Academic literature on the topic 'Baroque Portrait painting'

Heroes of portraits of Roman Petruk are open-world creative people – his teachers, parents, of the same age – young artists, actors in whose faces the reality of the Spirit is manifested, the movement of life. The article analyzes Petruk's portraits of his teacher, an outstanding Ukrainian artist and teacher, Nikolai Andreevich Storozhenko and teachers of NAOMA. The ritual value of a portrait is shown, which provides the connection of the worlds - temporary and eternal. The symbolic content of portraits, the value of the conditional background in character characteristics is studied. The relationship between content and form, features of composition, symbols and stylistics of portrait images of the Ukrainian artist in the context of world art is revealed. Methods of iconography and iconography are used. The main thing in the school of Storozhenko: the means of art combine in man the lost integrity of the body, soul and spirit. In the compositions of Petruk, secular and cult art was consonant. Following the teacher, Roman communicates the time: man and family, family and people, people and humanity. In Storozhenko’s portraits Petruk asserts the highest hierarchy of the artist-creator. The connection with portraits of avant-garde masters is shown. The relationship between the portrait and the icon in the portraits of Petruk is studied. The icon confirms the dominant spirit of peace, and emotionality is important in a psychological portrait. The work of the artist combines the legacy of the art of Ancient Rus and Byzantium, the European and Ukrainian Baroque, romanticism, and academicism with modern trends. Neosynthesticism – in such a way named his method Petruk. The gallery of portrait images created by Roman Petruk (more than 100 works of painting and graphics) is a testimony to the spiritual battle of the artist for the dominant of spirit over matter. The general scientific significance of the article is the introduction of a modern Ukrainian portrait into the context of world art.

The present study is meant to underline the importance of a famous work from the baroque period, Las Meninas, made by the painter Diego de Silva y Velásquez who has become a source of inspiration for future generations of artists. Numerous modern and contemporary artists have integrally or partially ”paraphrased” Velásquez’s composition by intercepting the portrait of revolutionary group for the time when it was created, extremely innovative regarding its compositional qualities and its hidden meanings which underlined the role and status of the artist in the context of a conservative society. Thus, the painting becomes the living proof of the way in which the artist manages to overcome the limitations of the social status of ordinary human beings, by portraying himself as a close friend of the royal family and by opening, through this type of representation, an important chapter in the history of portraiture.

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, little Russian icon painter and St. Petersburg portrait painter, combined western European painting language and the Orthodox religion in his creativity. The sources of the painter's susceptibility to western European influence lie in his Ukrainian origin — the atmosphere of active interaction of Orthodox and Catholic cultures developed in Little Russia of XVIII. At XVIII—early XIX century icon and temple painting was approaching secular art and came under influence of European baroque and academism. Religious painting, that is the subject of the study, occupied an important place in the creativity of the painter. Master's icons and pictures demonstrate nontrivial iconographic, conceptual and dogmatic solutions. The sketch 'God the Father beholding dead Christ' from collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery is example of an original thought of the artist, who based it on the western European composition scheme, but gave it new meaning. The study theme is exploring features of interpretation by V. Borovikovsky of Catholic the Holy Trinity iconography. In order to identify specific motifs and ideas borrowed from Western European art and the Orthodox iconography of the Otechestvo (the Fatherland), which influenced the composition of the sketch, a comparative iconographic and stylistic analysis of works with similar iconography was carried out: with a fresco from the church in Marino (Rome) attributed to Guidoreni, and a painting by P.P. Rubens 'The Holy Trinity'. The iconographic analysis showed connection between of the sketch and wester European scheme 'God the Father contemplating the dead Christ', which goes back to iconographies 'God the Father holding a Crucifix' and Pieta, and to orthodox iconography Otechestvo. V. Borovikovsky rethinks traditional motifs, typical for the European painting (motifs of parental grief and reminder of sinfulness) and for the Orthodox icon painting (motifs of triumph over death). Stylistic analysis showed that the master formulates his own interpretation of the images of God the Father and God the Son, unifying both the Orthodox and the western European approaches. V. Borovikovsky borrows reception of relationship the Sabaoth and Christ as loving the Father and the Son, but doesn't borrow tragic reception of the plot, replacing it with the idea of the comprehensive divine love and the triumph over death. Thus, V. Borovikovsky combines icon symbolism and immediacy of realistic painting.

This article explore and analyses conformity to natural laws of individual interpretations of human emotions on a masterpieces of European artists from Antic age to early Modernism, also in Ukrainian painting (for instance, creative works of Olexander Murashko), The following examples are setting peculairities of creative positions of every author which reflected unusual mimic grimaces of his heroues in pickturesque portraits (especially at works of Antonello da Messina, Ercole de Roberti, Leonardo da Vinci, Frans Hals, Rembrandt Hannenszoon van Rijn, Mihaly Munkacsy, Ilya Repin, Edward Munk, with him legendary “Scream”, which paradoxally and repeatedly reflected in horror movie-art about twenty years ago — in the trilogy by Wes Craven) and Old Greek sculptures (“Athena and Marsyas”, “Laokoon”). Also the author of this article analyzed different views of representatives of classical philosophy and aesthetics of Age of Renassainse (Karol van Mander, Giorgio Vasari), Baroque, Classicism (Charles Lebrun) and Age of Education (Denis Diderot as author of “Salones”, Johann Joachim Winckelman, Johann Caspar Lavater — in recollection of Nikolay Karamzin), also used classic and modem famous historicals of fine art (Egene Fromentin, Bernard Berenson, Georgiy Nedoshivin) and contemporary scientists, which a lot of researched this problems (Giovanni Chivardi, Fritz Lange) etc. Author used pointed mimetic observations of some Ukrainian (from “Portrait” by Nikolay Gogol to short-story by Yuriy Mulik-Lutsik and great novel by Natalka Snyadanko) and foreign writers (Denis Diderot as author of “Le Neveu de Rameau”, Dafna du Maurier, Nikolay Chukovskiy), memories of Ukrainian painters (Mikola Burachek). Some materials from the recent history of those states were introduced into scientific usage. Review of need for inclusion of approaches and methods related to the fields of art criticism studies (par example, psychology, history of movie-art, mythology, philosophy), and certain concepts. An attempt to understand the problem of mimetic expressiveness in fine art.

Abstract. There are many types of artistic representations (theatre, music, opera, ballet, literature, cinema, television, painting, sculpture, etc.) of the legend of Don Juan, i.e. the universal archetype of the seducer who, through deception, conquers a woman and, once she succumbs to his charms, he boasts of his triumph, despises her, and shifts his interest towards another lady. In this work, I compare three of the most famous versions don Juan: The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (1630) by Tirso de Molina, Don Giovanni (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, and Don Juan Tenorio (1844) by José Zorrilla. The first and third are theatrical pieces, while the second is an opera. The myth of Don Juan is essentially the same in all three, but the message and the moral vary according to the cultural movement the works belong to, namely the Baroque, the Enlightenment and the Romanticism, respectively. Key words: The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, Don Giovanni, Don Juan, Tirso de Molina, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, José Zorrilla, sin, redemption, sociopath. Resumen. Son muchos los tipos de representación artística —teatro, música, ópera, ballet, literatura, cine, televisión, pintura, escultura, etc.— de la leyenda de Don Juan, el arquetipo universal del seductor que, mediante engaños, conquista a una mujer y, una vez que ella sucumbe a sus encantos, se jacta de su triunfo, las desprecia y reenfoca su interés en otras damas. En este trabajo, comparo a tres de los don Juanes más famosos: El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (1630) de Tirso de Molina, Don Giovanni (1787) de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart y Lorenzo Da Ponte, y Don Juan Tenorio (1844) de José Zorrilla. La primera y la tercera son piezas teatrales, en tanto que la segunda es una ópera. El mito de Don Juan es, esencialmente, el mismo en estas tres obras, aunque varían el mensaje y la moraleja según el movimiento cultural al que pertenecen: Barroco, Ilustración y Romanticismo, respectivamente. Palabras clave: Burlador de Sevilla, Don Giovanni, Don Juan, Tirso de Molina, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte, José Zorrilla, pecado, redención, sociópata.

The contribution brings forth new findings about the Baroque painter Joseph Digl († 1765) and his portraits. The painter’s opus, which has so far comprised seven portraits of the Counts of Attems and four altar paintings, has now been expanded by another six portraits revealing that his clientele also included the Counts of Szapáry. Based on the analysis of his links to his patrons and the newly discovered archival sources, it is possible to more precisely follow the life path of Joseph Digl and to confirm his presence in Ljutomer and Bad Radkersburg. Moreover, his comprehensive opus and the splendid ties that he maintained with his clientele rank him among important Baroque portrait painters in Slovenia.

Reverse paintings on glass from the collections of the Department of Older Czech History of the National Museum. Articles regarding the works of Gerhard Janssen, Daniel Preissler, Vincenz Janke and their contemporaries. In regard to the phenomenon and application of the verre églomisé technique, part I. This two-part paper presents a diverse collection of approximately 120 reverse paintings on glass produced in the Czech lands and Central Europe, from the beginning of the 18th century to the second half of the 19th century. The first part is devoted to their topics from the aspect of religion, allegory, landscape and genre and also discusses their iconography, authorship, templates, techniques (particularly verre églomisé) and provenience in the context of Czech and foreign collections. The most valuable of these items include newly identified Baroque works by Gerhard Janssen, the allegorical cycle by Daniel Preissler and works by the Augsburg School. The 19th century is dominated by the workshop of Vincenz Janke producing works falling between art and craftwork, and specific regional works, which are also represented by folk paintings. The second (prepared) part of the thesis will be separately devoted to portrait reverse paintings on glass.

The complicated political and cultural position of the Serbs who migrated to the Habsburg Monarchy in the early eighteenth century caused the rise of popularity of Russian rulers, who were recognized as protectors of the Orthodox against religious persecution. Political ties were accompanied by a strong Russification of Serbian culture, which was carried out through the mass procurement of Russian liturgical books and the arrival of many Russian teachers to Serbian schools. Ukrainian painters who came to the Metropolitanate of Karlovci brought new forms of baroque religious painting and introduced changes in the structure of the iconostasis. The cult of the Romanov dynasty among Orthodox Serbs in Hungary was amplified by their numerous portraits and engravings.

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 The Author separated the visualized time and the time when the painting was created. Both are rooted in the point of history which was important for the artist, in the time of creating the work of art as well as in the internal structure of the painting which is expressed through the theme and the presented figures. The researcher who was deeply influenced by history, browsed it deeply in order to find every “now”, adding it to the timeline of the artist’s life, or to the history he was a part of. The timeline, history, constitutes a basis of the knowledge about the artist’s workshop and it is the basis for the historical-comparative method. The Priest Professor Pasierb knew hermeneutics with the hermeneutic circle of Hans Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. In his exploration of the temporal structure of his works of art he indicates to the reader the circular structure of the composition, which is typical for the scenes of the greatest masters of the Baroque, e.g. The Coronation of Mary, The Adoration of the Shepherds. The structure of time is particularly important in the portraits of Herman Han in the painting of 17th century. The analysis of the paintings of the master of Gdańsk Herman Han, especially of his painting The Coronation of the Virgin Mary in the main altar in Pelplin is an introduction for discovering the circular structures of time and space. It shows the Author’s concepts as close to the traditional Antique concepts of time: as the two opposites: Chronos – the inevitable time which consumes everything on its way and Kairos, the fugacious moment which can, however, be stopped by wisdom, beauty, the ability of predicting. The sensitivity to time, the Kairos, was expressed by the priest Professor Pasierb who was impressed by a Greek vase painted by Makron (Paris, Louvre) “long-haired boy with a hoop and with a dog, quickly running round an attic goblet, looking back where they are calling you, come back, you didn’t listen, today it is too late, twenty-five centuries passed. The painter Makron whom you passed by so quickly, managed to write kalos – Beautiful”. The basic method used for the analysis of time and space in the painting is the hermeneutic method of Paul Ricoeur and Hans Georg Gadamer.

The article studies the peculiarities of visual image symbolic type originating in the artistic practice of Ukrainian baroque. It is stated that ba- roque culture of 17-18 cent. was spreading across Ukrainian territories. Meanwhile Ukrainian art of that period was developing in close interaction with the art of Central Europe, Russia and Balkan countries. Realistic traditions of Western Europe were actively taking roots on Ukrainian territory thus forming the alternative for sacral orthodox art. Symbolic and allegoric type of visual art is mostly used for didactic and educational aims (I. Galyatovsky), narrative ones (I. Bondarevska) and to be more precise and clear it is accompanied by text explanations. Symbolic motives are also represented in virtually all works of H. Skovoroda distinguishing purely symbolic images and fantastic ones. He believes that symbolic imagery is a "picture of wisdom". Emblem-embedded and symbol-embedded books with symbolic and allegoric illustrating engravings become more common and widespread due to the typography development. Publication of "Symbola et Emblemata" and "Iphika Hieropolitica" promotes the usage of these murals, icon paintings, and didactic motives of secular arts. Symbolic and allegoric contents of ethno-national coloring fill the imagery of Ukrainian national icon paintings ("Cossack Mamay", etc.) and symbolically-allegoric compositions of icon paintings ("Jesus Christ the Husband- man", "The Eye of Providence", "Crucifixion with Vine", "Christ in the Winepress", etc.). Also allegoric motives are used in parsuna genre. The article states that, due to the rationalistic tendency influence of European culture, Ukrainian visual art of baroque period moves away from Byzantine canons with their symbolic conventionality thus turning more and more to realistic type of imagery (especially in portrait genre) and at the same time retaining symbolic and allegoric techniques which gained some ethno-national peculiarities.