Art: Painters & Paintings Flashcards
Timeline of Art Movements
- Medieval (1300s)
- Renaissance (1400s - 1500s)
- Baroque (1600s)
- Neo-Classical (1700s)
- Romantic (early - mid1800s)
- Impressionism (mid-late 1800s)
- Post-Impressionism.
- Fauvism / Cubism
Medieval
Giotto
Cemabue
Time Period? Artists? Characteristics and subjects?
Renaissance
- Art movement in Europe from around 1350 – 1620 AD.
- The movement features paintings with triangular compositions, both religious and classical subjects, and a fascination with linear perspective.
DaVinci,Durer,vanEyck,Bellini,Raphael,Botticelli, El Greco, Michelangelo
Artists without paintings to learn: Tintoretto, Bronzino (with El Greco, the three Mannerists); Titian
Jan van Eyck
- Country: Flemish region of Belgium
- Time Period: 1390 - 1440ish
- Movement: Renaissance
- Famous Works: *The Arnolfini Wedding
- Credited with the invention of oil paint.
Identify the artist and movement:
“Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife”, “Arnolfini Wedding,” or “The Betrothal of Arnolfini” (1434)
Jan van Eyck, Renaissance
This is van Eyck’s only mention, other than inventor of oil paint.
Giovanni Bellini
(Note: NOT Bernini - he’s someone else.)
- Country: Italy
- Time Period: 1430 - 1520ish
- Movement: Renaissance
- Famous Works: Agony in the Garden
Just know that he’s a Renaissance painter.
(He’s in like, two questions.)
Agony in the Garden (1465)
Giovanni Bellini, Renaissance
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known Works:
Albrecht Dürer
Note: This famous self-portrait is NOT a picture of Jesus.
- Country: Germany
- Time Period: 1470 - 1530ish
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known for: Woodcuts depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and a bunny. Fun combo.
(He’s also a printmaker and Renaissance theorist.)
Identify the artist and movement:
“Hase” or “Young Hare” (1502)
Albrecht Dürer, Renaissance
Identify the artist and movement:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1498)
Albrecht Dürer, Renaissance
Art terminology:
This technique of mural painting is executed upon freshly laid lime plaster and closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.
Fresco
(Water-based paint is applied to wet plaster for murals.)
(When the plaster dries, the paint becomes integrated with the wall. “Fresco” is Italian for “fresh.”)
Art terminology:
This type of paint made from egg yolks was used during the medieval and early Renaissance by painters such as Botticelli.
Tempera
Raphael (Sanzio da Urbino)
- Country: Urbino, Italy
- Time Period: 1490 - 1520
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known For: The School of Athens, his Madonnas, or series on the Virgin Mary, as well as several frescoes.
The School of Athens, Disputa, The Sistine Madonna, The Transfiguration
Identify the artist, movement, and location:
“Diputa” or “Disputation of the Holy Sacrament” (1510)
- Raphael, Renaissance
- Located in The Vatican
Identify the artist, movement, and city in which it is located:
The School of Athens (1511)
In this fresco, Aristotle and Plato meet face to face.
There are so many questions about this painting.
- Raphael, Renaissance
- Located in The Vatican
Painted in The Vatican for Pope Julius II
Identify the artist and movement:
The Sistine Madonna (1513)
Raphael, Renaissance
Identify the artist and movement:
The Transfiguration (1520)
Raphael, Renaissance
Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For:
Dominikos Theotokopoulos / El Greco (“The Greek”)
(None of his paintings are mentioned.)
- Country: Born in Greece, moved to Toledo, Spain
- Time Period: 1540 - 1615
- Movement: Renaissance Mannerist
- Influenced by Tintoretto, another Mannerist.
One of three Mannerists: El Greco, Bronzino, Tintoretto.
Ressurection (1579)
El Greco, Renaissance
(Okay, so El Greco does have a painting you need to know about. This one was in a match-the-artist-to-their-work question.)
Identify Country, Time Period, Movement, Artists Inspired:
Tintoretto
(He has zero questions about paintings.)
Country: Venice, Italy
Time Period: 1520 - 1600
Movement: Renaissance Mannerist painter that inspired El Greco, (another Mannerist)
One of three Mannerists: Tintoretto, El Greco, Bronzino.
Mannerism: 16th-century art throughout Europe and in the Americas that is artificial, often emotionally provocative, and designed to impress.
Country and movement:
Bronzino
(None of his paintings are mentioned.)
He’s an Italian, Renaissance Mannerist painter.
One of three mannerists - Tintoretto, Bronzino, El Greco.
Titian
(None of his works are mentioned.)
- Country: Venice, Italy
- Time Period:
- Movement:
- Known for: His many portraits using gold and red, a shade of which is named for him.
The color, Titian Red, is a red shade of hair in women.
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known for:
Leonardo DaVinci
- Country: Italy
- Time Period: 1450 - 1520
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known for: The Mona Lisa, The Vitruvian Man,
- Often called the “Renaissance Man”
- Popularized chiaroscuro, or the modeling of figures with strongly contrasted light and shadow
Identify the artist, movement, and number of figures depicted:
The Last Supper (1498)
- Leonardo DaVinci, Renaissance
- There are 13 people shown (Jesus and the 12 Apostles.)
Identify the artist and movement:
The Vitruvian Man (1490)
Leonardo DaVinci, Renaissance
Identify the artist, movement, medium, and current location:
The Mona Lisa (1503)
- Artist: Leonardo DaVinci, Renaissance
- Medium: Oil paint
- Location: The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
The painting is located in The Louvre museum, Paris, France.
Identify the artist and movement:
Annunciation (1472)
Leonardo DaVinci, Renaissance
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Virgin (or Madonna) of the Rocks
Leonardo DaVinci, Renaissance
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For:
Alessandro “Sandro” Botticelli
- Country: Florence, Italy
- Time Period: 1460 - 1510
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known for: The Birth of Venus, Primavera, using tempera paint.
Paintings: The Birth of Venus, Primavera
Identify the artist, movement, and figures depicted:
The Birth of Venus (1482)
This one appears OFTEN.
“This, with Primavera, is one of the most famous paintings in the world and an icon of the Renaissance era.”
Sandro Botticelli, Renaissance
Here, Venus is surrounded by** Flora and the three Graces.**
(Flora is the Roman goddess of flowers.)
Identify the artist, movement, and** figures depicted:**
Primavera (~1480)
“This, with Birth of Venus, is one of the most famous paintings in the world and an icon of the Renaissance era.”
Sandro Botticelli, Renaissance
This, like* Birth of Venus,* features Venus and Flora.
Giorgio Vasari
The Historian
- Country: Italy
- Time Period: 1511 - 1574
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known For: Vasari is a painter, but is best known as the Father of Art History with his book “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects”
Identify the author and movement:
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1567)
Giorgio Vasari, Renaissance
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For:
Michelangelo
- Country: Born in Florence, Italy
- Time Period: 1475 - 1565
- Movement: Renaissance
- Known For: His frescoes “The Creation of Adam” and “The Last Judgement” on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and his sculptures of Moses and David.
Paintings: The Creation of Adam | The Last Judgement
Sculptures: Moses and David
Architecture: St. Peter’s Basillica
Identify the artist, movement, and location:
The Creation of Adam (1512)
Michelangelo, Renaissance
Located on the** ceiling of the Sistine Chapel** in Vatican City
Identify the artist, movement, and location:
The Last Judgement
Michelangelo, Renaissance
Like The Creation of Adam, located on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Art Movement:
Baroque
Baroque took the realistic elements of the Renaissance and added movement, light and dark contrast, and dramatic intensity.
Caravaggio, Gentileschi, Velazquez, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer
LaTour, Hals
Rembrandt van Rijn
Often known as just “Rembrandt.”
Country: Dutch, (Denmark)
Time Period: 1600 - 1670
Movement: Baroque
Known For: SO many self-portraits with his wife Saskia, The Night Watch
The Night Watch, Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Anatomy Lesson…
…of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp.
Identify the artist and movement:
The Prodigal Son in the Brothel (A Self-Portrait with Saskia)
An example of one of many self-portraits.
Rembrandt (van Rijn), Baroque
Identify the artist and movement:
The Night Watch (1642)
(Lots of questions about this)
Rembrandt (van Rijn), Baroque
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)
Rembrandt (van Rijn), Baroque
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp (1632)
Rembrandt (van Rijn), Baroque
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Influenced By:
Artemisia Gentileschi
- Country: Italy
- Time Period: (1590 - 1650)
- Movement: Baroque
- **Known For: ** Due to being a victim of rape, she often painted images of women wreaking vengeance violently on men.
- Influenced by: Caravaggio (called one of the “Caravaggiotti”)
Paintings: Judith Slaying Holofernes (or Judith & Holofernes)
Identify the artist and movement:
Judith & Holofernes (or Judith Slaying Holofernes) (1613)
Careful: This refers to the painting. There’s also a Donatello sculpture called “Judith and Holofernes”)
Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Six Paintings, Influence On:
Caravaggio
- Country: Milan, Italy
- Time Period: 1570 - 1610
- Movement: Baroque
- Known for: His tumultuous life (he killed a young man in a bar fight and spent the rest of his life in exile from Rome) and his use of light and shadow in paintings.
- Influenced Artemisia Gentileschi’s work.
Calling of St. Matthew, Conversion of St. Paul, Crucifixion of St. Peter
Supper at Emmaus, Conversion on the Way to Damascus, Death of the Virgin
Identify the artist and movement:
Supper at Emmaus (1606)
Caravaggio, Baroque
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The Calling of St. Matthew (1600)
Caravaggio, Baroque
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Crucifixion of St. Peter (1600)
Caravaggio, Baroque
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The Conversion of St. Paul (1601)
Caravaggio, Baroque
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Conversion on the Way to Damascus (1601)
Caravaggio, Baroque
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Death of the Virgin (1606)
Caravaggio, Baroque
Birthplace? Time Period? Movement? Known for? Location of Works?
Diego Velázquez
In French, all questions are about Monet. In Spanish, it’s all about Diego Velázquez.
Country: Seville, Spain
Time Period: 1600 - 1660ish
Movement: Baroque
Known For: Las Meninas, Painting dwarves or little people, portraits of court royalty, striving for realism, and popularizing the “bodegón” or kitchen scene.
Location: Museo del Prado in Madrid
Las Meninas, Old Woman Frying Eggs, Surrender of Breda, Las Hilanderas,
The Triumph of Bacchus, La Sibila; Everything in bold here has been an answer to a question.
Age joined court? Which king? Mentor? Wife? Developed which technique?
Diego Velázquez: Additional Info
- At the age of 26, Velázquez became the royal court/chamber painter of King Phillip IV of Spain.
- He studied and worked in the workshop of painter Francisco Pacheco and married his daughter Juana Pachecho.
- He developed “tenebrista” or tenebrism, an even more pronounced chiascuro or contrast between light and dark.
Identify the artist, movement, main subject,, original title
Las Meninas (1656)
Know. This. Painting.
(“Las Meninas means ‘The Ladies in Waiting.’)
- Diego Velázquez, Baroque
- In the foreground is “The Infanta” Margaret Theresa of Spain, the firstborn child of King Phillip IV and on the left is the artist Diego Velázquez himself.
- The original title of this painting was “The Family of King Phillip IV.”
(“Las Meninas means ‘The Ladies in Waiting.’)
Identify the artist and movement:
Old Woman Frying Eggs (~1618)
Diego Velázquez, Baroque
(Velázquez loves a good kitchen scene. This is also a still life.)
Identify the artist and movement:
The Surrender of Breda (1635)
(Sometimes called “Las Lanzas” or “The Spears” due to the soldiers.)
Diego Velázquez, Baroque
Identify artist, movement, and two women in foreground from the fable:
Las Hilanderas (or “The Fable of Arachne”)
(“Las Hilanderas” means “The Spinners”)
- Diego Velázquez, Baroque
- In the fable, a young Lydian woman, Arachne, stated that she could compete with the Goddess Athena inventor of the spinning wheel, to weave the most beautiful tapestry.
Identify the artist, movement, and diety depicted:
The Triumph of Bacchus (or “The Drunkards”) (1629)
- Diego Velázquez, Baroque
- This painting describes a scene where the god Bacchus, god of wine-making and wine, appears crowning one of the seven drunks who surround him with ivy leaves.
Identify the artist, movement, and subject depicted:
La Sibila (Or, “A Sybil”) (1631)
(A “Sybil” is a Greek prophetess.)
- Diego Velázquez, Baroque
- This is a portrait of Juana Pachecho, his wife (and his mentor’s daughter.)
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For
Peter Paul Rubens
Country: Flemish (Belgium)
Time Period: 1580 - 1640ish
Movement: Baroque
Known For: Famous for his volupuous (curvy) female nudes and his painting series on the life of the French Queen Marie de’ Medici.
Two paintings: Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, The Three Graces
Identify the artist and movement:
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)
Peter Paul Rubens, Baroque
Identify the artist and movement:
The Three Graces (1635)
(Nudity Warning:)
Peter Paul Rubens, Baroque
Country, Time Period, Baroque, Known For
Georges de la Tour
- Country: France
- Time Period: 1600 - 1650
- Movement: Baroque
- Known For: The Penitent *Magdalene; Candlelit, chiascuro scenes
Works: The Penitent Magdalene
Identify the artist and movement:
The Penitent Magdalene (1640)
(Or, “Magdalene with Two Flames”)
Georges de la Tour, Baroque
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For:
Frans Hals
- Country: Danish (The Netherlands)
- Time Period: 1580 - 1670ish
- Movement: Baroque
- Known For: The Merry Drinker
Identify the artist and movement:
The Merry Drinker (1630)
Frans Hals, Baroque
Country, Time Period, Movement
Anthony van Dyck
(Just have to know that he’s a Flemish Baroque painter.)
- Country: Flemish (The Netherlands)
- Time Period: 1600 - 1640
- Movement: Baroque
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Two Nicknames:
Johannes Vermeer
- Country: Dutch (born in Delft, The Netherlands)
- Time Period: 1630 - 1675ish
- Movement: Baroque
- Known For: The Girl with the Pearl Earring and The Kitchen Maid, for painting middle class people doing domestic activities usually near a window.
- He is sometimes called the “Master of Light.”
- He was called the “Sphinx of Delft” because his life was a mystery
The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Kitchen Maid / Milkmaid
Identify the artist and movement:
The Girl with the Pearl Earring (1665)
Johannes Vermeer, Baroque
Identify the artist and movement:
The Kitchen Maid (Or, “The Milkmaid”) (1660)
Johannes Vermeer, Baroque
Art Movement: In what country did it start? Time Period?
Rococo Period
(VERY UNCOMMON QUESTION)
- Started in France in early 1700s after the Baroque Period ended.
- Characterized by busy, intricate, ornate art.
Only one artist mentioned in single 2009 question: Jean-Antoine Watteau
(This is a low priority card.)
Country, time period, movement, known for:
Jean-Antoine Watteau
- Country: France
- Time Period: 1680 - 1720
- Movement: Rococo
- Known For: Pilgrimage to Cythera
His question was a “name the artist” question from an image of his art.
Identify artist and movement:
Pilgrimage to Cythera (1719)
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Rococo
Thomas Gainsborough
- Country: England
- Time Period: 1730 - 1790
- Known For: Blue Boy
Identify the artist and their nationality
The Blue Boy
(This painting comes up OFTEN.)
Thomas Gainesborough, British (Rococo / Romanticist) Painter
(The movement is never asked about.)
Art Movement:
Neoclassicism
An art movement that seeks to emulate classical Greek and Roman culture.
Jacques Louis David
Jacques Louis David
- Country:
- Time Period:
- Movement:
- Known For:
Identify the artist and movement:
The Death of Marat (1793)
(He was killed in his bath by a woman with a knife.)
Jacques Louis David, Neo-Classicist
Identify the artist and movement:
The Oath of the Horatii (1786)
Jacques-Louis David, Neo-Classicist
Identify the artist and movement:
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801)
(There’s five versions - he has a different cape color in some.)
Jacques-Louis David, Neo-Classicist
Art Movement:
Romanticism
The artistic movement that dominated Europe and America during the 19th century which elevated imagination over reason.
Blake, Delacroix, Gericault, Turner, Constable, Friedrich
Country and movement:
John Constable
English Romanticist Painter
(That’s it.)
Country and movement:
Caspar David Friedrich
German Romanticist Painter
(That’s it.)
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Influenced By:
Eugène Delacroix
- Country: France
- Time Period: 1800 - 1860ish
- Movement: Romanticism
- Known For: Use of vibrant color
- Influenced By: Fellow Romanticist Theodore Gericault
Two Paintings: Death of Sardanapalus, Liberty Leading the People
Identify the artist and movement:
Death of Sardinapalus (1827)
Based on Lord Byron’s play of the same name.
Eugène Delacroix, Romanticist
(All of these Romanticist paintings are so violent.)
Identify the artist and movement:
Liberty Leading the People (1830)
Eugène Delacroix, Romanticist
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For:
Théodore Géricault
- Country: France
- Time Period: 1790 - 1825
- Movement: Romanticism
- Known For: Being a Romanticist and The Raft of the Medusa. That’s all you have to know.
The Raft of Medusa
Artist, movement, and** who the artist blames for the wreck**:
The Raft of the Medusa (1819)
- Theodore Gericault, Romanticist
- The true story of the shipwreck of the Medusa was caused by the incompetence of the captain, an** inexperienced political appointee.**
JMW Turner
Country: England
Time Period: (1775 - 1850)
Movement: Romanticism
Known For: Hannibal Crossing the Alps and being a Romanticist. That’s all you need to know.
Identify the artist and movement:
Hannibal Crossing the Alps (1812)
(Hannibal of Carthage was trying to conquer the Romans.)
JMW Turner, Romanticist
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Religious Views:
William Blake
- Country: English
- Time Period: 1760 - 1830
- Movement: Romanticism
- Known For: Known more for his poetry (“The Tyger” and “The Lamb”) than his illustrations and paintings as an artist, Blake represents all things Romantic-era.
- Known as a religous non-conformist (he didn’t have a traditional view of religion.)
Illustrations: Ancient of Days, Nebuchadnezzar.
Identify the artist and movement:
The Ancient of Days (1794)
William Blake, Romanticist
Identify the artist and movement:
Nebuchadnezzar (1795)
William Blake, Romanticist
Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For:
Francisco Goya
- Country: Spain
- Time Period: 1750 - 1830
- Movement: Romanticism
- Known For: Goya is considered by some to be the first of the Great Masters of the Romantic movement, and others consider him the father of modern art.
Identify the artist and movement:
Third of May, 1808 (or, “The Execution of the Citizens of Madrid”) (1814)
Francisco Goya, Romanticist
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The Disasters of War (~1810)
Francisco Goya, Romanticist
Identify the artist and movement:
Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1801)
Francisco Goya, Romanticist
He became royal court painter, a role previously held by Diego Velazquez