Preparation for Test #5: Northern Renaissance and Reformation/ The Baroque

There will be a test Friday Nov. 19 on Chapter 14, Northern Renaissance and Reformation and chapter 15, The Baroque.

define: Counter-reformation
essay
induction
piazza
triptych
chiaroscuro
“Rubensesque”
virtuosity
“Cogito ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am")
materialism
burin
line engraving
woodcut
linear perspective

explain who or what these are and why they are important:
Luther
Calvin
Anabaptists
Henry VIII and the Anglicans
Durer
Grunewald
Bosch
Breugel
Hans Holbein the Younger
Bernini
Ignatius of Loyola
Jesuits
The Spiritual Exercises
Council of Trent
Poussin
Louis XIV
Versailles
El Greco
Rembrandt
Rubens
Caravaggio
Velasquez
Vermeer
Francis Bacon
Galileo
Descartes
Hobbes
Locke

Be able to identify and discuss:
Isenheim Altarpiece
              --Crucifixion
              --Resurrection
Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights
Breugel's Hunters in the Snow
Bernini's David
Bernini, St. Peter’s Piazza
Bernini, St. Teresa in Ecstasy
El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz
Frans Hals, Banquet of the Officers of the Civic Guard of St. George at Haarlem
Rembrandt's The Night Watch
Rembrandt's Self Portraits
Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride
Rembrandt, Bathing Bathsheba
Rubens' Helene Formant and her Children
Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Velasquez' Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
Vermeer's The Milkmaid

Holbein's Anne of Cleves

Hilliard's Ermine Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

Discuss: (refer to readings and powerpoints)

•  how were the Reformers and the Humanists the same? different?
• Give some examples of how Europe shifted from a premodern visual culture to a modern aural culture.
• explain the causes of and the cultural significance of the Reformation.
• Briefly discuss the intellectual developments of the 16th and 17th centuries, including the growth of science (Francis Bacon and various other scientists)
• Compare Dutch Protestant painting with painting in Italy and Spain.
• What are some of the traits of baroque art and architecture? Give some examples.
• How did Descartes upset the established order of philosophical inquiry and introduce a new narrative for western civilization?
• How does modern explanation differ from premodern explanation?
• Compare and contrast Hals' Banquet of the Officers of the Civic Guard of St. George at Haarlem and Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
• Compare Versailles and St. Peter’s Basilica. How do they embody the Baroque  spirit?