(EECA3) Review

Review

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Can you answer the following questions?

  1. Do you have definitions for the terms introduced in this chapter?
  2. How did Baroque art develop in France in opposition to Italian Baroque?
  3. How do the palaces at Versailles embody both Louis XIV's conception of his monarchy and the ideals of French Baroque art?
  4. How does Flemish and Dutch art of this period resemble and/or differ from Italian and French Baroque art?
  5. Who were the leading Flemish and Dutch artists, and what were the defining characteristics of their styles?
  6. What was the Counter-Reformation, and how did it affect art?
  7. What are the main characteristics of Baroque Art?
  8. What new techniques in lighting did Caravaggio bring to art?
  9. In what ways does Versailles exemplify the concepts, contexts, and characteristics of the Baroque period?
  10. What was the effect of the Enlightenment on society and the arts?
  11. What are the subjects, style, and characteristics of Rococo art? How do they reflect the changing sociopolitical climate during the eighteenth century?
  12. How can we recognize the art and architecture of a particular religion?
  13. Why are art and religion intimately connected throughout human history?  
  14. How does art serve the needs of religion?
  15. What does the comparison of non-Western and Western art reveal about artistic patronage, practice, purpose, meaning, and style?
  16. What sorts of things emerge as universals and which are more culturally specific?
  17. Which artistic innovations do the Western and non-Western worlds seem to have both discovered independently and which did each have to learn from the other?
  18. How did European art influence Colonial Mexico?
  19. How did the indigenous people of Mexico find a balance between European and indigenous traditions?

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