1.09 Quiz Making Connections Baroque Art

Question: What is one difference between the composition of these paintings by Caravaggio and Poussin?

Answer: Caravaggio arranges elements for a sense of movement; Poussin arranges elements for a sense of calmness.

Question: What Baroque technique did Caravaggio and Rembrandt use in these paintings to make figures dramatically emerge from the shadows as if lit by a spotlight?

Answer: tenebrism

Question: What is one similarity between Rubens’s Elevation of the Cross and Velázquez’s Las Meninas?

Answer: In both paintings, a pyramid configuration unifies the figures.

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