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Di sotto in su
Italian, "from below upwards." A technique of representing perspective in ceiling paintings.
Genre Painting
painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted
Impasto
painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible
Tenebrism
Painting in the "shadowy manner" using violent contrasts of light and dark as in the work of Caravaggio
Vanitas
a theme in still life painting that stresses the brevity of life and the folly of human vanity
Council of Trent
Called by Pope Paul III to reform the church and secure reconciliation with the Protestants. Lutherans and Calvinists did not attend.
Jesuits
Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Leader of Jesuits - pushed for universities, education, human rights
Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish mystic and nun of Carmelite order who had mystica visions that she claimed resulted in ecstatic union of her should with God, formed new barefoot order
Baroque
An artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized by complex forms, bold ornamentation, and contrasting elements
Thirty years war
Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire ends with peace of westpahlia.1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire.
Protestantism
a form of Christianity that was in opposition to the Catholic Church.
Largely iconoclastic
Largely iconoclastic
Absolutism
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Two main points of patronage in Baroque Period
Absolute Monarchs and the Church
Baroque Architecture
A European style of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries.
It was based upon the transformation of classical forms with an inventive use of space and decoration.
Characterized by ornate detail, exuberant curvaceous decoration and grand sweeping gestures with spatially complex compositions
It was based upon the transformation of classical forms with an inventive use of space and decoration.
Characterized by ornate detail, exuberant curvaceous decoration and grand sweeping gestures with spatially complex compositions
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- Impasto
- Absolutism
- Two main points of patronage in Baroque Period
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Rembrandt
- Johannes Vermeer
- Artist of Self Portrait with Saskia
- Content of Self Portrait with Saskia
- Form Self Portrait with Saskia
- Function of Self Portrait with Saskia
- Context of Self Portrait with Saskia
- Function of San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane
- Sculptor of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Content of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Function of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Context of Ecstasy of Saint Teresa