Survey of Art - Chapter 6 - The Age of Baroque Art

Where was the Baroque period born?

Rome

Where did the Rococo art blossom in and who was reigning at that time?

France, King Louis XV

What are the 5 main characteristics of Baroque art?

motion, space, concept of time, dramatic use of light, passionate theatricality

Who was the Catholic artist from Italy who designed the Piazza of St. Peter’s featuring two expensive walkways with columns extending from the church’s front as curving arms?

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Who created a 6 ½ foot tall statue of David, depicting him in mid-battle, learning back in preparation of launching his sling?

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Who created The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, which showed an angel stabbing St. Theresa, which therefore showed pain and pleasure, and also had bronze rods depicting rays of light behind? (according to Catholic belief)

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Who was an Italian painter who modeled painting after people around him, was considered a outcast had had a criminal record, and created the paining The Conversion of St. Paul that shows Paul being thrown from a horse and blinded by light?

Caravaggio

What is tenebrism?

a small light that creates a spotlight effect

Who was an Italian painter whose father was also a painter who created the piece Judith Decapitating Holofernes, which shows determination and connects to her past of getting rapped by a man and showed violence for coping?

Artemesia Gentileschi

Who was born in Spain, was a court painter and confidant of King Philip, and painted Las Meninas, which portrays maids of honor attending a little princess, also painting himself in it reflecting his standing with the king and queen?

Diego Velazquez

Who was a Flemish painter and Catholic artist that painted The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus based on a tale from Greek mythology? (Zeus’ sons Castor and Pollux and 2 mortal women)

Peter Paul Rubens

Who was a Dutch painter, Protestant artist, and painted many self portraits and large group with dark backgrounds and ‘golden’ light on the faces?

Rembrandt van Rijn

Who was a Dutch painter who painted scenes of daily life of the middle-class, one being the Young Woman with Water Jug and liked having a single source of light?

Johannes Vermeer

Who was was an English architect who was originally an engineer and professor of astronomy, decided to renovate the Gothic St. Paul’s Cathedral in London which burned down before it could occur, and then started from scratch with French and Baroque architectural influences?

Sir Christopher Wren

Who was French, a Rococo artist, and painted Happy Accidents of the Swing that showed a not-so-innocent young woman in a dress flirting with two different men?

Jean-Honore Fragonard

Who was a daughter of a portrait painter, studied art at the Louvre, made an official painting of Marie Antoinette that never was exhibited called Marie Antoinette and Her Children?

Elisabeth Vigee-Bebrun

Who was an American artist from Massachusetts who combined English naturalism with American taste of realism and simplicity, creating the Portrait of Paul Revere that featured him with his tools, pondering a teapot in his hand?

Copley