Barron's: Chapter 17 - Baroque Art Flashcards
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Time Period
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- 1690-1700
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Baroque
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- means “irregularly shaped” or “odd,” a negative word that evolved in the eighteenth century to describe the Baroque’s departure from the Italian Renaissance
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Essential Knowledge
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- Western Europe and the American colonies are at the center of Renaissance and Baroque studies
- Europe and the Americas are brought into closer alignment with this new course of study. One is not considered more important than the other
- Europeans brought goods and culture to the Western hemisphere with their trade and conquest
- Europeans began to collect and organize knowledge form their various expansions around the globe. European influence is on the rise at home and abroad
- In Northern Europe there was an emphasis on non-religious subjects, like portraits, genre paintings, and still lifes. In Southern Europe there was an emphasis on religious subjects with much more active and dynamic compositions
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Santa Maria della Vittoria
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- Carlo Maderno
- 1605-1620
- Rome
- Baroque Art
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Saint Charles of the Four Fountains
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- Francesco Borromini
- 1638-1646
- stone and stucco
- Rome
- Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Architectural Sculpture
- Temple of Amun-Re
- Parthenon
- Lakshmana Temple
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Palace of Versailles
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- Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart
- begun 1669
- masonry, stone, wood, iron, and gold leaf; gardens
- Versailles France
- Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: National Capitals
- Nan Madol
- Great Zimbabwe
- Forbidden City
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
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- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- 1647-1652
- marble
- stucco and gilt bronze
- Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
- Italian Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Use of Light and Dark
- Lanzon Stele
- Court of the Lions
- Pantheon
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Calling of Saint Matthew
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- Caravaggio
- 1597-1601
- oil on canvas
- San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
- Italian Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Light Effects
- Viola, Crossing
- Walker, Darkytown Rebellion
- Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere
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Triumph of the Name of Jesus
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- Giovanni Battista Gaulli
- 1676-1679
- Il Gesu, Rome
- Italian Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Ceiling Paintings
- Michelangelo, Flood
- Catacomb of Priscilla Good Shepherd
- Lascaux Caves
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Las Meninas
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- Diego Velazquez
- 1656
- oil on canvas
- Prado, Madrid
- Spanish Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Self Portraits
- Morie, Pure Land
- Raphael, School of Athens
- Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings
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Marie de’ Medici Cycle
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- Peter Paul Rubens
- 1621-1625
- oil on canvas
- Louvre, Paris
- Flemish Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Connections: Relationships
- Kilmt, The Kiss
- Veranda post
- Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
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Self-Portrait with Saskia
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- Rembrandt
- 1636
- etching
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Dutch Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Graphic Arts
- Durer, Adam and Eve
- Cranach, Allegory of Law and Grace
- Kollwitz, Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
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Woman Holding a Balance
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- Johannes Vermeer
- c. 1664
- oil on canvas
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Dutch Baroque Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Genre Scenes
- Stele of Hegeso
- Cassatt, The Coiffure
- Bayeux Tapestry, First Meal
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Fruits and Insects
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- Rachel Ruysch
- 1711
- oil on wood
- Uffizi, Florence
- Dutch Baroque Art
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Di sotto in su (“from the bottom up”)
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- a type of ceiling painting in which the figures seem to be hovering above the viewers, often looking down at us
