Art History KW Chapter 24

1. Artemisia Gentileschi

important woman painter of the Baroque

2. Baldacchino

bronze canopy

3. Baroque

a style begun in Rome which was dynamic, plaint, spiraling, used elastic form and diagonal composition

4. Bolognese Academy of Art

the first academic institution of its kind. It attempted to establish rigid classical standards and the study of anatomy and life drawing

5. Caravaggio

Italian Baroque painter who showed his disdain for the Classical masters by using low-life models in dingy places

6. Carracci

established the Bolognese Academy and painted “ideal” landscapes.

7. Flaying

to strip off the skin

8. Genre

depicting scenes of everyday life

9. Landscape

scenes of outdoors in specific places

10. Loggia

balcony

11. Mercantilism

an economic system designed to unify and increase the wealth of a nation state through strict regulation of the national economy the accumulation of gold a favorable balance of trade

12. Nereids

daughters of the sea god

13. New Science

emergence of astronomy, physics, biology, and mathematics including logarithms, analytic geometry, and calculus. The emphasis was on experimentation and tangible proof

14. Royal Style

portraits which gave nobility to the subjects

15. Still-life

the painting of everyday inanimate objects

16. Tenebrism

style in which the background was enveloped in shadow and the important figures illuminated by a concentrated beam of light.

17. Thirty Year’s War

a religious war between the Catholics and Protestants, which resulted in the political restructuring of Europe and the development of nation states – the Dutch Republic, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, granted religious freedom in many parts of Europe and encouraged the secularization of government

18. Transubstantiation

the changing of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ

19. Velasquez

Spanish painter and court painter to Philip IV. Important not just for royal portraits but as an important influence on other Baroque painters

20. Worms-Eye View

a device which sets the observers viewpoint very low in the scene