22 Power and Glory II: France, Germany & Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

Question 1

Louis XIV dates?

Answer 1

1638-1715

Question 2

What purpose do urns and statues serve in monumental Baroque buildings, such as palace of Versailles?

Answer 2

Break the monotony created by the repetition of classical forms.

Question 3

Identify, date, describe

Answer 3

Palace of Versailles, Louis le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1682

Monumental palaces consolidate idea of kings as beings of a different kind, lifted by divine right above the common run of men.

Question 4

The Roman churches and French castles fired the imagination of the age. Every minor princeling in Southern Germany wanted to have his _________, every small monastery wanted to compete with the splendour of __________ and __________ designs.

Answer 4

The Roman churches and French castles fired the imagination of the age. Every minor princeling in Southern Germany wanted to have his Versailles, every small monastery wanted to compete with the splendour of Borromini’s and Bernini’s designs.

Question 5

Identify, date, describe

Answer 5

Upper Belvedere, Vienna, Lucas von Hildebrandt, 1724

Built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy.

Question 6

Identify, date, describe

Answer 6

Melk Monastery, Austria, 1738.

Extravagant decoration. Lack of restraint meant to suggest foretaste of paradise.

Question 7

Watteau dates?

Answer 7

1684-1721

Question 8

Watteau came from a part of Flanders that had been conquered by ______ a few years before his birth, and he settled in ____, where he died at age of __.

Answer 8

Watteau came from a part of Flanders that had been conquered by France a few years before his birth, and he settled in Paris, where he died of consumption at age of 37.

Question 9

It was particularly in _____, ______ and southern ________ that the ideas of the Italian and French Baroque were fused into the _________ and most ________ style.

Answer 9

It was particularly in Austria, Bohemia and southern Germany that the ideas of the Italian and French Baroque were fused into the boldest and most consistent style.

Question 10

Identify, date, describe

Answer 10

Fête in a park, Antoine Watteau, 1719

Only master of early 1700s whose art compares with that of early 1600s.

Watteau painted visions of idyllic gaiety, tinged with sadness –was a sick man.