ART201 4/19 Flashcards
Title: Entombment of Christ
Artist: Pontormo
Period: Mannerism
Significance: leaving the compositions of the early Renaissance, vertical axis. void represents loss and grief
Title: Madonna with the Long Neck
Artist: Parmigianino
Period: Mannerism
Significance: stylish elegance, elongated figures
Title: Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
Artist: Branzino
Period: Mannerism
Significance: ambiguous meaning, stron and sculptural contours, provacative subject
Title: Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa
Artist: Cellini
Period: Mannerism
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Title: The Genius Fountainbleu
Artist: Cellini
Period: Mannerism
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Title: Abduction of the Sabine Women
Artist: Giovanni da Bologna
Period: Mannerism
Significance: first large scale group since calssical antiquity, vertical spiral movement
Title: West facade of San Georgio
Artist: Palladio
Period: Mannerism
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Title: Villa Rotunda
Artist: Palladio
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Title: The Last Supper
Artist: Tintoretto
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Title: Christ in the House of Levi
Artist: Veronese
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Title: The Burial of Court Orgaz
Artist: El Greco
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Title: Adoration of the Shepards
Artist: El Greco
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Title: Dome, Collunade and facade of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican
Artist: Michelangelo, Bernini, Maderno
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Title: Collunade of St. Peter’s
Artist: Bernini
Period: Baroque
Significance: the dramatic gesture of the embrace of the colonnade makes as worshippers enter symbolizes the welcome to the Catholic church during the Counter Reformation
Title: baldacchino at St.Peter’s
Artist: Bernini
Period: Baroque
Significance: serves as both functional and symbolic, marks St. Peter’s tomb and the high altar, visually bridges human scale to the lofty vaults and dome above
Title: Ecstacy of Saint Teresa
Artist: Bernini
Period: Baroque
Significance: passionate drama, the recreation of spiritual experience would encourage devotion and piety
Title: David
Artist: Bernini
Period: Baroque
Significance: expansive and theatrical, element of time,
Title: Santa Maria della Salute
Artist: Longhena
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Title: Loves of the Gods
Artist: Carracci
Period: Baroque
Significance: mythological scenes in a quadro riportato format
Title: Glorification of Saint Ignatius
Artist: Pozzo
Period: Baroque
Significance: merging real and painted architecture, illusion of vaulted ceiling lifting into heaven
Title: Calling of Saint Matthew
Artist: Caravaggio
Period: Baroque
Significance: stark contrast of light and dark, chiaroscuro, basement lighting, fugitive
Title: Supper at Emmaus
Artist: Carravagio
Period: Baroque
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Title: Martyrdom of Saint Philip
Artist: Ribera
Period: Baroque
Significance: Martyrdom scenes were common in the Counter Reformation era, scorns idealization
Title: St. Francis in Meditation
Artist: Zurburan
Period: Baroque
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Title: Still Life
Artist: Murillo
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Title: Las Meninas
Artist: Velasquez
Period: Baroque
Significance: contrast of real, mirrored and picture spaces
Title: The Lion Hunt
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Period: Baroque
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Title: Elevation of the Cross
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Period: Baroque
Significance: triptych, use of foreshortening, violent action, the tension is emotional and physical
Title: Arrical of Marie de’ Medici
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Period: Baroque
Significance: 21 large canvases portraying her, opulent setting,
Title: The Laughing Cavalier
Artist: Frans Hals
Period: Baroque
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Title: Syndics of the Cloth Guild
Artist: Rembrandt
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Title: Three Crosses
Artist: Rembrandt
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Title: Supper at Emmaus
Artist: Rembrandt
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Title: The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
Artist: Rembrandt
Period: Baroque
Significance: dramatic use of light contributes to the animation of the group
Title: Woman Holding a Balance
Artist: Vermeer
Period: Baroque
Significance: scales in perfect balance are an allegory to temperate life, last judgement painting in the background
Title: Allegory of the Art of Painting
Artist: Vermeer
Period: Baroque
Significance: specialized in domestic scenes, draping breaks up composition diagonally
Title: Still life with oysters
Artist: Claesz
Period: Baroque
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Title: Old Mill
Artist: Ruisdael
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Title:The Adoration of the Shepard
Artist: Georges de la Tour
Period: Baroque
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Title: Joseph the Carpenter
Artist: Georges de La Tour
Period: Baroque
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Title: Dance Around the Golden Calf
Artist: Poussin
Period: Baroque
Significance: leading calssical painter, heroic and divine subjects modeled after ancient statues
Title: Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
Artist: Lorrain
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Title: Entrance to the palace of Versailles
Artist: Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun
Period: Baroque
Significance: Louis XIV ordered his architects to convert a royal hunting lodge at Verailles into a palace with three radial avenues
Title: Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
Artist: Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun
Period: Baroque
Significance: oranate, mirrors create illusion
Title: The Swing
Artist: Fragonard
Period: Rococo
Significance: the eptiome of Rococo, pastel colors, light scene
Title: Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode
Artist: Hogarth
Period: Rococo
Significance: satires of English life, shows the marital immoralities of the upper class
Title: Coronation of Napoleon
Artist: David
Period: Neo Classicism
Significance: first painter of the Empire, coronation with pope as witness,
Title: Oath of the Horatii
Artist: David
Period: Neoclassicism
Significance: ideologist of the French Revolution, large scale, celebrates ancient Roman patriotism, sacrifice features, classical architecture
Title: Napoleon I on his Empirical Throne
Artist: Ingres
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Title: Grande Odalisque
Artist: Ingres
Period: Neo Classicism
Significance: reclining female nude was a Greco Roman subject, Turkish harem, Romantic taste for the exotic
Title: Pity like a Newborn Babe
Artist: Blake
Period: Neo Classicism
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Title: Liberty Leading the People
Artist: Delacroix
Period: Romanticism
Significance: balanced mis of history and poetic allegory
Title: Death of Sardanapalus
Artist: Delacroix
Period: Romanticism
Significance: Assyrian kind on his funeral pyre, richly colored, emotionally charged, exotic figures
Title: Raft of the Medusa
Artist: Gericault
Period: Romanticism
Significance: historical painting, rejection of Neoclassical composition, Romantic spirit of suffering
Title: Third of May
Artist: Goya
Period: Romanticism
Significance: empathy for the massacred Spanish peasants, humanity
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