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What does the geographer celebrate?

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celebrates Amsterdam’s geographical self esteem

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3 favorites of Dutch painting,

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Domestic Interior, landscape, still lifes

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Dutch politics and art

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The Dutch somewhat conservative, avoided baroque asymmetry & Ornamentation

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Dutch art, who was it for?

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Dutch Calvinists had no place for art, it was more for the average citizen

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Dutch material hypocrasy

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obsessed with acquisitions of goods (of all kinds) yet rigidly austere in its spiritual life

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Who’s piece shows typical Dutch Reformed cathedral interrior stripped of all furnishings?

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Saenredam piece shows typical Dutch Reformed interrior stripped of all furnishings

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Empirical Method by

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Francis Beacon

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Empirical Method

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When inductive reasoning was combined with scientific experimentation

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Inductive Reasoning

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Through the direct and careful observation of natural phenomena one could draw general conclusions form particular examples

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10
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Portrai of Rene Descartes by

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Frans Hals

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Descartes method

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Deductive Reasoning

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Deductive Reasoning

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Descartes began with clearly established general principles and moved from those to the establishment of particular truths

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Descartes believed in _________ in terms of mind and matter

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Cartesian dualism

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Cartesian dualism

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distinction of mind and matter

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Famous quote of ______ by _____

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I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Descartes

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Descartes founded

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deism

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Descartes’ deism

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ability to “prove God” based in reason

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18
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Descartes used geometry to calculate angular radius of rainbow in

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Optics

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19
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Who inspired Optics?

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Kepler

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20
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Kepler made detailed records of

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movements of planets

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21
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Geocentric model

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Earth centered cosmos

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Heliocentric model

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Sun centered cosmos

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23
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Who improved design and magnification of the telescope

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Galileo

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Created microscope

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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25
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Illustrated micrographia

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Robert Hooke

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Micrographia

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Microscope mockups

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27
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Dutch Vernacular painting is the art of the

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familiar

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28
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Ex. of Hooke’s illustrated micrographia

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A flea

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29
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What did Dutch love about Caravaggio?

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Dramatic lighting

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30
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Vase painting with bird _______

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Flowers in a Vase with Blue-Tit

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31
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Flowers in a Vase with Blue-Tit by

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by Goedart

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32
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Vanitas painting reminder of?

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Remind us that the pleasurable things in life inevitably fade > Reminders that we will die.

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Vanitas detail ex. to show?

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Dutch artists used details (like blue bird consuming moth) to remind viewer of the frivolous quality of human existence

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Famous sky filled landscape w/ church

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View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen

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View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen by

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Van Ruisdael

36
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What do landscapes reflect?

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Dutch NATIONAL PRIDE

37
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country’s reclamation of its land from the sea, french/english always made fun of “low countries”, united provinces reflected in

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Dutch paintings/landscapes

38
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Dutch thought of their transformation of landscape from hostile sea to tame farmland reflective of

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God’s recreation of world after flood

39
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In Ruisdael’s landscape painting what stands out?

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Much of landscape devoted to sky/ infinite heavens

40
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Haarlem church in landscape

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church of Saint Bavo

41
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paintings that depict everyday life

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Genre Scenes

42
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Ex. of typical genre scene

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The dancing couple

43
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The dancing couple was a _____ by ______

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genre scene by Jan steen (RHYMES)

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Like many of Steen’s paintings dancing couple depicts

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depicts festivities surrounding some sort of holiday/celebrationg
Merrymaking

45
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Vanitas symbol in dancing couple

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Broken eggshells on floor is a VANITAS symbols

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Most popular of genre painters

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Judith Leyster

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Judith Leyster’s famous painting (w/ prostitution?)

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The Propositiong

48
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The Proposition technically contrasts

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light & dark

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The proposition subject matter contrasts

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Painting CONTRASTS domestic world of women w/ commercial world of men

50
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Vermeer loved what scenes?

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Domestic

51
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Who inhabited Vermeer’s world of domestic scenes?

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Women

52
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Vermeer tabula rasa painting

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Woman with a Pearl Necklace

53
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Moral history of woman in “Woman with a Pearl Earring” + how can we tell?

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who’s moral history remains to be written, blank slate

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Symbol of Woman with a Pearl Earring

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Pearl symbolize purity + Blank slate of white wall

55
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Vermeer’s _________ is a celebration of Dutch domestic life

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The LIttle Street

56
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Juxtaposition in The Little Street Represented how?

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Represents quiet, peaceful harmony while representing tensions of domestic life

57
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Symbol of domestic life tension in the little street

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with cracks filled with mortar

58
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a book devoted which devoted a chapter to each role of woman’s life: maiden, sweetheart, bride, housewife, mother, widow

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Jacob Cats’s Marriage

59
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leading group portrait painter in Haarlem

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Frans Hals

60
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Hals’ loose gestural brushstroke, did not airbrush detail portrayed

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Vitality and personality

61
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Group Portrait

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a large canvas commissioned by a civic institution to document or commemorate its membership at a particular time

62
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Famous dinner group portrait _____ by ______

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Banquet of the Officers of the Saint George Civic Guard by Hals

63
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Hierarchy in Hals’ banquet of the officers

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Hierarchy shows highest officers under tip of flag

64
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Banquet of the Officers of the Saint George Civic Guard FIGURES

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They are still and posey

65
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Rembrandt van Rijn created drama of

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light

66
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Rembrandt learned lots from

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Hals

67
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Dark Group Portrait of Parade by

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Captain Cocqs (The night watch) by Rembrandt

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Rembrandt’s important contributions to art of portraiture– his use of _____ to ________

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used light to animate his figures

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Rembrandt’s group is lively, animated, even noisy. Seems he has barely managed to capture figures in and out of light

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Captain Cocq’s gang

70
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Bio class painting ______ by ________

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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt

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In Dr. Tulp what does Rembrandt use ironically?

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Rembrandt uses symbolic light for ironic effect

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Light in Rembrandt’s religious work came to represent

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redemption offered to humankind by Christ

73
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The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp meant to?

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celebrate his teaching/amt of students (following)

74
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The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp arrangement

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Figures arranged in a triangle

75
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Light source in the anatomy lesson

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Tulp (bottom right) seems to almost be LIGHT SOURCE for students

76
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Super expensive Christian piece/nickname _____ by ________

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Christ Preaching “Hundred-Guilder Print” by Rembrandt

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Christ Preaching Print represents

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Image illustrates Gospel of Mathew. showing Christ addressing sick and lame, grouped at his feet, and the Pharisees.

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Christ Preaching light

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Rembrandt constructs triangle of light from Christ himself

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Light triangle inspired by

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Durer

80
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Rembrandt most interested in _____ & _____ survive

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Self portraits, Over 60 survive

81
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Painting that represents artists’ psychological self portrait?

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Slaughtered Ox by Rembrandt

82
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Slaughtered Ox technical style

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“Rough style” brushstrokes

83
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Slaughtered Ox also possibly suggestive of

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feast to come

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