... Dutch painter had a certain amount of freedom with respect to the artist relationship. Especially, Rembrandt van Rijn(1606-1669) who is one of the important baroque Dutch artists and he technically painted with the purpose of giving impression on it. (Bazin 6) Besides, he might push his ideal and mind arise ... though his painting. According to Bazin, Rembrandt began to paint in 1623 and also, Rembrandt's style could be classified as the High Baroque with the subjects depicted as having "splendor and enjoying life." His painting "The Night Watch" is one of great works at ... 1642. It is ...

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... portrait of the princess Margarita, daughter of King Phillip IV of Spain along with her maids ladies-in-waiting. It was painted during the Spanish baroque. As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the ... painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" in 1638 during the Flemish baroque. It's is about 6' 9" by 11' 4". He was considered the greatest of the Flemish baroque painters. Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern infl...

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... portrait of the princess Margarita, daughter of King Phillip IV of Spain along with her maids ladies-in-waiting. It was painted during the Spanish baroque. As I mentioned earlier, this painting is a combination of genre scene, group portrait and self portrait. It is considered by some to be the ... painted "Allegory of the Outbreak of War" in 1638 during the Flemish baroque. It's is about 6' 9" by 11' 4". He was considered the greatest of the Flemish baroque painters. Ruben's muscular figures were based off of Michelangelo's style while his devotion to minute detail was of northern infl...

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... . Andrea Mantegna an artist that had lived from 1430 to 1506. He established his reputation when he was 20 years old. This painting is the manifest of his highly individual style. He worked at it during the years of 1451 to 1453. Mantegna painted The Adoration of The Shepherds in horizontal format (153/4x217/8(40x55.6). Mantegna used tempera on a canvas that ... colors that I can feel more emotion than Mantegna's painting. It is really interesting to compare different artist's paintings with the same subjects. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. The Baroque...

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... greatly moved his artistic ways in Venice and then later on Michelangelo and Raphael when he studied in Rome. The ancient Greco-Roman sculptures also were also a part of his style. He was employed by Vicenzo Gonzaga who was the duke of Mantua. There, for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. A very important part of ... intellectuals. This brought Rubens into a new maturity level of art. When he left Italy to return to Flanders he was considered one of the greatest because of his use of baroque style. Rubens was so busy when he became court painter ...

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... abstract view of the human body. Vincent Desiderio is an American Contemporary Realist painter, born in 1955. His style of painting tends to be of symbolic puzzles and is similar to Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters. He created this piece in 2001; a triptych of water, a head, and x-ray (Lotz). ... Dramatic contrasts of dark, light, and shadows surrounding the bust creates a wonderful look of tenebrism. This technique was used in many paintings during the Baroque period. From the shoulders up the man is nude. His facial features have a strong, bony, chiseled appearance, and he is b...

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... Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was a story that intrigued me and Mary definitely piqued my interest. So, while walking around the LA County Museum of Art, when I first saw a Baroque painting of Mary, it made me stop in my tracks. My first reaction was awe, at the use of candlelight in the painting and the sharp contrast that it creates ... result is a fantastically intense painting that invites you in to gaze in the flame with Mary. Georges de La Tour is one of the most important exponents of the French Baroque, and is famous for painting mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candleli...

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Nicolas Poussin 1549-1665 The Rape of the Sabine Women 1633-34 Poussin, oil on canvas, Baroque Even though all the galleries are equally impressive,the gallery which i found most enjoyable was the European paintings wing. Artists from El Greco to Frans Hals are displayed. With all ... has their own expression and each one of them has a story to tell. Poussin is known as the greatest French painter of his century and the greatest of the Baroque Era. His style is very Intellectual and painterly, very classic and timeless. Poussin believed that the highest aim of painting was to represent noble...

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... his own. Being from the Dutch Golden Age, which followed the ways of Baroque art, the work of Rembrandt greatly resembles the work of Caravaggio, but much like other Dutch Golden Age artists, Rembrandt geared the Caravaggesque style more towards still lifes, landscapes, and most famously-portraits. Rembrandt's oil paintings ... made him a successful artist. He devised a way to make the lights lighter, and the darks darker. Rembrandt is famous for painting in an impasto style; using a lot of tick paint. The thick, viscosity of his paint allowed him to create different textures, and once th...

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... way through to the 20TH century. Since it covers so much time with its collection, the museum covers many diverse styles of art including Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Impressionism art. These special styles are viewed through about nine or ten different galleries depending on when you go and which exhibits are ... Picasso. This is just one of the many styles Dodge used. Just one year after painting the Picasso like Hour of Parting Dodge used another style to paint his Double Self Portrait. This portrait is a picture of him wearing sunglasses that depict another picture in each sepa...

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Francisco Goya was considered the Father of Modern Art. He began his painting career after the Baroque period. Some of his first paintings, " Stories of the Virgin and Christ: The Visitation and the Parasol", were paintings of lively color and brilliant vision. They contained images that were ... , but it looks like it has its audience in terrible fright. One man is holding his child up, giving it to the bull maybe as a sacrifice. Because of Goya's new style of painting, he would create more of these scary dark and black paintings on the walls of his house, what he believed to be the "Deaf Ma...

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