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Baroque Review
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Vocabulary/ Techniques
100

This oil on canvas painting by Caravaggio 

The Calling of Saint Matthew

100

What was the original function of the Palace of Versailles? 

To show the power and authority of King Louis XIV

100

This type of style is typical of Baroque architecture, sculpture and painting

Extravagant and ornate

100

This Rembrandt etching, the Self Portrait with Saskia, serves a double purpose of?

A marriage Portrait, and a Self Portrait of Rembrandt and his wife

100

This technique employs the usage of thickly layered paint for texture

Impasto

200

This painting (oil on wood) shows various fruits and insects in a closer perspective to the viewer.

Fruit and Insects, Rachel Ruysch

200

Borromini created San Carlo alle Fontane essentially fr free out of appreciation for this religion

Trinitarians

200

This usage of light and dark in paintings was common in Baroque style paintings

Chiaroscuro

200

This movement was characterized by the declining of the church, great advance in the pure and natural sciences ( Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire)

The Enlightenment

200

This term for how color effects our mood.

"Psychology of Light"

300

This painting from Vermeer has many religious and social cues that lead the viewer to the deeper meaning

Woman Holding a Balance

300

This inscription IHS on Il Gesu alludes to what important characteristic of the church

It is read in Latin as a Greek interpretation of the letters of Jesus (Gesu means "Jesus", and this church is a glorification of the name Jesus)

300

The Baroque Period was the time between these two art movements 

After the Renaissance and before the Rococo movement

300

Identify three materials used in the Palace of Versailles

Three of the following are to be accepted: Stone, Masonry, Wood, Iron, and Gold leaf(for architecture); Marble and Bronze (for sculpture) and Gardens

300

This type of painting depicts everyday life

Genre Painting

400

This Rococo painting depicts an outdoor scene with one large (typically used by children) focal point. (must say artist)

The Swing, Fragonard

400

Borromini's San Carlo alle Fontane has these Baroque characteristics on it's exterior (by the main entrance)

Tall Corinthian columns with smaller columns between them that turn to frame many windows and eventually the main door

400

This technique used by the king and/or state to express power and authority through grandiose architectural and garden projects

Baroque Classicism

400

Las Meninas is this type of painting

Oil on canvas

400

A darkened box with convex lenses that is crucial for photography

Camera Obscura

500

This scandalous portrait is apart of a series by Hogarth.

The Tete a Tete, from Marriage a la Mode Series

500

These aspects of the exterior of the Palace of Versailles are classical and borrowed from the Greeks

It is symmetrical, repetitive and based on simple elements 

500

The Baroque movement was created in response to this event

The Protestant Reformation

500

Name all of the materials used in the creation of Il Gesu

Brick, Marble, Fresco and stucco

500

This printmaking technique was used in the creation of "Self Portrait with Saskia"

Etching

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