Other Folk Flashcards

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St. Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin

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by Guercino from 1652-53 in Italy

  • Currently in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City
  • St. Luke is canonized as the patron saint of artists due to the fact that Christians throughout history believe he was actually a painter other than an evangelist
  • The painting connects image with reality
  • The painting was meant as a protest against Protestants’ destruction against religious images implying that God approved of images since St. Luke was a painter himself
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An Act of Mercy

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by Bernardo Strozzi from 1618-20 in Italy

  • Currently in the John and Mable Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL
  • Conveys the Catholics’ belief that good works gets one into heaven rather than the Protestants’ belief in faith alone
  • Created while Strozzi was staying in Genoa, Italy
  • One of the several works by Strozzi that represent the Catholic Church’s acts of mercy as in giving to those who are thirsty and sick
  • The presence of tenebrism shows Caravaggio’s impact on Genoese artists
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The Glorification of St. Ignatius and the Worldwide Mission of the Jesuits

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by Andrea Pozzo from 1691-94 in Rome, Italy

  • The painting is considered the culmination of Roman vault painting towards the end of the 17th century
  • Made for the Church of St. Ignazio
  • Celebrates the principal founder of the Society of Jesus, St. Ignatius of Loyola
  • Pozzo incorporated the illusionistic technique, quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed
  • Commissioned by Padre Oliva, the 11th superior general of the Jesuits
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