Baroque and Counter reformation MC

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Which best explains the setting in The Calling of St. Matthew?

Caravaggio anted the scene set in a common and steady environment

How does Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew differ from art of the High Renaissance? Select all that apply. Select all that apply. It emphasizes everyday life and worldly experience. It focuses more on the real, than on the ideal. It focuses on religious subject matter. It suggests a moment that's been frozen in time. Stuck

It emphasizes everyday life and worldly experence it focuses more on the real, than on the ideal it suggests a moment that's been frozen in time

Art historians find it significant that Caravaggio based Christ's hand on which figure in Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling? Please choose from one of the following options.

Adam

Which of the following is NOT true of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa? Please choose from one of the following options. All of the marble was finished in the same way, unifying the figures with the architecture in the chapel. The subject is of a saint, canonized in 1622, having a vision of an angel. Bernini based his sculpture on St. Teresa's written accounts of the vision. Both the text and Bernini's sculpture use the physical body and sexual symbolism to convey the spiritual experience. He combines elements of architecture, sculpture, and painting in situating the sculpture in the chapel with polychromed marble, fresco, and stained glass.

All of the marble was finished in the same way, unifying the figures with the architecture in the chapel.

T/F Bernini involved the viewer through the entire space of the chapel which suggests we are part of the audience witnessing the spiritual event.

True

Problem Typical of Italian Baroque art, this sculpture tries to engage the viewer in order to .

inspire faith

ID Matthew

pointing to himself

Which best describes the underlying meaning of this painting?

spiritual awakening

Carvaggio created three paintings about for the Contarelli Chapel in . Stuck

st. Matthew; Rome

Bernini expressed ideas of by using the ornate elements of the church to express a direct relationship between the individual and the spiritual realm.

the counter-reformation

Which detail indicates the presence of the divine in this composition?

the light streaming in from the corner


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