Exam 10: Baroque Europe

Discuss art's role played in the revitalization of the Catholic Church and the expression of Catholic beliefs during the seventeenth century.Use examples to support your answer.

Explain the role of portraiture in 17ᵗʰ-century art.Use examples to support your essay.

How does this interior reflect the power of the absolute monarch?

The work of which three artists influenced Rubens' Elevation of the Cross?

The Palace at Versailles symbolizes the ____.

Use four examples to explain how seventeenth-century artists addressed themselves and the status of their art.

How does this church reflect current architectural style?

Van Dyck painted the ____.

Both of these paintings represent peasants.How do you account for the differences you see in the depictions?

Explain Poussin's ideas about the "grand manner" of painting.

Who was the patron of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers?

How does this image represent the Church Triumphant?

How does this structure represent English seventeenth-century architecture?

Rubens' Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles is part of a series of paintings of the life of the ____.

What does this represent?

You have discovered a landscape painting in your attic.What formal and iconographic characteristics will allow you to attribute the work to Claude Lorrain or Jacob van Ruisdael.Use examples to support your essay.

Seventeenth-century Italian architecture was ____.

What is the Baldacchino at St.Peter's?

Tenebrism means painting ____.

Compare the Elevation of the Cross by Rubens with Zurbaran's Saint Serapion.