Unit Two Artists & Influencers

Question 1

Pope Urban VIII

Answer 1

pope from 1623 to 1644. expanded papal territory through arms and politicking, also a patron of the arts. commissioned the Baldacchino.

Question 2

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Answer 2

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).

Question 3

Perrault, Le Vau, Le Brun

Answer 3

The Louvre, 1667 - 70, Paris, France.

Question 4

Jules Hardoudin-Mansart

Answer 4

French architect during the Baroque period. Designed Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors.

Question 5

(Michaelangelo Merisi da) Caravaggio

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Artemisia Gentileschi

Answer 6

Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614-20.

Question 7

Rembrandt van Rijn

Answer 7

The Night Watch, 1642; Self-Portrait as St. Paul, 1661

Question 8

Lal and Sanwah

Answer 8

Akbar Viewing a Wild Elephant Captured near Malwa, 1600

Question 9

Johann Vermeer

Answer 9

The Geographer, c. 1668, View of Delft, c. 1660-1661