Baroque Related Arts Quiz Flashcards
When _ became _ in 1623 he said to the artist _
Maffeo Barberni, Pope Urban VIII, Bernini
Bernini’s - provides a vivid contrast to Michaelangelo’s -
David
From 1526 to 1761, a succession of Muslim rulers in India established the - and under their reign India prospered from growing international trade
Mughal Empire
The tomb of a Mughal emperor’s wife, the - floats on a pedestal of pink stone above a garden of reflecting pools
Taj Mahal
- decoration of the new - was one of the greatest and most expensive undertakings of the baroque era.
Bernini, St. Peter’s
In a depiction of - ecstatic vision, the angel of god pierces - heart with the barb of divine love.
St. Teresa’s, Teresa’s
- gigantic façade, with columns more than twice the height of the Parthenon’s in Athens
Carlo Maderno’s
- intricate dome caps a space that is no larger than a single pier of St. Peter’s
Borromini’s
The - depicts a rude tavern much like those that - frequented in his rough, turbulent life
Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio
A stage drama set to music
Opera
Style of solo singing, serious emotion of tragic poetry
Recitative
Famous recit by Monteverdi
Tu se’ morta
Opera Seria
Serious operas with mythological themes
Opera Buffa
Comic opera
Concerto grosso
small group of instruments or solo instrument plays with orchestra
A monarch must exercise complete political control over aspect fo everyday life
Absolutism
Like - paintings, - was a bridge between Renaissance and Baroque styles
El Greco’s, Escorial Palace
Greatest painter of Spain’s Golden age
Diego Velázquez
- illustrated the scholarly belief that pagan mythology reflected historical fact or popular custom
Triumph of Bacchus
Few paintings are more complex than - masterpiece, -
Velázquez, Las Meninas
Greatest literary work of the seventeenth century
Don Quixote
Author of Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Revival of classical Greek and Roman forms
Neoclassical
The symmetry and grandeur of - that was owned by - symbolized the King’s orderly rule over his nation
Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV
French court’s most important figure
Jean Baptiste-Lully
European Nobility’s favorite baroque painter was Flemish painter
Peter Paul Rubens
In contrast to Ruben’s effusive dynamism, the French painter - was the essence of Baroque neoclassicism
Nicolas Poussin
Counterpoint
combination of two or more melodies of equal importance
A prominent bass line that harmonically supports the polyphonic lines
Basso Continuo
- set of musical exercises to prove a clavier could be tuned to accommodate all 24 major and minor keys called -
Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier
The first great Dutch baroque painter ended his life in poverty
Frans Hals
- a contemporary of Rembrandt, was the first woman admitted to the painter’s guild of her city
Judith Leyster
- spent most of his career in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam
Rembrandt van Rijn
No ideas except from experience
Empiricism
The philosophical explanation of what humans know and how they know it
epistemology
The historical process by which modern science triumphed as the authority
Scientific Revolution
This polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric theory of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Used the newly invented telescope to to revolutionize astronomy
Galileo
- Principia Mathematica introduced the universal laws of gravitation
Issac Newton’s
- had angered the Catholic church with a manifesto called - about new discoveries in mathematics
René Descartes, Discourse on Method
- hoped to unify his rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland and make his monarchy match of France or Spain
King Charles I
