Baroque Art and Architecture

Question 1

Answer 1

Caravaggio
Calling of St.Matthew
St.Matthew Chapel
1600
Oil on canvas
11’1”x11’5”
c.f. Creation of Adam
Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy

Question 2

Answer 2

Caravaggio
Conversion of St.Paul
1600
Oil on canvas
7’6”x5’9”
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy

Question 3

Answer 3

Caravaggio
Crucifixion of St.Peter
1600
Oil on canvas
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy

Question 4

Answer 4

Artemisia Gentilischi
Judith and Holofernes
1620
Oil on canvas
Florence, Italy

Question 5

Answer 5

Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods
1600
c.f. Sistine Chapel
Ceiling fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy

Question 6

Answer 6

Carlo Maderno
Facade of St.Peter’s
1610
Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Question 7

Answer 7

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Baldacchino (Tabernacle)
1630
Gilded Bronze
100’ high
Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

Question 8

Answer 8

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Pluto and Proserpina
1620
Italy

Question 9

Answer 9

Gain Lorenzo Bernini
David
1620
Marble
Italy

Question 10

Answer 10

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Ecstasy of St.Teresa
1650
Cornaro Chapel, Italy

Question 11

Rubensistes vs. Poussinistes

Answer 11

Argument in the French Academy over the importance of drawing vs. colour
1650

Question 12

Answer 12

Nicolas Poussin
Et in Arcadia Ego
1650
Oil on canvas
2’10”x4’
Louvre, Paris, France

Question 13

Answer 13

Nicolas Poussin
Burial of Phocion
1650
Oil on canvas
3’11”x5’10”
Louvre, Paris, France

Question 14

Answer 14

Georges de la Tour
The Repentant Magdalen
1640
France

Question 15

Answer 15

Claude Lorraine
Pastoral Landscape
1650
Oil on canvas
3’9”x4’10.5”
France

Question 16

Answer 16

Claude Perrault, Louis la Vau, and Charles Lebrun
Louvre
East front
1670
Paris, France

Question 17

Answer 17

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of Louis XIV
1700
Oil on canvas
9’2”x6’3”
Louvre, Paris, France

Question 18

Answer 18

Velazquez
Fraga Philip (King Philip IV)
1645
Spain

Question 19

Answer 19

Velazquez
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
1650
Oil on canvas
10’5”x9’
Spain

Question 20

Answer 20

Peter Paul Rubens
The Raising of the Cross
1610
Oil on panel
Antwerp Cathedral, Flanders

Question 21

Answer 21

Peter Paul Rubens
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
1615
Flanders

Question 22

Answer 22

Peter Paul Rubens
Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles
1635
Oil on canvas
5’1”x3’9.5”
Flanders

Question 23

Answer 23

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Charles I Hunting
1635
Oil on canvas
9’x7’
Flanders

Question 24

Answer 24

Frans Hals
Laughing Cavalier
1625
The Netherlands

Question 25

Answer 25

Rembrandt
Anatomy Lesson of Dr.Tulp
1635
Oil on canvas
5’3.75”x7’1.25”
The Netherlands

Question 26

Answer 26

Rembrandt
Self-portrait
1640
Oil on canvas
3’8.75”x3’1”
The Netherlands

Question 27

Answer 27

Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1640
Oil on canvas
11’11”x14’4”
The Netherlands

Question 28

Answer 28

Rembrandt
Hundred Guilder Print
1650
Etching
The Netherlands

Question 29

Answer 29

Rembrandt
Self-portrait as St.Paul
1660
The Netherlands

Question 30

Answer 30

Rembrandt
Return of the Prodigal Son
1665
Oil on canvas
8’8”x6’9”
The Netherlands

Question 31

Answer 31

Vermeer
View of Delft
1660
The Netherlands

Question 32

Answer 32

Vermeer
The Letter
1665
Oil on canvas
1’5.25”x1’3.25”
The Netherlands

Question 33

Answer 33

Jacob van Ruisdael
View of Haarlem
1670
Oil on canvas
1’10”x2’1”
The Netherlands

Question 34

Answer 34

Self-portrait
Judith Leyster
1630
Oil on canvas
2’5”x2’1”
The Netherlands

Question 35

Answer 35

Pieter Claesz
Vanitas (still life)
1630
Oil on panel
1’2”x1’11.5”
The Netherlands

Question 36

Answer 36

Christopher Wren
St.Paul’s Cathedral
1700
London, England