exam 2

Question 1

council of Trent (know date)

Answer 1

1545-1563. Catholic are in the Counter Reformation.

limited what could be represented in Christian art and led to the destruction of some works.

new art used emotions.

Question 2

Urban VIII

Answer 2

Know that he renovated Rome, and hired Bernini to design lots of stuff.

Question 3

Genre painting

Answer 3

A term used to categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life.

refers not only to a type of painting, but images of daily activities. gives scenes of everyday life, includes still life. No real overt narrative/story. Often dramatize moral values. Genre paintings can both critique and construct morals.

ex Vermeer

Question 4

vanitas

Answer 4

An image, especially popular in Europe during the seventeenth century, in which all the objects symbolize the transience of life. Vanitas paintings are usually of still lifes or genre subjects.

vanity of worldly things, a reminder of mortality. Serves as a reminder of dying in the end (don’t get too comfortable with things of this world).

Question 5

stadhouder

Answer 5

Cityholders, middle class people: 
They governed the Dutch rebublic, not hereditary aristocrats.

Question 6

functionaries

Answer 6

They’re people who worked in the Northern European courts; kind of like bureaucrats or administrators.

Question 7

dutch revolt

Answer 7

1566-1648

over taxes and religion.

Question 8

Compare early VS high Northern Renaissance

Answer 8

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Question 9

Compare Catholic VS Protestant art

Answer 9

Protestant: a lack of religious subject matter. Everyday life was more important. Rejected pictures of the Virgin Mary. Rejected honoring saints. High Northern Renaissance.

Ex. Durer, Bruegel, Vermeer, Saeredam, Rembrandt, Bosch

Catholic: Early Renaissance. Council of Trent. Using pictures of saints/Virgin Mary.

ex. Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Van Eyck, Velazquez

Question 10

Compare a European VS a Latin American work of art

Answer 10

European:

Latin American:

Question 11

protestant iconoclasm

Answer 11

the destruction of all idolatrous images.

Question 12

iconoclasm

Answer 12

the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious reasons.

Question 13

discovery VS encounter

Answer 13

discovery: they would look at a painting like the portrait thinking he is just a guy… the incan were supposed to have died off so they don’t acknowledge them. told from view of columbus & cortes. nothing happened before the Spanish got there.
encounter: they would acknowledge BOTH the Incan and the Spanish coexisting and fighting. told from both sided/perspectives.

Question 14

thirty years war

Answer 14

important in Rubens works.
war between catholics and protestants.
1618-1648.