The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque

Question 1

Who served as choirmaster at the Capella Giulia in the Vatican?

Answer 1

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 2

Who composed the Mass for Pope Marcellus?

Answer 2

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Question 3

What was the term assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgement?

Answer 3

braghettoni

Question 4

_________ created Jupiter and Io as part of painting commissioned by ________ of Mantua.

Answer 4

Correggio; Federico Gonzaga

Question 5

Jupiter appears to Io in the painting commissioned by Federico Gonzaga of Mantua as a ______.

Answer 5

cloud

Question 6

Teresa of Avila wrote ____________, which describes the ascent of the soul to union with the Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

The Way to Perfection

Question 7

______ painted the Resurrection, which includes mannerist qualities and is decoras to the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.

Answer 7

El Greco

Question 8

The characteristics mentioned as “innovative” qualities of Don Quixote:

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

As the author of spiritual Exercises, _____________ called on Jesuits to develop all of their senses.

Answer 9

Ignatius of Loyola

Question 10

_____ completed the sculptural program from the _______ _______ in the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

Answer 10

Bernini; Cornaro Chapel

Question 11

Michelangelo Merisi (___________) painted _____________ for the Contarelli Chapel in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.

Answer 11

Caravaggio; The Calling of Saint Matthew

Question 12

In Caravaggio’s The Calling of Saint Matthew, __________ is standing beside Christ.

Answer 12

Saint Peter

Question 13

____________ painted five separate versions of the biblical story of ______ and _______ and was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Design.

Answer 13

Artemisia Gentileschi; Judith, Holofernes

Question 14

Artemisia Gentileschi, in addition to Judith, she dramatized the stories of _______, ________, _______, __________, ______, _____, and ________.

Answer 14

Susannah, Bathsheba, Lucretia, Cleopatra, Esther, Diana, and Potiphar.

Question 15

In the __________ century, Venice became the center of musical _________ and ________ in Europe.

Answer 15

seventeenth; innovation; practice

Question 16

Giovanni Gabrieli is considered the first composer to specify dynamics by indicating piano for “___” and forte for “____”.

Answer 16

soft; loud

Question 17

Venice was so popular that composers from across Europe came to study music thus ______ became the international language of music.

Answer 17

Italian

Question 18

Orfeo required an orchestra of three dozen instruments including ten ___, three ________, and four _______.

Answer 18

viols; trombones; trumpets

Question 19

____________ is most closely associated with the concerto musical forms.

Answer 19

Antonio Vivaldi

Question 20

The view of Haarlem from the Dunes of Overveen is considered a “__________” painting.

Answer 20

landscape

Question 21

Jan Steen was particularly successful with genre sciences, including ______________.

Answer 21

The Dancing Couple

Question 22

Among the French during the seventeenth century, __________ was designed to convey the absolute power of the monarchy.

Answer 22

architecture

Question 23

____________ served as chief painter to Louis XIV and directed the team of artists who decorated the interior of the _____________.

Answer 23

Charles Le Brun; Palace at Versailles

Question 24

Who was the landscape architect in charge of the grounds at the Palace at Versailles?

Answer 24

Andre Le Notre

Question 25

Who painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de Medici at Marseilles?

Answer 25

Peter Paul Rubens

Question 26

Louis XIV and Armand-Jean du Plessis wagered the painting collections of Poussin and Rubens over a _________.

Answer 26

tennis match

Question 27

Who painted Arcadian Shepherds?

Answer 27

Nicolas Poussin

Question 28

_____________ severed as the head of the Royal Academy of Music and created a new operatic genre known as ___________.

Answer 28

Jean-Baptiste Lully; tragedie en musique

Question 29

A ____ refers to a very lively dance, fast in tempo, and usually employing a 6/8 meter.

Answer 29

gigue

Question 30

_______ refers to a slow and stately dance, with accent on the second beat, in triple meter.

Answer 30

Sarabande

Question 31

______ refers to an elegant triple-time dance of moderate tempo, a dance form that quickly became the most popular of the age.

Answer 31

Minuet

Question 32

Moliere is the author of _______ and was in disfavor with many in the French court because he permitted few people to escape his _____.

Answer 32

Tartuffe; ridicule

Question 33

James II lost the throne during the _______ __________ of 1688.

Answer 33

Glorious Revolution

Question 34

Diego Velazquez created _________ and became the only artist permitted to paint Spain’s King ______.

Answer 34

Las Meninas; Philip IV

Question 35

Luis Nino created _________________, which employs ________, a technique extremely popular among the Cuzco painters.

Answer 35

Our Lady of the Victory of Malaga; brocateado

Question 36

Following the lead of King Charles II of England, who had chartered the ____________ in 1662, Louis XIV created the _________________ in 1666.

Answer 36

Royal Society; French Academy of Sciences

Question 37

Johann Sebastian Bach composed a series of instrumental works known as the ____________ _________.

Answer 37

Brandenburg Concertos

Question 38

Louis XIV was known as the “________”.

Answer 38

Sun King