Exam 2 Concepts

Question 1

Baroque

Answer 1

Period In 16th and 17th century characterized as a style of complexity and drama

Question 2

Painterly (wolffin)

Answer 2

Baroque Art emphasizes color rather than disegno (quick, fluid, evident brushsroke)

Question 3

Unity (wolffin)

Answer 3

Painterly Brushstroke leads to unification in Baroque art, figures blend and flow together

Question 4

French Acadmey

Answer 4

French Academy of Art In Paris

Question 4

Solomonic Column

Answer 4

also called Barley-sugar column, is a helical column, characterized by a spiraling twisting shaft like a corkscrew

Question 4

Open (wolffin)

Answer 4

Baroque art has Open composition that breaks free from the confines and invites the viewer in. Dynamic versus contemplative

Question 4

Recessional (wolffin)

Answer 4

Baroque art moves spatially in a gradual manner. Difficult to separate one “cell of space” from another cell of space.

Question 4

Relative Clarity (wolffin)

Answer 4

Leads to a lack of clairity for the viewer, you have to fill in the gaps of ambiguity.

Question 4

Tenebrism

Answer 4

use of extreme contrasts of light and dark in figurative compositions to heighten their dramatic effect. Started by Carvaggio

Question 4

Alla Prima/Wet On Wet Technique

Answer 4

method of painting in which pigments are laid on in a single application instead of being built up by repeated paintings. Made famous by Rembrandt

Question 5

Quadro Riportato

Answer 5

framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco on a ceiling. Carracci in Pallazo Farnece

Question 5

Bolognese Academie

Answer 5

Art Academy started by the Carracci family. First of its kind for western art.

Question 5

Council Of Trent

Answer 5

a series of meetings held by the Catholic Church in the 16th century to address the Protestant Reformation and to enact reforms within the Church.

Question 5

Counter Reformation

Answer 5

the Catholic Church’s efforts to combat the spread of Protestantism and to reform itself in response to the Protestant challenge.

Question 6

Genre Painting

Answer 6

painting of scenes from everyday life, of ordinary people in work or recreation, depicted in a generally realistic manner.

Question 7

Ignatius Of Loyola

Answer 7

founded the Jesuit order in 1534 and whom the Catholic Church canonized as Saint Ignatius

Question 8

The Spiritual Exercises

Answer 8

Book written by Ignatius Of Loyola, or Saint Ignatius

Question 9

Thirty Years War

Answer 9

Europe’s last and most destructive religious war. Began as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics, but spread into an international political conflict when catholic France sides with Protestants. Ends with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Question 10

Treaty Of Westphalia

Answer 10

a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Westphalian ending the Thirty Years War

Question 11

Anonymous Art Market

Answer 11

Art market created by the Dutch