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Fresco/Fresco Cycle
oil on canvas TERM 2
quadri riportati
DEFINITION 2 mural and ceiling paintings given surrounds in the form of painted illusionistic picture frames as though they were suspended easel pictures; a variation on TERM 3
putti/putto
DEFINITION 3 cherubs TERM 4
iconography
DEFINITION 4 symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an imageor images. TERM 5
realism
DEFINITION 5 treatment of forms, colors, space, etc., in such a manner as to emphasize their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience.
patron/patronage
a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like TERM 7
chiaroscuro
DEFINITION 7 Chiaroscuro in art is "an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. TERM 8
illusionism
DEFINITION 8 a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye TERM 9
genre painting
DEFINITION 9 pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. TERM 10
ideal
landscape
DEFINITION 10 A type of landscape painting, invented by Annibale Carracci in the first decade of the 17th century, in which natural elements are composed into a grand and highly formalized arrangement suitable as a setting for small figures from serious religious or mythological subjects. It was an extraordinarily influential invention, developed mostly by Claude
disegno vs colore
emphasis on line/drawing vs vibrant use of color TERM 17
Pope Alexander VII
DEFINITION 17 Sant Ivo della Sapienza, 1642-1660 done by Borromini Completed under Alexander VII Chigi coat of arms incorporated into the design TERM 18
Sixtus V
DEFINITION 18 he was loathed by his political subjects, but history has recognized him as a significant figure in the Counter Reformation TERM 19
Francesco Borromini
DEFINITION 19 San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1665-67 (means at the 4 fountains) - Undulating movement - Plan of San Carlo TERM 20
Gianlorenzo Bernini
DEFINITION 20 Leading Italian sculptor and architect of the Baroque period. Transformed Rome with his work at St Peters, Church design, and fountains. Upward movement expressiveness. More expression on faces than in the renissance
Pietro da Cortona
worked under Pope Urban the 8th and the Sacchetti Family. Very good with details TERM 22
Carlo Maderno
DEFINITION 22 ( 1556-1629) Santa Susanna, Rome, 1597-1603exterior faade TERM 23
Peter Paul Rubens
DEFINITION 23 Italian masters had an effect on Rubens work- very similar- darker colors, more cartoon like than realistic. TERM 24
Marie de'
Medici
DEFINITION 24 In 1622 she summoned Peter Paul Rubens to Paris. Wanted him to decorate the Palais de Luxembourg with two cycles of 24 huge paintings: - The first cycle was to illustrate events from her own life -The second would illustrate events from the life of her deceased husband Henry IV of France. (never completed) Cycle reaffirms her political and/or her symbolic strength in the French monarchy TERM 25
Charles I of England
DEFINITION 25 Under Charles' rule several civil wars broke out across England between the Scots and the English. Charles tried to impose his Royalist ideals as a solution. The Eleven Year Tyranny also took place under his rule and he was unable to negotiate peace between England, France and Spain. He even imposed various taxes upon his people to suffice for his huge debts.In the end, Charles was convicted and tried at court and lost as he refused to ask for a plea. Was beheaded
Art Piece: St. Peter's Facade
Maderno, St. Peters Faade (1610), and Bernini, Piazza of St. Peters (1660) Italian Baroque Architecture TERM 32
Art Piece:Sta Maria della Pace
DEFINITION 32 da Cortona, Sta Maria della Pace, Rome, 1655 Italian Baroque Architecture TERM 33
Art Piece: San Carlo alle Quattro
Fontane
DEFINITION 33 Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome 1640- Italian Baroque Architecture TERM 34
Art Piece: Sant' Ivo alla
Sapienza
DEFINITION 34 Borromini, Sant Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome 6142-50 Italian Baroque Architecture TERM 35
Art Piece: Rising of the Cross & Descent from
the Cross
DEFINITION 35 Rubens, Raising of the Cross 1610 and Descent from the Cross, 1610 Antwerp Cathedral. Flemish Baroque
Art Piece: Disembarkation of Marie de'
Medici
Rubens, Disembarkation of Marie de Medici (Marie de Medici Landing in Marseilles) 1625 Flemish Baroque TERM 37
Art Piece: Holy Family with Young St. Jogn and
his Parents
DEFINITION 37 Rubens, Holy Family with Young St. John and his Parents (Ildefonso Altarpiece) 1620-30 Flemish Baroque TERM 38
Art Piece: Elena Grimaldi, Marchesa Cattaneo
DEFINITION 38 Van Dyck, Elena Grimaldi, Marchesa Cattaneo, 1625 Flemish Baroque TERM 39
Art Piece: Charles I at the Hunt
DEFINITION 39 Van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt , 1635 Flemish Baroque TERM 40
Art Piece: As the Old Sing, so the Young Pipe
DEFINITION 40 Jordaens, As the Old Sing, so the Young Pipe , 1640- Flemish Baroque
