Baroque Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Baroque Exam 2024. What are the boundaries (years) of early baroque? - correct answer Where did the Baroque style originate and why? - correct answer Venice -- it was a very rich city-state and wanted to show off its power to the world through its grandiloquent and majestic music (which was just the style of Baroque) What was a particular favorite sound in Venice in the beginning of Baroque? - correct answer double choir, organ, and low brass instruments "O magnum mysterium" was wri...

BaroqueEurope in the 17th Century - correct answer Goals - correct answer -Understand the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on art and architecture in 17th century Italy and Spain -Recall hallmark formal devices used by Baroque artists and architects -Identify representative Baroque artists and their works -Identify representative Baroque architects and their works -Recognize and cite artistic terminology from this period Baroque Art - correct answer - Recognize the distinctive ...

Baroque PeriodBaroque style fills space with ___ and ___ - correct answer Action, movement Painters, sculptors, and architects became interested in forming a ___ ___ - correct answer Total illusion The ___ was enormously rich and powerful during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - correct answer Aristocracy Baroque period is known as the... because ... - correct answer Age of absolutism Rulers exercised absolute power over subjects During the Baroque period, Europe was split ...

baroqueAlessandro Striggio - correct answer 1536/1537 - February 29, 1592 was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. Emilio de' Cavalieri - correct answer 1550-March 11, 1602 was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work was critical in defining the beginning o...

BaroqueWhat are the boundaries (years) of early baroque? - correct answer Where did the Baroque style originate and why? - correct answer Venice -- it was a very rich city-state and wanted to show off its power to the world through its grandiloquent and majestic music (which was just the style of Baroque) What was a particular favorite sound in Venice in the beginning of Baroque? - correct answer double choir, organ, and low brass instruments "O magnum mysterium" was written by who a...

Baroque ArtWhen - correct answer 17th - 18th C Spain where is the sources for this art - correct answer Renaissance; it becomes even *more classical* and MORE realistic! Classist Trend - correct answer more about *drawing* Realist Trend - correct answer More an obvious interest in representing things in a *theatrical* way dramatic light and shade *INITIATED BY CARAVAGGIO* Caravaggio-- TENEBRISM - correct answer dark painting with *really strong; theater spotlight* ONE light ...

Baroque PeriodBaroque style fills space with ___ and ___ - correct answer Action, movement Painters, sculptors, and architects became interested in forming a ___ ___ - correct answer Total illusion The ___ was enormously rich and powerful during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - correct answer Aristocracy Baroque period is known as the... because ... - correct answer Age of absolutism Rulers exercised absolute power over subjects During the Baroque period, Europe was split ...

Baroque EraBaroque - correct answer Began as a term of "disapproval" -Jewelers used this term to describe oddly colored or misshapen pearls -Today it is no longer a negative term Life in the Baroque Era - correct answer -Was a period of absolute monarchs -The political instability and wars that had dominated Europe for so many years gave way to a period of international peace and economic expansion -Many political repressions, punitive taxation. and gross social inequities, but there ...

Music of the Baroque Era - Ch. 13 According to Monteverdi, what musical style represents the first practice? - correct answer Polyphony codified by Gioseffo Zarlino According to proponents of the second practice, why could compositional rules be broken? - correct answer for text expression Before it was applied to an artistic period, what was the meaning of the term "baroque"? - correct answer abnormal, bizarre, or in bad taste For what reason did Giovanni Maria Artusi criticize Mont...

BaroqueThe 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 Baroq...