Question 1

Characterize the seventeenth-century English spirit of compromise in the arts and politics.

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Question 2

Define three essential elements of the baroque style in the arts and illustrate these elements with three detailed examples of baroque art. Choose your examples from two different artistic media (painting, music, architecture, sculpture, etc.).

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Question 3

Discuss the relation between the baroque arts and the seventeenth-century artistic public. In your answer, choose three masterpieces of the baroque arts (painting, music, architecture, sculpture, theater) and explain how each work appealed to a distinctive audience. Be specific in connecting the artist's choice of style, theme, form, or mode of presentation to the tastes of a particular audience in seventeenth-century society.

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Quiz 9: The Baroque

Characterize the seventeenth-century English spirit of compromise in the arts and politics.

Define three essential elements of the baroque style in the arts and illustrate these elements with three detailed examples of baroque art. Choose your examples from two different artistic media (painting, music, architecture, sculpture, etc.).