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1
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When _ became _ in 1623 he said to the artist _

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Maffeo Barberni, Pope Urban VIII, Bernini

2
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Bernini’s - provides a vivid contrast to Michaelangelo’s -

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David

3
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From 1526 to 1761, a succession of Muslim rulers in India established the - and under their reign India prospered from growing international trade

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Mughal Empire

4
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The tomb of a Mughal emperor’s wife, the - floats on a pedestal of pink stone above a garden of reflecting pools

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Taj Mahal

5
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  • decoration of the new - was one of the greatest and most expensive undertakings of the baroque era.
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Bernini, St. Peter’s

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In a depiction of - ecstatic vision, the angel of god pierces - heart with the barb of divine love.

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St. Teresa’s, Teresa’s

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  • gigantic façade, with columns more than twice the height of the Parthenon’s in Athens
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Carlo Maderno’s

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  • intricate dome caps a space that is no larger than a single pier of St. Peter’s
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Borromini’s

9
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The - depicts a rude tavern much like those that - frequented in his rough, turbulent life

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Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio

10
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A stage drama set to music

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Opera

11
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Style of solo singing, serious emotion of tragic poetry

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Recitative

12
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Famous recit by Monteverdi

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Tu se’ morta

13
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Opera Seria

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Serious operas with mythological themes

14
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Opera Buffa

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Comic opera

15
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Concerto grosso

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small group of instruments or solo instrument plays with orchestra

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A monarch must exercise complete political control over aspect fo everyday life

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Absolutism

17
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Like - paintings, - was a bridge between Renaissance and Baroque styles

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El Greco’s, Escorial Palace

18
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Greatest painter of Spain’s Golden age

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Diego Velázquez

19
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  • illustrated the scholarly belief that pagan mythology reflected historical fact or popular custom
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Triumph of Bacchus

20
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Few paintings are more complex than - masterpiece, -

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Velázquez, Las Meninas

21
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Greatest literary work of the seventeenth century

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Don Quixote

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Author of Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes

23
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Revival of classical Greek and Roman forms

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Neoclassical

24
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The symmetry and grandeur of - that was owned by - symbolized the King’s orderly rule over his nation

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Palace of Versailles, Louis XIV

25
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French court’s most important figure

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Jean Baptiste-Lully

26
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European Nobility’s favorite baroque painter was Flemish painter

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Peter Paul Rubens

27
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In contrast to Ruben’s effusive dynamism, the French painter - was the essence of Baroque neoclassicism

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Nicolas Poussin

28
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Counterpoint

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combination of two or more melodies of equal importance

29
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A prominent bass line that harmonically supports the polyphonic lines

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Basso Continuo

30
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  • set of musical exercises to prove a clavier could be tuned to accommodate all 24 major and minor keys called -
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Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier

31
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The first great Dutch baroque painter ended his life in poverty

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Frans Hals

32
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  • a contemporary of Rembrandt, was the first woman admitted to the painter’s guild of her city
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Judith Leyster

33
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  • spent most of his career in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam
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Rembrandt van Rijn

34
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No ideas except from experience

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Empiricism

35
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The philosophical explanation of what humans know and how they know it

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epistemology

36
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The historical process by which modern science triumphed as the authority

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Scientific Revolution

37
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This polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric theory of the universe

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Nicolaus Copernicus

38
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Used the newly invented telescope to to revolutionize astronomy

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Galileo

39
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  • Principia Mathematica introduced the universal laws of gravitation
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Issac Newton’s

40
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  • had angered the Catholic church with a manifesto called - about new discoveries in mathematics
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René Descartes, Discourse on Method

41
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  • hoped to unify his rule over England, Scotland, and Ireland and make his monarchy match of France or Spain
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King Charles I