Art History Study Guide

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Baroque Art (17th Century)

Handout 4

Vocabulary:

Baroque ~ refers to the visual arts and building design and construction produced during the 17th century. This style refers to architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the 17th century until the 1740s. This style uses contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep color, and grandeur.

Chiaroscuro ~ a technique used in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects. The overall composition is affected with strong contrasts of light and dark.

Impasto (pl. impasti) ~ A painting technique where thick layers of paint are applied to a canvas or surface, creating a textured and three-dimensional effect. The word originates from the Italian word for “paste” or “dough” which reflects the thick and heavy application of paint.

Genre (both meanings) ~ type or category of a painting / indicates the content or topic of a particular picture

Allegory ~ a symbol

Baroque Art in Italy

Caravaggio

Conversion of St. Paul

Rome, Italy

ca. 1601

Oil on canvas

Caravaggio

Entombment of Christ

ca. 1603

Oil on canvas

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Apollo and Daphne

1624

Marble

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Ecstasy of St Teresa

Rome

1650

Gilded bronze, marble, paint, plaster

Diego Velaquez

Las Meninas

1656

Oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self-Portrait

ca. 1660

Oil on Canvas

Jan Vermeer

The Letter

1666

Oil on canvas

Jan Vermeer

Allegory of the Art of Painting

ca. 1670

Oil on canvas

18th and 19th Century Art

Vocabulary:

Neoclassicism

Romanticism

Hudson River School

Salon of the Rejected (Salon des Refuses)

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Formalism

Neoclassicism

Jacques-Louis David

The Oath of the Horatti

1784

Oil on canvas

Romanticism

Francisco Goya

Third of May

1808, 1814

Oil on canvas

Theodore Gericault

Raft of Medusa

1818-19

Oil on canvas

Theodore Gericault

Eugene Delacroix

Tiger Hunt

1854

Oil on canvas

Thomas Cole

Kaaterskill Falls

1825-26

Oil on canvas

Thomas Cole

The Oxbow

1836

Oil on canvas

Frederick Edwin Church

The Heart of the Andes

1859