Chapter 19 Study Guide

The Baroque in Italy and Spain

Baroque Italy

• Carlo Maderno, facade of Saint Peter’s, 1606-1612
• Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623
• Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1645-1652
• Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (view into dome), 1638-1641
• Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew, c. 1597-1601
• Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614-1620

Baroque Spain

• José de Ribera, Martyrdom of Saint Philip, c. 1639
• Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656

1. Name three things that characterize the Baroque style in Italy and Spain.

2. What do the two colonnades that Bernini designed for Saint Peter’s Piazza symbolise?

3. Bernini’s baldacchino serves as marker over which important religious site?

4. The Baroque style in Catholic countries was generally associated with which religious movement?

5. What is unusual about Annibale Carracci’s artistic training compared to the artistic training of painters we have previously examined?

6. Define tenebrism.