Deck 10: Baroque: Piety and Extravagance

Question 1

The founding figure of the Society of Jesus was

A) Milton.
B) Saint Teresa.
C) Bernini.
D) Loyola.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Both El Greco and Velázquez served in the courts of

A) France.
B) England.
C) the Papacy.
D) Spain.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Bach's cantatas were largely based on

A) Monteverdi's arias.
B) Gregorian chant.
C) Lutheran chorales.
D) Renaissance madrigals.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the genres in which Rembrandt worked was the most lucrative for the Dutch painter?

A) Landscape
B) Religious woodcuts
C) Group portraiture
D) Self-portraiture

Question 5

Both Donne and Wren were associated with the

A) Jesuit order.
B) church of Saint Paul's in London.
C) construction of the facade of Saint Peter's in Rome.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 6

The first permanent orchestra in Europe was established by

A) Monteverdi.
B) Handel.
C) Charles I.
D) Louis XIV.

Question 7

The Dutch painter Maria van Oosterwyck and other female artists excelled in which genre?

A) The group portrait
B) Landscape painting
C) Still life painting
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 8

Whose "music of mystic serenity" captured the conservative quality of the Catholic Reformation?

A) Palestrina
B) Bach
C) Monteverdi
D) Vivaldi

Question 9

The term, "baroque" in painting comprises all of the following EXCEPT

A) strict compositional symmetry.
B) illusionistic effects.
C) strong contrast of light and dark.
D) theatrical flamboyance.

Question 10

In seventeenth-century England, the influential Calvinists who called for churchly reform were known as

A) Jesuits.
B) Waldensians.
C) Anabaptists.
D) Puritans.

Question 11

Which influential handbook reflected the mysticism and militancy of the Jesuit order?

A) Confessions
B) Praise of Folly
C) Spiritual Exercises
D) Visions

Question 12

The text of an opera is found in its

A) libretto.
B) pizzicato.
C) recitative.
D) aria.

Question 13

The plays of Molière

A) often included musical interludes.
B) were often presented at the court of Louis XIV.
C) described the comic foibles of human society.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 14

A leading figure in the evolution of academic art was

A) Rembrandt.
B) Vermeer.
C) Bernini.
D) Poussin.

Question 15

Academic art, as envisioned by Louis XIV and his followers, depended primarily on

A) Neoclassical principles.
B) vivid illusionism.
C) medieval models.
D) Mannerist techniques.

Question 16

One of the most influential Baroque artists was ________, the designer of the piazza in front of St. Peter's Basilica.

A) Bernini
B) El Greco
C) Wren
D) Parmigianino

Question 17

Of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, it is correct to say that it was

A) based on the visions of the saint.
B) executed in marble, stucco, and gilded wood.
C) located inside a church chapel.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 18

Milton's Paradise Lost is a landmark epic that

A) recounts the story of King Arthur.
B) describes the fall of Adam and Eve.
C) features a hero who visits hell and heaven.
D) details the birth of the English Commonwealth.

Question 19

In the seventeenth-century, Cremona, Italy, was the world center for the manufacture of

A) violins.
B) harpsichords.
C) tapestries.
D) organs.

Question 20

Italian baroque churches are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

A) wide naves.
B) vast domes.
C) minimal ornamentation.
D) magnificent altarpieces.

Question 21

The Baroque era represents a turning point in music because it witnessed the

A) adoption of equal temperament tuning.
B) development of oratorio.
C) birth of opera.
D) All these answers are correct.

Question 22

Giovanni Gabrieli came to be celebrated for his

A) illusionistic paintings.
B) design of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice.
C) radical new approach to religious sculpture.
D) clear and simple religious music.

Question 23

Select six landmarks (visual, literary, or musical) that are, in your view, most representative of Baroque "piety and extravagance." Explain why and how they typify the period between ca. 1650 and 1750, often called, "the Age of the Baroque."

Question 24

What are the most memorable landmarks in the music of the Baroque era? How did these influence the future of Western music?

Question 25

Discuss the ways in which the upper classes influenced production and style in the arts of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Draw examples both from Europe and from regions beyond the West.

Question 26

The composer associated with the birth of the English oratorio is

A) Handel.
B) Gabrieli.
C) Vivaldi.
D) Lully.