Baroque Art Trivia

1. Where is the Rococo Basilica at Ottobeuren located?

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Germany

The Rococo Basilica in Ottobeuren is found in Ottobeuren Abbey. This is located in Bavaria, Germany. The abbey is Benedictine, and the interior of the basilica is painted beautifully.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: Mannerism

Mannerism (ca. 1520-90) was an elegantly-artificial, sophisticated, and sometimes bizarre style that developed from High Renaissance models, particularly Michelangelo and Raphael. In its early, most original phase, it was practiced by Pontormo and Parmagianino, among others. By the mid-to-late century, and in the hands of such artists as Giorgio Vasari and Francesco Salviati, it had rigidified and become bankrupt. Not surprisingly, the reaction against it began in northern Italy, where greater naturalism of style had always been preferred. The classic text on Mannerism was written by the late art historian John Shearman.

From Quiz The Baroque Period

Answer: Bernini

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was said to be the most influential of all Italian Baroque artists, as a sculptor and architect. His version of "David" was the most realistic, whereas Donatello's "David" is a much younger bronze statue and Michelangelo's "David" is more idealistic, from the Renaissance period.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Victory by Michelangelo

Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo Merisi. He constantly attempted to prove the superiority of his art to the his namesake, by quoting poses and gestures. Another famous example is Christ in Caravaggio's "Calling of St. Matthew." His pointing finger is a reference to "God Creating Adam" from the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Jan Vermeer

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Franz Anton Bustelli

Franz Anton Bustelli created "Pair of Lovers" as well as several others (such as "Tempestuous Lovers" around 1760). They are all out of Nymphenburg porcelain.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: Agostino and Ludovico

Agostino (1557-1602) was Annibale's older brother and Ludovico (1555-1619) his cousin. The three artists began working in a naturalistic/classicizing style, heavily influenced by Venetian colorism, in late 16th-century Bologna. While Annibale and Agostino eventually traveled to Rome, Ludovico remained at home and was less affected by the High Renaissance brand of classicism that came to characterize Annibale's work. The Carracci did not run a formal "academy," but they did train a generation of Baroque artists. Annibale, in particular, was much admired for his reform of painting by two centuries' worth of art theorists and biographers. If you would like to know more, Donald Posner's 1971 monograph on Annibale is a good place to start.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Caravaggio's innovative use of chiaroscuro, or modeling of figures in light and dark to produce a three dimensional effect, lead several other painters, such as LaTour and Artemisia Gentileschi, to use 'caravaggesque' techniques.

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Shells and pebbles

Rococo comes from the French words "rocaille" and "coquilles". Rocaille means stone and coquilles means shells. So "rococo" is a combination of the two French words, thus meaning "stone shells".

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: The loves of the gods

The Carracci were hired by the aristocratic Farnese family to fresco this room in their Roman palace (partially designed by Michelangelo). The pretext was probably a family wedding, hence the theme. The Galleria was long ranked with Raphael's Vatican "Stanze" and Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling as one of the classic fresco cycles in Rome and is still regarded as a landmark monument of early Baroque style. Variously interpreted by scholars, the scenes are all illustrations of love affairs involving divine beings of classical myth. Important studies of the Galleria have been written by John R. Martin and Charles Dempsey.

From Quiz The Baroque Period

Answer: chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro is the contrast between light and dark, which was widely used by the Baroque artists.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Flaw in the marble in the first not visible until nearly finished

Though Bernini's skill with marble was truly amazing, he was also a gifted architect, painter, and draughtsman. His busts of the Cardinal both examples of a speaking likeness. When standing next to either of these great works, one almost feels as if the sculpture is alive and the Cardinal is about to open his mouth and speak!

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Diego Velazquez

Velazquez painted a la prima, or without preparatory drawings. As a result, pentimenti, visible corrections he made to his work on the canvas, are often noticeable in his paintings.

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Francois Boucher

"Diana Leaving the Bath" was painted in 1742. Francois Boucher was a popular Rococo artist. This painting has two women, both naked, leaving the public bath.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: The Cardinal del Monte

Born near Milan and trained in Lombardy, Caravaggio was considerably more attuned to northern naturalism than to the mannered Roman style -- or to classicism. The Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, member of a circle of musical and scientifically-minded intellectuals with a serious interest in natural phenomena, quickly recognized Caravaggio's talents, particularly in the area of still-life. At the same time, he appreciated the erotically-suggestive paintings of androgynous young men that Caravaggio produced for him. According to del Monte's inventory of 1627, he owned at least eight works by the Lombard artist. Extensive information on Caravaggio (and other early Baroque artists) can be found in the catalogue of the 1985 exhibition, "The Age of Caravaggio," mounted by the Metropolitan Museum and the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.

From Quiz The Baroque Period

Answer: Vermeer

Vermeer was an unknown in the city of Delft whose artwork was virtually forgotten after his death. His artwork dealt with domestic issues, in which he applied the paint in the form of tiny dots and then rendered the details with careful precision.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Frans Snyders

Two such examples of Rubens and Synders collaborations are "Philomenes Recognized by the Old Woman" (c.1610) and "Diana Returning from the Chase" (1616-1617). And in all of my classes on Baroque art, professors always cited the famous "Prometheus Bound" and "Daniel in the Lions' Den" as collarborations as well.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

Rembrandt's earlier self-portraits tend to emphasize his material wealth and good fortune, while his later self-portraits are more introspective and personal.

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Russia

Catherine Palace is located in Tsarkoye Selo, which is just southeast of St. Petersburg. The palace first housed Catherine I in 1717. It is often associated with Catherine the Great, who called it a "whipped cream" style building.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: The Contarelli Chapel

As the name of the church suggests, the donors of the private chapels (which include the Polet) were French citizens resident in Rome, and San Luigi was their place of worship. The French name of the Contarelli was "Cointrel." For this chapel, ca. 1597-1599, Caravaggio produced two lateral paintings, both rich in his trademark chiaroscuro and realistic types, "The Calling of St. Matthew" and the "Martyrdom of St. Matthew." He also painted two versions of the altarpiece, "St. Matthew and the Angel," the first having been rejected as insufficiently decorous. The paintings immediately attracted attention and had substantial influence. The first version of the altarpiece, incidentally, ended up in Berlin, where it became a casualty of war in 1944. The Cerasi Chapel, in Santa Maria del Popolo, was decorated by both Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci ca. 1601.

From Quiz The Baroque Period

Answer: Gentileschi

Gentileschi made a significant contribution with "Judith and Holofernes", which portrays realistic violence of beheading, and sensual richness of silken bed, jewelry, and cunning drapery.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Jan Steen

While Vermeer is popular these days, he was struggling during his lifetime to support his family. Steen, however, was a prolific artist whose images of dissolute households always contained moralizing messages and were widely appreciated. His self-portraits were often quite amusing as he depicted himself as a drunkard, a great contrast to the usual self-portrait of the artist as a gentleman.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The iconography of the Baldacchino was designed to link the current pope, Urban VIII, to the first pope, St. Peter, who received his authority directly from Christ. Linking the two popes served to emphasize the authority of the Catholic church through tradition.

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau painting "Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera" in 1717. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. He was considered the first great Rococo painter.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: Guido Reni

This graceful ceiling fresco, which avoids the inventive illlusionism that later came to characterize Baroque paintings on ceilings, was completed by Guido in 1614. Melding Renaissance classicism with high elegance of form and glowing light and color, the fresco represents a departure both from the Carraccesque and the Caravaggesque approaches to the new Baroque style. In fact, Guido was never very comfortable with the Roman art scene. Upon completing the "Aurora", he returned to his hometown of Bologna, where as painter and master, he became a major influence on younger artists. For useful information on Guido, see the catalogue of the 1988 exhibition of Reni's works, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna.

From Quiz The Baroque Period

Answer: Caravaggio

Caravaggio painted such works as "The Calling of St. Mathew" and "The Martydom of St. Mathew". Massacio and Machiavelli painted during the Renaissance period and Vermeer painted more domestic paintings.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Susanna and the Elders

This breathtaking painting is one of the most realistic female nudes ever depicted in the 17th century. Susanna is seen as a strong figure who does not hide her body, but turns away from the old men in a dramatic pose. A 1997 movie was based on the life of Artemisia. Unfortunately, the film twisted the truth and portrayed the artist as a lovesick girl who had an affair with Agostino Tassi. Artemisia was, in fact, raped by Tassi and charges were only brought against him after he stole property from her father. He was found guilty, but never actually punished.

From Quiz Baroque Art

Answer: Georges La Tour

La Tour often employed tenebrism, or a strong contrast between light and dark used for dramatic effect, in his paintings.

From Quiz Rococo

Answer: Francois Boucher

Francois Boucher painted "Cupid Disarmed" in 1751. Its original title, in French, is "L'Amour Desarme". The picture shows baby Cupid begging for his arrow back, which a woman has just taken from him.

From Quiz Italian Baroque

Answer: Domenico Zampieri

Both Lanfranco and Zampieri, called Domenichino (1581-1641), were former students and assistants of Annibale Carracci. Both had worked in the Galleria Farnese, but their versions of Baroque style had diverged significantly. Despite their differences, they found themselves in occasional competition for coveted commissions, such as the dome and choir of Sant'Andrea della Valle, the Theatine church in Rome. While lobbying for this assignment, Lanfranco accused Domenichino of having copied his "St. Jerome" of 1614 from a painting of the same subject by Agostino Carracci. This was the first known accusation of plagiarism ever made against an artist and was launched at a time when the concept of "originality" in art was receiving new attention. Ultimately, Lanfranco painted the "Assumption of the Virgin" in Sant'Andrea's dome, while Domenichino executed the paintings in the pendentives and the choir. One story has it that Domenichino paid someone to saw through the wood of Lanfranco's scaffolding in Sant'Andrea, in hopes that his rival would fall to his death. (He didn't.) Important work has been done on Lanfranco and Domenichino by Erich Schleier and Richard Spear. Elizabeth Cropper's "The Domenichino Affair" (Yale, 2005) examines the plagiarism accusation.

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