Baroque Notes

Question 1

Characteristics of dramatic expression

Answer 1

Extreme

Exaggerated

Emotional

Question 2

Examples of dramatic expression

Answer 2

Lighting

Poses

Action

Question 3

Theatrical spectical examples

Answer 3

Controlled lighting

Action/movement

Cropping

Question 4

Spatial grandeur examples

Answer 4

Foreshortening

Question 5

Spatial grandeur definition

Answer 5

Grand use of space

Question 6

The Italian baroque is controlled mainly by

Answer 6

The catholic reformation

Question 7

What are the two main purposes of catholic reformation

Answer 7

To bring people back

Needed to reform

Question 8

The Jesuit movement emphasized

Answer 8

Mysticism

And

Militant religious zeal

Question 9

Define mysticism

Answer 9

Personal experience with God

Question 10

Define militant religious zeal

Answer 10

You believe or you die

Question 11

Define tenebrism

Answer 11

Where figures are emerging from extreme darkness

Question 12

Gentileschi is known for

Answer 12

Doing her paintings of women in dominant positions

Question 13

What are the four rivers in the “fountain of the four rivers”

Answer 13

The river Ganges

The river Nile

The river Danube

The river Plate

Question 14

What countries do each river represent?

Answer 14

Ganges - Asia

Nile - Egypt

Danube - Europe

Plate - Americas

Question 15

Italian and Classical Baroque comparison

Who controlled it? Purpose for art? Composition? Lighting? People represented in paintings? Testament? Church or ruler come first? Theme?

Answer 15

Italian - church, catholic reformation,diagonal composition, tenebristic lighting, ordinary people, Jesus with ordinary people for New Testament, church comes first, very exaggerated and over the top

Classical - absolute monarch, propaganda for monarch and state, symmetrical composition, clarity in lighting, rejects crude people, Old Testament, ruler comes first, restrained and moderate

Question 16

Classical painting often Embraced

Answer 16

Serious and elevated subject matter from Christian history

Question 17

Classical painting often rejected

Answer 17

Crude, ordinary, and bazaar subject matter

Question 18

Define symmetrical clarity

Answer 18

Can see all the way to the back

Question 19

Classical baroque definition

Answer 19

Art defined by symmetry, clarity, and geometric regularity

Question 20

Velazquez painted for who?

Answer 20

Spain, Philip IV

Question 21

Van dyck painted for who?

Answer 21

England, Charles I

Question 22

What artists were not part of a baroque?

Answer 22

Rubens
Van dyck
Velasquez

Question 23

4 characteristics of classical Baroque

Answer 23

Serious elevated subject matter

From classical or Christian history

Reject crude, ordinary, bizarre

Avoid exaggeration

Question 24

What is unique about Velasquez

Answer 24

Started out working class, dies as royalty

Question 25

What did Velasquez start out painting

Answer 25

Bodegones

Question 26

Define Bodegones

Answer 26

Domestic scene of people eating and drinking

Question 27

What is a landscape

Answer 27

People are accessories Landscape is dominant

Question 28

Baroque definition

Answer 28

Art that is characterized by dramatic expression, theatrical special, and spatial grandeur

Question 29

Characteristics of northern baroque Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?

Answer 29

Middle class, home and hearth, portraits / genre scenes / Old Testament stories, diagonal composition, dramatic lighting, Protestant ideas More earth tones in North

Question 30

Characteristics of Italian baroque Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?

Answer 30

Catholic Church, catholic reformation, religious scenes with regular people, diagonal composition, tenebristic, catholic

Question 31

Characteristics of Classical Baroque Primary patron? Purpose? Subject matter? Composition? Lighting? Primary religion?

Answer 31

Absolute monarch, propaganda for state or monarch, serious elevated material avoided ordinary people, symmetrical composition, clean natural lighting, catholic

Question 32

Northern characteristics of art

Answer 32

Genre scenes The art of describing (intense details) Moral or message

Question 33

Vanitas is connected to what artist

Answer 33

DeHeem

Question 34

Vanitas

Answer 34

Transitory nature of life

Question 35

Still life's purpose was to?

Answer 35

Document posessions

Question 36

What three artists are not part of a baroque

Answer 36

Rubens Van dyck Velasquez

Question 37

Who founded Jesuit movement?

Answer 37

Loyola

Question 38

Lorrain is from what baroque

Answer 38

Classical

Question 39

Vermeer is from what baroque

Answer 39

Northern

Question 40

Bernini was part of what group

Answer 40

Jesuit

Question 41

Absolutism definition

Answer 41

Rulers held their power directly from God

Question 42

Define maxim

Answer 42

Short, concise, and often witty saying

Question 43

Jean racine was famous for?

Answer 43

His plays that Treated High minded themes in an elevated language

Question 44

Molieres plays theme

Answer 44

Comedy to ridicule the fundamental flaws of human behavior

Question 45

Metaphysical poetry reflects

Answer 45

The baroque affection for dramatic contrast

Question 46

Donne should be associated with

Answer 46

Metaphysical poetry

Question 47

Handel is associated with

Answer 47

Oratorio - no religious

Question 48

Bach is associated with

Answer 48

Cantata - religious vocal music

Question 49

Bacon is associated with

Answer 49

Inductive reasoning

Question 50

Descartes is associated with

Answer 50

Deductive reasoning

Question 51

Define ideal landscape

Answer 51

Landscape painted in the high minded, idealized style usually found in traditional moral subjects