Europe 1600-1750 Flashcards
The Victory of Catholic Truth over Heresy (Triumph of the Eucharist tapestry series)
Type: tapestry, textile
Materials/Techniques: woven wool and silk
Patron: commissioned by the Infanta Isabella (Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philip II, regent of Spanish Netherlands)
Creator/Culture: Jacob Greubels II/Flemish
Date/Period: ca. 1625-33/Baroque
Style Period: Baroque
Repository: Convent of Descalzas Reales, Madrid, Spain
Design for the Rear of a Carriage with Valor Victorious over Vice and Arrogance
Type: drawing
Materials/Techniques: pen on paper
Creator/Culture: Ciro Ferri/Italian
Date/Period: 1688/Baroque
Style Period: Baroque
Place of Origin: Rome, Italy
Notes: conceived for Rinaldo d’Este on his appointment as cardinal
Repository: Windsor Castle, Windsor, England
Nocturnal Clock with the Flight Into Egypt
Type: clock
Materials/Techniques: ebony and other woods, oil painting on copper, gilt bronze, various colored semiprecious stones (pietre dure), painted mirrors
Maker/Culture: Pier Tommaso Campani/Italian
Painter: Francesco Trevisani
Date/Period: ca. 1680-90/Baroque
Style Period: Baroque
Place of Origin: Rome, Italy
Repository: Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy
Draw-leaf Table
Type: table, furniture
Materials/Techniques: oak inlayed with ebony and boxwood
Culture: Flemish
Date/Period: ca. 1620-1650/
Style Period:
Place of Origin: Northern Netherlands
Repository: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Console Table (one of a pair)
Type: table, furniture
Materials/Techniques: gilded pine, Siena marble
Designer: William Kent
Carver: probably John Boson
Culture: English
Date/Period: 1727-32/Neoclassical
Style Period: Neoclassical
Intended Site: gallery at Chiswick House, London, UK
Repository: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Orangerie and the Hundred Steps Staircase
Type: architecture, landscape design
Materials/Techniques: palace garden, architectural extension
Creator/Culture: rebuilt by Jules Hardouin-Mansart/French
Date/Period: 1684-6/Baroque
Style Period: Baroque
Location: Château of Versailles
Pair of Marriage Coffers
Type: storage furniture
Materials/Techniques: wood, tortoiseshell, and brass marquetry
Creator/Culture: André-Charles Boulle/French
Date/Period: 1688/Baroque
Style Period: Baroque
Place of Origin: Paris, France
Notes: probably supplied to Louis XIV’s cousin, the Prince de Condé, who gave them as a wedding present to his daughter, Marie-Thérèse
Repository: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tureen (one of a pair, in service including two serving trays)
Type: dining ware
Materials/Techniques: silver/casting and chasing
Makers: Pierre-François Bonnestrenne and Henry Adnet
Designer and Chaser: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Patron: Evelyn Pierrepont, Second Duke of Kingston
Date/Period: 1734-6/Rococo
Style Period: Rococo
Place of Origin: Paris, France
Repository: Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain
Large Covered Jar
Type: vessel
Materials/Techniques: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)
Culture: Flemish
Date/Period: ca. 1635/
Style Period:
Place of Origin: Netherlands
Repository: Museum of Cultural History, Lund, Sweden
Sugar Bowl (in the form of an African woman with a basket)
Type: sugar bowl, diningware
Materials/Techniques: porcelain
Manufactory: Meissen
Designers: Johann Joachim Kändler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein
Culture: German
Date/Period: 1741/Rococo
Style Period: Rococo
Place of Origin: near Dresden, Germany
Repository: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
