3.7 Baroque Art Crossword

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  1. 5. A group of artists who believed that drawing and line were the most important elements of a painting, emphasizing logic and order.
  2. 6. The "intellectual concept" or central idea behind a Baroque artwork, often combining multiple mediums like sculpture and architecture.
  3. 9. A printmaking process where an artist uses acid to bite into a metal plate that has been covered with a protective wax ground.
  4. 12. The horizontal part of an architectural order above the columns, which Borromini made "snake-like" or undulating to create movement.
  5. 13. A style of portraiture that emphasizes the noble status of the subject through scale, setting, and classical references.
  6. 14. A lightweight plaster material used by Borromini to create the complex, undulating curves and shapes of the San Carlo ceiling.
  7. 17. A category of painting showing the French aristocracy at play in lush, outdoor park settings, popularized during the Rococo period.
  8. 18. An art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.
  9. 19. A ceiling painting technique where scenes are painted in panels to look like framed easel paintings moved to the ceiling.
  10. 20. A dramatic painting style using a "dark manner" where intense light contrasts with deep, murky shadows to create high drama.
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  1. 1. A type of space where the world of the painting or sculpture seems to break the "fourth wall" and enter the viewer's physical world.
  2. 2. A group of artists who argued that color was the most important element of painting because it appeals to the senses and emotions.
  3. 3. A theme in still-life painting that uses symbols like rotting fruit or skulls to remind viewers of the shortness of life and the certainty of death.
  4. 4. A perspective technique meaning "seen from below," used in ceiling paintings to make figures appear as if they are floating above the viewer.
  5. 7. An early optical device, similar to a pinhole camera, that some historians believe Vermeer used to achieve his precise light and detail.
  6. 8. The floral symbol of the French monarchy that appears frequently in the clothing and surroundings of King Louis XIV.
  7. 10. The Catholic belief that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ, a theme emphasized in Counter-Reformation art.
  8. 11. A style of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life, such as a woman weighing gold or a family in a domestic interior.
  9. 15. A concept where an artist unifies painting, sculpture, and architecture into one beautiful whole, as seen in the Cornaro Chapel.
  10. 16. A printmaking technique used by Rembrandt where a needle is used to scratch directly into a plate, creating a soft, blurred line.