final test Flashcards
Bernini tree sculpture
Apollo and Daphne
How did Catholics win back members lost to protestants?
Counter Reformation: took a sensual turn in appealing to range of emotions, grandoise form known as the BAROQUE style.
who commissioned changes to Saint Peters
Pope Paul V
Who was commissioned for new facade of Saint Peter’s Basilica
Carlo Moderno,
Michaelangelo’s st. peters style
basilican latin-cross style
Naturalism
decorative with technical SKILL
inaugurated renewal of the city & ordered a piazza
Pope Sixtus V
comissions young Bernini to design a cast baldachino
Pope Urban VIII
Ecstasy of St Theresa in _________
Cornaro Chapel
in cornaro chapel active relationship to the space around ecstasy of st theresa called
invisible compliment
___ made the _____ fountain
Bernini, Four River Fountain
Made Facade of II Gesu
della Porta
Facade of Gesu where
Facade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence
Pilaster
Rectangular Column
Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius by
Pozzo
In Apotheosis ______ follows christ into heaven
St. Ignatius Loyola
How did Loyola feel about the sensual ornamentation of the church
he encouraged it
More boring/white dome
Dome of San Carlo alle Quottro
Boring dome by
Boromini
floating dome effect
Borromini made dome seem to be floating by putting windows at bottom of it
Borromini also designed the facade of ______ which looked like _________
Facade of San Carlo alle Quottro, fosters home for imaginary friends
cartouche
oval frame
Facade of San Carlo alle Quottro signifies what about Renaissance? What is the facade seen as?
balance and symmetry of Renaissance is DEAD. Building is seen as living thing with opp for innovation and freedom LIBERATING
Caravaggios first major commission
The Calling of Saint Matthew
The Calling of Saint Mathew painted for where?
Contarelli chapel
Caravaggio’s style of lighting
TENEBRISM
Tenebrism
makes use of large areas of dark contrasting with smaller brightly illuminated areas
Chiascuro
used to create depth through slight gradations of light and dark
Conversion of Saint Paul implied
SEXUALITY (Saint Paul has fallen off a horse, hears his name called/is on ground)
Sirani’s Virgin and Child portrays Mary as
a young Italian mother, wearing the turban of a Bolognese peasant woman
Judith and Holofernes by
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia painted five versions of biblical story of
Judith and Hologernes
Where was Gentileschi from?
Rome
Gentileschi’s abuser who might appear in her paintings
Tassi
Gentileschi’s Judith is a
self portrait
Name of peeping through the curtain Gentileschi painting
Judith and Maidservant with head of Holofernes
Secular Madrigals by
Gabrieli
Who created Opera?
Monteverdi
What was new about opera?
a new relation of text and music
First group to perform opera
Camerata of Florence
Who wrote works of solo vocal “basso continuo”?
Caccini
Who created the Sonata?
Corelli
Sonata
That which is “sounded by instruments”
Cantata
That which is sung
Who created the Concerto?
Vivaldi
program music
or purely instrumental music in some way connected to a story or idea
Most famous of Vivaldi’s Concertos?
The Four Seasons
Who wrote program music?
Vivaldi
What distinguishes Baroque Music?
Modulation
Modulation
Moving from different keys and then returning to tonic
Who painted Apollo Conducting a Choir of Maidens?
Guarana
Who was commissioned first to remake palais du louvre?
Bernini
Who complained about Bernini remaking palais du louvre?
French Artists
Architecht who ended up redoing palais du louvre facade
Le Vau
Painter who ended up redoing palais du louvre facade
Le Brun
What did Gianlorenzo Bernini - Vatican (St. Peter’s) Square symbolize?
Motherly arms of church
What marks northern takeover of Baroque era?
French artists win architecture contest over Bernini of Palais du Lovre
