Important terms
Baroque" relates to this period in art history"
What is 1600 to 1750
The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq better known as the Night Watch.
Who is Rembrandt.
Gentileschi
What is Southern
Known for painting group portraiture.
Frans Hals
This masterpiece of a painting isn't sure what it is. Is it a portrait or a genre painting? A portrait of you, or of a little girl, maybe the royal king and queen? Who knows?
What is Las Meninas
This is a style or category of painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life.
What is a genre scene.
Whose marble sculpture of David is very dynamic, movement and tension.
Who is Bernini
Rembrandt and Hals
What is Northern
Painted so many self portraits.
Who is Rembrandt.
This painting by Vermeer of course shows just one lady, alone in a room, light entering from the left. Best guess is she's probably making cereal, you know why.
What is The Milkmaid.
This device is an ancestor to the modern camera used by Vermeer as an aid in drawing from nature.
What is the camera Lucida.
Las Meninas
Who is Diego Velasquez.
Vermeer
What is Northern.
Loved painting flowers.
Rachel Ruysch
Bernini's marble sculpture with what appears to be the moment before a lady gets an arrow plunged into her
What is The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
What is an allegory.
The Conversion of Saint Paul painting. ( a horse stepping on St. Paul )
Who is Caravaggio
Rachel Ruysch
What is Northern
Always learning from Caravaggio, "following" his every brushstroke.
Who is Gentileschi.
Light enters dramatically from the right through an open window shining a ray of light onto a group of religious figures sitting around a table. Painted in 1599-1600 by Caravaggio.
What is The Calling of Saint Matthew
An object shown emerging from the shadows into the light. Causing intense emotion.
What is Chiaroscuro
Girl with a Flute ( test hint )
Who is Vermeer.
Caravaggio
What is Southern
For some reason this artist loved to paint windows on the left side of his paintings.
Who is Vermeer.
Two jolly boys with something they shouldn't have. painted by Frans H. in 1626.
What is Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer