Glossary
ornate – decorated with complicated patterns or shapes.
explicit – said or explained in an extremely clear way, so that you cannot doubt what is meant.
quiver – to shake with short quick movements.
throb – if a painful part of your body throbs, the pain comes and goes again and again in a regular pattern.
buxom – a buxom woman is rather fat in an attractive way, with large breasts.
flatter – to praise someone in order to get something that you want, especially in a way that is not sincere.
paragon – someone who is perfect or who is the best possible example of a particular quality.
swashbuckling – used about a character in a story, film etc who has a lot of fights and exciting experiences.
chiaroscuro – the way that light and dark areas create a pattern, especially in drawings and paintings.
serenity – a feeling of being calm or peaceful.
Activities
1. Answer the questions to the texts.
Where was the style born?
How did Italian and Flemish Baroque differ from Dutch Baroque?
What are the main features of the period?
What new techniques were invented in the Netherlands?
Who are the most famous Flemish artists of that period?
What are the distinctive features of Rembrandt’s masterpieces?
What main characteristics of Rubens’s artworks do you know?
Who was famous for etching?
Why did the representation of a landscape change to a more realistic one?
2. Translate the sentences from English into Russian.
1. While the term «baroque» is often used negatively to mean overwrought and ostentatious, the seventeenth century not only produced such exceptional artistic geniuses as Rembrandt and Velazquez but expanded the role of art into everyday life. In Catholic countries like Flanders, religious art flourished, while in the Protestant lands of northern Europe, such as England and Holland, religious imagery was forbidden.
2. Artists could expertly represent the human body from any angle, portray the most complex perspective, and realistically reproduce almost any appearance.
3. The Dutch established landscape as deserving of its own artistic treatment.
4. Before Hals, Dutch realists prided themselves on masking their strokes to disguise the process of painting, thereby heightening a painting's realism.
5. He pushed out the limits of chiaroscuro, using gradations of light and dark to convey mood, character, and emotion.
3. Rembrandt's nearly 100 self-portraits over the course of forty years were an artistic exploration of his own image. They ranged from a dewy-eyed youth to an old man stoically facing his own physical decay. Compare the two paintings.
4. These sentences summarize the distinctive features of Baroque style. Decide which of them are true or false.
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