Ch 24 Study Guide Questions #2
1. Upon what factors did the effectiveness of Italian Baroque art depend?
2. What challenges did Spain experience in the 17th century that threatened its hegemony?
3. How do Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew and Saint Serapion show a passionate commitment
“to Catholic Orthodoxy” despite their very different depictions of saints?
4. What influence of Caravaggio can be seen in Velazquez’s Water Carrier of Seville?
5. How does Velazquez distinguish the victorious Spanish over the defeated Dutch in Surrender of
Breda? How are the Spanish shown to be magnanimous in their victory?
6. How did Velazquez “ennoble” Philip IV in King Philp IV of Spain?
7. Explain both the visual and narrative complexity of Las Meninas?
8. How does Velazquez attempt to elevate himself and his profession?
9. What distinguished the Baroque art of Flanders from that of the new Dutch Republic?
10. What roles did Peter Paul Rubens play beyond that of a
painter?
11. What are the foundations of Rubens’s style, seen in
Elevation of the Cross?
12. Compare Rubens’s drawing of Laocoon with
Michelangelo’s study for Adam, seen at the right.
13. How does Rubens create a lavish Baroque spectacle in
Arrival of Marie de Medici?
14. Explain Rubens’s attitude towards war in Allegory of the
Outbreak of War.
15. Charles I Dismounted is said to be a part of the equestrian
statute tradition despite the fact that he is dismounted. How does Van Dyck communicate
authority in this painting?
16. What is a “breakfast piece” as seen in the work of Clara Peeters?
17. What conditions allowed for the merchant class to amass political and social power in the Dutch
Republic?
18. Contrast Hendrick ter Brugghen’s Calling of Saint Matthew with the same work by Caravaggio.
19. How can Supper Party be read moralistically?
20. In specific visual ways does Frans Hals Archers of Saint Hadrian embody a lively, casual,
immediate, and intimate style?
21. Describe how the mood of Frans Hals The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem is
so very different than Archers of Saint Hadrian. What accounts of the difference?
22. How is Rembrandt’s composition of the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp more dynamic than that of
the work of Frans Hals?
23. Why is the Night Watch a misnomer for The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq? Why is
the action in Nigh Watch best described as frantic?
24. How is Rembrandt’s depiction of light more in line with reality than that of the Renaissance
artists?
25. How does Rembrandt capture the spiritual energy of his religious works through the
“psychology of light?” Use Return of the Prodigal Son to explain this concept.
26. Briefly explain the process of creating an etching.
27. How is Judith Leyster’s Self-Portrait similar to the work of Frans Hals? How does she show
confidence in her artistic abilities?
28. Why do the Dutch feel such a connection to their land? How is that seen in Aelbert Cuyp’s A
Distant View of Dordrecht, with a Milkmaid and Four Crows, and Other Figures?
29. How does Jacob van Ruisdael’s View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen show a specificity
to Dutch Republic?