Art History B 8

Baroque

17th century style of decorating buildings with moldings, sculptures, and niches with small columns

El Greco

A Greek painter who was a master of the Spanish style

an effort by the Catholic Church to lure people back from Protestantism and to regain its former power

Counter-Reformation

Jan Vermeer

Dutch artist is known as a painter of interiors

Gainsborough

English artist of the eighteenth century admired for his delicate brushwork and rich, glistening, pastel colors. One of his most famous paintings is titled The Blue Boy.

carefree life of the aristocracy

Favorite topic of French Rococo artists

Hieronymus Bosch

Flemish artist's strange storytelling style and sense of humor had a profound influence on another Flemish artist, Pieter Bruegel

opened the door for artists to follow him in the use of imagination in their art

Francisco Goya

first European artist to use landscape to set the stage and create a mood

Giorgione

German artist who became the court painter for England's King Henry VIII.

Hans Holbein

this artists works feature the effect of light on colors and textures.

Jan Vermeer

famous painting by Diego Velázquez. This was a picture of the daughter of the king with her attendants

Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)

light and shadow

Rembrandt brilliantly used these qualities to create atmosphere in his paintings

French eighteenth-century style of painting favored greater control and elegance which contrasted with the constant movement of Baroque art.

Rococo

new style of French art was marked by playful, free, and graceful qualities which reflected a luxurious and idle way of life

Rococo

took in influences from the Byzantine artists and from the Renaissance in Italy

Venetian Artists

arranged marriages

William Hogarth did a series of 6 paintings as a satire of this accepted practice

Christopher Wren

a great English architect who transformed London in the 27th and 18th century

painterly

a technique which involves creating forms with patches of color rather than with hard, precise edges

Artemisia Gentileschi

became the first woman in the history of Western art to have a significant impact on the art of her time

Parmigianino, El Greco, and Tintoretto

examples of 16th century Mannerist Painters

artist is considered to be the bridge between the art of the past and the art of the present

goya

the Church used art was a weapon to stamp out this

heresy

Protestant Reformation

movement in which Martin Luther led a group of Christians out of the Church in revolt to form their own religion

Titian

one of the most famous Venetian painters who captured the intensity of Doge Andrea Gritti in a masterful portrait

mannerism

painting style was a revolt against Renaissance art; it was a nervous art, created to mirror a world filled with confusion

Mannerism

painting style where figures are distorted and the compositions create a sense of uneasiness

1. Judith Leyster

paintings were long thought to have been painted by Frans Hals until her signature was discovered on a painting

use of sarcasm or ridicule to expose or denounce folly

satire

chiaroscuro

this technique in paintings creates dramatic contrasts of light and dark

Albrecht Dürer

turned away from the Gothic style of painting to embrace the Renaissance.

portrait painting

type of painting that grew in popularity in 18th century England