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Baroque Art

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Kalf   the most successful Dutch still life painter- showed light play  
Ruisdael   most formidable of Dutch Landscape painters in the 17th c. Etcher  
Heem   synthesized Dutch tradition w/Flemish. Very influential. Formulated the high Baroque floral still life, best flower painter  
Avercamp   Winter landscapes. Atmospheric style  
Oosterwyck   Highest paint still life painter in all of Europe  
Ruysch   Dutch tradition of flower painting peaks. Wanted to please the eye  
La Tour   first important french painter of the 17th c. Frozen figures. Played with night lighting.  
Le Nain   most sensitive painter- peasant theme. dramatically different approach to classic french painting  
Callot   first "graphic artist" of his day, and one the greatest etchers ever  
Poussain   most classical painter of the 17th c, Literature=painting, French Baroque artist, sought antiquity.  
Lorraine   first artist to be a landscape painter in the modern sense. landscapes of the mind, classical landscape  
Rigaud   shrewd observer, manipulated paint beautifully  
Mansart   leading French architect at the end of the 17 c. signature roof. Best known of the classic architects.  
Puget   the maverick among french sculptors- greatest baroque french sculptor after bernini  
Giradon   outstanding sculptor of versailles. freestanding tomb.  
Jones   first to apply Italian Renaissance principles of architectural form to the total design of a building. Palladian style.  
Wren   work related to high Roman renaissance- founded Baroque in England  
VanBrugh   did most baroque english countryhouse  
Boyle   English palladian pilattzo. restrained architecture  
Gibbs   Introduced the principles of Roman Baroque architecture into England  
Adam   incorporates interior design using classical elements  
Wood, Jr.   Royal cresent- Eng architectural design  
Boffrand   mirrors/airyness, lightness, many windows  
Watteau   French Rococo. one of the greatest French painters in the 18th century. Gifted portrait painter.  
Lancret   Chief follower of the Watteral style, day to day reality  
Nattier   dominates French painting in the mid part of the 18th century. mother of pearl luster  
Boucher   Did erotic nudes. Most successful painter AFTER Watteau  
Robert   landscapes were dramatic, disturbing, gloomy  
Fragonard   Epitome of French 18th century rococo painting  
Clodion   sculptural parallel of Fragonard  
Fremin   vitality worthy of Bernini  
Lorrain   first painter of feminine nudes  
Gunther   bulgarian rococo sculptor  
Juvara   lavish Baroque with classical approach to architecture  
Neumann   southern Germany's greatest Baroque architect. French rococo overtones  
Asam   Brings Rococo to Bulvaria and W. Germany  
Tiepolo   supreme venetian master- one of the finest painters of the 18th c. acclaimed internationally  
Canal (etto)   profound effect on traveling artists, CRISP  
Guardi   master of view painting, last of great venetian painters  
Magnasco   Ruins, devastation, foreboding  
Carriere   pastel-oil-impressionistic popularity  
Quentin La tour   Analytical  
Reynolds   first to have an academic art opinion, mechanical  
Gainsborough   the most influential painter, impressionistic technique, most famous of english painters  
Lawerence   Fluidity  
Copley   Death of Major marks the zenith of his career. Romantic horror paintings, realist. (did Black Man, Watson)  
Vigee LeBrun   portraits on sensibility- very good portrait painter  
Houdon   Voltair is the key to the development of thinking. Had a mastery of 3D portraits. Finest french sculptor of 18th c. meticulous, neo classicist  
Derby   Fascinated with inventions  
Chardin   unlike Vameer, loved texture. One of the most impressive french painters of the 18c  
Hogarth   generated a native school of painting in England. Etcher/illustrator of continuing life and fashion. specialized in satires.  
Grueze   moral and sentimentalized approach admired by critics  
West   death of General Wolf leads to battle paintings, contemporary historical painter  
Stubbs   Wild animals  
Fuseli   terrify experience  
Blake   only what's on the inside, the imaginary. Poet!  
Wilson   first major British Landscape painter- topographical views.  


   


 

 

 

 

 

 
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