Chapter 22 the secular Baroque in the a north – Flashcards
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What is the meaning of the word landschap, from which landscape derives?
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Land form
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Why was the portraiture especially with the middle class seventeenth century Dutch?
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Affirmation of their financial well being
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Which of the following is NOT a contradiction of the seventeenth century Amsterdam residents?
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Advocate harmony among others, viciously warred with the Spanish
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Why did the Dutch rebel against in 1567?
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The Spanish opened the dislikes, flooding the Dutch farmland
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From where did Europe receive the first load of tulip bulbs?
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Turkey
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What creates the "broken" tulips, so highly valued by the seventeenth century Dutch?
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A virus
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Why in 1637 did the Dutch economy come close to collapse?
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Frenzied speculation in tulip futures
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What requirement did the Dutch state place on people in public service?
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Be a member of the Dutch Reformed Church
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Why in 1618 were some members expelled from the Dutch Reformed church and even imprisoned?
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Belief that good deeds could overcome predestination.
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What manner of inquiry did Francis Bacon advocate?
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Empirical method
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According to Francis Bacon, what were the greatest obstacles to human understanding.
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Superstition and religion
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Which of the following is not one Bacon's four major categories of false notion?
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Idols of the Tribe
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What manor of inquiry did Rene Descartes advocate?
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Deductive reasoning
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According to Descartes, what was God?
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The mathematical order of nature
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What branch of mathematics did Descartes found?
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Analytic geometry
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Why were the catholic and the Protestant churches opposed to kepler's and Galileo's heliocentric theory?
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For implying the existence of other solar systems
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Of what does vanitas painting remind the viewer?
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To focus on the spiritual, not the material
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Why did Johanne Goedaert paint a broken and empty nautilus shell beside the vase in his Flowers in a wan-li Vase with Blue- tit?
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To symbolized worldly, vanity and mortality
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What do most of jan Vermeer's 34 painting depict?
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A moment in the domestic world of women
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What might the pearls in Vermeer's woman with a pearl necklace represent?
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Purity
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In the Little street why does Vermeer include a half white washed wall and mortar filled cracked facade?
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To show the tensions of domestic life
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Why was Rembrandt's captain Fran's Banning Cocq Mustering His Company once mistitled The Night Watch?
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It was covered with grime
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Why was Rembrandt so interested in self portrait?
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His own face provided the ideal practice subject
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Why in 1656 was Rembrandt forced to declare bankruptcy?
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He was notorious for living beyond his means
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In the anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp why does Rembrandt illuminate the cadaver?
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To highlight the impossibility of resurrection
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Why can Rembrandt late work slaughtered ox be viewed as optimistic?
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The carcass suggest a feast to come
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What provided one of the main forms of entertainment at a Dutch family gathering?
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The performance of keyboard music
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What distinguished Bach's cantatas from the simple melodies of the Lutheran chorales on which the were based?
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Addition of counterpoint
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Why can Bach's fugues be viewed as sublime of Cartesian rationalism?
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Their single thematic idea
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In descent from the cross discussed in the chapter's continuity and change section why does Rembrandt push his scene deeper into the canvas than does rubens in his earlier painting of the same title?
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To remove the viewers from the action
