chapter nine
VISUAL ARTS

PhilipM.Soergel

The Renaissance Legacy … 462
The Counter Reformation's Impact on Art … 464
Elements of the Baroque Style … 466
Realism and Emotional Expressivity … 470
The Caravaggisti … 473
Sculpture in Italy … 476
The Baroque Matures in Italy … 481
Baroque Classicism in France … 483
Painting in the Low Countries … 488
Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century … 498
The Rococo … 501
The Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century Europe … 504
Neoclassicism … 507

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio … 513
Jacques-Louis David … 515
Artemisia Gentileschi … 516
Rembrandt van Rhijn … 517
Peter Paul Rubens … 518

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
New Discoveries (letter from Carracci describing his passion for the work of Corregio) … 467
A Dish Cooked with New Condiments (excerpt from Carducho's Dialogues on Painting) … 474
The Four Rivers (excerpt from Baldinucci's biography of Gianlorenzo Bernini) … 478
Teresa's Transverberation (excerpt from Saint Teresa of Avila's autobiography) … 480
Poussin's Greek Modes (excerpt from a letter by Poussin describing his theories about art) … 485
Expression and the Passions (address by Charles Le Brun to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) … 486
The Acquisitive Spirit (letter from Rubens bargaining with an ambassador for antiques) … 491
Contractual Arrangements (contract by which Rembrandt became employed by his wife and son) … 496
The Service of God (excerpt from Pacheco's The Art of Painting) … 499
Dimpled Behinds and Extravagance (excerpt from Diderot's review of the Royal Academy's annual art show) … 502
Imitation or Idealization? (excerpt from Reynolds' Seven Discourses on Art) … 511
The Abolition of the Academy (excerpt from Jacques-Louis David's speech to the National Convention) … 512