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Velazquez, Portrait of Paul IV
(1631-32)


Rubens,  The Rape of the Daughters  of Leucippus (1618)


Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son (1662)


Caravaggio,  Conversion of St. Paul  (1600-01)


Bernini,  Ecstasy of St. Teresa
(1647-52)


Velazquez, Las Meninas (1656)


Bernini,  David (1623)


Wren, St. Paul's Cathedral (1675)

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  • What was the Church's response to the various challenges of the Reformation?
  • How does Baroque Art reflect the Church's response?
  • What was the impact and influence of competing secular and religious forces on the development of social mores,
    political theories, and artistic expression?
  • How does the emergence of opera reflect the zeitgeist of the period?
  • Describe how the patronage system and how it transformed the content and business of art and music.
  • How does the music of Bach and Handel reflect the zeitgeist of the era?
  • How do the topics of the paintings of Rembrandt, Reubens and Vermeer reflect changes in the
    mode of economic production.
  • Describe how virtuoso artists like Rembrandt and Bach demonstrated their individual talents and reflected
    the opulent tastes of the age.
  • What motivated the main differences between the Renaissance and Baroque musical styles?

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  • Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665); Young Woman with Water Pitcher (1662)
  • Vermeer As Scientist
    Claudia Swann | Times Literary Supplement | 7th January 2016
    Laura Snyder's new study of Vermeer, Eye of the Beholder, develops the argument that Vermeer used a camera obscura to capture his images, perhaps inspired by the optical experiments of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, who was a fellow resident of Delft and almost exactly Vermeer's age. "Van Leeuwenhoek initiated a new way of seeing the world, and Vermeer transcribed it in paint" 


Vermeer, View of Delft  (1660)

   
  • Abbey Church at Amorbach (Bavaria) with Pipe Organ (1747)
  •  Rott-am-Inn (Roccoco): Die Wies (Wieskirche) (Rococo:1754); Neresheim (Rococo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Rembrandt, The Angels Appearing to the Shepherds (1634)

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