Baroque(graded A+)questions n answers

Baroque The Baroque Period encompassed a wide range of artistic developments across a broad geographic area of Europe during the _________ century - correct answer 17th Regional variations abound: - correct answer Italian Baroque differs from Dutch Baroque, or French Baroque, for example The word Baroque itself may derive from the Portuguese word for an ________________________, "barroco," and was a term of disparagement - correct answer irregular pearl This harsh judgment of the Baroque period emerged among scholars in the late ________ and early ________ centuries who believed the art of the 17th century did not measure up to the genius of the Renaissance - correct answer 18th, 19th Baroque works often feature WHAT that contrasts with the rational, balanced, and ordered and rectilinear classicism of the Renaissance (although not all artists of the era embraced this style)? - correct answer complexity, drama, theatricality, and dynamism Baroque art flourished against the backdrop of: - correct answer the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the mandates of the Council of Trent ___________, a genius ensnared by the politics of rigid religious orthodoxy, was a test case for a key question of the Age: can human thought be regulated by ecclesiastical decree - correct answer Galileo The major conflict was ________________________, rooted in disagreements between Catholics and Protestants, that soon shifted to secular, dynastic, and nationalistic controversies - correct answer the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) The Bourbon dynasty of France vied with the ___________ dynasty of Spain and their cousins and allies in the Holy Roman Empire - correct answer Hapsburg The Thirty Years' War ended with the __________________________, with freedom of conscience and religious toleration more firmly entrenched across Europe - correct answer 1648 Peace of Westphalia And, with Spanish Hapsburg power diminished and that of the _________ Republic and Bourbon France enhanced - correct answer Dutch The Baroque Period's economic touchstone was ________________ - correct answer Mercantilism (state support for private companies and businesses) Long-distance commerce, expanding markets, rising profits, access to a wider range of goods, and the growth of a vibrant middle class were also important hallmarks - correct answer ________________________ and colonization of the "new world" also reached new heights during the 17th century - correct answer Voyages of Discovery ___________________ developed, with African slaves engaged to produce tropical goods such as coffee, sugar, tobacco, and rice - correct answer Triangular Trade _________________ used indigenous slave labor to strip mine the gold and silver wealth of the Americas - correct answer Hapsburg Spain This influx of specie from the New World triggered a wave of ______________ as it dispersed across Europe-money that was often spent on Art - correct answer inflation Caravaggio was living in Rome when _________________, the controversial Dominican mathematician and philosopher, was burned at the stake for heresy (pantheism and heliocentricity) - correct answer Giordano Bruno Caravaggio's mature works were dominated by the themes of: - correct answer Destiny, Grace, and Perdition Caravaggio was born days before: - correct answer the great 1571 European naval victory over the Turks at Lepanto