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Autobiography
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Helps to understand the art; Atermisia gave her rape account in a trial
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Baroque
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Time period 1600-1700, dramatic and vivid style
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Linear Style
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Tiny brushstrokes and intense details
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Tenebrism
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Figures look like they are coming from darkness
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Glazing
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Several layers of oil painting, gives more intense colors
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Judith Beheading Holofernes 1614
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Rembrandt
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The Night Watch 1642
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Impasto
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Thick, dense paint
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Chiaroscuro
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Dark background, dramatic light vs. dark
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Escutcheon
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Oval plaque meant to receive a coat of arms
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Painterly
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Large obvious brushtrokes
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Etching
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"to eat" something has eaten into the material to form the grooves
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Etching process
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Ground: waxy coat needle: scratches through the groundacid bath: acid eats into the exposed linensclean off the groundforce ink into the grooverub off excess inkprint
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States
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Sophistication of Rembrandt's process
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Bernini
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Ecstasy of Teresa 1650
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