Baroque Art Flashcards

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome Italy 1645-1652

Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, 1597-1601, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi del Francesi, Rome.

Diego Velasquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, from Saint Walburga, Antwerp

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, ca. 1659 – 1660.

Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766

The traditional blanket designation for European art from 1600 to 1750. Uppercase Baroque refers to the art of this period, which features dramatic theatricality and elaborate ornamentation in contrast to the simplicity and orderly rationality of Renaissance art, and is most appropriately applied to Italian art of this period. Lowercase baroque describes similar stylistic features found in the art of other periods—for example, the Hellenistic period in ancient Greece. The term derives from barroco.

Painting in the “shadowy manner,” using violent contrasts of light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio. The term derives from tenebroso: “shadowy.”

Latin, “vanity.” A term describing paintings (particularly 17th-century Dutch still lifes) that include references to death.

A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors featured lavish decoration, including small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel paintings, tapestries, reliefs, wall paintings, and elegant furniture. The term Rococo derived from the French world rocaille (pebble) and referred to the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors.

French, “amorous festival.” A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society