Chapter 1

Question 1

Answer 1

Barocci

The Deposition

1567-9

Cathedral, Perugia

First major artist to respond to the demands of the Counter-Reformation Church by replacing nudity and eroticism with decorum and emotional stimuli

Question 2

Answer 2

Barocci

Madonna del Popolo

1575-9

Woman to the lower left symbolizes Charity. Traditionally she would have been shown as a woman suckling two infants, but in response to the Church’s insistence on modesty and decorum, she is clothed and the action is shifted to devotion

Question 3

Answer 3

Barocci

The Last Supper

1590-9

Cathedral, Urbino

• Pays homage to Leonardo’s Last Supper
• X-shaped composition
• The wine and bread are at the painting’s center: Underscores the importance of the Last Supper as the first mass
• Reinforces the central role of the Eucharist in Catholicism, as well as the doctrine of transubstantiation

Question 4

Answer 4

Ludovico Carracci

The Annunciation

1583-84

Pinacoteca Nazionale, Balogna

Sweet, idealized faces and faceted drapery patterns show his inspiration from Correggio

Question 5

Answer 5

Ludovico Carracci

The Holy Family with St. Francis and Donors

1591

Pinacoteca Civica, Cento

• Format is taken from high renaissance venetian painting
• Patrons are off to the corner
• Holy figures are presented as real people involved in action; emphasis on the naturalism of the group

Question 6

Answer 6

Annibale Carracci

The Assumption of the Virgin

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

The virgin glowing with light contrasts the darkness of the Caravaggio paintings that is beside it in the Cerasi Chapel

Question 7

Answer 7

Annibale Carracci

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Farnese Gallery ceiling

1597-1600

Modeled after the method of the Sistine Chapel

Question 8

Answer 8

Annibale Carracci

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

before 1603

• Raises the level of importance of landscape painting by including a scene from history
• Similar to theatre background, consistent with Baroque era

Question 9

Answer 9

Agostino Carracci

The Last Communion of St. Jerome

1594-5

Color absorbed from Venetian painting

Question 10

Answer 10

Caravaggio

The Lute Player

1595-6

The boy’s gaze meets the viewer’s, thus creating a psychological bond between the two

Question 11

Answer 11

Caravaggio

Young Bacchus

1597

Ripples can be seen the glass of wine that he is offering the viewer
Uncomfortably inviting

Question 12

Answer 12

Caravaggio

The Gypsy Fortuneteller

1596-7

Satirizing human foibles, if you’re stupid enough to fall for the trick, then you deserve it

Question 13

Answer 13

Caravaggio

Basket of Fruit

1595-1601

Basket is slightly off the table coming into the viewer’s space

Question 14

Answer 14

Caravaggio

Judith and Holofernes

1599

Use of tenebrism reflects his training as a north Italian artist

Question 15

Answer 15

Caravaggio

The Calling of St. Matthew

1599-1600

Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

• Hand of Christ is a direct lift from the Sistine chapel
• The figure with his back to the viewer invites us into the scene
• St. Peter is representing the church and embodies political underpinnings that are going on

Question 16

Answer 16

Caravaggio

The Conversion of St.Paul

1604-05

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

Paul’s body is pushing into the viewer’s space, and is the most powerful even though he appears smallest because he is not facing the viewer, he is on the ground, and his body is foreshortened

Question 17

Answer 17

Caravaggio

St. Francis in Ecstacy

1594-5

Uses tenebrism
Caravaggio’s angels are the least ‘angelic’ you’ll ever see, they are more realistic looking

Question 18

Answer 18

Caravaggio

St. Catherine of Alexandria

1597-98

The red blade is reflecting the red pillow literally, although the red color on the blade does represent her martyrdom
The way she is stroking the blade is suggestive of sexual masochism
Tenebrism become even more extreme
His first halo
The model was a good friend of his, possibly his mistress, who was also a cortisone
Pretty much no drawing underneath, worked by the live model directly on the canvas

Question 19

Answer 19

Caravaggio

The Entombment of Christ

1602-4

Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican

Dealing with the classical tradition of ancient sculptures

Question 20

Answer 20

Caravaggio

The Death of the Virgin

1602-4

While the assumption of the virgin is a popular scene that is depicted, her death is not’
She is presented as a corpse and it looks like an ordinary death

Rumor is that Caravaggio used one of his friends as the Virgin and did not disguise her and this was a public altarpiece and that upset many

Question 21

Answer 21

Caravaggio

The Seven Acts of Mercy

1606

Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

Focuses on two specifically catholic and non-protestant subjects: the virgin and the corporal works of mercy