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Baroque Painters
YGK These Baroque Painters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Italian painter who developed the "tenebrism" style of stark light and dark contrast | Caravaggio (or Michelangelo Merisi) |
| The Caravaggio painting where Christ points at a group of men sitting at a table | The Calling of Saint Matthew |
| The Caravaggio work showing a naked Cupid trampling musical instruments and armor | Amor Vincit Omnia |
| The term for artists who imitated Caravaggio's style during and after his life | Caravaggisti |
| The Italian painter who depicted herself as Judith in Judith Slaying Holofernes | Artemisia Gentileschi |
| The painter who raped Artemisia Gentileschi and may have been the model for Holofernes | Agostino Tassi |
| The Dutch portraitist from Haarlem known for his "tronies" | Frans Hals |
| The 1624 Frans Hals portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat with a bemused expression | The Laughing Cavalier |
| The Dutch Golden Age painter of The Proposition whose work was long misattributed to her husband or Frans Hals | Judith Leyster |
| The husband of Judith Leyster who was often credited with her work | Jan Miense Molenaer |
| The French painter of Et in Arcadia Ego who spent most of his career in Italy | Nicolas Poussin |
| The meaning of the Latin phrase "Et in Arcadia Ego" | “I am even in Arcadia” (a memento mori) |
| The Poussin painting showing four figures dancing while Father Time plays a lyre | A Dance to the Music of Time |
| The Dutch master whose massive canvas The Night Watch shows a militia company led by Frans Banninck Cocq | Rembrandt van Rijn |
| The Rembrandt painting depicting a surgeon dissecting the arm of a criminal for other physicians | The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp |
| The Flemish diplomat and painter known for the 24-painting Marie de’ Medici cycle | Peter Paul Rubens |
| The Rubens painting depicting the birth of a galaxy from the breast of Hera | The Origin of the Milky Way |
| The Flemish court painter to Charles I of England who trained in Rubens's studio | Anthony van Dyck |
| The Van Dyck portrait showing the king leaning on a walking stick next to a horse with its head lowered | Charles I at the Hunt |
| The leading Spanish Baroque painter and court artist to Philip IV | Diego Velázquez |
| The Velázquez masterpiece featuring the Infanta Margaret Theresa, a self-portrait, and a mirror reflection | Las Meninas |
| The Velázquez work showing a nude reclining Venus gazing into a mirror held by Cupid | Rokeby Venus |
| The Velázquez painting depicting Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola receiving the key to a Dutch city | The Surrender of Breda |
| The Dutch city where Johannes Vermeer lived and which he depicted in a famous 1660 cityscape | Delft |
| The Vermeer painting featuring a young woman in a blue and gold turban that inspired a novel by Tracy Chevalier | Girl With a Pearl Earring |
| The Vermeer work depicting a young girl with her back to the viewer playing a virginal | The Music Lesson |
| The optical device that David Hockney and other scholars suggest Vermeer used to assist his painting | Camera obscura |
| The approximate number of recognized works by Vermeer that have survived to 2026 | 34 |