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What does the geographer celebrate?

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celebrates Amsterdam’s geographical self esteem

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3 favorites of Dutch painting,

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Domestic Interior, landscape, still lifes

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Dutch politics and art

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The Dutch somewhat conservative, avoided baroque asymmetry & Ornamentation

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Dutch art, who was it for?

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Dutch Calvinists had no place for art, it was more for the average citizen

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Dutch material hypocrasy

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obsessed with acquisitions of goods (of all kinds) yet rigidly austere in its spiritual life

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Who’s piece shows typical Dutch Reformed cathedral interrior stripped of all furnishings?

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Saenredam piece shows typical Dutch Reformed interrior stripped of all furnishings

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Empirical Method by

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Francis Beacon

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Empirical Method

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When inductive reasoning was combined with scientific experimentation

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Inductive Reasoning

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Through the direct and careful observation of natural phenomena one could draw general conclusions form particular examples

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Portrai of Rene Descartes by

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Frans Hals

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Descartes method

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Deductive Reasoning

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Deductive Reasoning

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Descartes began with clearly established general principles and moved from those to the establishment of particular truths

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Descartes believed in _________ in terms of mind and matter

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Cartesian dualism

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Cartesian dualism

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distinction of mind and matter

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Famous quote of ______ by _____

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I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Descartes

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Descartes founded

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deism

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Descartes’ deism

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ability to “prove God” based in reason

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Descartes used geometry to calculate angular radius of rainbow in

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Optics

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Who inspired Optics?

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Kepler

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Kepler made detailed records of

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movements of planets

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Geocentric model

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Earth centered cosmos

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Heliocentric model

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Sun centered cosmos

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Who improved design and magnification of the telescope

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Galileo

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Created microscope

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Illustrated micrographia
Robert Hooke
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Micrographia
Microscope mockups
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Dutch Vernacular painting is the art of the
familiar
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Ex. of Hooke's illustrated micrographia
A flea
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What did Dutch love about Caravaggio?
Dramatic lighting
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Vase painting with bird _______
Flowers in a Vase with Blue-Tit
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Flowers in a Vase with Blue-Tit by
by Goedart
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Vanitas painting reminder of?
Remind us that the pleasurable things in life inevitably fade > Reminders that we will die.
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Vanitas detail ex. to show?
Dutch artists used details (like blue bird consuming moth) to remind viewer of the frivolous quality of human existence
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Famous sky filled landscape w/ church
View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen
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View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen by
Van Ruisdael
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What do landscapes reflect?
Dutch NATIONAL PRIDE
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country's reclamation of its land from the sea, french/english always made fun of "low countries", united provinces reflected in
Dutch paintings/landscapes
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Dutch thought of their transformation of landscape from hostile sea to tame farmland reflective of
God's recreation of world after flood
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In Ruisdael's landscape painting what stands out?
Much of landscape devoted to sky/ infinite heavens
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Haarlem church in landscape
church of Saint Bavo
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paintings that depict everyday life
Genre Scenes
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Ex. of typical genre scene
The dancing couple
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The dancing couple was a _____ by ______
genre scene by Jan steen (RHYMES)
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Like many of Steen's paintings dancing couple depicts
depicts festivities surrounding some sort of holiday/celebrationg Merrymaking
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Vanitas symbol in dancing couple
Broken eggshells on floor is a VANITAS symbols
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Most popular of genre painters
Judith Leyster
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Judith Leyster's famous painting (w/ prostitution?)
The Propositiong
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The Proposition technically contrasts
light & dark
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The proposition subject matter contrasts
Painting CONTRASTS domestic world of women w/ commercial world of men
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Vermeer loved what scenes?
Domestic
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Who inhabited Vermeer's world of domestic scenes?
Women
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Vermeer tabula rasa painting
Woman with a Pearl Necklace
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Moral history of woman in "Woman with a Pearl Earring" + how can we tell?
who's moral history remains to be written, blank slate
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Symbol of Woman with a Pearl Earring
Pearl symbolize purity + Blank slate of white wall
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Vermeer's _________ is a celebration of Dutch domestic life
The LIttle Street
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Juxtaposition in The Little Street Represented how?
Represents quiet, peaceful harmony while representing tensions of domestic life
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Symbol of domestic life tension in the little street
with cracks filled with mortar
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a book devoted which devoted a chapter to each role of woman's life: maiden, sweetheart, bride, housewife, mother, widow
Jacob Cats's Marriage
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leading group portrait painter in Haarlem
Frans Hals
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Hals' loose gestural brushstroke, did not airbrush detail portrayed
Vitality and personality
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Group Portrait
a large canvas commissioned by a civic institution to document or commemorate its membership at a particular time
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Famous dinner group portrait _____ by ______
Banquet of the Officers of the Saint George Civic Guard by Hals
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Hierarchy in Hals' banquet of the officers
Hierarchy shows highest officers under tip of flag
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Banquet of the Officers of the Saint George Civic Guard FIGURES
They are still and posey
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Rembrandt van Rijn created drama of
light
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Rembrandt learned lots from
Hals
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Dark Group Portrait of Parade by
Captain Cocqs (The night watch) by Rembrandt
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Rembrandt's important contributions to art of portraiture-- his use of _____ to ________
used light to animate his figures
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Rembrandt's group is lively, animated, even noisy. Seems he has barely managed to capture figures in and out of light
Captain Cocq's gang
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Bio class painting ______ by ________
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp by Rembrandt
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In Dr. Tulp what does Rembrandt use ironically?
Rembrandt uses symbolic light for ironic effect
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Light in Rembrandt's religious work came to represent
redemption offered to humankind by Christ
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The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp meant to?
celebrate his teaching/amt of students (following)
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The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Tulp arrangement
Figures arranged in a triangle
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Light source in the anatomy lesson
Tulp (bottom right) seems to almost be LIGHT SOURCE for students
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Super expensive Christian piece/nickname _____ by ________
Christ Preaching "Hundred-Guilder Print" by Rembrandt
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Christ Preaching Print represents
Image illustrates Gospel of Mathew. showing Christ addressing sick and lame, grouped at his feet, and the Pharisees.
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Christ Preaching light
Rembrandt constructs triangle of light from Christ himself
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Light triangle inspired by
Durer
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Rembrandt most interested in _____ & _____ survive
Self portraits, Over 60 survive
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Painting that represents artists' psychological self portrait?
Slaughtered Ox by Rembrandt
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Slaughtered Ox technical style
"Rough style" brushstrokes
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Slaughtered Ox also possibly suggestive of
feast to come

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