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European Art of the Seventeenth Century

  • Rosa Giorgi

    This volume presents the most noteworthy concepts, artists, and cultural centers of the seventeenth century through a close examination of many of its greatest paintings, sculptures, and buildings.

    The Baroque, rooted in classicism but with a new emphasis on emotionalism and naturalism, was the leading style of the seventeenth century. The movement exhibited both stylistic complexity and great diversity in its subject matter, from large religious works and history paintings to portraits, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life. Masters of the era included Caravaggio, whose innovations in the dramatic uses of light and shadow influenced many of the century's artists, notably Rembrandt; the sculptor, painter, and architect Bernini, with his combination of technical brilliance and expressiveness; and other familiar names such as Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, and Vermeer.

    This was the era of absolute monarchs, including Spain's Habsburgs and Louis XIII and XIV of France, whose artistic patronage helped furnish their opulent palaces. But a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors of the professional and merchant classes, also flourished.

    Rosa Giorgi is the author of Saints in Art (Getty Publications, 2003), Angels and Demons in Art (Getty Publications, 2005), and The History of the Church in Art (Getty Publications, 2009).

    384 pages
    5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches
    400 color illustrations
    ISBN 978-0-89236-934-8
    paperback

    Getty Publications
    Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
    Series: Art through the Centuries

    2008

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