Art 2

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Hals

Dutch Baroque painter known for his conspicuous brushwork and his ability to capture a fleeting expression of high spirits.

Vermeer

Dutch Baroque painter of "The Kitchenmaid" and "Girl with Pearl Earring" know for his intense colors and his masterful rendering of light.

Caravaggio

Early italian baroque painter who secularized religious art by painting saints as ordinary people. His lifestylekept him in frequent trobule until his early death at 37.

Hogarth

English Baroque painter whose paintings were often a form of social satire, credited with inventing the comic strip.

Rubens

Flemish Baroque painter who did more than 2000 paintings. Best known for his full bodied nudes but also painted religious art and hunting pictures.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo

Rembrandt is known for

Many Self portraits

Sistine Chapel

Michaelangelo

The Pieta

Michaelangelo

Period during which Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic styles flourished.

Middle Ages

Jan van Eyke who painted the Arnolfini Wedding is classified as

Northern Renaissance

Jan van Eyke who created the Arnolfini Wedding also helped Invent

Oil Paint

The Arnolfini Wedding was created using what?

Oil Paint

The Hindu temple typically includes two parts; the womb chamber and the:

Porch

Marked by new interest in humanism and the protestant Reformation, this was a period of rebirth when art and artists made many advances.

Renaissance

Period during which oil paint on canvas became a popular medium for artists.

Renaissance

Period during which perspective was developed.

Renaissance

Michaelangelo

Renaissance painter/sculptor who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted the statue of "David".

Of the gods mentioned in question two above, the one most most often venerated in architecture and sculpture is Shiva, also called:

The destroyer

Las Meninas

Valasquez

Era in which landscapes and still life became popular as a genre in Holland

Dutch Baroque

Rembrandt who painted "The Night Watch" is classified as

Dutch Baroque

List 4 major technical breakthroughs of Renaissance painting.

1. Oil Paintings 2. Perspective 3. chiaroscuro 4. Pyramid configuration

Rembrandt

Dutch Baroque artist famous for his nearly 100 self portraits and his painting "The Nightwatch".

Rococo

A style used in interior decoration and painting in France and souther Germany in the eighteenth century, characterized by small scale and ornate decoration, pastel colors, and asymmetrical arrangement of curves

The "ornate age" in which artists combined advanced technique with emotion and intense drama (especially in their lighting) to create a new paradigm.

Baroque

La Primavera

Botticelli

Era in which the church known as Hagia Sophia was constructed.

Byzantine

The art of expressive, elegant writing developed in China is called:

Calligraphy

The temple known as Angkor Wat is located in:

Cambodia

6000 life sized Terra Cotta Warriors were discovered in a huge tomb in 1974 by archaeologists in :

China

Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are the three principal gods of what religion?

Confucianism

Van Dyck

Court painter to Charles 1. He had worked previously with Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. He is known for his tendency to flatter his subjects.

Period during which the Palace at Versailles was built.

French Baroque

El Greco

Greek artist who worked in Toledo, Spain. His work is an example of early mannerism.

The Arnolfini Wedding (Portrait)

Jan Van Eyke

Who created the Arnolfini Wedding?

Jan Van Eyke

Shinto shrines are typically found throughout:

Japan

Which of the paintings below was also done by Rembrandt? Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The conversion of ST. Paul, Return of the Prodigal Son

Return of the Prodigal Son

Primarily a form of interior decoration, it is characterized by delicate but complex ornamentation based on sea shell motifs.

Rococo

Period in which "The Maids of Honor" (Las Meninas) was painted...

Spanish Baroque

Velazquez

Spanish Baroque painter of whose painting " Las Meninas" was voted "by for the greatest work of art by a human being.

In Buddhist art a dome like structure with four gates facing the cardinal directions is called a

Stupa

Jan Van Eyke is the artist who painted the....

The Arnolfini Wedding

The first to develop porcelain ceramics, often decorated with blue designs were:

The Chinese


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