Baroque Trivia
From Caravaggio's dramatic lighting to Bernini's marble masterpieces, prove you're more refined than an irregularly shaped pearl.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Used extensively in Baroque architecture to reflect light, which precious metal was applied to domes to symbolize divinity and heavenly glory?
Gold
Johannes Vermeer is famous for his domestic interior scenes, including which 17th-century masterpiece depicting a servant pouring milk into a Dutch oven?
The Milkmaid
Which style of court performance did Louis XIV famously participate in, notably portraying the rising sun in the 1653 work "Ballet de la Nuit"?
Ballet
In Monteverdi’s landmark opera, Orpheus travels to the Underworld to rescue which woman?
Eurydice
Which artistic technique involves building up depth and luminosity by applying thin, transparent layers of oil paint over a base color?
Glazing