Politics
Thirty Year’s War Transcript (PDF)
- The Hapsburg, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire vs. Denmark, France, Sweden and parts of Germany
- Religious element to the war
- Lutherans, Catholics and Calvinists
- Spain declined in power, France gained in power
- Tremendous loss of life in Germany
- More European nations controlling their own population
The Rise of The Netherlands optional art overview
As for the Art off Painting and affection off the people to Pictures, I thincke none other goe beeyond them, … All in generall striving to adorne their houses … with costly peeces, Butchers and bakers … yea many tymes Blacksmiths, Coblers, etts. [etc], will have some picture or other by their Forge and in their stalle. Such is the generall Notion, enclination and delight that these Countrie Native[s] have to Paintings. Peter Mundy writing about the Dutch – English – 1640
- Freed from Spanish rule
- Amsterdam — major maritime center and commercial capital of Europe
- Merchants and tradespeople became interested in the arts
France
The Academy determined what was good art, bad art, and even dangerous art!
The French Academy protected French culture from “corruption” by rejecting avant-garde tendencies among their students and those who submitted to the annual Salon.
Beth Gersh-Nesic – Thought Co.
French Academy Transcript (PDF)
- Profound effect upon the arts
- Codification of art, music and ballet
- The French Academy – optional
- Painting could be taught
- The supremacy of line
- Poussinistes vs. Rubenistes optional – We like lines vs. We like color
- Lavish support of the arts
- Even more support if you were favored by the French Academy
Religion
The Counter Reformation – Required
The Council of Trent – 1545 – 1663
Optional video – Khan Academy – Counter Reformation
- To provide guidance away from the Mannerist style
- The use of stories to counter the Protestant “threat’
- Depictions of stories through art that were presented with:
- Clarity
- Realism
- Emotion
Music should be:
- Accessible
- Lyrics understood
Literature should promote:
- Virtues
- Religious ideals
2 Religious Orders
- Jesuits
- Oratorians
The Science and Technology
The Science and Technology Transcript (PDF)
The Science of Observation
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek optional (1632-1723)
- Discoveries of small things
- Bacteria
- Blood cells
- Sperm
- Furthered astronomy with his laws of planetary motion
- Study of optics
Galileo Galilei optional
- The telescope
- Confirmed Copernicus’s theory
Architecture – could be used instead of paintings and sculpture
Rome
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- St. Peter’s Basilica Carlo Maderno and Gianlorenzo Bernin
- Piazza of St. Peters
- San Carlo Quattro by Francesco Borromini
Rome’s important Baroque Fountains
- Bernini
- Salvi
Although this fountain was built in the 1700’s it is done in the Baroque style
France
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London
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St. Paul’s Cathedral by Christopher Wren
