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Supper at Emmaus

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Caravaggio

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________ painted scenes of biblical females that served as metaphors for her own tormented life.

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Gentileschi

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What is the name of this structure that was built for King Louis XIV?

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palace of Versailles

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4
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Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca

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Claude

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5
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Rubens created _______.

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The Three Graces

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6
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Which was the Baroque era marked by?

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artistic genius of Velazquez
artistic genius of Caravaggio
artistic genius of Rembrandt
art was more accessible to the ordinary person

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__________ was a Dutch artist who had the incredible ability to capture the personality of his model, largely through fleeting facial expressions.

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Hals

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8
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In the 17th century, the two most powerful countries in Europe were _________ and England.

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France

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Artists full of enthusiasm created a plethora of high-quality art, and many of these artists began to specialize in specific subjects like _______, landscapes, animals, and interior portraits.

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still lifes

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10
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Why did Pope Paul III gather together high-level Catholic leaders in 1542 to the city of Trent, Italy?

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to discuss ways in which the Catholics could address their doctrine

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One trait that was common to all Baroque artists was mastery in _____ to achieve a deeply rich and emotional impact.

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the use of light

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12
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Las Meninas

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Velazquez

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13
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El Greco’s style is known as mannerism, which consisted of intense, inward-looking emotion and figures that look _____, rather than in their natural state.

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posed

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__________ was the foremost master of the most elusive texture to perfect: human skin, especially on the hands and faces of older people.

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Rembrandt

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15
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created Magdalen with the Smoking Flame.

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Georges de La Tour

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16
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created The Girl with a Wineglass.

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Vermeer

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17
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Baroque artists came from all over Europe to ___.

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Italy

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18
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The mission of the ___ was to build an order on a very strict set of rules for living and developing spiritually.

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Jesuits

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19
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In the early ___, the Catholic Church took a huge hit.

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1500s

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20
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King Charles I at the Hunt

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van Dyck

21
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The financial patronage of the Catholic Church during the Baroque era helped Italian and Spanish artists experiment in new ideas like ________ and spiritual emotion.

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facial

22
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__________ loved complex special arrangements and often created precise visual illusions of objects in a confined space.

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Vermeer

23
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Rembrandt’s early paintings are based on physical action, _______ emotion, and used dramatic contrasts of dark and light to add to the emotion of his pieces.

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melodramatic

24
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Belshazzar’s Feast

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Rembrandt

25
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Bacchus

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Caravaggio

26
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Because religious-themed art was the norm in the Belgian south, and strictly forbidden in the strict Calvinist churches of the Dutch north, the result in the Netherlands was _______.

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a typically secularized subject matter

27
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Flanders was dominated by the Catholic Church and a ruling _________, while Holland was an independent democracy with Protestant ties.

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monarchy

28
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_____________ start popping up more and more in art of the Baroque era, as they started to become a symbol for the competition between artists and nature in producing an image that is as real as possible.

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mirrors

29
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__________ was one of the most outstanding Baroque painters, simply for the way he reflected the social representation of what he could call “ideal beauty.”

A

Rubens

30
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The Allegory of Painting

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Vermeer

31
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What was the mission of the Holy Office of the Inquisition?

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to round up heretics and deal with them

32
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Why did artists often extend invitations to the viewer in their artwork?

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It made the viewer an essential part of the work and it gave the viewer a sense of ownership of the scene depicted.

33
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The Election Entertainment

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Hogarth

34
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

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Gainsborough

35
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The Arcadian Shepherds

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Poussin

36
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What did people like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and Ulrich Zwingli start in protest when they pointed out the flaws in the Catholic way of doing things?

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Protestant Christian faiths

37
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Since religious art was prohibited in the Puritan churches of England, English Baroque art took the form of ________ that defined and elevated one’s status in the eyes of others.

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portraiture

38
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Dutch artists emphasized the economic strata of its prosperous population, while the French Baroque was focused on being _____.

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flamboyantly detailed

39
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The Laughing Cavalier

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Hals

40
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The Night Watch

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Rembrandt

41
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_____ was the most beloved book of the Spanish.

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The Bible

42
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Judith Slaying Holofernes

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Gentileschi

43
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The Burial of Count Orgaz

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El Greco

44
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Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid

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Vermeer

45
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Conversion on the Way to Damascus

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Caravaggio

46
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_________ focused on painting idyllic landscapes and gave them a dreamlike, almost unbelievable beauty.

A

Claude

47
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Chiaroscuro is an Italian term that literally translates as ___.

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from light to dark

48
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Gainsborough developed into an incredible portrait artist in his own right, usually having his sitters wear casual, ________ dress, which echoed his easygoing, laid-back personality and style.

A

contemporary

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