II. Choose the right sentences

1. During the Baroque period architecture and sculpture became pic­torial.

a) Baroque architects and sculptors used luxurious materials.

b) "Baroque" means imperfectly shaped pearl.

c) Baroque architects and sculptors used the methods of painting.

2. Baroque art was concerned with vivid colours, hidden light sources and elaborate contrasting surface structures.

a) Baroque art was characterized by vivid colours, hidden light sources and elaborate contrasting surface structures.

b) The Baroque never exploited hidden light sources.

c) The Baroque developed from the early 17th century to the mid 18th century.

3. This style contrasted markedly with the High Renaissance and Man­nerism.

a) The Baroque resembled the High Renaissance and Mannerism.

b) The Baroque had little in common with the High Renaissance and Mannerism.

c) The Mannerist period featured the frustrating conflict of unbal­anced spaces.

4. In Protestant regions architecture was restrained.

a) In Protestant regions architecture was austere.

b) In Protestant regions architecture had free and active forms.

5. Domes des Invalides is the finest church of European Baroque Ar­chitecture.

a) Domes des Invalides is the finest church of the 18th century.

b) Domes des Invalides was built in 1675.

c) Domes des Invalides is a masterpiece of European Baroque ar­chitecture.

III. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the following sentences.

1. The term "Baroque" was used by philosophers...

a) during the period of the Enlightenment

b) during the Middle Ages

c) in ancient times

2. During the Baroque period architecture and sculpture became...

a) illusionistic b) realistic c) pictorial

3. Baroque architecture was a means of propagating...

a) faith b) atheism c) anarchism

4. Mannerism is the term applied to certain aspects of...

a) social life b) artistic style

c) scientific research

5. The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate...

a) forms b) sides c) parts

Text 2.

Read the text and speak on the difference between the Baroque and Rococo.

ROCOCO

During the period of the Enlightenment (about 1700 to 1780), various currents of post-Baroque art and architecture evolved. A principal current, generally known as Rococo, refined the robust architecture of the 17th cen­tury to suit elegant 18th-century tastes. Vivid colours were replaced by pas­tel shades; diffuse light flooded the building volume; violent surface relief was replaced by smooth flowing masses with emphasis only at isolated points. Churches and palaces still exhibited an integration of the three arts, but the building structure was lightened to render interiors graceful and ethereal. Interior and exterior space retained none of the bravado and dom­inance of the Baroque but entertained and captured the imagination by intri­cacy and subtlety.

By progressively modifying the Renaissance-Baroque horizontal sepa­ration into discrete parts, Rococo architects obtained unified spaces, em­phasized structural elements, created continuous decorative schemes, and reduced column sizes to a minimum. In churches, the ceilings of side aisles were raised to the height of the nave ceiling to unify the space from wall to wall (Church of the Carmine, Turin, Italy, 1732, by Filippo Juvarra; Pil­grimage Church, Steinhausen, near Biberach, Germany, 1728, by Domini-kus Zimmermann; Saint-Jacques, Luneville, France, 1730, by Germain Boffrand.

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