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HUM#1 Artists etc.
Reformation through Enlightenment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Desiderius Erasmus | Reformation - Humanist scholar, critical of the catholic church, inspired Martin Luther, used satire and irony as a tool, translated the greek NT to latin |
| Martin Luther | Reformation - Translated the latin bible to german to make it more accessable to the people, critical of the catholic church (indulgences), posted the 95 thesis, wrote hymns |
| Thomas More | Reformation - Published 'Utopia' about the ideal society |
| François Rabelais | Reformation - Wrote humourous pamphlets on social and political events |
| Michel de Montaigne | Reformation - Invented the new style of writing 'personal essay' |
| Albrecht Altdorfer | Reformation - Painter, painted landscapes |
| Lucas Cranach | Reformation - Artist, Christ/Antichrist woodcuts, painter |
| Pieter Breughel | Reformation - Genre Painter, cycle paintings |
| El Greco | Mannerism - Greek painter with unique mannerist style, explored and experimented with his art, interesting and unusual colors. Elongated faces |
| Hans Holbein | Tudor England - Portraitist who painted/represented position, 'the ambassadors' |
| Nicholas Hilliard | Tudor England - Portraitist, miniature art |
| William Shakespeare | Tudor England - Poet and playwright, ABAB,CDCD,EFEF, volta, |
| John Donne | Metaphysical Poet - Everyday life poetry, real life, almost mannerist, complex and bold |
| Michelangelo Caravaggio | Italian Baroque - Painter, master of light and dark, chiaroscuro and tenebrism (tenebroso) |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | Italian Baroque - Follower of Caravaggio, dramatic and controversial paintings |
| Elisabetta Sirani | Italian Baroque - Follower of Caravaggio, painted all sorts of paintings |
| Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Italian Baroque - Sculpture, such as 'david', 'quattro fontane', 'cornaro chapel'. |
| Francesco Borromini | Italian Baroque - Architect that worked with Bernini on the church of the quattro fontane (feat because it was a little church) |
| Jacob van Ruisdael | Northern Baroque - Landscape painter |
| Jan Vermeer | Northern Baroque - Painted genre scenes, working class women (yellow and blue), possibly used the camera obscura, light source |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | Northern Baroque - Painter who used extreme and dramatic light and dark (tenebrism), yellowish, self-portraits |
| Frans Hals | Northern Baroque - Painted with darker colors, painterly, group portraits, people dressed like protestant, painted rene descarte |
| René Descartes | Scientific & Philosophical - Founder of deism, proved God through reason and logic, deductive reasoning |
| Galileo Galilei | Scientific & Philosophical - Proved Copernican system that the earth revolves around the sun, not killed but put on house arrest because he was popular |
| Francis Bacon | Scientific & Philosophical - Founded the empirical method and used inductive reasoning, royal society founded based on his philosophy |
| Johannes Kepler | Scientific & Philosophical - Mathmetician with discoveries in optics, studied the movement of planets to prove the heliocentric sun centered theory |
| Giovanni Gabrieli | Baroque Music - Made religious music more emotionally engaging by surround sound effect and harmony |
| Claudio Monteverdi | Baroque Music - Mastered text-based musical form - the opera |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Baroque Music - Musical director for an orphanage, specialized in composing concertos |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Baroque Music - Composed concertos and cantatas every week for sunday services |
| Georg Friedrich Händel | Baroque Music - Wrote oratorios ('the messiah') |
| Hyacinthe Rigaud | Baroque France - Painted the famous portrait of King Louis XIV |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Baroque France - Used painterly style, more emotional paintings, lots of colour adherents |
| Nicolas Poussin | Baroque France - Draftsmanship or linear style, appeals to reason, more realistic, poussanist, smooth and detailed, classical |
| Claude Lorrain | Baroque France - Landscape painter, used light and color |
| Moliére | Baroque France - Wrote satirical/comedic plays, most famous, king loved him, "tartuffe" |
| Jean Racine | Baroque France - Wrote tragedies, earned a living off his plays |
| Pierre Corneille | Baroque France - Wrote unique tragedies and also comedies, and also took ideas from classical greek theatre with a modern twist |
| Anthony van Dyck | Baroque England - Court painter and portraitist, made subjects look fancy |
| Inigo Jones | Baroque England - Designer and architect, whitehall banqueting house |
| Henry Purcell | Baroque England - Wrote operas |
| Diego Velázquez | Baroque Spain - Portrait painter for the royal family, his skill brought him up to the ranks of nobility, created paintings that made you think |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Baroque Spain - Wrote plays for the court, drama with love and honour |
| Lope Félix de Vega | Baroque Spain - Wrote thousands of plays, in addition to novels, poems, stories, etc. |
| Christopher Wren | Enlightenment - Architect, rebuilt churches after the London fire, St Pauls cathedral (new design, a classical looking structure), shaped like a cross, used greek ideas |
| John Dryden | Enlightenment - A great poet, wrote about the great fire of london (Annus Mirabilis), philosopher. |
| Thomas Hobbes | Enlightenment - Absolutist, people unable to govern themselves, give sovereignty to a ruler (for their safety), wrote "leviathan", social contract theory |
| John Locke | Enlightenment - Liberalist, people able to govern themselves, people free and independant, government for protection, reason makes reasonable people |
| John Milton | Enlightenment - Wrote an epic poem (paradise lost), critique absolute rule, philospher. |
| William Hogarth | Enlightenment - Artist/painter who painted satire about the dark side of the enlightenment, "gin lane" "beer street" |
| Jonathan Swift | Enlightenment - Wrote satire stories about the enlightenment on poverty, war, greed, dishonesty. "Gulivers travels" "A modest proposal". |
| Alexander Pope | Enlightenment - Wrote satire poems and essays about the enlightenment |
| Isaac Newton | Enlightenment - Rationalist approach, physicist, popular scientific experiments, order to the universe and principles |
| Joseph Wright | Enlightenment - Painted one of Newtons experiments (lunar society), watermill painting, industrial revolution |
| Samuel Richardson | Enlightenment - Invented the epistolary novel (series of epistles or letters). Wrote "pamela". |
| Henry Fielding | Enlightenment - Wrote the comic novel/parody, satire. "shamela" (in response to pamela) |
| Jane Austen | Enlightenment - Novelist who wrote about sense, reason, and self-improvement. Romantic novels, marriage, upperclass (english gentry) |
| Samuel Johnson | Enlightenment - Published the first English dictionary. Included aphorisms (small statements of truth) |
| Denis Diderot | Enlightenment - Wrote about the Tahiti women during the exploration of the enlightenment, wrote an encyclopedia |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Enlightenment - Philosopher, writer, and composer, contributed to the encyclopedia, part of the enlightenment exploration, wrote about the social contract |
| Voltaire | Enlightenment - Man of philosphy and science who wrote a lot, french satire |
| Daniel Defoe | Enlightenemnt - Wrote novels. "Robinson Crusoe". |
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