Nicolas Pussin embodies the full Italian Baroques spirit. He does not want to take the viewer back into antiquity.
T or F
False... embodies the full spirit of the classsicism ...wants to take viewer back into antiquity.
This artist was indifferent to Italian Baroque because it was not classical enough.
N. Poussin
Callot was the greatest french painter of the 17th century. He was the first to receive any international fame.
T or F
False! N Poussin
Define the Dorian Mode
Things that are stable grave,severe, solemn and austere
This french artist believed that artist's must appeal to the mind/intellect and not on emotion. He develops form and composition over color . He's an intellectual artist.
Poussin
His work is commited the Bolognese and Rafael's standards of antiquity. He sets out to revive the life of antiquity. There is serenity in work.
Poussin
Around mid-17th century landscapes become a dominate theme in his work.
Poussin
This artist's work is characterized by constrained emotion.
Poussin
This artist showed us two different style of work. His early work is considered stypical to his more mature works. His early works show traces of Titian color and movement.
Poussin
To truly understand Claud Lorraine's paintings one must be familiar with the art and literature of antiquity.
T or F
False. Poussin
This french artists mainly painted landscapes. He brings out the idealisict aspects of landscapes. His paintings tended to represent man living in harmony with nature.
Claude Lorraine
In Poussin's paintings he focuses on the elusive quality of light and mood.
T or F
False
His landscapes characterized aren by relaxed muted tones – not coloristic like Poussin. They can be remarkably indifferent to the real world itself.
Claude Lorraine
De La Tour was supremely different form Italian Baroque but lived and painted in Rome.
T or F
Poussin
Through him the king favored reserved tradition. The king's taste becomes taste of all- classicism as opposed to lavish Italian Baroque style.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Classicism comes to be thought of as a French standard.
T or F
True
While Vermeer was interested in natural daylight, this french artist was interested in artificial illumination.
Georges de la Tour
This artist is not the most important french painter but he is one of the first important painter of the 17th century.
Georges de la Tour
Poussin is the most important french painter of the 17th century.
T or F
True!
This artist's figures looks like (creepy) wax mannequins.
De La Tour
De La Tour came into contact with Caravaggios indirectly through the Netherlands.
T or F
T
Poussin gives insight into the inner life of his figures while De La Tour does not give any.
T or F
False. The opposite is true ... De La Tour gives insight ...Poussin doesn't
There is a supernatural calmness that pervades his pictures. He's still interested in drama.
De La Tour
De La Tour's mature style is characterized by the extravagance of form.
T or F
False. characterized by extreme simplification of forms
His work was rediscovered in the 20th century ( he had that in common with Vermeer). He went unnoticed 300 years after his death.
De La Tour
Caracci's classicism is popular is France.
T or F
True
This artist was under Caravagio's influence but drops it. After his arrival in Paris he modifies his style and moves into a classical style because its more fashionable.
Simon Vouet
Classical Baroque is characterized by subdued color as well as drama.
T or F
True
Louis Le Nain has a bright and vibrant palette.
T or F
False ! Palette is dark and dingy.
His art shows us the tradition of realism in spite of French proclivity towards classicism.
L. Le Nain
This french painter portrays figures with dignity – similar to Ribera. The most sensitive painter in France when it came to painting peasants and genre scenes. His figures have an intense glare.
L. Le Nain
His fame today rests on showing his peaseant genres with realism.
Le Nain
This frenchy shows us universal devastation of war from a documentary perspective. His technical and aesthetic achievements have great influence through the centuries- even now.
Jacques Bellage (J. Bellange)
This frenchy shows us universal devastation of war from a documentary perspective.
Callot
First french printmaker to aquire international influence. He was greatest graphic artist of all time. He led the development of graphic arts throughout Europe. He would gain popularity for 300 years.
Jacques Callot (Callot)
This artist's works like they were painted in the early morning or late evening.While working in classicaltradition of landscape he studies actual light and atmospheric nuances ofnature
Claude Lorrain
Lorrain invents the seaport picture.
T or F
True
Claude Lorrain was the most notable landscape painter in Italy.
T or F
True
These two artists established landscape painting as highly desirable.
Poussin and Claude Larrain
This artist was less succesfful in France yet influenced French painters in the early 18 and 19th century.
Claude Lorrain
There was no first rank landscape painter after this french painter.
C. Lorrain
Hyacinthe Rigaud was influenced by Anthony van Dyke.
T or F
True
He doesn’t really become Rococo painter.
H. Rigaud
Most of french classical architecture was built for the religous sphere.
T or F
False
France maintains a cautious selectivity towards the Italian baroque; they keep it at a distance.
T or F
True
French Royal Academy was founded by Francois Mansart in the mid 17th century.
T or F
False. Founded by JB Colbert
His style will become the hallmark of French classical/baroque architecture.
Francois Mansart
He was the best known of the classical architects in his time.
Francois Mansart (F.Mansart)
These three french architects worked on the Louvre.
C. Perrault (east facade) , Louis Le Vau , Charles Le Brun
Louis the XIV initially chose Bernini for this project. But the French didn’t like Italian baroque.
The Louvre
This architectural work culminates a new and architectural formula. This variation of roman temple façade is thefirst great monument of French Classical Baroque architecture.
The Louvre
Charles Le Brun is the director of The French Academy. He's a "poussinist!"
T or F
True
The first phase of the Garden facade of the Palaceof Versailles was done by ____________, the second phase by _____________.
1. Louis Le Vau
2. Jules Mansart
He was the leading the leading French architect at the END of the 17th century.
Jules Mansart (Francois Mansart's nephew)
Continuity of classical french baroque is seen most in architecture.
T or F
False. Sculpture
He is the most interesting of the french sculptors of this period. His work goes together with Francois Mansart's architecture. They are each others parallels.
Jacques Sarrazin
Greatest sculptur of the century after Bernini!
Pierre Puget
The northern part of France had a strong italian influence.
T or F
False! Southern France
This sculptor learned a great deal from oberservation, Bernini and Michelangelo.
Pierre Puget
His style was counter to the kings traditional classical taste. He lost popularity at the court. (He's from southern part of France.)
Pierre Puget
This french sculptor is responsible for the new type of freestanding dramatic tomb. He created the prototype for royal equestrian monuments.
Francois Girardon
His classicism was so pure it seems to hark back to Phidias
Frances Girardon
He was arbitor of taste for the king.
Charles Le Brun
He administarted the garden project at Versailles.
Andre Le Notre
The best painters in England were from Spain.
T or F
F. from Flanders
Not until 18th century does England develop a school of painting
T or F
True
The dutch had a lot of architectural development.
T or F
False. England
At the beginning of the 17th century , England's architectural development owes it ________. At the end of the century England owes it to ____________.
Indigo Jones
Christopher Wren
At the beginning of the 17th century this english architect is paladian not baroque.
Indigo Jones
This english architect also was a stage and interior designer.
Indigo Jones
First man in England to apply italian renaissance forms to the whole building – brought it into England. He freely uses the elements of roman architecture.
Indigo Jones
This english architect submitted a design 6 days after the fires in England.
Christopher Wren
Every other church was built based on this architect's design/ The aim in design was to create a landmark and a place of worship. He is English baroque!
Christopher Wren
All thru 18- 19th century this was the most visible landmark.
S Paul's Cathedral
All of the 18th century artists are limited and nothing was remotely new- maybe rococo but it was seen as a subdued version of the baroque style.
T or F
True
Baroque in England is founded by ________ and continued by his pupils, Hawkmore and Vanbrugh.
Christopher Wren
The preface in Palladio's book stimulated this stylistic change in this artist's architecture.
Richard Boyle
Palladian classicism prevails in english architecture then is displaced by neoclassicism mid century (18th).
T or F
True
Introduces baraoque elements architecture into England.
James Gibbs
James Gibbs has the greatest examples of Georgian architecture.
T or F
False. John Wood Jr.
New Rococo style is french . It appears primarily as a style of interior design – not as painting.
T or F
True
Roccoco is most visible in paintings.
T or F
False. More seen in interiors
The exterior of Roccoco architecture are simple; the interiors are exhuberant.
T or F
True
He was the forerunner of french interior design.
Germain Boffrand
Flanders was the artistic center of Europe.
T or F
False. France
Perhaps the painter above all other associated with French Rococo. He is flemish and his style is refinement of Rubens. His early works are military scenes.
Antoine Watteau
Charles Le Brun was a Reubenist.
T or F
False. Poussinist - form over color
Poussinists choose form over color.
T or F
True
Antoine Watteau was a Reubinist.
T or F
True
This style was established on the venetian's color.
Rococo
Who are the three great genii of the french baroque?
Watteau , Boucher , Fragonard
He is a master of french technique. He uses a combo of red, black and white chalk on tinted paper.
A. Watteau
This french baroque painter depicts aristocratic society in idealistc ways.
Antoine Watteau
This french painter was the most successful and highly painter regarded after Watteau.
Francois Boucher
Melancholy is always depicted in the 18th c period.
T or F
False. It is rarely depicted
These words describe Boucher's work : charm, sensuosness, serene, sweet presentation.
T or F
True
His style personified the taste of the century.
Boucher
_______________ is one of the founding members of the British Royal Academy.
Richard Wilson
Who founded the British Royal Academy?
Josh Reynolds
He is first major british landscape painter- inspired Constable and Turner.
Richard Wilson
He was probably the epitome of French 18c painting.
Fragonard
In his paintings, the bodies of the women are twisted like the branches of trees and so it is integrated with nature. It is more frivolous. Soft and floating figures. His brush strokes are momentary and quick. It clearly points to 19th century.
Fragonard
Boucher and Fragonard show erotic beauty.
T or F
True
This painter shows courtship in four different painted scenes.
Fragonard
Fragonard's most famous painting is __________ . The lover pointing his finger shows the erotic feeling in the picture
The Swing
The french rococo style stays in France.
T or F
F. It penetrates Germany and London.
Francois de Cuvillies was French Rococo mixed with German Baroque.
T or F
True
This italian painter was the supreme venetian master of this period. He was venetian rococo but also worked in northern Italy, Germany and Spain.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
This italian painter maintains unequal immenence for 50 years.
Giovannu Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni B. Tiepolo's (Tiepolo) frescoes were his most famous works.
T or F
True
These two italian view painters painted detailed landscape scenes. They started the commercialization of landscape scenes.
P. Batoni and Canaletto
This italian painter was one of the most successful venetian view painters. He was a commercial success.
Canaletto
Loose brushstrokes and otherworldiness is a mark of Canaletto's style.
T or F
Falso! Precision and detail is characteristic of his work.
While Canaletto carries the renaissance precision tradition this italian painter doesn’t.He points forward to capture one brief impressionist moment; he's proto-impressionist.
Francesco Guardi (Guardi)
He is the last of the great venetian painters.
Guardi
This italian painter was appealed to french taste. His view paintings have theatrical character.
Giovanni P. Panini (G.Panini)
Unlike dutch painters, who were interested in the land and sky, view painters were concerned with the architectural setting and the space it creates.
T or F
True
Rosalba Carriere was a french rococo artist.
T or F
False. She is a venitian rococo artist.
Among the italian schools of painting only those of Rome move into the 18th century.
T or F
Falso! Only the schools in Venice ...
When it comes to the art portraiture, those of England prevailed over Rome and France.
T or F
True
The Grand Manner
an aesthetic style describes paintings that incorporated visual metaphors in order to suggest noble qualities, painters should perceive their subjects through generalization and idealization, rather than by the careful copy of nature.
The Grand Manner was big on color. The style wanted to appeal to the emotions rarther than the intellect.
T or F
Falso! It focused on appealing to the viewer through the intellect not through color.
These two english men dominate portraiture in the second half of the 18th century.
Gainsborough and Reynolds
Who founded the Grand Manner ?
Joshua Reynolds
When was the British Royal Academy founfded?
Late 18th century
This english artist wrote was the first to formulate an art theory.
Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds excelled in children portraiture.
T or F
True
Thomas Gainsborough was more influential painter in the 18th c. than Joshua Reynolds.
T or F
True
Gainsborough was more interested in portraiture than landscape.
T or F
F. more interested in landscape but there was no market for it
This 18th c. english painter inspired a generation of plen-air painters. He was more interested in landscape than portraiture.Landscape was his hobby and portraiture was his vocation.
Gainsborough
This 18th c. english painter depicted scientific discovery and experiments.
Joseph Wright of Derby
In the middle part of the 18th c. , this artist was one of the most distinguisged portrait painters in France.
Francois Hubert Drouais
Jean Antoine Houdon was not interested in precision.
T or F
False. He was super interested in precision. Napoleon doesn't like his work.
This 18th c. french artist was called the "poet of the commonplace." He is rococo chronologically but not stylistically. He depcited ordinary persian life.
Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin
William Hogarth (English) is one of the greatest portrait painters ever.
T or F
F. one of greatest engravers
This english engraver founded the New British School. He was at his best in portraits and morlity based scenes.
William Hogarth
During the mid 18th and 19th century satire was arriving on the scene in England.
T or F
True
In France , satirical engraving stands alone- no other country has been allowed the complete freedom to be satirical.
T or F
F. In England
William Hogarth depicted descriptive moral scenes humourously.
T or F
True
These two 18th c. english artists wanted their audience to improve their lives ethically, socially, and morally.
W. Hogarth
JB Greuze
This american 18th c. painter is a transionary artist- leads directly to 19th c. battle scenes.
Benjamin West
The English and German hate the gothic style.
T of F
False. They love it
This style was considered perpendicular. By 1740s this style was popular.
English Gothic
Greek architecture becomes poplular in late 18th c. Europe because of this book.
Antiquities of Athens
Who wrote the multibook "Antiquities of Athens?"
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett
This 18th c. french painter painted dramatic scenes of wild animals.
George Stubbs
This 18th c. french painter depicted nightmarish themes.