Manuel Cruz Martínez:

- The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio, studied by Alejandro Torrillas de la Cal:

- The Conversion of Saint Paul,  by Caravaggio, explained by Laura Muñoz Díaz- Meco:

- The calling of Saint Matthew,  by Caravaggio, studied by Ana Isabel Lucas Violero:

- The Nightwatch, by Rembrandt,explained by Ángel Aranda Ruiz:

Modern Era art presentations

Here you have the presentations I prepared about Renaissance Art and Baroque. I´m also going to include some links to former posts about Renaissance Art, just in case you want to learn more about it:

Why did Moses have horns?

http://todayinsocialsciences.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/why-did-moses-have-horns.html

The Sistine Chapel as if you were there: 

http://todayinsocialsciences.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/sistine-chapel-as-if-you-were-there.html

Virtual tour to Saint Peter´s Basilica: 

http://todayinsocialsciences.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/virtual-tour-to-saint-peters-basilica.html

And this was a challenge I prepared to learn more about Michelangelo´s  The Last Judgement, one of the most known frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. It´s full of interesting stories: 

http://todayinsocialsciences.blogspot.com.es/2011/06/challenge-number-21.html

Project about Unit 6

The Dog, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, 1819-1823

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_(Goya) 

As we have commented on today, the next project will be about art in the 18th and 19th centuries. You will have to prepare a presentation about some art styles of these centuries. Next day we´ll  draw the lots  for the contents everyone will work on. The art styles you´re going to study are the following: 

- Art in the 18th century: Barque, Rococo and New Classicism

- Francisco de Goya, between classiscism and modernity

- Historicism in architecture and Romanticism

- Iron and Steel architecture and Realism

- Impressionism

- New Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

- Art Nouveau and Antoni Gaudí. 

Guillermo, the Computer Science teacher, will explain you the technical aspects of the presentation programmes you can use. The people who don´t study Computer Science can ask me the questions they have. 


Here you have the instructions and some useful advice to start working: 

PRESENTATION ABOUT ART IN 
THE 18^TH AND 19^TH CENTURIES

- Technical requirements: PowerPoint or Impress presentation program.

- Resources: textbook, art books, Internet websites (for the pictures)

-  Information your presentation has to include:  

 1.    A cover with the title of your project and some images related to the art styles you will explain.

2.     An index including the art styles or stages of your project. 

3.     Chronology and main features of the corresponding art styles.

4.     Main artists and works of the corresponding art styles.

5.    Explanation of a work of art of every art style you have to work on: you have to emphasize the aspects that show that the work of art you´ve chosen belongs to a specific art style.   You can follow the outline model you used in the past art projects you did: title, artist, chronology,  material used, commissioners, present location, description, meaning, why it can be considered as belonging to the art style studied, importance and influence in other artists and other interesting information you want to add.

6.   Last slide for credits: You have to write the sources you´ve used (books, websites) to get the information for your presentation.

-         How to cite books in English: Author, (Year of publication in brackets). Name of the book (in Italic font and all the words in capital letters), Place where it was published, Publisher.

Example:

Carley, M. J. (1999). 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

-     How to cite websites in English: Name of the website. Editor(s) of the website. Date of electronic publication. Associated institution. Date of access <URL>.

Example:

BBC on the Internet. 2005. British Broadcasting Company. 12 Apr. 2005 <http://www.bbc.com>.

- Useful advice: Don´t include too much information on every slide. It´s better that you include another slide, rather than overloading a slide with too much text.

If you fail this project, you will have to take an exam of the whole unit.

When you have your theme of study, please start looking for information about it in Spanish. Make sure that you understand all the information before starting writing. Prepare a previous scheme and check that you are not forgetting any part. Check different sources, don´t copy and paste and don´t use the computer translator. Write simple and understandable sentences and remember to write down all the information sources you use. You will need them for the credits´ slide. 

As for the delivery deadline, it will depend on your progress in Computer Science. When we decide on a date, I´ll tell you.  And, as I always remind you, don´t wait until the last moment!  

The Starry Night, Vicent Van Gogh, 1889

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night 

Two interesting art exhibitions

For those who love art, there are two current exhibitions both in Madrid and London that you may like: 

- "Leonardo da Vinci, painter at the court of Milan" at the London National Gallery : this is an exhibition of some of Leonardo da Vinci´s most important works, painted when he worked for Duke Ludovico Sforza in Milan at the end of the 15th century. Visitors will be able to see nine Leonardo´s most important paintings in the same place. One of the most interesting aspects of this exhibition lies on the possibility of comparing the two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks (the one that belongs to the National Gallery, recently restored, and the one that makes part of the Louvre collection). Here you have two links, where you will find some of the paintings you analyzed last year, such as The lady with an ermine:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13334287

Portrait of a musician, Leonardo da Vinci

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Musician

- "The Hermitage in El Prado": this exhibition offers the possibility of visiting 120 works of art of Saint Petersburg´s Hermitage Museum. The Russian tsars started an art collection that includes works of art from different periods. If you go to Madrid, you will be able to visit some Caravaggio, Titian or Velázquez ´s paintings never seen before in Spain. The exhibition also includes some sculptures, such as the terracota study made by Bernini before sculpting his Ecstasy of Saint Theresa. This is also a unique opportunity of watching some paintings of the 20th century in El Prado. Here you have some more information about the works of art on display: 

http://www.museodelprado.es/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/at-the-museum/tesoros-del-hermitage/exposicion/

Tavern scene or The Luncheon, Velázquez

Source: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_1_2b.html

The Lute player, Caravaggio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lute_Player_(Caravaggio)

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (terracota model), Bernini

Source: http://www.artrenewal.org/commerce/customorder.php?artworkid=13345

If you go to Madrid, don´t miss the opportunity of watching these and other masterpieces.

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 4

Source: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/diego-velazquez

This week we´ll learn something more about Diego de Silva y Velázquez, one of the genius of world painting. The following questions will be focused on his personal life and his work. The students who have commented on Velázquez´s paintings will be able to answer most of the questions. So, take a little time and participate!

QUESTION 1

Where did Velázquez study to become a painter?

QUESTION 2

One of the models used by Velázquez on his painting Christ in the house of Martha and Mary also appeared in another Velázquez´s painting. What is this painting?

QUESTION 3

Velázquez moved to Madrid and started working for the court thanks to the protection of a powerful valido. Who was this powerful man?

QUESTION 4

As a court painter, Velázquez had access to the royal collection of paintings. What Renaissance painters could he study in the royal collection?

QUESTION 5

In 1628 Velázquez met another important painter, who was visiting Madrid in a diplomatic mission. Who was this "diplomatic" painter?

QUESTION 6

Velázquez travelled to Italy twice in his life. The first time he spent some time studying other painters. What was the purpose of his second trip to Italy?

QUESTION 7

Velázquez only painted a female nude in his long career. What is the name of this painting? According to experts, who was the  model used for this painting?  What is the realtion between this painting and suffragettes?

2011-2012 Challenges. Number 3

Allegory of painting (1638-39)

This week´s challenge will discover you some personal features of some Baroque artists: 

QUESTION 1

One of the most important Baroque artists had a very quarrelsome beahaviour. He was involved in a murder and he had to leave his place of residence and take refuge in a different city to avoid being arrested. Who was this artist?

QUESTION 2

Another Baroque artist tried to become a member of nobility for many years. Finally, he reached his goal and reflected this change in his estate modifying one of his most famous paintings, where he had made a self- portrait. Who was this artist? What painting did he modify? What did he add to this painting?

QUESTION 3

Another Baroque artist spoke different languages, worked as an ambassador and a diplomat. He participated in several diplomatic missions and he didn´t have enough time to finish all the commissions he had. Who was this artist? How did he manage to paint all the commissioned paintings?

QUESTION 4

A Baroque painter painted more than 90 self-portraits (including paintings, engravings and drawings) throughout his life. These self-portraits are a sort of a painted journal of his evolution as  a painter and as man. Who was his painter?

QUESTION 5

The last question refers to a female Baroque painter. She was the first woman  to join the Design Academy of Florence and she was one of the most recognized Baroque artists in Italy. Who was this woman?

P.S: I´ll add the source of the image after the resolution of this challenge. This image is related to one of the questions. 

Baroque art presentations

These are the two PowerPoint presentations we are going to use to study Baroque art: the first one refers to the general features and Baroque style in Europe and the second one is focused on the Hispanic Kingdoms. Please, review them if you want to observe the main features and works of art with more detail.

Monday 3rd October 2011

Saint Peter's Squere with the Basilica at the background.

              Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Vatican_StPeter_Square.jpg

Today in Social Sciences…

We have talked about Mª Luz’s project, because she has finished and sent it to Paqui. She has said some advices to improve the project.

After that Laura has asked one question to Paqui about Absolute Monarchy, and Paqui has explained to Laura that in theory the king controls all the powers in his hands, but in practice this is not true because this is very difficult, the king is helped by some institutions like the Parliament to rule and to delimitated the power of the king.

After that Diego has read page 105 on the book about Scientific Revolution: Empiricism and Rationalism. While Diego was reading, Javier the Ethics teacher has come into the class looking for his mobile phone because he forgot there in the previous period.

We have continued with the class:

We have started to read about the Baroque art style. Paqui has written a scheme about Secularization and Humanism in the 15^th century and about the religious wars and the Counter-Reformation in the 16^th century that STOPPED the progress and about the Scientific Revolution that is the continuation of this secularization progress that started in the 15^th century.

After that we have talked about Empiricism: Galileo Galilei, Klepper and Newton and about Rationalism: René Descartes that said this famous expression “I think therefore, I am”. Descartes also said that the doubt is the beginning of knowledge. Paqui has told us that this scientifics tried to contact extraterrestrial life sending mathematical formulies, because they thought that this was an universal language.

In some moments of the class Paqui has scold us because we were talking a lot.

After that we have seen a lot of different pictures about sculpture and architecture and the characteristics of the Baroque style with the power point:

We have talked about Caravaggio’s paintings, about the light and shadow.

We have also talked about the structure and meaning of the Saint Peter’s Square in Rome made by Bernini. This type of columns try to imitate that God is embracing all the pilgrims that come into the square and also is like you are walking in a street and suddenly you are in a big space surround of columns. This is very beautiful. Bernini always try to astonish the audience, this is a characteristic of the Baroque art style.

We have seen a picture of the Fontana di Trevi, Apollo and Daphne of Bernini and the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, this last sculpture is very peculiar, because the face of Theresa is too much exaggerated…..

Today we have learnt some new concepts: the Salomonic columns, which are curve and ondulated columns and some new words:

-Fleeting à Fugaz

-Astonished à Anonadado

- Overelaboratedà Sobrecargado

- Ecstasy à Extasis

- Exuberantà Exuberante 

Some help for your art projects

The Geographer, Vermeer

Source: http://artchive.com/artchive/V/vermeer/geographer.jpg.html

Here you have the scheme to prepare your Baroque art projects: 
- Title of the sculpture or painting
- Author

- Chronology

- Material used

- Information about the person or institution who commissioned the work of art.

- Description of the work of art: what is represented, colours, shapes, use of light...

- Meaning of the work of art: symbols used, purpose of the artist...

- Why it can be considered as a Baroque work of art 

- More interesting information: importance of the sculpture or painting in art history, influence in other artists...

And this is a list of useful links for your Baroque art projects: 


- Bernini´s sculptures: 

http://cherkas.com/romesartwork/berninissculptures.html

http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm

- Fountains in Rome:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fountains_in_Rome

http://www.tours-italy.com/rome/fountains.htm

- El Prado Museum: Here you will find a lot of information about Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, Ribalta, Rubens and Zurbarán: 

http://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line

- Velázquez´s paintings at the National Gallery:

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/search/vel%C3%A1zquez/1?filter=paintings

- Rembrandthuis: the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam: 

http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_main.html

- Essential Vermeer: a very complete website about the painter Vermeer:

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/index.html

- Caravaggio´s paintings:

http://caravaggio.com/#

http://www.artble.com/artists/caravaggio/more_information/style_and_technique

Remember to start looking for information about your work of art in Spanish. You have to make sure that you understand all the information before starting writing. Prepare a previous scheme and be sure that you don´t forget any part, review the main Baroque features and try to find them on your work of art. Check different sources, don´t copy and paste and don´t use the computer translator. Write simple and understandable sentences and remember that some of you will have to explain your work of art to the rest of the class. If you need any help, please contact by e-mail.

Some of your art projects

Here you have some of the art projects the students prepared about Renaissance paintings. This time we´ll start on the other way around. The projects will appear in alphabetical order, but from back to front. Students, if you want your project to appear here, please, send your files by e-mail. 

- Alejandro Torrillas´s painting studied Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg, a Titian´s painting: 

- Yolanda Rubio worked on The Garden of the Earthly Delights, by Hyeronimus Bosch.

- Mari Luz Ortiz prepared Saint John the Baptist, an enigmatic painting of Leonardo Da Vinci.

- Laura Muñoz worked on The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, painted by El Greco:

- Rebeca García commented on another El Greco painting, The Despoiling.

- Ana de la Fuente prepared Adam and Eve, by Albrecht Dürer. 

- Manuel Cruz´s painting was a fresco of Piero della Francesca, Constantine´s Dream. 

- Ángel Aranda explained the Opening of the Fifth Seal, by El Greco

- And Javier Alberca worked on The Ambassadors, a painting full of secrets, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger.