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Today in class we looked at Baroque art in Flanders and Holland, a region collectively known as the Low Countries. Beginning in southern Flanders and Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens was a famed artist heavily influenced by Caravaggio who interacted with high society. He directed a large studio that produced many paintings and had many artists working for him. Rubens’ large triptych altarpiece, Elevation of the Cross<\/em>, depicted the scene of Christ being raised with the cross as he’s nailed to it. This religious scene was consistent with the Catholic views of Flanders and with the Baroque style. The raising of the cross is frozen mid-action, creating an instantaneous snapshot of the scene. The painting also contains many powerful diagonals emphasized with the contrast between light and dark, and muscled characters similar to those from the Sistine Chapel. Anthony Van Dyck worked in Ruben’s studio as a portraiture. He became known for his portraits of kings, including Charles I of England Hunting<\/em>. The seemingly casual portrait depicts the king off his horse, but his position on a hill above the viewer and horse bowing his head still give him an air of authority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In northern Holland, the region was Protestant and as a result, artwork had a more secular influence. Rembrandt, for instance, was fascinated with self-portraits and explorations of self-representation at varying points of life. He also tackled the group portraits such as The Night Watch<\/em> where he painted an entire militia company assembled for a parade. Influenced by Caravaggio as well, he used tenebrism to enhance the mood of the scene and illuminate his central point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today in class we looked at Baroque art in Flanders and Holland, a region collectively known as the Low Countries. Beginning in southern Flanders and Antwerp, Peter Paul Rubens was a famed artist heavily influenced by Caravaggio who interacted with high society. He directed a large studio that produced many paintings and had many artists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}