(S1 E7) Dawn of the Baroque, 1575-1610 || A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance

Featured in this video: Arcimboldo, El Greco, Caravaggio, and their contemporaries
0:00 Recap and intro
1:38 Genre painting: market scenes
Pieter Aertsen, A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
Joachim Beuckelaer, Fish Market
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still-Life with a Lobster
5:28 Second School of Fontainebleau
Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of her Sisters
8:48 The cabinet of curiosities
Display cabinet (Kabinettshrank)
10:30 Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Arcimboldo, Librarian
Arcimboldo, Vertumnus
Arcimboldo, The Four Seasons
17:20 Astronomy and alchemy in Rudolfine Prague
Gerhard Emmoser, celestial globe with clockwork
19:06 The Voynich Manuscript
21:54 John Dee's magic mirror
24:49 Automata: the Mechanical Galleon
25:58 Goblets and bezoars
Jan Vermeyen and Milanese workshops, narwhal goblet
Bezoar mounted on three lions
Guangzhou and Paduan workshops, nautilus cup
30:57 Europe and Africa: trade and imperialism
Sapi-Portuguese, ivory salt cellar
Master of the Heraldic Ship, salt cellar with Portuguese figures
33:18 From Renaissance to Baroque
Tintoretto, The Last Supper
37:27 Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt
39:58 El Greco
El Greco, View of Toledo
El Greco, Modena Triptych
El Greco, Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece
El Greco, Laocoön
46:55 The Cerasi Chapel
Annibale Carracci, Asumption of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci, Domine quo vadis?
Caravaggio, Crucifixion of St. Peter
Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul on the Way to Damascus
50:29 Caravaggio
Caravaggio, Young Sick Bacchus
Caravaggio, Narcissus
Caravaggio, Medusa
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes
Caravaggio, Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist
Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath
57:08 Baroque drama and theatricality
58:25 The power of art
“A Narrative Art History of the Renaissance" tells the story of European Renaissance art from about 1250 to 1610 in a continuous chronological narrative. Season 1 will focus on the 16th century, covering the period 1469 to 1610 in seven chapters with an introduction.
This lecture series aims to present Renaissance art in coherent context rather than as a disconnected collection of facts and artworks to be memorized. The focus here is not on individual artworks - although in-depth analyses of specific works are featured, too - but on the bigger picture of the Renaissance, including cross-cultural influences and artistic dialogues. It assumes little to no background in art history.
In this season:
Chapter 0 - Season 1 Introduction: Renaissance Florence, ca. 1460
Chapter 1 - The Dawn of the High Renaissance, 1469-1520
Chapter 2 - Stylistic Synthesis in the High Renaissance, 1500-1527
Chapter 3 - The Reformation, 1500-1550
Chapter 4 - New Landscapes, New Genres, 1500-1569
Chapter 5 - Mannerism: the Art of Artifice, 1520-1569
Chapter 6 - The Evolving European Taste: Image and Patronage, 1527-1600
Chapter 7 - Dawn of the Baroque: Reverberations of Renaissance and Reformation, 1575-1610
All content created, edited, written, and produced by Weili Jin, 2022; published 2023
An initiative of The Close Looking Project
Visit closelooking.org/ to learn more

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