Chapter 23 – Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe – Flashcards
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A global of Baroque art was to
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evoke emotional
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The strategies of Baroque theatricality include
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dramatic lighting
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Unlike Renaissance art, Baroque art makes it's viewers into
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participants
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Art picturing scenes of daily life is called
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genre painting
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The Baroque style is established and developed in Rome thanks in part to the
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Counter-Reformation
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Bernini's Cathedra Petri typical of Italian Baroque art for its
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opulent and spectacular visual effects
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Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy most clearly illustrates the Baroque interest in
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emotion
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The two styles of Italian seventeenth-century painting are
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naturalism and Classicism
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The text suggest that the purpose of Caravaggio's naturalism is to
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make religious subjects understandable
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What constitutes the "Golden Age" of painting in Spain?
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paintings that depict religious themes realistically and dramatically
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Seventeenth-century Spanish art is most profoundly influenced by
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Caravaggio
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Jusepe de Ribera's painting is best described as
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Classical and naturalistic
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What concern common in the Renaissance and Baroque eras is demonstrated in Velazquez's Las Meninas?
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status of the artist
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What motivate the addition of Baroque facade to the Romanesque cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Compostela in Spain?
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renew interest in pilgrimages to the shrines of saints
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What new developments in Flemish painting are evident in the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens?
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Rubens hires specialist painters as shop assistants
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What aspect of Rubens's painting reveals his familiarity with Italian art?
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heroic bodies
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How do painting by Peter Paul Rubens reveal his northern heritage?
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surface description
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Which country's political history is pictured in Ruben's Henry IV Receiving the Protiat of Marie de' Madici?
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France
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A breakfast piece is a still life featuring
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bread and fruit
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The predominant style of Dutch seventeenth-century art is
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naturalistic
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The subject preferred in the Protestant Netherlands include
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portraiture, genre, and landscapes
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Which printmaking process is most closely associated with Rembrandt?
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etching
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Vermeer used the camera obscura to
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study the composition
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What compositional element Hals's Officers of the Harlem Militia Company of St. Adrian?
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diagonal lines
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How does the art of France differ from art and architecture produced elsewhere in Europe?
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it is under royal control
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Versailles's dominant iconographic program consist of
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images of Apollo
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The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture promotes a/n
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Classical style
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Which aspect of Georges de la Tour's Mary Magdalen with the Smoking Flame reveals his indebtedness to Caravaggio
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emphasis on the figure
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The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture debated the relative merits of
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drawing and color
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Inigo Jones is inspired by the architecture of
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Andrea Palladio
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What evidence leads your test to describe the windows at the Banqueting House as rhythmic?
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They have alternating round and ponied pediments
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What Renaissance architectural feature did Wren originally plan for St. Paul Cathedral?
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central plan
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How is Wren's plan for St. Paul Cathedral similar to Maderno's plan for the new St. Peter's in Rome?
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both have a long nave
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How does Christopher Wren use chiaroscuro at St. Paul's Cathedral?
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shaded porticos on the facade
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Unlike the Renaissance, Baroque Classicism is characterized by its
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drama
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What practical concern lay behind the promotion of longitudinally planned churches in 17th-century Rome?
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accommodating parishioners
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The twisting columns on Bernini's Baldacchino refer to
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Solomon
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Which answer correctly explains why Bernini built the Piazza at St. Peter's in an oval shape?
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the oval accommodated existing objects on the site
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The facade of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
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seeks dramatic effects of light and shadow
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Tenebrism is Caravaggio's strategy for creating
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emotional responses
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What evidence reveals that Artemisia Gentileschi is a follower of Caravaggio?
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dramatic light
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How does Cortona's The Glorification of the Papacy of Urban VIII exemplify the role of viewers in Baroque art?
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its illusionism relies on the viewer's position
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Paintings of the Immaculate Conception refers to the belief that
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Mary was born without the stain of original sin
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What evidence leads to the conclusion that Rubens's Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt commemorates their wedding?
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the positions of their hands and feet
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Which formal element or principal of design is a hall mark of Peter Paul Rubens's painting?
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diagonal composition
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A printmaking process that uses a needle to scratch into metal plate is called
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drypoint
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How does Hal's Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian exemplify Dutch art?
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it is the theme form daily life
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Which thematic category was particular common in Holland?
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group portraiture
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Gerard ter Borch's The Suitor's Visit is an example of
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genre scene
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The evidence that Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance seems to be a metaphor for external judgement includes the
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painting in the background
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Which visual hallmark leads scholars to describe French landscapes as "Classical"?
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the use of orderly composition
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What evidence supports your test's description of St. Paul's facade as triumphantly vertical?
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two-story portal
