Art 109 Renaissance to Modern Westchester Community College

Spring 2015  

Homework 5.1 Catholic Baroque Art

Name _________________________________________________________________

The Counter Reformation (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/counter-reformation.html

1. According to this video, why were some Protestants against religious images, and what did they do as a result? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

2. According to this video, how did the Counter Reformation church respond to the Protestant attack on religious images? What role did the church assign to religious images, and how did they justify their use? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Summarize the threefold response of the Catholic Counter Reformation Church to the Protestant Reformation _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Art 109 Renaissance to Modern Westchester Community College

Spring 2015  

Pozzo’s Glorification of St. Ignatius http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/pozzos-glorification-of-saint-ignatius.html

4. According to the speakers, how does this painting accomplish what “all Baroque art” sets out to do? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How do the allegorical figures representing the continents of the world relate to the goals of the Counter Reformation church? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bernini’s St. Peter’s Square http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/berninis-saint-peters-square.html

6. According to this video, what was the symbolism of the colonnade that Bernini designed for the forecourt of St Peters? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

Art 109 Renaissance to Modern Westchester Community College

Spring 2015  

Bernini’s David (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Bernini-David.html

7. According to the speakers, how is this statue different from Michelangelo’s version of David? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Theresa (Smarthistory) http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/bernini-ecstasy-of-st.-theresa.html

8. According to the speakers, what does “all Baroque art” try to do? How does this statue group achieve that goal? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. What “trick” did Bernini use to make this work seem to be magically illuminated? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________