Presentations and some games to review Baroque art

Here you have the two presentations we used in class to study Baroque art. Use them to prepare your project for next Monday. There are also three games to review the main works of art of this style.

 

These are the games. Click on the images to play them and remember to sign in on the website if you want your score to be registered:

More Hispanic Baroque paintings

These are some more videos about the paintings the students have explained today:

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, explained by Cristina:

And two links to learn more about the painting:

http://www.diego-velazquez.org/christ-in-the-house-of-martha-and-mary.jsp

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/diego-velazquez-christ-in-the-house-of-martha-and-mary

 The Waterseller of Seville, which was explained by Ana:

 

The Surrender of Breda, which was explained by Laura Ortiz:

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The Meninas, explained by Marcos:

 

 The Drunks, explained by Natalia:

 

The Forge of Vulcan, explained by Paula: 

And here you have some links for the rest of the paintings we analyzed:

The Martyrdom of Saint Philip (José de Ribera)


https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-martyrdom-of-saint-philip/a221ea0e-d38c-4018-be83-af9119458701


The Holy Family with a Little Bird (Murillo):

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-holy-family-with-a-little-bird/8008380e-fef5-48b4-8caf-d78b810fb62c

The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion (Zurbarán):

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy-enlightenment/baroque-art1/spain/a/zurbarn-the-martyrdom-of-saint-serapion

Old Woman Cooking Eggs (Velázquez):

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/an_old_woman_cooking_eggs

The Jester Sebastián de Morra (Velázquez):

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-buffoon-el-primo/cc7a8493-e2ff-4d33-a0d0-91d7dc210d5a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_Morra

Christ on the Cross (Velázquez):  :

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-crucified-christ/72cbb57e-f622-4531-9b25-27ff0a9559d7

The Toilet of Venus (Velázquez): :

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/diego-velazquez-the-toilet-of-venus-the-rokeby-venus

Pope Innocent X (Velázquez): :

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/portrait_of_pope_innocent_x

The Spinners (Velázquez):  :

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-spinners-or-the-fable-of-arachne/3d8e510d-2acf-4efb-af0c-8ffd665acd8d

http://www.artble.com/artists/diego_velazquez/paintings/las_hilanderas

The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, by José de Ribera

This is a video that explains the main features of the painting Mª Rosa explained yesterday. You can see this painting in El Prado Museum, in Madrid:

And here you have some additional information to learn more about the painting: 

https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-martyrdom-of-saint-philip/a221ea0e-d38c-4018-be83-af9119458701

How to recognize Baroque art

This is a short video that gives the keys to recognize Baroque art, comparing it with Renaissance art, as we did in class:

 

Some of Caravaggio's masterpieces

This video is an overview of Caravaggio's most famous paintings:

On the following video the curator of Italian and Spanish painting of the National Gallery explains Caravaggio's life and talks about the three paintings of this painter they have in the museum:

   

 And here you have the explanation of some of the paintings we have studied today: 

 - The Conversion of Saint Paul, which includes the two versions of the painting:

   

 - The Crucifixion of Saint Peter

   

 - The Death of the Virgin

   

 - The Supper at Emaus:

 

Some videos about Rembrandt's masterpieces

The following videoa have been made by Khan Academy and explain some of Rembrandt's most famous paintings: 

The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp:

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 The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, commonly known as The Night Watch:

   

 Rembrandt's Self-Portrait:

 

The Girl with the Pearl Earring

This short video explains why this Vermeer's painting is considered to be a masterpiece:

Here you have the trailer of the 2003 film inspired on the painting, where you can learn how Vermeer painted and the typical life in the city of Delft in the 17th century. You will see many of the paintings we have seen in class today:

 

Presentations to study the 17th century

Here you have the presentation we are going to use to study the 17th century. The firts one includes the contents related to politics, economy and culture and the other two are about Barque art:

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Baroque art travel journals

Here you have the pictures of your travel journal I've taken this morning. I hope you will find some time to have a look on your classmates journals and also that you try to improve them. I'm sure that the next project will be better. 

  

The last four pictures correspond to María Pérez's travel journal. In my opinion it combines both a good design and almost complete content. 

Two presentations for your Baroque art travel journal

Here you have two presentations about Baroque art. You can o¡use them as a reference to learn about the main features and most important art works of every artist: 

 

Some examples of travel journals

Here you have some examples of the travel journals the students of 4th ESO made about the art styles of the 18th-19th centuries last year. There were really good projects. I hope yours will be at least as good as they were. 

The Holy Family with a Bird, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

THE HOLY FAMILY WITH A BIRD

The Holy Family with a Bird was painted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Baroque painter from Seville. This painting was one of his most important paintings. It was painted around 1650. The Holy Family with a Bird is nowadays in El Prado Museum in Madrid, and Murillo used an oil technique over canvas to paint it. The painting’s size is 144 x 188 cm and it belongs to the Baroque style.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Soure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo

The painting's name comes from the little bird Jesus is showing to the dog and it represents the Holy Family as a normal family. The child, Jesus, who is the most important figure of the painting, is playing  with a bird and a dog, it seems that he is happy. As he is the most important figure, he is painted in brighter colours. On the left, we can see his mother, the Virgin Mary, who has stopped working to look at his son, and on the right his father, Saint Joseph, who is also looking at him. As you can see, the painting represents movement (the child playing, the dog…), colour is predominant over drawing and the colours are dark. The scene seems peaceful and calm. As you can see, the light that illuminates the picture enters from the left side, and it only illuminates the figures, the background is really dark and doesn’t allow to see that the house is simple and humble. The figures of this painting are very realistic and perfect.

                                                                                          

Source:    http://www.artble.com/artists/bartolome_esteban_murillo/paintings/the_holy_family_with_a_little_bird              

                                           

We can observe that this painting is from the Baroque period because the painter uses contrasts in colours, this technique, known as “Chiaroscuro”, was usually used in the Baroque paintings, to make them more realistic and perfect. Murillo uses other techniques in this painting, mentioned above.

One curiosity is that Saint Joseph didn’t have much importance in art, it was thought that he didn't educated Jesus well, but with the Counter-Reformation the devotion to him grew considerably. This devotion was promoted by some religious institutions that inspired it since the 16^th century. In this work, Murillo stands out Saint Joseph’s value as a worker person and represents him as an ideal father.

Sources I used to make this project:

http://www.wikiart.org/en/bartolome-esteban-murillo/the-holy-family-with-the-little-bird

https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/sagrada-familia-del-pajarito/

http://contemplalaobra.blogspot.com.es/2009/05/murillo-sagrada-familia-del-pajarito.html

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_Esteban_Murillo

In both projects, I've used Wordreference to search the words I didn't know.

http://www.wordreference.com/

ECSTASY OF SAINT THERESA, BERNINI

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is a sculpture made in marble between the years 1647 to 1652 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was requested by cardinal Cornaro to be placed on its grave in Santa Maria della Vittoria’s church in Rome, nowadays it still placed there.

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, in Cornaro's chapel.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

This work is usually considered as the most emblematic piece made by Bernini, who was also the main sculptor from the Barroque period. It’is a religious sculpture, it represents the ecstasy of Saint Theresa based on her own deeds in which it’s written that she felt a divine arrow pierced her chest and she felt pain and pleasure at the same time and she also levitate.

The author obtained a lot of dynamism in this work, and transmitted perfectly Saint Theresa’s feelings. We can see her lying down with a long dress and the angel over her, who is looking at her and holding an arrow.

Let’s look a bit closely with a presentation I've made:

Sources:
http://citelighter-cards.s3.amazonaws.com/p16o7qj2ve19a61u8tsg0dro11270_8664.jpg

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

http://pensarelarte.blogspot.com.es/2009/05/comentario-de-el-extasis-de-santa.html

http://seordelbiombo.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/analisis-y-comentario-del-extasis-de.html

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Santa_teresa_di_bernini_04.JPG

11th November of 2014 (Tuesday)

Today the class of social sciences have been so interesting, and a little diferent. At first, Paqui has copied a outline on the blackboard, and we had to complete. If we haven't finished, we have to complete at home. This outline sumarize the baroque art in the hispanic monarchy. There are three paragraphs: Architectures, sculptures and paintings. Here we have to complete with the main features and main architectures, paintings and sculptures, and examples. Also Paqui has explained in the digital board with a power point. ç
Also today Paqui has given us the exams that we did the last Friday. My mark was a 6.45. I'm happy with this mark because in 2ºESO I had less, but also I can do more so I will try improve in the next exam. In the exam there was five questions, or six if you failed the Renaissance art and you had to recover it.
And this is the today's journal. I hope that you like it.
This is an example of the San Esteban de Churrigueresque, in the sculpture of the Baroque Art.