12ain, Steam, and Speed Flashcards
“A School for Boys and Girls”
Jan Steen
Dutch
Dutch Golden Age
“Allegories”
“The Prudence”
Giovanni Bellini
Italian
Renaissance
“The Fortune”
“Alpha - Phi”
Morris Louis
American
Color Field
(Along with Kenneth Noland, Louis was a member of the Washington Color School)
Below: “Where”
“Braque Family Triptych”
Rogier van der Weyden
Flemish
Early Flemish
(My Body was once beautiful but now it is food for worms!)
Left: John the Baptist holds book
Center: Christ Salvator Mundi, flanked by John the Evangelist and the Virgin Mary
Right: Magdalene, holding an alabaster jar or perfume while crying
Exterior: A skull resting against a brick, with a sheaf of wheat next to it along with an excerpt from the Book of Sirach
“Aurora Borealis”
Frederic Edwin Church
American
Hudson River School
(No Mother, it’s just the Northern Lights)
“At the Circus Dressage”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“Captain the Honorable Augustus Keppel”
Joshua Reynolds
English
Grand Style
“Card Players Quarreling”
Jan Steen
Dutch
Golden Age
“Chariot”
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss-Italian
Surrealism
(Inspired by a medicine trolley at Hospital Bichat)
“Christ Church No. 1”
Leon Kossoff
English
Expressionism
(Part of a series about the church)
“Christ of St. John of the Cross”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(no nails or crown)
(floating above water)
“Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Pampulha, Brazil”
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern architecture
(Part of a suburb that features a manmade lagoon)
“Composition IV: 1911”
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Expressionism
(Divided by two vertical lines which are actually two lances held up by Cossacks)
“Death and the Maiden”
Hans Baldung
German
Painting
(student of Durer)
“Cultural Center in La Havre, France”
“The Volcano”
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern Architecture
How did Bartolomé Esteban Murillo die at age 64?
Died falling while painting St. Catherine
“Endymion Porter”
William Dobson
English
Portraiture
“Fascination”
Victor Brauner
Romanian
Surrealism
“Going to Church”
William H. Johnson
American (Florence, SC!)
Modernism
“Flag Over the Town Hall”
Maurice Utrillo
French
Cityscapes
“Jazz Band (Dirty Style Blues)”
Jean Dubuffet
French
Modernism
“Holkham, Norfolk”
John Piper
English
Watercolors
“Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph”
Rembrandt
Dutch
Baroque
“Four Square (Walk Through)”
Barbara Hepworth
British
Modernism
(Found at Churchill College, Cambridge)
“Jewish Cemetery”
Jacob van Ruisdael
Dutch
Landscape
“Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French
Neoclassical
(Thetis begs Jupiter for intervention)
(Juno looks on from the left)
“La Belle Jardiniere”
Raphael
Italian
High Renaissance
“Lady with Gauze Headdress”
Hans Memling
German-Flanders
Early Netherlandish
“Landscape at Chaponval”
Camille Pissaro
French
Impressionism
“Laura Battiferri Reading Petrarch”
Bronzino
Italian
Mannerism
“Lugubrious Game”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(Met Paul Elmard while working on it, and married his wife)
“Madonna and Child with Eight Angels”
“Raczynski Tondo”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
“Mares and Foals in a Landscape”
George Stubbs
English
Equine
“Marilyn Monroe”
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-American
Abstract Expressionism
“Torqued Ellipses series”
“Matter and Time”
Richard Serra
American
Minimalist sculptor
(Inspired by Francesco Borroini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane)
(Created for the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain)
“Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionist
(Miss La La AKA the Female Cannon)
Name of this main road on Brasilia, Brazil where many of the main buildings are located
Monumental Axis
(Oscar Niemeyer built most of his works along this road)
(12 lanes of traffic)
“Moonlight, Nagakubo”
Hiroshige
Japanese
Utagawa
(Member of the Sixty Nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido)
“Mrs. Mary Ronbinson, Perdita”
George Romney
English
Portraiture
(no relation to Mitt or his father)
“Napoleon Bonaparte, First Counsul”
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French
Neoclassical
(Napoleon depicted signing a decree to give the city of Liege money for reconstruction)
“National Congress of Brazil”
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern Architecture
“Niterói Contemporary Art Museum in Rio”
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern Architecture
(Saucer-shape and over a reflecting pool)
“Not to be Reproduced”
Rene Magritte
Belgian
Surrealism
(Patron Edward James depicted)
“Our Banner in the Sky”
Frederic Edwin Church
American
Hudson River School
(The American flag is in this painting)
“Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife”
John Singer Sargent
American
Portraiture
“Portrait of a Young Man with a Skull”
Frans Hals
Dutch
Golden Age
“Point to the Eye”
Albeto Giacometti
Swiss-Italian
Surrealism
(was inspired by Mexican ritual sacrifice to depict a spear nearly poking an exposed eye above a canal for draining blood)
“Pinkie”
Thomas Lawrence
English
Romantic
(Paired with ‘The Blue Boy’ by Gainsborough)
(Across from Blue Boy at the Huntington Library at San Marino, California)
“Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione”
Raphael
italian
High Renaissance
“Red Poppies”
Emil Nolde
German
Expressionism
“Regensburg Landscape”
Albrecht Altdorfer
German
Renaissance
(First painting w/o humans in 1500 years)
“Rhetoricians at a Window”
Jan Steen
Dutch
Dutch Golden Age
“Rouen Cathedral”
I can’t find an architect, but here are some facts about it:
- Tallest building from 1876 to 1880
- The “Butter Tower” was the inspiration of the Chicago Tribune building designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood
- Subject of paintings by Monet. One of which is on this deck.
“Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape”
Joachim Patinir
Flemish
Northern Renaissance
(Jerome is under shack, petting an animal, near a skull and crucifix)
“Saint Serapion”
Francisco de Zurbaran
Spanish
Baroque
“Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin”
Rogier van der Weyden
Flemish
Early Netherlandish
(Incorporates van der Weyden as Saint Luke)
“Seated Woman with Bent Knee”
Egon Schiele
Austrian
Expressionism
“Sheldonian Theatre”
Sir Christopher Wren
British
Architecture
(for the University of Oxford)
(Required design of a “geometrical flat floor” roof)
(Based on the Theatre of Marcellus, which lacked a roof)
“St. Peter’s Basilica”
Donato Bramante
Italian
High Renaissance
(Marked St. Peter’s martyrdom with his small and well-proportioned Tempietto)
(Interior designed by Bernini)
“Still Life with Ham”
Pieter Claesz
Netherlandish
Baroque
“Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose”
Francisco de Zurbaran
Spanish
Baroque
(Depicts lemons, oranges, and a rose)
“Still Life with Lobster, Drinking Horn and Glasses”
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Dutch / Flemish
Baroque
“Still Life”
Giorgio Morandi
Italian
Metaphysical art / Futurism
(Most of his art looks like this painting)
“Sunday Boxing”
“A Lively Fisting”
Unknown Pawnee citizen
American
Historical portraiture
(On display at the Pawnee, IN City Hall)
(Shows Rev. Bradley fighting Pawnee’s first female high school graduate Beth Stevenson)
“Street in Murnau, A Village Street”
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian
Expressionism
(Made several landscapes living in Murnau with his mistress Gabriele Munter)
“The Animals Entering the Ark”
Jacopo Bassano
Venetian
Renaissance
“The Apotheosis of Homer”
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French
Neoclassical
(Nike is crowning Homer)
(Woman in red = sword)
(Woman in green = oar)
(Some figures in this painting include Shakespeare, Aesop, Michelangelo, Mozart, and Sophocles)
“The Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquanis”
Francisco de Zurbaran
Spanish
Baroque
“The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian
Baroque
“The Atavism of Twilight”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(Skeleton takes the stance of a farmer from Millet’s The Angelus, which he insisted was about a dead child)
“The Battleship Potemkin”
Francis Bacon
English
Modernist
(Study of a nurse)
“The Birth of Venus”
Alexandre Cabanel
French
Academicism
“The Circus Horse”
Marc Chagall
Russian-French
Cubism
“The Clubfoot”
Jose de Ribera
Spanish
Tenebrism
“The Death of St. Bonaventure”
Francisco de Zurbaran
Spanish
Baroque
(The Body of St. Bonaventure in the Presence of Pope Gregory X and James I of Aragon)
“Portrait of Somerset Maugham”
Graham Sutherland
English
Portraiture
“The Defense of Cadiz against the English”
Francisco de Zurbaran
Spanish
Baroque
“The Duke of Wellington”
Thomas Lawrence
English
Romanticism
“The Family Group”
Henry Moore
British
Sculpture
(WWII memorial showing couple holding onto an infant)
“The Finding of Moses”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venetian
Baroque
“The Forest of Fontainebleau, Morning”
Theodore Rousseau
French
Barbizon
“The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt”
Peer Paul Rubens
Flemish
Baroque
(That is pretty crazy)
“The Lacemaker”
Jan Vermeer
Dutch
Golden Age
(red and white threads)
“The Little Fruit Seller”
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish
Baroque
“The Lock of Optevoz”
Chales-Francois Daubigny
French
Barbizon
“The Palace at 4 A.M.”
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss-Italian
Surrealism
(Dangling spine & pteradactyl skeleton)
(House made of matches)
(Work about affair with Denise)
“The Peacable Kingdom”
Edward Hicks
Quaker
Folk art
(Considered the first example of naive art)
“The Precious Book”
Gwen John
Welsh
Portraiture
“The Quack”
Jan Steen
Dutch
Golden Age
“The Seven Ages of Women”
Hans Baldung
German
Printmaking
(Stuent of Durer)
“The Song of Love”
Giorgio de Chirico
Italian
Surrealism
(Moved Rene Magritte to tears; saw “the ascendancy of poetry over painting”)
“The Spinning Top”
Hans Bellmer
German
Surrealism
“The Transfiguration”
Rphael
Italian
High Renaissance
(Last work by Raphael)
“The Triumphs of Caesar”
“The Elephants”
Andrea Mantegna
Italian
Renaissance
(Celebrates Caesar in the Gallic Wars)
(Series of 9 paintings)
(Huge, “form the world’s largest metric area of renaissance paintings outside Italy”)
“The Vase Bearers”
“The Young Beggar”
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish
Baroque
“Thomas William Coke”
Pompeo Batoni
Italian
Bolognese Classicism
“Three Men Walking”
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss-Italian
Surrealism
(sculptures like this were similar to ones depicting his wife Annette)
“Triple Portrait of Cardinal Richeliu”
Philippe of Champagne
Branbacon-French
Baroque
“Triptych in Memory of George Dyer”
Francis Bacon
British
Modernist
(Depicts dead lover wearing boxing shorts and boots)
“Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation”
Hans Memling
German
Early Netherlandish
“Triumph of Galatea”
Raphael
Italian
High Renaissance
“Twilight in the Wilderness”
Frederic Edwin Church
American
Hudson River School
“University of Haifa, Israel”
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern Architecture
(Niemeyer designed university that all of its facilities would be in the “Multi-Purpose Building”)
“Various Cakes”
Wayne Thiebaud
American
Pop art
(Painted commonplace objects)
“Three Machines”
“Woman with a Parrot”
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian
Baroque
“Woman with her Throat Cut”
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss
Surrealism
(combined the bodies of a woman and a praying mantis)
“Portrait of My Father”
Paul Klee
German-Swiss
Expressionism
(Used a needle to scratch away at a piece of blackened glass)
(Wearing a pince-nez)
“Red and White Domes”
Paul Klee
German-Swiss
Expressionism
(variation of his “magic square” style)
“Cat & Bird”
Paul Klee
German-Swiss
Expressionism
(Pink bird between the eyebrows of the cat)
(Cat has a heart shaped nose)
Name of the Florentine chapel that was home to many of Masaccio’s works, including “The Tribute Money” and “The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden”
Brancacci Chapel
Florentine
(Most of the work by Masaccio would have been done in the 1420s or so)
“Berlin Tondo”
Masaccio
Italian
Renaissance
(show a childbirth)
(is a desco da parto, which is a birthing-tray)
