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Chapter 20 Flashcards

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What were the characteristics of the Northern Baroque painting?

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The paintings were emotionally driven, included miracles, drama, and had attributes of the counter reformist period. Diagonals create motion and motion was used a lot.

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Who was Peter Paul Rubens?

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A powerful Flemish painter who sold many commissions and completed paintings titled “Venus at Mirror” and “Elevation of the Cross.” He idealized woman as fat, fleshy, blonde.

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What is tenebrism?

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Intense dark and light contrast shading.

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Who painted “Allegory of the Outbreak of War?”

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Who painted “Marie de Medici, Queen of France, Landing in Marseilles?”

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Peter Paul Rubens

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What is significant about the landscapes Peter Paul Rubens painted?

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The landscapes, such as landscapes of his own land, were strictly landscape.

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Who was Jacob Jordans?

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A Flemish painter who painted genre scenes of everyday life such as: “Satyr and Tamers Family” and “Feast of the Bean King.”

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What style did Fanz Snyders paint in?

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Scenes of plenty. Still lifes. Genre paintings.

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Who was Jan Bruegel the Elder (not to be confused with Pieter Bruegel the Elder)?

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He is a landscape, mannerist painter who painted “Landscape on the Coast, the Calling of St. Peter” and the “Allegory of Sight.” He is the son of Pieter Bruegel.

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What did Franz Hals paint?

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He painted portraits of everyday drunk people such as “Jolly Toper” and “Malle Babbe.”

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What kind of brush techniques does Franz Hals use?

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Light, quick, almost impressionistic brush strokes.

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Who was Judith Leyster?

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A painter of everyday drunk people like Franz Hals was. She painted pieces such as “Boy Playing Flute” and self portraits to show she was a woman artist.

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Who was Rembrandt?

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A Flemish painter and print-maker who painted self and group portraits. Some of his works included: “Christ in the Storm” and “Raising of Lazarus.”

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Who was Diago Velasquez?

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The first artist to allow paintings to look like paintings instead of photographs.

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What are the four styles of paintings of the Northern Baroque period?

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Genre, landscape, portrait, and still life.

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Why was the Baroque period popular in Flanders?

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To use the organic emotional aspects of it to make people come back to religion and the Catholic church.

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Who painted “Carcass of Beef?”

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Rembrandt.

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What kind of medium was Rembrandt’s “Christ Preaching?”

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Printmaking with dry-point.

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Who painted the “Hundred Guilder Print?”

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Rembrandt.

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What is significant of “The Mill” painting by Rembrandt?

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It’s the first pure landscape painting of Holland.

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Who was Willem Claesz?

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He was a Dutch Baroque painter who painted still life vanitas paintings.

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What does “VANITAS” mean?

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It’s a warning against temporal things.

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Who were Jan van Goyan and Aelbert Cuyp?

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Dutch landscape artist who painted landscapes of Holland such as “Beach at Scheveningen” and scenes with cows and tulips.

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What is the “Camera Obscura?”

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An optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography and the camera.

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What was Clara Peeters famous for?

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Her “Breakfast Paintings” for decoration.

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Who was Rachel Ruysch?

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She was still life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers.

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Who painted works such as “Feast of St. Nicholas,” “Twin Birth Celebration,” and “Dissolute Household?”

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Jan Steen.

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What style did Jan Steen paint in?

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Genre, scenes of everyday life.

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Who was Jan (Johannes) Vermeer?

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A Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Some of his works include “Woman With Pearl Earring” and “Milkmaid.”

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Who was Georges de la Tour?

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A French Baroque painter who painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight. Some of his works include: “Woman Catching Fleas” and “Penitent Magdalene.”

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Who used the single candle style?

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Georges de la Tour.

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What did the French Baroque artist, Louis Le Nain, paint?

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Peasants, genre paintings, with neutral dull colors and textures.

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Who was Nicolas Poussin?

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Line Artist. His works include: “Cephalus and Aurora” and “Abduction of Sabine Women.”

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Who was Claude Lorrain?

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A French Baroque artist who painted landscapes using sfumato, pastoral dutch skies. He painted seascapes and only used people when he needed to.

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What was the Palace of Versailles a representation of?

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The power of France.

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