Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Terms for 17th Century Dutch Painting

* Iconoclasm: Destruction of images
* Cartography: Mapmaking
* Stadhouder: Town holder. Dutch military leader/government officials

* Hierarchy of genres: scale of ranking of classes or types of painting:
1) History painting
2) Portraits
3) Genres painting (Scene of everyday life)
4) Landscapes
5) Still-life painting

* Camera Obscura: Device that projects image through pinhole to allow for study of light. (Perspective)
* Perspectives: painting of architecture such as church interiors or exteriors.
* Utrecht Caravaggisti: followers of Caravaggio (such as Hendrick ter Brugghen) who worked in Rome & Utrecht
* Pieter Brugel the Elder (16th Century. Contributed to the rise in popularity of landscape painting.

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