Chapter 20 Study Guide

The Baroque in Northern Europe

Baroque Flanders

• Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles, 1622-1625
• Peter Paul Rubens, Consequences of War, 1638-1639

Baroque Netherlands

• Frans Hals, Archers of Saint Hadrian, c. 1633
• Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Night Watch, 1642
• Rembrandt van Rijn, Return of the Prodigal Son, c. 1665
• Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664

Baroque France

• Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640
• Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629

Baroque England

• Sir Christopher Wren, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, 1675-1710

1. How did Rubens accomplish such an enormous number of large scale paintings in his lifetime?

2. Why are religious subjects less prevalent in Dutch Baroque paintings than in the paintings of the same period from Italy, Spain, and Flanders?

3. How did patronage and collection of art in the Dutch Republic differ from that of Spain and France?

4. What do the skull, timepiece, and overturned glass symbolise in Vanitas Still Life by Pieter Claesz?

5. Explain the difference between etching and engraving.

6. What does the vast complex at Versailles symbolize?