Exam 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands

The sources of artistic patronage in Flanders and Holland were essentially the same.

What type of painting is The Night Watch?

Which Baroque artist is well known for producing many etchings?

Van Dyck was court painter to:

In the seventeenth century, The Dutch Republic was predominantly:

What types of scenes are typical in Vermeer's paintings?

Quiet scenes of domestic tranquility in a Dutch home are typical of:

Which Flemish artist had an elite international clientele?

Describe Rubens' patrons, his range of subject matter, and his manner of working.

Compare his handling, purposes, and symbolism of light in Rembrandt's Bathsheba with King David's Letter and the master's One Hundred Guilder Print.

Jan Steen and Jan Vermeer were active as painters of different types of genre painting.

Marie de' Medici was an important patron of which artist?

Compare and contrast Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait and Frans Hals's Malle Babbe. What characteristics suggest that these are contemporary works by artists with similar interests? How do the subjects of these works differ?

Despite the seeming differences of the Northern and Southern Netherlands, there was much interaction between these two nations and their artists.

In the seventeenth century, Flanders was predominantly

What was the official religion for Flanders and Holland? How did religion have an impact on the arts of each region?

Baroque artists from what country usually specialized in a particular type of painting such as landscape, portraiture, still life, or genre?

In the seventeenth century there was a division of the Netherlands into two parts: the Northern Netherlands and the Southern Netherlands.

Rachel Ruysch established a career as an important

What were important sources of patronage in seventeenth century Holland?