Part III

• Give the proper English equivalents

1. защитник (покровитель)

протестантов

2. официальный художник при дворе

3. умело использовать свет и тень

4. иезуит

5. разнообразие фактур

и поверхностей

6. находиться в огне

религиозного экстаза

7. приводить в движение (вызывать)

8. накопить состояние путем

тяжелой работы и бережливости

9. узурпировать

10. обеспечивать великолепную

обстановку для монарха

и его двора

11. располагаться параллельно

плоскости картины

12. прятать в углу

13. определять настроение

14. величественный

и спокойный

15. поймать румянец лиц

16. искусство движения,

беспокойной

неустойчивости

17. отражать любовь

к наслаждениям

18. наслаждение

удовольствиями плоти

• Check the pronunciation and spelling of the proper names (parts 2, 3)

• Giorgione

• Pieta

• Titian

• Versailles

• the Armada

• the Escorial

• Diego Velasquez

• Louis

Leibnit

z

• Questions to answer

1. What was the subject of most Baroque painting in Spain – religion or everyday life and landscapes? Why? What effect might this have had on the Spanish people? What about Dutch people?

2. How did King Louis XIV affect the subject of much Baroque art in France?

3. What did he hope to accomplish by becoming the focus of the French art world?

4. What are the major common elements found in all Baroque art, regardless of its subject or in what country it was produced?

• Explain and expand on the following:

The Baroque period was a time when man’s knowledge of the world around him was expanding at a frightening rate, when the old governments were torn by political strife, when the traditions of the church were called into question by the development of “modern” religious ideas. Such a situation is very similar to that of the present day.

Compare the present day with the Baroque using this paragraph as a guide. (Try to use as many items of active vocabulary as possible.)

Tasks to the Pictures

Look at Picture 9.

This painting by Peter Paul Rubens is called “The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles”. Who was Marie de Medici?

1. the queen who lost her head during the French Revolution

2. Peter Paul Rubens’ wife

3. an allegorical figure from classical mythology

4. the wife of Henry IV, the first Bourbon King of France

Step 2: Spelling and Vocabulary

Exercise 1: Pronounce the words below. Match a word with a picture (not all the pictures have their names!)

Plate 5

The Baroque Art __ Baroque church __ bulbous cupola __ dormer window (dormer) __ twin columns __

The Types of Vault __ cloister vault (cloistered vault) __ rib vault (ribbed vault) __ stellar vault __ net vault __ fan vault __

Plate 6

Historical Costumes

1. French lady [ca. 1600] ___

2. millstone ruff (cartwheel ruff, ruff) ___

3. corseted waist (wasp waist) ___

4. gentleman [ca. 1650] ___

5. wide-brimmed felt hat (cavalier hat) ___

6. falling collar (wide-falling collar) of linen ___

7. white lining ___

8. jack boots (bucket-top boots) ___

9. lady [ca. 1650] ___

10. full puffed sleeves (puffed sleeves) ___

Exercise 2: Developing spelling skills. Fill in the blanks with missing letters. Remember the spelling and the pronunciation.

Dis - iple, c - - ling, f - - rce, in - - isition, tr - - ps, - - amber, t - - moil, mean - - ile, herita - e, ostentati - - s, -ltar, grand - - r, ch - - s.

Exercise 3: Derivatives. In the following pairs of nouns and adjectives add the missing one.

Prosperous	- _____________	dramatic	- _____________
______________	- theatre	_______________	- religion
symmetrical	- _____________	geometric	- _____________
______________	- music	_______________	- clarity
glorious	- _____________	desperate	- _____________
______________	- mystery	_______________	- anger
opulent	- _____________	reasonable	- _____________
______________	- turbulence	_______________	- precision
sensual	- _____________	high	- _____________
______________	- sculpture	_______________	- harmony
cultural	- _____________	imaginative	- _____________
______________	- vibrancy	_______________	- violence
triumphant	- _____________	aristocratic	- _____________
______________	- extravagancy	_______________	- architecture

Exercise 4: Form the nouns denoting the doer of the action, using the given verbs. Add suffixes –er, -or.

Reform, defend, conquer, teach, build, explore, compose, paint, view, invent.

Exercise 5: Negative prefixes are used to form antonyms. But you need to think before you choose the proper prefix to form a new word.

Prefixes:

Un-

In-

Im-

Words:

usual	balanced	rest	known	aware
balance	leash	mortal	formal	possible

Exercise 6: Compound words consist of two words. Match the parts of compound words from different columns.

Life Brush Business Ship Half House Back Birth Spot Breath

man way ground place style builder work light taking hold

Exercise 7: Match the pairs of sentences from the columns and combine them with the help of the conjunctions and, but, because. Sometimes variations are possible.

Baroque art showed little restraint compared with past styles. This extravagant style still appeals to people today. A Christmas season never goes by without many performances of Handel’s Messiah. Tintoretto of Venice also painted The Last Supper. The palace of the Kings – the Estorial – was their home. Baroque art is aristocratic.

a) Certain Baroque musical works are embedded in our cultural heritage. b) Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is another musical favorite in the Baroque style. c) Now the sweeping diagonal lines lend an air of excitement. d) It was also a church and a monastery and a symbol of the power and glory of Spain. e) It is also the art of the common man. f) These extravagances were soon emulated in the palaces of the nobility.