ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Francisco De Zurbarán, Chair Of Saint Peter, Dutch Golden Age
26 Aug 2016
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Arth 1101 lecture 6 july 21st 2016. Art at the time splits into two directions: dramatic, indistinct art (baroque), and stable, self- contained art (classical) This is the baroque impulse in its extreme. Jesus tells them that both the work of the hands and the spirit are weighted equally: the image is a genre scene, younger woman looks sulking and the older woman seems to be giving her a talking to. The actual bible scene is set in a smaller frame in the distance, it"s difficult to relate the two scenes at first glance. The image must be a mirror, because christ is seen gesturing with his left hand, i. e. the reflection of his right hand. Perhaps the older servant is telling the younger servant to reflect on the story of. Velazquez the triumph of bacchus (1629: we see the god of wine drinking with rough, gritty commoners, typical of spain art at the time.
