Baroque Related Arts Quiz

Question 1

When _ became _ in 1623 he said to the artist _

Answer 1

Maffeo Barberni, Pope Urban VIII, Bernini

Question 2

Bernini’s - provides a vivid contrast to Michaelangelo’s -

Answer 2

David

Question 3

From 1526 to 1761, a succession of Muslim rulers in India established the - and under their reign India prospered from growing international trade

Answer 3

Mughal Empire

Question 4

The tomb of a Mughal emperor’s wife, the - floats on a pedestal of pink stone above a garden of reflecting pools

Answer 4

Taj Mahal

Question 5

• decoration of the new - was one of the greatest and most expensive undertakings of the baroque era.

Answer 5

Bernini, St. Peter’s

Question 6

In a depiction of - ecstatic vision, the angel of god pierces - heart with the barb of divine love.

Answer 6

St. Teresa’s, Teresa’s

Question 7

• gigantic façade, with columns more than twice the height of the Parthenon’s in Athens

Answer 7

Carlo Maderno’s

Question 8

• intricate dome caps a space that is no larger than a single pier of St. Peter’s

Answer 8

Borromini’s

Question 9

The - depicts a rude tavern much like those that - frequented in his rough, turbulent life

Answer 9

Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio

Question 10

A stage drama set to music

Answer 10

Opera

Question 11

Style of solo singing, serious emotion of tragic poetry

Answer 11

Recitative

Question 12

Famous recit by Monteverdi

Answer 12

Tu se’ morta

Question 13

Opera Seria

Answer 13

Serious operas with mythological themes

Question 14

Opera Buffa

Answer 14

Comic opera

Question 15

Concerto grosso

Answer 15

small group of instruments or solo instrument plays with orchestra

Question 16

A monarch must exercise complete political control over aspect fo everyday life

Answer 16

Absolutism

Question 17

Like - paintings, - was a bridge between Renaissance and Baroque styles

Answer 17

El Greco’s, Escorial Palace

Question 18

Greatest painter of Spain’s Golden age

Answer 18

Diego Velázquez

Question 19

• illustrated the scholarly belief that pagan mythology reflected historical fact or popular custom

Answer 19

Triumph of Bacchus

Question 20

Few paintings are more complex than - masterpiece, -

Answer 20

Velázquez, Las Meninas

Question 21

Greatest literary work of the seventeenth century

Answer 21

Don Quixote

Question 22

Author of Don Quixote

Answer 22

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 23

Revival of classical Greek and Roman forms

Answer 23

Neoclassical

Question 24

The symmetry and grandeur of - that was owned by - symbolized the King’s orderly rule over his nation

Answer 24

Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV

Question 25

French court’s most important figure

Answer 25

Jean Baptiste-Lully

Question 26

European Nobility’s favorite baroque painter was Flemish painter

Answer 26

Peter Paul Rubens

Question 27

In contrast to Ruben’s effusive dynamism, the French painter - was the essence of Baroque neoclassicism

Answer 27

Nicolas Poussin

Question 28

Counterpoint

Answer 28

combination of two or more melodies of equal importance

Question 29

A prominent bass line that harmonically supports the polyphonic lines

Answer 29

Basso Continuo

Question 30

• set of musical exercises to prove a clavier could be tuned to accommodate all 24 major and minor keys called -

Answer 30

Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier

Question 31

The first great Dutch baroque painter ended his life in poverty

Answer 31

Frans Hals

Question 32

• a contemporary of Rembrandt, was the first woman admitted to the painter’s guild of her city

Answer 32

Judith Leyster

Question 33

• spent most of his career in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam

Answer 33

Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 34

No ideas except from experience

Answer 34

Empiricism

Question 35

The philosophical explanation of what humans know and how they know it

Answer 35

epistemology

Question 36

The historical process by which modern science triumphed as the authority

Answer 36

Scientific Revolution

Question 37

This polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric theory of the universe

Answer 37

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 38

Used the newly invented telescope to to revolutionize astronomy

Answer 38

Galileo

Question 39

• Principia Mathematica introduced the universal laws of gravitation

Answer 39

Issac Newton’s

Question 40

• had angered the Catholic church with a manifesto called - about new discoveries in mathematics

Answer 40

René Descartes, Discourse on Method

Question 41

• hoped to unify his rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland and make his monarchy match of France or Spain

Answer 41

King Charles I