1650 - 1700

the restoration

what is the period which refers to the return of the Stuart monarchy to England, Scotland and Ireland when King Charles II and his court were "restored" from exile on the European Continent that led to the replacement of the Puritan style with a taste for magnificence and opulence and to the introduction of Dutch and French artistic influences?

comedy of manners

Resoration Comedies might also be referred to as what type of plays?

bows, excessive curls, ribbons and lace, long-haired wigs and makeup for men, plunging necklines, bright and vivid colors

what are attributes or elements of Restoration era fashion (Men's and/or Women's)?

chinoiserie: a style reflecting chinese qualities or motifs

During the Restoration in England, the increased imports of exotic commodities from China and Japan led to a craze for what style in art and decoration?

william congreve

who wrote The Way of the World?

aphra behn

who wrote The Rover

moliere

who wrote The Misanthrope

jean racine

who wrote Phedre

william wycherley

who wrote The Country Wife

inigo jones

Who was the the first significant British architect of the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings in England, who also made major contributions to stage design by his work as theatrical designer in collaboration with Ben Jonson?

st. paul’s covent garden

What is this London Archtectural landmark designed by the first significant British architect of the early modern period?

the galli-bibiena family

Who was the family of Italian artists, of the 17th and 18th centuries, using the highly ornate style of late baroque sculpture and architecture, produced a series of theatrical and other designs that are exceptional for their intricate splendor and spacious proportions achieved by detailed perspective?

pachelbel’s canon

Johann Pachelbel, the German composer and teacher, who composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and is considered one of the most important composers of the middle Baroque era, is most famous for which composition?

henry purcell, who composed Dido and Aeneas

Who was the English composer of Baroque music and what is his most famous Opera?

st. paul’s cathedral

Name this most famous London church, dating from the late 17th century, that was was part of a major rebuilding programme which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London?

sir christopher wren

Name the highly acclaimed English architect whose masterpiece is the church in Question 13 and whose other notable buildings include the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, the south front of Hampton Court Palace and the main building at the College of William and Mary in the United States?

daniel defoe who wrote Robinson Crusoe

Name the author and the famous novel considered the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, that is a fictional autobiography of the title character, a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued?

the learned ladies, the imaginary invalid, the miser

name three plays written by moliere

the lacemaker, the milkmaid, the girl with the pearl earring

name three paintings by johannes vermeer

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, which had been altered after Vermeer's death, and was restored from 2018-2021 to uncover the painting of cupid on the wall

Name this 1658 painting by Johannes Vermeer AND what is different about it from pre 2018/2021?

The Concert, significant because it was stolen in 1990 and was never found, with it likely being the most valuable stolen object in the world

Name this Vermeer painting and why is it of great significance in the contemporary art world?

camera obscura

What is the optical device, that led to photography and the camera, used by late-Renaissance and Baroque era Artists (and probably Vermeer) which consists of a box or room with a hole in one side, where light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside, where it is reproduced, rotated 180 degrees (thus upside-down), but with color and perspective preserved?