Quiz 1 Flashcards
Quadro riportato
A ceiling design in which painted scenes are arranged in panels that resemble framed pictures transferred to the surface of a shallow, curved vault.
Barroco
Portuguese, “irregularly shaped pearl.”
Chiaroscuro
In drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.
Tenebrism
Painting in the “shadowy manner”, using violent contrast if light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio.
Facade
Usually, the front of a building: also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally.
Foreshortening
The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight
Ground Plan
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Undulating facade
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Fresco
Painting on line plaster, either dry (dry fresco, or fresco secco) or wet (true, or buon, fresco). In the latter method; the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the fresh lain like plaster. Also, a painting executed in either method.
Contrapposto
The disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part ( usually hops and legs one way, shoulders and chest another), creating a counter positioning of the body about its central axis. Sometimes called “weight shift” because the weight of the body tend to be thrown to one foot, creating tension on one side and relaxation on the other.
Vanitas still life
Latin “vanity”. A term describing painting (particularly 17th century Dutch still life’s) that include reference to death.
Intaglio prints: engraving, etching
A graphic technique in which the design is incised, or scratched, on a metal plate, either manually (engraving, drypoint) or chemically (etching). The incised lines of the design take the ink, making this the reverse of the woodcut technique.
Camera Obscura
Latin, “dark room.” Ancestor of the modern camera in which a tiny pinhole, acting as a lens, projects an image on a screen, the wall of a room, or ground-glass wall of a box; used by artist in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries as an aid in drawing from nature.
Bernini, piazza and colonnade of Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, 1656-67, Italian Baroque
Bernini, baldacchino, St. Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, 1624-33, Italian Baroque
Bernini, David, 1623, Italian Baroque
Bernini, interior of the Cornaro chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-52, Italian Baroque
Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-52, Italian Baroque
Francesco Borromini, façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1665-67, Italian Baroque
Borromini, interior view into dome, College of the Sapienza, Rome, begun 1642, Italian Baroque
Annibale Carracci, Loves of the Gods, ceiling frescoes, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1597-1601, Italian Baroque
Pietro da Cortona, Triumph of the Barberini, ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy, 1633-39 Italian Baroque
Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94, Italian Baroque
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c.1614-20, Italian Baroque
Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew, c.1597-1601, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italian Baroque
Caravaggio, Conversion of Paul, c.1601, Cerasi Chapel, Sta. Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italian Baroque
Caravaggio, Entombment, c.1603, from the Chapel of Pietro Vittrice, Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome, Italian Baroque
José de Ribera, Martyrdom of Saint Philip, 1639, Spanish Baroque
Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628, Spanish Baroque
Diego Velázquez, Water Carrier of Saville, c.1619, Spanish Baroque
Diego Velázquez, Surrender of Breda, 1634-35, Spanish Baroque
Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656, Spanish Baroque
Clara Peeters, Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels, 1611, Flemish Baroque
Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, from Saint Walburga, Antwerp, 1610, Flemish Baroque
Rubens, Lion Hunt, 1617-18, Flemish Baroque
Rubens, Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles, 1622-25, Flemish Baroque
Rubens, Consequences of War, 1638-39, Flemish Baroque
Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I Dismounted, c.1635, Flemish Baroque
Hendrick ter Brugghen, Calling of Saint Matthew, 1621. Dutch Baroque
Jan Steen, Feast of Saint Nicholas, c.1660, Dutch Baroque
Frans Hals, Archers of Saint Hadrian, c.1633, Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt von Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632, Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642, Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, c.1665, Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, c.1659-60, Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt, Christ with the Sick around Him Receiving the Children (Hundred Guilder Print), c.1649, Dutch Baroque etching
Albert Cuyp, Distant View of Dordrecht with a Milkmaid and Four Cows, and Other Figures, late 1640s, Dutch Baroque
Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, c.1670, Dutch Baroque
Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s, Dutch Baroque
Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar, 1669
Jan Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670-75, Dutch Baroque
Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c.1655, French Baroque
Poussin, Burial of Phocion, 1648, French Baroque
Claude Lorrain, Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648, French Baroque
Louis Le Nain, Family of Country People, c.1640, French Baroque
Jacques Callot, Hanging Tree from The Miseries of War, 1629-33, French Baroque
Georges de la Tour, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1645-50, French Baroque
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701, French Baroque
aerial view of the palace and gardens of Versailles, begun 1669, French Baroque
Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), palace of Louis XIV, Versailles, c.1680, French Baroque
Inigo Jones, Banqueting House at Whitehall, London, Baroque in England, 1619-1622
Christopher Wren, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, Baroque in England, 1675-1710
