Dutch
Unlike Baroque art, Dutch art often focused on these everyday scenes of middle-class life.
What are genre scenes?
Baroque art is often associated with this movement within the Catholic Church responding to Protestantism.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
The execution device symbolizing the Revolution’s radical phase was called this.
What is the guillotine?
Rococo art often emphasized these themes.
What are love, leisure, and playful romance?
This building type, made of mud brick and built in tiers, served as a religious center in Mesopotamian cities.
What is a ziggurat?
This technique, strongly used in Dutch Baroque painting, creates dramatic contrast between light and dark.
What is chiaroscuro?
The space meant for gatherings, just outside St. Peters Basillica is called what?
What is St. Peter's Piazza?
This social class, made up mostly of commoners, carried the greatest tax burden before the Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
This artist painted The Swing, one of the most famous Rococo paintings.
Who is Jean-Honoré Fragonard?
This system uses converging lines and a vanishing point to create the illusion of depth.
What is Linear Perspective?
This artist specialized in quiet domestic interiors scenes such as The Milkmaid 1658.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
This is the "directive" or goal of Baroque art.
What is to draw people back to the church?
This revolutionary document proclaimed that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights”
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
This powerful French queen was associated with Rococo taste and luxury before the Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Inca architecture such as Machu Picchu is famous for precisely cut stones fitted together without using this material.
What is mortar?
This portrait by Frans Hals features a man smirking while sporting a large hat and lace trimmed black clothing.
What is The Laughing Cavalier?
This order of column has a simple capital, with no fluting and a simple base.
What is the Tuscan Order?
In 1789, after being locked out of their meeting hall members of the Third Estate gathered to form this.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This prison was stormed in July of this year. (Provide name and year)
What is the Bastille in 1789
Invented ca. 1440, this innovation helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This Dutch artist is famous for dramatic lighting and works like The Night Watch.
Who is Rembrandt?
This term is the extreme, violent contrasts between deep, dominating darkness and bright, focused light
What is Tenebrism
This Object located in Wiltshire England, lines up with a Neoclassic megalithic monument on the summer solstice.
What is the Heal-stone
This term refers to the delicate, shell-like decorative motifs common in Rococo interiors.
What is rocaille?
The Pantheon’s large central opening at the top of the dome is called this.
What is an oculus?