Flemish & Spanish Baroque

Which art-central region, often called the “Spanish Netherlands”, shared many similarities with Spain under its rule and produced painters like Sir Peter Paul Rubens?

Flanders

Who was Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ employer?

the Duke of Mantua

What painting, depicting Francisco Gomez de Sandoval (the most powerful man in Spain at the time), conveys the main figure’s authority and vulnerabilities in this cornerstone of equestrian portraiture?

The Duke of Lerma on Horseback

Francisco Gomez de Sandoval was the 1st Duke of what town?

Lerma

Who painted The Duke of Lerma on Horseback?

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Which good-looking painter was the most famous of his time and internationally regarded through his travels throughout Europe, being knighted by the kings of both England and Spain for his diplomatic peace negotiations between the two countries?

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Which artist’s work was mainly transported to the Spanish colonies in the Americas, often depicting a series of images of saints, causing him to experience financial problems when the payment for his paintings were lost to naval warfare?

Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán spent most of his career in what Spanish town?

Seville

Which skilled portraitist was a child prodigy, becoming Ruben’s chief assistant while still in his teens, and was knighted by Charles I?

Sir Anthony van Dyck

This 17th-century Spanish painter, long active at the court of King Philip IV in Madrid, excelled in portraits, religious and mythological scenes, and early genre pictures, and on a later trip to Italy painted such a good portrait of Pope Innocent X that he reportedly judged it “too truthful”. Give this artist’s full name.

Diego Velázquez

This Sevillian painter, whose early work reflected Zurbarán’s somber manner before evolving into a lighter, more colorful style, dominated Seville’s art scene from the late 1640s and became the most admired Spanish painter throughout the 18th and much of the 19th century, though his reputation later declined before rising again. Give this artist’s last name.

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

This huge 16th century monastery-palace near Madrid, begun in 1563 and officially completed in 1584, serves as the burial place of most Spanish monarchs and famously combines a severe exterior with lavishly decorated interiors full of frescoes and altarpieces. Give the commonly used name of this complex.

the Escorial

This Spanish painter created a monumental canvas for the Hall of Kingdoms in the Buen Retiro palace, showing General Ambrogio Spinola placing a consoling hand on the bowing Justin of Nassau as he receives the keys to the captured Dutch city of Breda, creating a humane representation of the victory. Give this artist’s full name.

Diego Velázquez

In Rubens’ 1638 painting The Horrors of War, a “grief-stricken woman clothed in black” personifies an allegorical figure that has “suffered plunder, outrage, and misery”. Give the name of this allegorical figure.

Europe

How many years was the truce between Flanders and the Dutch Republic, beginning in 1609?

Twelve

During the English Civil War, this English king was executed and much of his famous art collection was sold off, with some of the finest paintings purchased by Archduke Leopold WIlliam, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. Give the name of this monarch.

Charles I

In 1668 this treaty ended the financially disastrous war between Spain and Portugal. Give the name of this treaty.

Treaty of Lisbon

Serving as governor of the Spanish Netherlands on behalf of Philip IV from 1646 to 1656, this Habsburg prince assembled one of the finest painting collections of his age, later depicted around 1652 by a namesake painting by David Teniers the Younger. Give the full name and title of this collector.

Archduke Leopold William

Painted around 1597 for a chapel in Toledo, this artist created the famous work St. Martin and the Beggar, a composition later known to Rubens only through copies and noted for its similarities to his equestrian portrait of the Duke of Lerma. Name this artist.

El Greco

This painter first visited Florence in 1600 and passed through the city again in 1603 on his way to Spain, where he would have seen Giambologna’s newly erected equestrian statue of Duke Cosimo I de Medici in the main square. Name this artist.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

While in Madrid, this painter studied Titian’s famous equestrian portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and copied down the emperor’s head. Give the name of this artist.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Nicknamed “the god of wood” for his extraordinary mastery of polychromed wooden sculpture, this Spanish artist began his celebrated Christ of Clemency in 1603. Give the name of this sculptor.

Juan Martínez Montañés

This Flemish painter created works such as Landscape with Shepherds and Pilgrims, whose charmingly artificial and exquisitely finished scenes were highly prized by Italian collectors; his brother Matthew produced similar pictures. Give the name of this artist.

Paul Bril

Painted in 1614 for Antwerp’s prestigious Guild of the Old Crossbowmen, this large allegorical work, Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War, reflects its creator’s solid, dignified style. Name this Flemish painter, a leading contemporary of Rubens in Antwerp.

Abraham Janssens

After returning from Rome to Antwerp in 1608, this Flemish painter was appointed court painter to the Spanish governors of Flanders. Give the name of this artist.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

This minor but distinctive speciality in Spanish art often focused on humble objects such as fruits and vegetables, such as Cotán’s namesake for Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber. Give the name of this genre.

still life

 The Adoration of the Shepherds reveals this Spanish artist’s close study of Caravaggio in its bold contrasts of light and shade. After taking holy orders in 1614, he painted only occasionally, including a battle scene in the same series as Velázquez’s. Give the name of this painter.

Juan Bautista Mayno

Francisco de Zurbarán’s 1628 painting depicts a 12th century monk who was killed by pirates. Name this saint.

St. Serapion

Depicted in one of van Dyck’s masterpieces, this English king appears with aristocratic grace and refinement, with his short stature being discreetly disguised by a low viewpoint. Give the name of this monarch.

Charles I

Completed in 1637 as a papal gift and based on a painting sent to this artist by van Dyck, this marble portrait of the English King Charles I was created in 1637. Name the sculptor who created this bust of Charles I.

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Painted around 1640 by Jacob Jordaens, this rollicking scene depicts a popular Flemish Twelfth Night celebration in which one participant is crowned “king for the night.” Give the name of the title of this painting

The King Drinks

This man’s The Art of Painting was posthumously published in Seville in 1649 and is an important source of information on Spanish art of the time. Give the name of this writer.

Francisco Pacheco

In 1656 Velázquez completed his most famous work, translating to “The Maids of Honor,” a complex court group portrait that takes its name from a young princess’s attendants. Give the title of this painting.

Las Meninas

This portrait of a Neapolitan beggar boy is one of Ribera’s most famous works and was painted on commission for an art dealer in 1642. Give the title of this painting.

The Clubfooted Boy

Valdés Leal specialized in religious subjects, which he treated in a highly personalized style of nervous, energetic, and often macabre elements, and in 1657 he painted a work that shows a titular saint’s troubles with the sexual hallucinations he endures. Give the title of this painting.

The Temptation of St. Jerome

Working mainly in Bruges, this painter was best known for his religious works and portraits but sometimes ventured into other fields, as seen in the charmingly sentimental scene of child artists called The Painter’s Studio. Give this artist’s full name.

Jacob van Oost

Spain’s first art academy was founded in 1660 and Murillo was appointed joint president, together with Francisco Herrera the Younger. Give the name of the city that this academy was founded in.

Seville

Antolínez specialized in religious subjects, but his most distinctive painting is a highly unusual image of a poor artist, perhaps a mocking self portrait, trying to sell his work. Give the title of this painting

The Picture Dealer

This was Murillo’s favorite subject, which he depicted numerous times. It is the name for the Catholic belief that the Virgin Mary, from the moment of being conceived in her mother’s womb, was free of original sin. Give the title of this painting.

The Immaculate Conception

This leading religious painter in Madrid created his masterpiece at the Escorial, a huge altarpiece titled Charles II Adoring the Host, featuring about 50 portraits of members of the court. Give this artist’s last name.

Claudio Coello

This painter was born in Brussels and spent most of his career in France, where he worked as a military painter for Louis XIV, and his paintings, such as The Siege of Tournai, were based on drawings made on the spot. Give this artist’s last name.

Adam Frans van der Meulen

With the great exception of his friend Velázquez, this man is Spain’s best portraitist of the time, and died in Madrid in 1685. Give this artist’s last name.

Juan Carreño de Miranda