Chapter Sixteen The Age of the Baroque in Literature, Art, and Music

The Rise of Absolutism The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648 Louis XIII, 1610-1643 Cardinal Richelieu, 1585-1642 Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661 Louis XIV, 1643-1715 “L’état, c’est moi” Louis Le Vau, 1612-1670 Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1646-1708 Versailles Hall of Mirrors The Divine Right of Kings The “Sun King”

English Constitutionalism James I, r. 1603-1625 Charles I, r. 1625-1649 King James Version Parliament The English Civil War Cavalier v. Roundheads Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658 Execution of Charles I Commonwealth and Protectorate The Restoration Charles II, 1660-1685 James II, r. 1685-1688 The Glorious Revolution, 1688 William and Mary

Baroque Literature Pierre Corneille, 1606-1684 Le Cid Molière, 1622-1673 Racine, 1639-1699 Grimmelshausen, 1621-1676 Simplicius Simplicissimus John Milton, 1608-1674 Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Blank verse Iambic pentameter John Bunyan, 1628-1688 The Pilgrim’s Progress John Dryden, 1631-1700 Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Edward Taylor, c. 1645-1729

Baroque Art Bernini, 1598-1680 Gianlorenzo Bernini, baldacchino, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, 1645-1652, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome/Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY Velázquez, 1599-1660 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez , Las Meninas, 1656, Museo del Prado, Madrid/Art Resource, NY Poussin, c. 1593-1665 Nicholas Poussin, The Rape of the Sabine Women, 1636-1637, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisband Dick Fund, 1946 (46.160) Photograph © 1992 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640 Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1609-1610, Onze Lieve Vrouwkerk, Antwerp Cathedral, Belgium/Peter Willi/The Bridgeman Art Library International Anthony van Dyck, 1599-1641 Anthony van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt, 1635, Musée du Louvre, Paris Judith Leyster, c. 1609-1660 Rembrandt, 1606-1669 Rembrandt, The Company of Captiain Frans Banning Cocq,(The Night Watch), 1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt, Supper at Emmaus, 1648, Musée du Louvre, Paris Jan Vermeer, 1632-1675 Jan Vermeer, The Artist’s Studio (The Art of Painting, c. 1670-1675, Kunsthistorisches Museum/Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY Christopher Wren, 1672-1723 Christopher Wren, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1675-1710

Baroque Music

Baroque Music (cont’d)

Baroque Music Ballet spectaculi Antonio Vivaldi, 1675-1741 Program music Henry Purcell, c. 1659-1695 George Fridric Handel, 1685-1759 recitatives Heinrich Schütz, 1585-1672 Dietrich Buxtehude, 1637-1707 J.S. Bach, 1685-1750