The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque Flashcards
Who served as choirmaster at the Capella Giulia in the Vatican?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Who composed the Mass for Pope Marcellus?
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
What was the term assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgement?
braghettoni
_________ created Jupiter and Io as part of painting commissioned by ________ of Mantua.
Correggio; Federico Gonzaga
Jupiter appears to Io in the painting commissioned by Federico Gonzaga of Mantua as a ______.
cloud
Teresa of Avila wrote ____________, which describes the ascent of the soul to union with the Holy Spirit.
The Way to Perfection
______ painted the Resurrection, which includes mannerist qualities and is decoras to the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.
El Greco
The characteristics mentioned as “innovative” qualities of Don Quixote:
- Using everyday speech in dialogue
- Creating vivid complex portraits of the main and subordinate characters
- presenting the narrative in a solemn style free from affectation
- In delicate juxtaposition with the comic scenes
As the author of spiritual Exercises, _____________ called on Jesuits to develop all of their senses.
Ignatius of Loyola
_____ completed the sculptural program from the _______ _______ in the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Bernini; Cornaro Chapel
Michelangelo Merisi (___________) painted _____________ for the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.
Caravaggio; The Calling of Saint Matthew
In Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, __________ is standing beside Christ.
Saint Peter
____________ painted five separate versions of the biblical story of ______ and _______ and was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Design.
Artemisia Gentileschi; Judith, Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi, in addition to Judith, she dramatized the stories of _______, ________, _______, __________, ______, _____, and ________.
Susannah, Bathsheba, Lucretia, Cleopatra, Esther, Diana, and Potiphar.
In the __________ century, Venice became the center of musical _________ and ________ in Europe.
seventeenth; innovation; practice
Giovanni Gabrieli is considered the first composer to specify dynamics by indicating piano for “___” and forte for “____”.
soft; loud
Venice was so popular that composers from across Europe came to study music thus ______ became the international language of music.
Italian
Orfeo required an orchestra of three dozen instruments including ten ___, three ________, and four _______.
viols; trombones; trumpets
____________ is most closely associated with the concerto musical forms.
Antonio Vivaldi
The view of Haarlem from the Dunes of Overveen is considered a “__________” painting.
landscape
Jan Steen was particularly successful with genre sciences, including ______________.
The Dancing Couple
Among the French during the seventeenth century, __________ was designed to convey the absolute power of the monarchy.
architecture
____________ served as chief painter to Louis XIV and directed the team of artists who decorated the interior of the _____________.
Charles Le Brun; Palace at Versailles
Who was the landscape architect in charge of the grounds at the Palace at Versailles?
Andre Le Notre
Who painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de Medici at Marseilles?
Peter Paul Rubens
Louis XIV and Armand-Jean du Plessis wagered the painting collections of Poussin and Rubens over a _________.
tennis match
Who painted Arcadian Shepherds?
Nicolas Poussin
_____________ severed as the head of the Royal Academy of Music and created a new operatic genre known as ___________.
Jean-Baptiste Lully; tragedie en musique
A ____ refers to a very lively dance, fast in tempo, and usually employing a 6/8 meter.
gigue
_______ refers to a slow and stately dance, with accent on the second beat, in triple meter.
Sarabande
______ refers to an elegant triple-time dance of moderate tempo, a dance form that quickly became the most popular of the age.
Minuet
Moliere is the author of _______ and was in disfavor with many in the French court because he permitted few people to escape his _____.
Tartuffe; ridicule
James II lost the throne during the _______ __________ of 1688.
Glorious Revolution
Diego Velazquez created _________ and became the only artist permitted to paint Spain’s King ______.
Las Meninas; Philip IV
Luis Nino created _________________, which employs ________, a technique extremely popular among the Cuzco painters.
Our Lady of the Victory of Malaga; brocateado
Following the lead of King Charles II of England, who had chartered the ____________ in 1662, Louis XIV created the _________________ in 1666.
Royal Society; French Academy of Sciences
Johann Sebastian Bach composed a series of instrumental works known as the ____________ _________.
Brandenburg Concertos
Louis XIV was known as the “________”.
Sun King
