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Key Ideas
​History
PowerPoint
Artist Review ppt
Artwork List
Flashcard Images
​Vocabulary
* YouTube: Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew
* YouTube: Velasquez's Las Meninas
* YouTube: Rembrandt's Self Portraits
* YouTube: Bernini's St. Peter's Piazza
1. Read about Ruben's Elevation of the Cross
2. Take a virtual tour or view a slide show of the Palace of Versaille. Take a peek into the estate of Marie Antoinette!
3. PBS.org Versaille Tour
4. Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes by KhanAcademy
5. Santa Maria della Vittoria
6. Documentary on Caravaggio by The Power of Art
7. Crash Course video: The Reformation
8. Baroque Review
​9. Church of Saint Charles

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Key Ideas

• Art during the Baroque period is influenced by the Counter-Reformation, symbolized the Catholic resurgence (after the Protestant Reformation). 
• Baroque art flourished in Holland and became of the voice to counter Catholic art.
• Baroque can be separated in 2 schools: classicists (influenced by Raphael) and naturalists (inspired by Titian).
• Baroque architecture is associated with the grand and majestic royal courts.

History

• The finishing of St. Peter's became a crusade for the Catholic Church
• 1650: Increased power and influence of French Kings. This shifted the art world from Rome to France.
• France became center of modern art and innovation. 
• The Thirty Years (1618-1648). It devastated Europe which produced a halt in art making. It was a culmination of religious wars of the 16th century: Catholics vs. Protestants. German princes wanted secular power back.
• The Counter-Reformation movement reaffirmed all the things the Protestant Reformation was against. Protestants were iconoclasts.
• 1648: The Peace of Westphalia- gave religious freedom (along with many other additions but for the sake of Art History, this is the most important)

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Artwork List

Saint Charles of the Four Fountains
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Versaille
  -Hall of Mirrors
Judith Slaying Holofernes
Calling of Saint Matthew
Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Las Meninas
Marie de'Medici Cycle
Self Portrait with Saskia (Rembrandt)
Woman Holding a Balance
Fruits and Insects
​Triumph of the Name of Jesus

Vocabulary

Di sotto in su
genre painting
impasto
tenebrism
vanities
​chiaroscuro

Flashcard   Images