Chapter 25 Baroque Art in Northern Europe

Some 17th-century Flemish artists specialized in this style of art.

• Religious Portraits

• Still-Life

• Narrative Art

• Portraits of royalty.

This artist was the leading portrait painter in Haarlem in the 17th Century

• Peeters

• Rubens

• Vermeer

• Halls

This painter's use of light to reveal subtleties of mood and character had a great influence on the later genres of film and photography

• Vermeer

• Honthorst

• REMBRANDT

• Poussin

Art historians call some works of art vanitas (vanity) paintings, and each of its symbolic elements suggests a connection to....

• Beauty

• Eternity

• Death

• Timelessness

This artist's interest in Italian art, especially the works of Michelangelo and Caravaggio, is evident in the Saint Walburga triptych.

• Ruben

• Vermeer

• Pousson

• Rembrandt

This artist completed nearly 70 selfportraits in various media have no parallel in sheer quantity.

• Rembrandt

• Hals

• Claesz

• Vermeer

This artist made his reputation as a painter of interior scenes, another popular subject among middle-class patrons.

• Vermeer

• Rembrandt

• Honthorst

• Hals

Most scholars believe that this used a camera obscura as a guide in drawing the harbor landscape scene of one of his paintings of Deft.

• Rembrandt

• Claesz

• Peeters

• Vermeer

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos is one of a pair of canvases that Poussin painted for Gian Maria Roscioli, secretary to Pope Urban VIII. The second landscape (not illustrated) represents Saint Matthew, reclining in right profile, who faced Saint John when the two canvases are placed side by side. An ____________ stands behind John, just as an angel, Matthew’s attribute, stands beside the former tax collector.

• Ox

• Lamb

• Lion

• Eagle

Who is the artist and title?

• Rembrandt, The Dutch Militia

• Honthorst.

  The Night Watch

• Vermeer,

  The Night Watch

• Rembrandt,

  The Night Watch