Chapter Summary

After reading Chapter 17, you should be able to:

• Identify the works and define the terms in the chapter.

• Compare French, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish, and English Baroque painting, sculpture, and architecture.

• Compare Baroque with Renaissance style.

• Discuss the conflict between science and religion in the seventeenth century.

• Locate the countries of Western Europe on a map.

• Discuss the continuing role of the Inquisition.

• Compare Bernini and Borromini.

• Describe the philosophy of the French Academy and its hierarchy of styles.

• Explain the iconography of Versailles.

• Discuss Italian Baroque church ceiling paintings.

• Discuss Caravaggio's homosexual and Christian iconography.

• Discuss the issue of women in the arts from antiquity through the seventeenth century.

• Discuss the visual evidence for political contact between Europe and the Far East in the seventeenth century.