Discussion board 2

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Read the following article and explain the differences between the Dutch approach to art and the Italian approach to art in the Baroque period (following the Protestant Reformation). View the following video and suggest the meaning or intention of Vermeer in his painting, The Allegory of the Art of Painting. Define “vanitas” painting and identify at least three references to death in Kalf’s Still Life with a Silver Ewer. Explain the significance of landscape as a subject of genre paintings in the Dutch Baroque period. Explain the prominence of the sky and the significance of the church on the horizon. Read and Watch the following video and article and answer the following: a) What is the subject of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch? b) How did Rembrandt paint his subjects differently than his contemporary painters? c) Rembrandt was influenced by an Italian painter; who was that painter and what do we see in the painting that shows this influence? Watch the following video on Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait. Write a short 3-4 sentence paragraph describing how Rembrandt paint’s himself differently than Vermeer in his The Allegory of the Art of Painting? Baroque Art, an Introduction https://smarthistory.org/a-beginners-guide-to-baroque-art/ Vermeer’s Allegory of the Art of Painting https://smarthistory.org/johannes-vermeer-the-art-of-painting/ Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Silver Ewer and a Porcelain Bowl https://smarthistory.org/kalf-ewer/ Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem https://smarthistory.org/ruisdael-view-of-haarlem/ Frans Hals, The Women Regents https://smarthistory.org/hals-women/ Rembrandt’s Night Watch https://smarthistory.org/rembrandt-the-night-watch/ Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait (1659) https://smarthistory.org/rembrandt-van-rijn-self-portrait-1659/ Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait (1659) https://smarthistory.org/rembrandt-self-portrait-kenwood/