Art and Artists
He painted at least 60 self-portraits.
Who is Rembrandt van Rijn.
Music without lyrics that describe a scene or tell a story.
What is program music?
The artistic epicenter of the Italian Baroque.
What is Italy?
Extended metaphors often used by John Donne.
What are literary conceits?
Handel's greatest oratorio.
What is Messiah?
The reason the painting NIGHTWATCH was misnamed for so long.
What is the darkening of the paints due to soot accumulation?
The keyboard instrument that could play contrasting dynamics by altering the force of the key strike. (full and official name)
What is the pianoforte?
The artistic epicenter of the Northern Baroque.
What is Germany and the Netherlands?
He wrote Tartuffe.
Who is Moliere?
Arguably, Vivaldi's most renown work.
What is The Four Seasons?
The artistic technic of showing objects that appear to recede in space (lie flat on the picture plane).
What is foreshortening?
Music (usually played by an organ) that precedes a church service.
What is a prelude?
The artistic epicenter of the Aristocratic Baroque.
What is France?
He wrote Paradise Lost.
Who is John Milton?
The Monteverdi opera that ushered in the era of Baroque music.
What is L'Orfeo.
The three broad categories of 2D art/painting.
What are portrait, landscape and still life.
What is an overture?
The Sun King.
Who was King Louis XIV?
The translation of the scriptures that was completed in 1611.
What is the King James Bible?
Elaborate solo songs or duets in an opera or oratorio.
The name of King Louis XIV's relocated palace.
What is Versailles?
Plucking rather the bowing the strings or a violin, viola, cello or double bass.
What is pizzicato?
It marked the end of the Baroque era.
What is the death of J.S. Bach?
He instituted the French Royal Academy of Language and Literature in 1635.
Who is King Louis the XIII?
He wrote the Bradenberg Concertos.
Who was J.S. Bach?