Art History Flashcards
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- St. George
- Donatello
- Florence
- Early Renaissance (1410-20)
- Bronze copy (originally marble)
- Similar to Augustus Primaporta (youthful, armor dress); above our heads like a guardian; naturalistic, contrapposto; represents warrior st. (ideals to protect independence) Comparison to Doryphoros
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- Oath of the Horatii
- Jacques Louis David
- France
- Romanticism - Enlightenment/Neo-Classicism
- Oil on canvas
- Revolutionary in terms of content, style (not ornamental); state is more important than the individual (Roman moral); painted in clear, didactic, serious way; Neo-Classicism - a return to the past, doric order arch
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- Night Cafe
- Vincent van Gogh
- French
- Post-Impressionist
- Oil on canvas
- Depressing scene, exaggerated perspective; Van Gogh feels incapable of joining in with people; color to express emotion, greens and reds are unsettling, alienation, eerie, anticipates expressionist art
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- PietÃ
- Michelangelo
- St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City
- High Renaissance (1498)
- Marble
- Image of care, emotion; pyramidal group framed by drapery; out of scale proportions give largeness to woman; emphasized tragedy, ICON, specific ye universal, proofed yet subtle exp of loss
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- Merode Altarpiece
- Robert Campin
- Flanders (Dutch speaking northern portion of Belgium)
- Northern Renaissance
- Oil paint on panel
- Movable/portable; ton of detail (oil); triptych (can be open or closed); for a private individual; religious scene in Flemish home (theological moment in everyday); visual symbolism; perspective; naturalism
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- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
- Francisco Goya
- Spain
- Romanticism (1799)
- Etching (Aquatint print)
- World is being taken over by the animal sphere; development of etching, produces soft, summato-like gradations; mixing rational and irrational worlds, similar to Fuseli’s Nightmare, subject an intellectual who falls asleep - now subject to irrational dream
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- Scene of Christ’s death, “Lamentation”
- Giotto
- Arena Chapel, Italy
- Early Renaissance (1305)
- Fresco
- Tree is budding, Spring is coming; gesture (all sad about Christ’s death), brings us into the painting with green figure (back turned), center of painting in corner (emphasizes death), sinking/kneeling, foreshortening
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- The Peasant Wedding
- Pieter Brueghel
- Northern Europe, Flanders
- Northern High Renaissance (1567)
- Oil on panel
- Genre; picture of cacophony, sound, chaos, joy, celebration; narrative from left to right, powerful diagonal; highlights red; zigzag narrative; we are privileged spectators, diagonals lead the eye, celebratory subject - not pretentious
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- Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
- Masaccio
- In the Brancacci Chapel in Florence
- Early Renaissance (1425)
- Fresco
- Can see the lines - everyday they have to remix the paint; suddenly aware of sexuality and exposure (loss of innocence)
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- Guernica
- Picasso
- Spanish
- 20th Century, Cubism
- Oil on canvas
- monochromatic; newspaper like indicates a kind of journalistic account; horror of anonymous killing, devastation across the canvas, in contrast to spanish gov’t, bull and horse both admired in Spain
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- David
- Donatello
- Florence
- Early Renaissance (1450)
- Bronze
- Made for a private realm; biblical vs. mythological, male vs. female; radical imagination; first nude since antiquity; was Donatello a homosexual? ambiguity in gender, homoeroticism
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- The Jewish Cemetery
- Jacob van Ruisdael
- Dutch
- Baroque (1657)
- Oil on canvas
- Landscape filled with dramatic elements – sky; ruined church; stream (cold war flowing directly at us); we are not in control of the world; implied drama (one feels the forces of nature and passage of time), comparison to Gorgione’s Tempest, danger, death
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- Last Supper
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Milan
- High Renaissance ( 1494—1498)
- Fresco/Tempera
- extension of actual room; Christ at very center; Leonardo thinks about the nature of sin, betrayal, good and evil; gesture shows ranges of emotion; narrative in a single moment; groups of 3
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- The Blind Leading the Blind
- Pieter Brueghel
- Northern Europe, Flanders
- Northern High Renaissance (1568)
- Disemper on linen canvas
- Monumentalizes a proverb, Single proverb on large scale; Brueghel is paying attention to the lower class; terribly sympathetic; horizontal picture (stability on left, unstable on right); genre painting (everyday life), many different kinds of blindness represented
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- Interior of Arena Chapel
- C ommissioned by Enrico Scrovegni, painted by Giotto
- Veneto , Italy
- Early Renaissance (1305)
- Frescos
- Contains frescos by Giotto depicting the life of christ, his most influential work, has an overall theme of Salvation
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- Sistine Chapel
- Michelangelo
- Vatican City
- High Renaissance ( 1483)
- Fresco
- Creation of Adam; spark of creation with powerful gesture from god and passive gesture from Adam; recreating idealized sculpture, the perfect race, God energetic, Adam blank(empty)
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- Young
- Rembrandt
- Dutch
- Baroque
- Oil on panel
- Demonstrates play with light, carvagism/chiaroscuro, deep dark gold light, leaves brush strokes, captures fleeting emotions, intimate
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- The Oxbow
- Thomas Cole
- American
- Romanticism (1836)
- Oil on canvas
- River that hasn’t straightened out all the kinks; indicates the youngness of the river, the land, and the country; freedom/possibility in the west; landscape; untamed vs. manmade nature, landscape seems to continue on forever
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- Trinity
- Masaccio
- Florence
- Early Renaissance (1425)
- Fresco
- Perspective (architecture can be reconstructed); two people who purchased the painting are in it; transience of life, meant to think about death, mary on left, st john on right, god behind
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- Medici Palace Courtyard
- Artist?
- Florence
- Early Renaissance
- The setting for David, reserved for a select few
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- Tempest
- Giorgione
- Venice
- Venetian High Renaissance (1508)
- Oil on canvas
- Landscape becomes more central; no clear subject; rise of the independent artist inventing something entirely on their own; subject matter less important than the beautiful technique, captures moment before lightening strikes
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- The Luncheon on the Grass
- Edouard Manet
- French
- Impressionist (1862-63)
- Oil on canvas
- Rejected at the Salon instantly (subject matter is unclear, not a history, not a portrait); considered unfinished, loose application of paint; gesture; , abbreviated technique, minimal stroke, epic scale, loose, based on a Raphael mythological print
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- David
- Michelangelo
- Florence
- High Renaissance (1501-1504)
- Marble
- Compare to Doryphorous; imminent action; narrative, manu fortis - exaggerated size of hands and head, NUDE vs naked
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- The Man with a Blue Sleeve
- Titian
- Venice
- Venetian High Renaissance (1509)
- Oil on canvas
- A living portrait, man turning towards us, engaging us; independent artist, showing skill; symphony of blue in background, rise of secular and private painting, dramatic feel of texture
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- Stonebreakers
- Gustave Courbet
- France
- Realist
- Oil on Canvas
- Possibly destroyed in WWII; boy is far too young to be working, old man is far too old (contrast); genre, everyday, compare to Velazquez’s Water Carrier of Seville, very posed, celebration of working class, utterly revolutionary painting
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- St. Teresa of Abaca
- Bernini
- Cornaro Chapel, Italy
- Baroque ( 1647—52)
- Marble
- Marble seems to be floating, the base is clouds; divine love; directed light with gold bars; woman became a saint within 30 years of her death
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- Water Carrier of Seville
- Velazquez
- Spain
- Baroque (1620)
- Oil on canvas
- Spanish Baroque; monochromatic colors; genre scene; presenting the poorest person in the city in high art (unprecedented); no real subject; sympathy for the underprivileged
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- Gattamelata
- Donatello
- Padua, Italy
- Early Renaissance ( 1453)
- Bronze
- Name in Italian means honey cat; artists want credit for creating individual works of art that people haven’t seen before in the Renaissance, first bronze equestrians since Marcus Aurelius - elevating citizen soldier to status of Roman Emperor
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- Self-Portrait
- Artemesia Gentileschi
- Italian
- Baroque (Italian)
- Oil on canvas
- We are watching her paint the painting we are viewing, leaves part unfinished because she is not finished, leaning out toward us, first woman artist we can legit say a lot about
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- Panel from Church of San Francesco
- Giotto
- Assisi, Italy
- Before Early Renaissance
- Fresco
- St. Francis loved nature; naturalism; gesture; narrative, birds allowed him to organize his thoughts (individualized), icon (pray to), L->R
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- Las Meninas
- Velazquez
- Spain
- Baroque (1656)
- Oil on canvas
- Ambiguous genre scene; we are the king and queen; Velazquez is the highest figure in the room; artists are thinking about optics (edges are slightly blurred); makes us feel part of the painting
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- Melencolia
- Albert Durer
- German
- Northern High Renaissance (1514)
- Woodcut/engraving (Intaglio)
- Prints can be owned by a lot of people, artist is capturing a much larger audience; making negative marks; melancholy (too much bile in body, black and overcast), geniuses become melancholy, associated with creativity (part of the inspiration process)
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- Jolly Toper
- Little Dutch Masters (Frans Hals)
- Dutch
- Baroque ( 1628-1630)
- Oil on canvas
- What is the subject? Thrusting a drink towards us, so we become unavoidable subjects, engagement; about to speak; edges are blurred (optical reality); not finished in terms of old masters; low key color scheme; we are the spectators, without us there is no story
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- Arnolfini Wedding
- Jan van Eyck
- Flanders (northern Europe)
- Northern Renaissance ( 1434)
- Oil on oak panel
- Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece; domestic space; visible symbolism (suggestions of union - faithful dog, sandals cast off, circular mirror, fruit on window = temptation and sexual desire)
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- Death of Sardanapalus
- Eugene Delacroix
- France
- Romanticism ( 1827)
- Oil on canvas
- Claustrophobic, again appears like we are in a tent; blood squirting all over us, swift brushwork, color to evoke emotion, red, people spilling out of canvas