AP Art History

Chapter 22 Baroque Art

Study Guide

The Baroque Period

The word baroque has developed several different meanings. Describe the different meanings.

Vocabulary

Terms	Terms
Baroque barroco naturalistic	genre glazes impasto

Italy

How did the Vatican react to the Reformation movement?

What happened to art commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church, as opposed to art made in Northern Europe, as a result of the Reformation and iconoclastic movements?

What type of build projects began in Rome as a result of the Counter Reformation?

How did Maderno's facade for the front of Saint Peter's represent the Counter Reformation Movement?

What is a composite order column?

What are the architectural elements of the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?

Describe the religious and political significance of the Baldacchino created for Saint Peter's by Bernini?

Bernini oftern posed his figures in natural or carved settings. Describe the setting created for St Theresa in Ecstasy. Is the setting formal or informal?

Who is Michelangelo Merisi? What is his more familar name?

Define tenebrism.

Who was Artemesia Gentileschi? Describe her influences and content of the majority of her paintings. What is the difference between rubenistes and poussinistes?

Vocabulary

Terms	Terms
gable niches obleisk cartouche trompe l'oeil fresco tenebrism Farnese family broken pediment finial colonnade giant reliquaries cornice	galleria ignudi baroque naturalism Caravaggio l'Enfant facade della Porta swags Vatican colossal order baldachine travertine academic

French Baroque

Who were the designers of Louis XIV's new and improved Palais de Versaille?

What was the Hall of Mirrors?

What is Caravaggism? Is it the same as chiaroscuro? Tenebrism?

What is a classical landscape?

How did the ideas of Claude Lorrain and Nicholas Poussin about classicism transcend into teaching practice within the Royal Academy?

Contrast and compare Judith and the Maidservant by Gentileschi with The Repetant Magdalen by Georges de La Tour.

Does Hyacinth Rigaud's painting of Louis XIV reflect classical or Caravaggesque conventions?

Terms	Terms
Versailles Claude Lorrain Baroque garder design Charles Le Brun Caravaggism Cardinal Richlieu Poussin Palladio	chiaroscuro Antoine Le Nain Maria d Medici Girardon Geroges de La Tour rustication Palais de Versailles Nicholas Poussin

Spanish Baroque

What is the Spanish Golden Age?

What was the primary influence on Spanish painting during the 15th century?

During the Counter-Reformation Saint Joseph took on a new role. What is that role? How is ti exhibited in the paintings of Josepe de Ribera?

What is spatial ambiguity? Describe how this is evident in the work of Juan Sanchez Cotan?

How does your book describe the Zuberan's work Saint Serapion as a "tragic still life"?

How would you describe the subject matter in Velazquez's Water Carrier of Seville? What type of painting is this? What kind of light source is used in this image?

Does Velazquez change his style of painting from earlier to late in his life? In what ways?

How does Velazquez use layering of pain in Las Meninas?

Terms	Terms
Churrigueresque Spanish Moors spatial ambiguity Cotan Moorish	Mercedarians matte Lo Spagnoletto underdrawing

Flemish Baroque

Peter Paul Rubens was from what country?

How did Rubens come to be considered synonmous with Flemish art?

How did the side panels in the Raising of the Cross differ from previous triptyches?

What are Ruben's unique ideas of thematic and formal unity?

How old was Clara Peeters when her career as a painter?

Describe the content in Clara Peeter's painting.
Vocabulary

Terms	Terms
Peter Paul Rubens Clara Peeters Henry IV Anthony van Dyck	pretiola Habsburg Antwerp Painters Guild Maria de Medici

Dutch Baroque
Portraiture

Describe the range of Dutch art?

How did Dutch portrait artists idealize their subjects?

What was group portraiture and how did the Dutch stylize it?

Describe the expressions of the subjects painted in Frans Hals Catharina Hooft and Her Nurse.

Who is Judith Leyster and what was her relationship to Frans Hals?

Explain why the Night Watch is now called Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company.

Describe the changes between the first and three engraving states of Rembrandt's Three Crosses.
Landscape

Describe the different types of landscape paintings.

How does The Jewish Cemetery create a mood?

Was there a Dutch seascape painting tradtion and if so what was it?

How did Aelbert Cuyp rework the Dutch seascape tradition?
Genre

Dutch genre paintings were categorized in their own times by the following titles: "merry company," "garden party," and "picture with little figures." These seem innocent enough but what did these categories actually mean?

This artist frequently painted engimatic scenes of women in their homes, alone or with a servant, occupied with some cultivated activity such as writing, reading letters or playing a muscual instrument. Who is this artist? Describe how this artist uses light and compositional elements?

Does Vermeer use vanitas themes in his work? How?

What type of genre painting is considered an architectural interior? What painter used this type of technique?
Still Life

What is the Dutch word for still life painting?

Does the still life style suggest scientific observation? How?

Name the important still life Dutch artists of this period.
Vocabulary

Terms	Terms
Frans Hals Rembrandt printmaking Meindert Hobbema motif still life Judith Leyster etching Aelbert Cuyp Gerard Ter Borch burin	school flower pieces Rachel Ruysch Utrecht drypoint Jacob van Ruisdael Jan Vermeer genre architectural interior Willem Kalf

English Baroque

What classical elements did Inigo Jones use in the facade on the Banqueting Hall for the Palace of Whitehall?

In 1666 a fire demolished most of central London. What architect was involved in the rebuilding projects? What was his major project?
Vocabulary

Terms	Terms
Inigo Jones bays pavilion Christopher Wren	balustrade lantern pilasters oculus John Vanbruch