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11 - Baroque Style - Age of Bach Flashcards

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Baroque Period included dates approx

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1600-1700

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Term: originally used by art critics - anything irregular, bizarre, over decorated, departing from established rules.

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Baroque

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Characteristic of baroque art

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Desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to senses, often in dramatic ways

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Grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, religious enthusiasm, elaborately decorative, ornamentation - attributed to

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Baroque music & art

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Baroque period shaped by (3)

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Counter- reformation Roman Catholic Church
Rise of absolute monarchies - prominent & powerful middle class
New interest in nature - explorations of globe + developments in natural science
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Scientists of baroque period (4)

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Galileo
Kepler
Isaac newton
Rene Descartes

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Father of modern philosophy

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Rene Descartes

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Who wrote “cogito, ergo sum”

I think, therefore, I am

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Rene Descartes

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Dominate baroque artist in Italy

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Bernini

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Painting: Calling of St Matthew
Artist:

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Caravaggio

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Painting: Judith slaying Holofernes

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Artemisia Gentileschi (female artist)

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Baldacchino of Bernini:

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Guilded bronze alter canopy found in St Peter’s Basilica

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Ecstasy of St Teresa sculpted by

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Bernini

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Ecstasy of St Teresa is found

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Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria Della Vittoria in Rome

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Las Meninas painted by

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Diego Velazquez

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Painter: the burial of Count Orgaz

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El Greco

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Palace of Versailles was home to

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French King Louis XIV

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Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus painted by

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Flemish artist Peter Paul Reubens

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French Painter: holy family on the steps

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Poussin

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English poet John Donne wrote (1)

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Death, Be Not Proud

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English poet John Milton wrote (1)

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Paradise Lost

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St Paul’s Cathedral in London: architect

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Christopher Wren

Baroque - England

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German composer, George Frederic Handel, lived in England, wrote
Baroque period

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Handel’s Messiah

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Who was John Locke? Baroque

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Baroque
Political philosopher, balance between individual freedom & legitimacy of govt.
Groundwork 4 political revolution, age of reason
Influential - wording of Declaration of Independence

25
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Who wrote the Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes

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2 primary forces drive human, desire for power and fear of death.
What literary masterpiece and who wrote it

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The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (Baroque)

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theory of govt behind Leviathan

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Leviathan like govt absolute power. Each individual agrees to commands of person or assembly necessary for peace and defense of all

28
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Opera like form without stage action

Baroque period

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oratorio

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Who perfected the oratorio (Baroque)

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Handel

30
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St Matthew Passion written by

Baroque

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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The well tempered Clavier written by

Baroque

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Johann Sebastian Bach

32
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devout Lutheran. composer, worked for German courts, created sacred music, mastery of major and minor tonality

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Bach

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Opera originate in

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Italy, late 16th century

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first great composer of opera was

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Claudio Monteverdi

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Orfero written by…based on legend of Greek poet-musician…

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Monteverdi, Orpheus

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political doctrine…unlimited, centralized authority, total sovereignty, …monarch or dictator. govt by absolute authority

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absolutism

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in music: solo vocal piece w/musical accompaniment

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aria

38
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cloth canopy fixed over important person or object; ornamental structure over an alter

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baldacchino

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diverse artistic style, late 16th to early 18th century: complexity, elaborate,…appeal to emotions

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Baroque

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Dark room or box, small hole in side, inverted image projected onto opposite wall, screen, mirror. Prototype for modern camera

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camera obscura

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music: composition in several movements for orchestra…, often sacred text, utilizing recitatives, arias, choruses

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cantata

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Dance: art of creation of dance work. arrangement movement in a dance

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choreography

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nation, state, political unit;

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commonwealth

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Music: various levels of loudness and softness; increase, decrease intensities

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dynamics

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visual art:: type of intaglio printmaking … design comprises lines cut into metal plate by acid

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etching

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compact, abridged, shortened. compacting 3 dimensions by linear perspective…show depth of space

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foreshortening

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musical composition… 1 or 2 themes repeated…successively entering voices…continuous interweaving of voice parts

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fugue

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member of Roman Catholic Society of Jesus founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1534. Missionary and educational work

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Jesuit

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Music and theatre: text of opera

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libretto

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Artistic style followed High Renaissance, preceded Baroque, spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of human figures

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mannerism

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revival or adaptation of ancient Greek and Roman style, themes: literature, music, art, architecture

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Neoclassicism

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theatrical presentation with drama set to music

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opera

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Music: short instrumental composition…introduction to larger work. Or - instrumental composition … stand alone performance piece

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overture…concert overture

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Open square…Italian town, arcaded or roofed gallery

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piazza

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Music: instrumental composition (Baroque) comprising set of dance inspired movements written in same key but differing tempo, meter, character.

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suite

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Title of King Louis XIV of France. associates him with Aoikki

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Sun King

57
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Music: specific key… composition written.

Visual arts: arrangement or interrelation of tones of work

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tonality

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