Deck 3: The Baroque Age

Question 1

John Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, is recognized for its extended analogy comparing lovers to __________.

A) a sunrise
B) a telescopic lens
C) trees in a forest
D) the two feet of a geometrician's compass
E) planets in orbit

Answer 1

D

Question 2

__________ is the most celebrated painting of Diego Velázquez in part because of the intriguing fact that it crosses the genres of portrait and genre painting.

A) Boy Playing a Flute
B) John Wilkins DD
C) Jolly Toper
D) Portrait of Charles I at the Hunt
E) Las Meninas

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Handel's Messiah possesses a __________ tone.

A) mournful
B) celebratory
C) conciliatory
D) solemn
E) both B and D

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Bernini's David is depicted __________.

A) in an unspecified moment before David's conflict with Goliath
B) as a young boy
C) looking at Goliath after the giant's death
D) the split-second before David released the stone that kills Goliath
E) as an old man reflecting

Question 5

A __________ is composed of three or four independent parts of which one part, or voice, states a theme, which is then imitated in succession by each of the others.

A) fugue
B) cantata
C) madrigal
D) both B and C
E) none of the above

Question 6

__________ painted The Night Watch in 1642 to represent the Amsterdam civic guard.

A) Pieter de Hooch
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Judith Leyster
D) Clara Peeters
E) Rembrandt van Rijn

Question 7

The British philosopher __________ believed that the reasoning on which geometry is based could be extended to the social and political realm.

A) René Descartes
B) Thomas Hobbes
C) John Locke
D) Francis Bacon
E) Galileo Galilei

Question 8

The plays of __________ "concentrate on the moral dilemmas of the Greek tragedies."

A) Molière
B) John Donne
C) Jean Racine
D) Anne Bradstreet
E) Pierre Corneille

Question 9

In the seventeenth century, a distinctly secular brand of Baroque painting emerged in __________.

A) Spain
B) Holland
C) Germany
D) Portugal
E) Greece

Question 10

The Hall of Mirrors is located in __________.

A) the Louvre
B) St. Paul's Cathedral
C) the Palace of Versailles
D) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
E) Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

Question 11

Poussin was the opposite of Rubens __________.

A) in terms of the using line rather than color as the dominant element of design
B) in focusing his attention on portrait painting
C) in uniting every stroke by the curving movements of his design
D) in the sheer exuberance of his lush forms
E) none of the above

Question 12

__________ established the Jesuit order of Catholic priests.

A) St. Basil
B) St. Ignatius Loyola
C) St. John of the Cross
D) St. Philip of Neri
E) St. Matthew

Question 13

Born in Germany, __________ was a Flemish Baroque painter who became extremely successful in Antwerp, possessing a studio containing over two hundred painters and students by 1611.

A) Pieter de Hooch
B) Peter Paul Rubens
C) Judith Leyster
D) Rembrandt van Rijn
E) Rachel Ruysch

Question 14

In the Calling of St.Matthew , Caravaggio creates a religious atmosphere by his dramatic use of light, known as __________.

A) tenebrism
B) pointillism
C) verisimilitude
D) chiaroscuro
E) sfumato

Question 15

__________ was in charge of her family's Bologna shop and supported her parents and three siblings through the sale of paintings that appealed to patrons with their sentimentality, such as the Virgin and Child of 1663.

A) Artemisia Gentileschi
B) Judith Leyster
C) Elisabetta Sirani
D) Rachel Ruysch
E) Clara Peeters

Question 16

__________ achieved the zenith of the illusionist ceiling fresco in Triumph of St.Ignatius of Loyola that dates to 1691-94.

A) Caravaggio
B) Fra Andrea Pozzo
C) Annibale Caracci
D) Pieter Bruegel
E) Artemisia Gentileschi

Question 17

__________ contended that the human mind is at birth a tabula rasa.

A) John Locke
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) René Descartes
D) Thomas Hobbes
E) Gottfried Leibniz

Question 18

Pope Paul V commissioned __________ as Vatican architect to convert Michelangelo's Greek plan into a traditional Latin-cross plan.

A) Leon Battista Alberti
B) Andrea Palladio
C) Gianlorenzo Bernini
D) Francesco Borromini
E) Carlo Maderno

Question 19

__________ invented the concerto.

A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Henry Purcell

Question 20

__________ composed The Four Seasons.

A) Claudio Monteverdi
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Arcangelo Corelli
D) Antonio Vivaldi
E) Joseph Haydn

Question 21

French theater eschewed the three unities of time, place, and action that were the basis of other Baroque countries.

Question 22

To what can one attribute the development and rise of interest in still lives during the Baroque? Moreover, how are these images visual encapsulations of the idea of vanitas?

Question 23

Francesco Borromini was the chief rival of Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Question 24

What were the consequences of the Thirty Years' War?

Question 25

The recitative element of Baroque opera was musically heightened speech midway between spoken dialog and melodic aria.

Question 26

René Descartres is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and is well known for his dictum cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am").

Question 27

How did humanism influence the development of opera during this era?

Question 28

Explain how Diego Velázquez' Las Meninas can be classified as both a genre scene and a formal portrait.

Question 29

Rachel Ruysch is known for her "flower pieces," a kind of still life painting developed during
the Baroque.

Question 30

The German-born composer George Frederick Handel turned to the production of the oratorio, a sacred opera sung with neither costume nor acting, after the mid-1720s.

Question 31

The Council of Trent suggested that religious art be directed toward all of the following except __________.

A) clarity
B) elegance
C) emotion
D) realism
E) none of the above

Question 32

A fugue is composed of multiple instrumental parts.

Question 33

Provide an instance of "classical restraint" in Baroque art.

Question 34

Miguel de Cervantes developed the picaresque, a form of novel that details the life of a rogue or knave who wanders from adventure to adventure.

Question 35

__________, a child prodigy who was selling works by the age of ten, is one of the most celebrated still life painters of the Baroque in France.

A) Diego Velázquez
B) Mary Beale
C) Rembrandt van Rijn
D) Louise Moillon
E) Clara Peeters

Question 36

What was the Council of Trent, why was it convened, and what was its view on the role of art
in worship?

Question 37

Discuss the purpose of the French Academy.

Question 38

Give an example of "drama and theatricality" in Baroque art.

Question 39

Peter Paul Rubens was highly successful during his time; in fact, he is arguably the most successful artist of his age with over two hundred painters and students working in his Antwerp studio.

Question 40

What is a good illustration of "emotionalism" in the Baroque?

Question 41

Explore the spread of Baroque style to conquered people, for example those of the Americas, through an examination of at least one architecture and one literary piece.

Question 42

Give an example of how Baroque architecture could function as a signifier of power.
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Question 43

Choose one work each that expresses the three subsets of Baroque art: Counter-Reformation, Aristocratic, and Middle Class.

Question 44

Explain how the intense interest in science impacted art, music, and literature of the Baroque era.