Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture fully solved graded A+ 2023

Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture Baroque - correct answer - vivid and exuberant style - popes and cardinals of Rome used this style in building magnificent churches, palaces and tombs to commemorate their names - initially used to underline the emphasis of its excess, its abundance of details - reaction to the Renaissance Absolutism - correct answer Baroque style is the style of ????? - reflecting the centralized state ruled by an autocrat of unlimited powers, as exemplified by the European kings The Flying Forms - correct answer French translation of Baroque - spatial complexity - curved spaces - depth is pronounced - ornamental - theatrical (opera) - dramatic use of light - large scale ceiling - interior is flat for painting - pear domes - correct answer Baroque Characteristics - 9 Counter-Reformation - correct answer - quest to restore the dominance of Catholicism - to attract people to convert back to Catholicism Chiaroscuro - correct answer - use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition Frescoes - correct answer technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster Trompe L'oeil - correct answer - French for deceive the eye - art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions Church of the Gesu' - correct answer - mother church of the Society of Jesus - considered "the first truly baroque facade" - model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesu all'Argentina - Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - correct answer official name of 'Church of the Gesu' - Francesco Borromini - Gian Lorenzo Bernini - correct answer Frontiers of Mannerism Francesco Borromini - correct answer - born in Italy and studies his craft in Milan - served as an apprentice for Carlo Maderna and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - noted for his comman of spatial effects, structural innovations and design based on the triangle Gian Lorenzo Bernini - correct answer - dominating figure in Roman Baroque art - Michelangelo of the Baroque - became protege of St. Urban VIII in 1623 - awarded the commission for the bronze canopy in St. Peter's in 1624 - expresses grandeur and flamboyance of the Counter-Reformation - represented the theatrical entrepreneurial side of the Roman Baroque, welding the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture into spectacular unified effects