Unit Two Artists & Influencers Flashcards
Pope Urban VIII
pope from 1623 to 1644. expanded papal territory through arms and politicking, also a patron of the arts. commissioned the Baldacchino.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor and architect. Colonnade/piazza of St. Peter’s (1656), Baldacchino of St. Peter’s (1623 - 1633) and St. Teresa in Ecstasy in the Cornaro Chapel (1645-52).
Perrault, Le Vau, Le Brun
The Louvre, 1667 - 70, Paris, France.
Jules Hardoudin-Mansart
French architect during the Baroque period. Designed Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors.
(Michaelangelo Merisi da) Caravaggio
A leading painter of the Italian Renaissance and the baroque movement. Paintings were dark and considered radical. Boy With A Basket of Fruit c. 1594; Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, 1599-1600
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614-20.
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Night Watch, 1642; Self-Portrait as St. Paul, 1661
Lal and Sanwah
Akbar Viewing a Wild Elephant Captured near Malwa, 1600
Johann Vermeer
The Geographer, c. 1668, View of Delft, c. 1660-1661