Chapter 19 Study Guide

The Baroque in Italy and Spain

Baroque Italy

• Bernini, David, 1623
• Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1645-1652
• Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew, c. 1597-1601
• Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614-1620
• Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, c. 1638-1639

Baroque Spain

• Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656

Short Answer

1. Name three characteristics of 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. Identify three specific ways in which Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane reflects the Italian Baroque style.
6. What is unusual about Annibale Carracci’s artistic training compared to the artistic training of painters we have previously examined?
7. Define tenebrism.