Section 14: Baroque and Rococo Art

1. What was the Counter-Reformation, and how did it affect art?

2. What are some characteristics of Baroque Art?

3. What was the thinking behind Bernini's colonnade in front of St. Peter's?

4. How is Bernini's David different from Donatello's and Michelangelo's?

5. What new techniques in lighting did Caravaggio bring to art?

6. What were the specific guidelines that the Counter-Reformation authorities wanted for depicting the Virgin Mary?

7. Where are why did Group Portraits become popular?

8. What were some ways in which Louis XIV of France supported the arts? (Besides having his portrait done.) ;-)

9. How was the Rococo style different from the Baroque period?

Terms To Know

baldacchino
central-plan church
tenebrism
allegory

etching
drypoint
vanitas

Artwork to remember



Bernini, St. Theresa of Avila in Ecstasy, 1645-1652.	Bernini, St. Peter's Basilica and Square, 1656-57.	Bernini, David, 1623, marble.

Gaulli, Triumph in the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned, 1672-1685.	Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, 1625.	Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656.

Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1609-1610.	Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664.