El Prado. Many off to Portugal.
El Greco -- trained in Venice
bright colors=Christ held by God & angels VS later darker paintings (even San Antonio de Padua (1577-9), the friar studying in darkness) San Benito (1577-9), founder of Benedictine order has a little more light. San Jeronimo (1600) (by dark but illuminated from within) *Lighter, elongated bodies are almost floating in space. 3D of La Resurrección. La adoración de los pastores (baby has little detail, the light emanating from Him more important). Paisaje con Santa María de Cerrello Lorena prays in darkness faithful that light exists nearby. Note light from within.
Velazquez -- naturalism (Baroque)
queraoscura (sp?) = strong light/dark
diagonal light is common of period.
entire family within La adoración de los reyes magos.
theatre=artificial light
Los borrachos invite us to join in their revelry
Menina=maid of honor (Las meninas)
Jonathan Brown=scholar. Aerial perspective
Goya -- not a fan of the roayls but they were his patrons
El dos y tres de Mayo (only horses make eye contact)
El gran cabrón when one has lost faith. La Romería de San Isicho (sp?) party through his eyes in old age.
Bosch -- El jardín de las deliciasAdam & Eve & Jesus left panel
animals coming from lake (predates evolution theory) EDEN
Regular earth (crazy stuff: orgies, animals, humans)
Right = hell (weapons, injury, bestiality, dark. animals rule over man)
LOVE has been twisted into something ugly (wild abandon, lust, gluttony, sin)
El paso de la laguna estigia -- man traverses a narrow strait between Heaven and Hell. easire path to hell than heaven (rocky shores)
Virgin de Lovaina
-- huge church but the focus is on the mother (Mary) and child (Christ)
-- mystics attempt for concentrated faith
-- God grows into a huge church
Bautizmo del enunuco de la reina Candace
-- origins (dawn) of Christianity in Ethiopia, conversion
Noli me tangere: Magdalene in 16th century dress. Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my father. Not "ready" for Christ.
Arch of Jesus' story ends above cross-eyed man...signifying importance of knowing oneself in order to know God?
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NEED to go back.
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