19th century arts

Question 1

Laocoon

Answer 1

Lessing and Winckelmann

Question 2

Belvedere torso

Answer 2

Ajax about to kill himself, bulky. Vatican

Question 3

Private collections: Isabella d’Este

Answer 3

owns private collection

Question 4

Apollo Belvedere

Answer 4

lauded by Winckelmann as the best

Question 5

Peter Paul Rubens, ‘The Council of the Gods’, 1624

Answer 5

putting in the Apollo Belvedere into the art of the relevant centuries

Question 6

DAniel Mytens, Thomas Howard, 14th Earl and Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk, c.1618

Answer 6

sat pointing at the statues, antiquity as a setting for 17th century richness. very ordered, greek, white sculptures

Question 7

Zoffany’s 17th c. painting of Charles Townley in crowded sculpture gallery.

Answer 7

contrast to the 17th c.

Question 8

The Pompeiian hall - the primary colours etc

Answer 8

the aedicula

Question 9

Albinia Wherry, Greek Sculpture with Story and Song (1898)

Answer 9

talks about the horrors of Archaic art and Roman copies to the traditionalist - the education of the English gentleman in Classics

Question 10

Napoleon Sarony, Eugen Sandow as the Farnese Hercules, c.1890-5.

Answer 10

circus performer, utilising sex appeal and recognisablitly

Question 11

The Penny Magazine

Answer 11

weekly published, plates/etchings/honest reproductions of the big masterpieces.

Question 12

Crystal Palace exhibition, London’s Great Exhibiton, 1851.

Answer 12

casts, brightly coloured, cheap entry

Question 13

The Fitzwilliam cast gallery

Answer 13

laboratory of art

Question 14

Frederic Leighton self portrait, 1880.

Answer 14

Hadrian esque beard, rich clothes, in front of the Parthenon marbles.

Question 15

Alexander Archipenko and his work, 1887-1964.

Answer 15

modernist and forms connecting with the korai discovered at the Parthenon.

Question 16

Esquiline Venus

Answer 16

drawings - Original undraped version of Edward Poynter’s ‘Diadumene’ in the Magazine of Art. she has the hairstyle of the time. places her in a modern context

Question 17

Barberini Faun, the Apollo Belvedere

Answer 17

photographs of the sculptures, changes the game. apart from artistic potential of photography, practical elements

Question 18

Heavily restored Roman versions of Tyrannicides, 477/6

Answer 18

heavy restorations done to sculptures and vases especially - which dies out by the 21st c.