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What was the time period? |
1600-1750 |
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What is the common element of Baroque art? |
Sensitivity to and absolute mastery of light to achieve the maximum emotional impact |
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Barroca |
A pearl of irregular shape |
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Three things Baroque implies |
Strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance |
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What should paintings and sculptures in church contexts speak to? |
The illiterate rather than the well informed |
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Where did Baroque art begin? who financed cathedrals? |
Rome Popes |
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Caravaggio |
1. Painted in a realistic down and dirt style 2. Injected new life into Italian painting 3. One of his paintings was the Sacrifice of Isaac |
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Greatest sculptor of Baroque art? |
Bernini |
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Rubins |
1. A rare, creative genius – Europe’s best religious painter 2. Completed over 2000 paintings 3. One of his paintings was The Lamentations |
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Velasquez |
1. A master painter by age 18 2. Depicted the world as it appeared to his eye 3. One of his paintings was Venus at her Mirror |
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How did Rembrandt’s style change |
Went from portraits to Biblical subjects |
