Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.
1. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
2. Baroque
3. Age of Enlightenment
4. Gianlorenzo Bernini
5. John Singleton Copley
6. Francesco Borromini
a. American-born artist who painted not only portraits of important colonial figures but also paintings in the tradition of the “history painting.”
b. Baroque sculptor and architect, known for his sculpture of David.
c. “Irregular, contorted, grotesque.” At the time, people used this term to point out the perceived excesses of detail, ornamentation, and elaboration in the artwork.
d. One of the leading Baroque architects in Italy. He was a rival of Bernini.
e. Baroque artist who took realism into a new realm, so far in fact that a new term “naturalism” was used to distinguish it from “realism.”Known for his use of light and dark in his paintings.
f. An intellectual movement that sought to emphasize reason and science over tradition.
2. Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.
1. Romantic movement
2. Rococo
3. Sir Peter Paul Rubens
4. Tenebrism
5. Jean-Antoine Watteau
a. Movement which placed a high emphasis on emotion, whether positive or negative.
b. A technique that uses sharp contrasts between light and dark with little intermediate values.
c. Art style developed in the 18th century in France. The movement and style were a reaction to the grandeur and strictness of the Baroque style. The art tends to be more playful, more infused with fantasy, and more lighthearted than most Baroque pieces.
d. Rococo artist. A characteristic of many of his works is the subject of fetes galantes (elegant fetes). He often painted scenes of comedy actors or parts of society in park-like settings.
e. A German-born, Flemish painter who was one of the most entrepreneurial artists of the 17th century. 3. Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.
1. Jacques-Louis David
2. Thomas Gainsborough
3. Rembrandt
4. Neoclassicism
5. Francisco Goya
a. Neoclassical artist who moved from the elaboration and frivolous aspects of rococo to greater emotion, realism, and an almost severe simplicity.
b. Baroque painter who is regarded today as one of the greatest painters of all time.
c. Spanish painter who was the premiere Romantic artist.
d. Rococo painter who began painting landscapes before moving to portraits
e. A return to the styles and art created during the classical period.