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100
Pope Urban VIII appointed this architect to rebuild Saint Peter's.
Who is Gianlorenzo Bernini
100
The leading Baroque painter in Rome, Michelangelo Merisi, was also known as... And why?
Who is Caravaggio, because he was born in the small northern Italian town of Caravaggio.
100
This artist's tenebrism style can be seen as an early influence on Spanish Baroque painting.
Who is Caravaggio.
100
Rembrandt tried to work as freely as possible from contractual agreements but did receive patronage from this group.
What is Protestant patrons.
100
Barroco, definition of.
What is an irregular and therefore imperfect pearl.
200
How many twisted columns decorated with acanthus scrolls and surmounted by angeles are found within Saint Peter's?
What is four.
200
Caravaggio influenced painters in these regions.
What is Italy and Northern Europe.
200
The painting of Rokeby Venus is also formally known as what?
What is Venus with a Mirror
200
This painting by Rembrandt depicts a militia company leaving Amsterdam.
What is The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (known as The Knight Watch)
200
This painting reflects both the Dutch interests in both exploration and science and the artist's meticulous depiction of interiors.
What is Vermeer's, Geographer.
300
The piazza, or public square, on the exterior of St. Peter's is fit to hold how many people at a time?
What is more than 250,000 people.
300
Within Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit painting, what represents time?
What is the wilting leaf at the right, which drops from the basket.
300
Venus with a Mirror is obscured in these ways...
What is by turning the model away from the viewer and blurring her features in the mirror.
300
What medium revealed the depth of Rembrandt's skill for manipulating light and dark?
What is etching
300
This painting contains a warning against folly.
What is Maria van Oosterwyck's, Vanitas Still Life
400
Borromini's undulating walls of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, like the twisted columns of Bernini's baldachino, are characteristic of what style of architecture?
What is Italian Baroque.
400
This painting illustrates an event from the Book of Judith in the Old Testament Apocrypha.
What is Judith slaying Holofernes.
400
This Spanish Baroque painter became a knight in 1659.
Who is Diego Velazquez.
400
Rembrandt found his inspiration and models for his Old Testament scenes in this place.
What is the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam
400
This aspect of Bernini's, David, makes it different than Donatello's and Michelangelo's renditions of David.
What is Bernini's is in the midst of action.
500
The Galerie des Glaces within Versailles contained how many arched mirrors?
What is seventeen.
500
What is a visual difference between Giovanni Battista Gaulli's vision of salvation found in his fresco Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Michelangelo's Last Judgment?
What is Gaulli's scene resembles a last judgement a Last Judgment with the saved rising toward the white light of Christ's name, as they approach, they dissolve into light, thus creating a more mystical vision of salvation than Michelangelo's.
500
In this painting, the brightest colors found are gold and orange.
What is Saint Serapion
500
These two attributes are hidden in Rembrandt's self portrait as St. Paul.
What is the barely visible sword and unconventional halo.
500
This painting reflects the popularity of drinking, carousing, and smoking in the Dutch Republic.
What is Judith Leyster's, The Last Drop.