Italian Baroque Art & Spanish Baroque Art Flashcards
Baroque
Art style that focused on the dramatic. It was dynamic and realistic, and was part of the Counter-Reformation.
Baldacchino
A canopy built over an altar.
Plastic / Plasticity
Physical manipulation of a plastic medium by molding or modeling such as sculpture.
Pastoral Landscape
A formula to create landscapes - Humanity, architecture, meandering pathways, sunset.
Tenebrism
A violent or intense spotlight of light on main character surrounded by darkness.
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Maderno - St. Peter’s Basilica – façade and nave
Medium: Architecture
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Bernini - Baldacchino
Medium: Bronze
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Bernini - David
Medium: Marble
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Caracci - Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Caravaggio - The Calling of St. Matthew
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Gentileschi - Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Gaulli - Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Medium: Fresco
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Cotán - Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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Velázquez - The Maids of Honor
Medium: Oil on Canvas