Baroque Art History Midterm 1

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Form

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Qualities of a painting with line shape texture space and composition light

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Iconography

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Themes motifs storytelling symbols

Portrait of Louis xiv

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Picture plane

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Point of visual contact between viewer and picture

Concert champetre

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Picture space

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Space between picture plane of painting with perspective and other techniques

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Illusionism

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Technique artists use to resemble the real objects or perspective.

Triumph of the barberini

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Baldacchino

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Very heavy silk used in tents thrones or altars

Canopy of columns

Berninis

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Baldacchino

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Very heavy silk used in tents thrones or altars

Canopy of columns

Berninis

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Dome

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Large rounded roof/ceiling

Half a ball

Michelangelos plan for St. Peter's basilica

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Lantern

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Open story or tower on top of a dome generally used to admit light

St peters

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Cultural capital

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Non financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economy.

Dutch debts, loans, Vermeer innkeeper art dealer

Allegory of art of painting

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Scale

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Size of object in relation to another object

Tomb of Alexander 7

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Open form

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Nothing in painting bound by frame

Raising of the cross

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Tryptrich

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3-panel painting or alter piece

Raising ..

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Tryptrich

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3-panel painting or alter piece

Raising ..

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Painterly technique

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Large brush motion, focus in one area

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Parterre

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Formal garden constructed on a level surface, symmetrical patterns

Garden facade of Versailles

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Orthogonal

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Lines represent perspective recession

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Topographical landscape

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Topographically accurate not made up

The bleaching fields

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Trompe l'oeil

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Fool the eye

Seeing real objects

Flower piece with curtain

Spelt and frans van mieris '60

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Trompe l'oeil

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Fool the eye

Seeing real objects

Flower piece with curtain

Spelt and frans van mieris '60

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Iconoclasm

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Did not approve of religious imagery

Interior St oduphus church

'50 saenredam

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Trompe l'oeil

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Fool the eye

Seeing real objects

Flower piece with curtain

Spelt and frans van mieris '60

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Iconoclasm

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Did not approve of religious imagery

Interior St oduphus church

'50 saenredam

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Genre painting

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Holland depict scenes of everyday life

The supper party

Hornthorst

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Vanitas

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All objects symbolize the transience of life

Still life genre

Woman holding a balance

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Allegory

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Story through symbols

Marie de Medici

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Allegory

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Story through symbols

Marie de Medici

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Vault

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Arched structure covering a space

Farnese gallery

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Quadro riportato

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Ceiling design with painted scenes arranged in panels (framed pictures) transferred to curved vault

Farnese

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Fresco

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Technique of mural painting on wet plaster

Becomes part of the wall

Barberini

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Baroque classicism

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Baroque movement that favors rational order and clarity

Classical antiquity

Et in Arcadia ego

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Counter reformation

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Catholic church's attempt to stop Protestant movement and strengthen Catholic Church

St. Paul

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Counter reformation

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Catholic church's attempt to stop Protestant movement and strengthen Catholic Church

St. Paul

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Tenebrism

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Violent contrasts of light and dark like Caravaggio

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Caravaggisti

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Painters who use Tenebrism follow Caravaggio

Gentileschi

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Devotional painting

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Isolated holy image used to promote spiritual contemplation and prayer

St serapion

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State portrait

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Official portrait

Social position of individual

Louis xiv