Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic
Fine Arts
Name: ______________________________________
1. The period encompassing the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe has often been called
_____________________________________________________________________.
2. The development of ____________________ means that people began to take pride in
their country and had a sense of being a part of their country.
3. List three powerful rulers of powerful countries during this time:
a. _____________________________________________
b. _____________________________________________
c. _____________________________________________
4. List three differences between Renaissance and Baroque art:
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
c. ____________________________________________________________
5. List two characteristics of Baroque art:
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
6. True or False. Baroque art, when compared with the renaissance, was filled with
dynamic energy and ornamentation.
7. True or False. Baroque art consists of many pastel colors.
8. The Roman Catholic Church’s response, artistically, to the Reformation, is the
_________________________________ movement in Baroque art.
9. What church best represents the early Baroque style and became a model for Roman
Catholic churches allover the world?
10. What artist set out to shock his audience, particularly with his use of light? His life
was as dramatic as his art?
11. Which artist did several large paintings on the subject of Judith?
12. True or False. The artist Gentileschi is a woman.
13. Describe Gentileschi’s Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes in
three sentences.
14. How are Caravaggio’s and Gentileschi’s use of light similar?
15. True or False. Michelangelo was the architect and sculptor of the Cornaro Chapel in
the Vatican in Rome.
16. True or False. Bernini designed the apse and the dome for St. Peter’s in Rome.
17. Describe Bernini’s Estasy of St. Theresa in three sentences.
18. The saint in this work is being visited by a(n )___________.
19. Bernini’s ____________________ was so large critics were unsure whether to call it
sculpture or architecture.
20. Who painted The Maids of Honor?
21. List three details of The Maids of Honor:
a. _________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________
22. Which artist is known for his wholly positive and sunny temperament?
23. List two details of The Raising of the Cross.
a. ___________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________
24. What portrait painter came under the patronage of Charles I of England?
25. Which painter is known as a classicist and believed that Caravaggio treated religious
subject matter in a base and vulgar way?
26. Describe the subject matter in The Rape of the Sabine Women.
27. In what palace is the Hall of Mirrors located?
28. True or False. The Hall of Mirrors is a small, intimate room in Louis XIV palace
used for his “getting up” ceremony.
29. King __________________ commissioned extensive renovations and additions to
Versailles, where he moved his court in 1682.
30. The painting of ________________ by Vigee-Lebrun shows no hint of the danger
awaiting her subjects.
31. What make the Palace of Versailles an excellent example of Baroque art?
32. What is the focus of Bourgeois Baroque?
33. True or False. Portrait painting became extremely popular during the 17th and 18th
centuries.
34. Which artist liked to paint musicians?
35. What is happening in Nightwatch?
36. Which artist loved to paint self-portraits?
37. Which artist specialized in light- natural light streaming into an interior?
38. True or False. Jacob van Ruisdael was a famed landscape painter in the 17th century.
39. Define still-life:
40. List two artistic symbols used in still lifes during this time:
a. ____________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________
41. The ____________ style in the 18th century is considered to be a development of the
Baroque. It is favored by the aristocracy, and it features pastel colors, small scale, and a
playful quality.
42. The Rococo period was ended by _______________________.
43. List two characteristics of Rococo art:
a. ____________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________
44. Who is the painter of Gersaint’s Signboard, portraying elegant fashionable members
of French society out for a day of shopping?
45. The Marquis de Pompadour was an influential advisor and mistress of King Louis
XV of France as well as a patron of the artist ________________.
46. List two details of The Swing.
a. ________________________________
b. ________________________________
47. How does English Rococo differ from French Rococo?
48. How is Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode II a satire?
49. Jacques Louis David’s painting The Death of Marat was made during the
______________________________________________.
50. David believed men of principle should ________________________________.