Case Studies - Key facts

Question 1

La Primavera

Answer 1

Artist: Botticelli
Date: 1480s
Location: painted in Florence, originally displayed in the Palazzo de Medici
Commissioned for a marriage

Question 2

The Battle of San Romano

Answer 2

Artist: Paolo Uccello
Date: around 1438-40
Egg tempera

Question 3

The Ecstasy of St Teresa

Answer 3

Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini
Date: 1647-52
Location: Corner Chapel in Rome

Question 4

David

Answer 4

Sculptor: Donatello
Date: probably around 1430
Made from Bronze, 1.58m heigh
Location: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (originally in the courtyard of the Palazzo de Medici)

Question 5

Odalisque and Slave

Answer 5

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Date: 1839
A depiction of Orientalism painted by a Parisian - Westerners see this as a look through the key hole into something otherworldly

Question 6

Olympia

Answer 6

Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1863
Location: Musee d’Orsay
Depicts a Parisian prostitute therefore disliked when it was made

Question 7

Winter Landscape

Answer 7

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Date: 1811
Style: Romantic
Tone: Loneliness, Isolation, Humility

Question 8

The Boulevard Montmartre at Night

Answer 8

Artist: Camille Pissarro
Date: 1897
Style: Immpressionist
Depicts Paris’ bright new identity as the centre of European architecture and city planning due to the city-wide reconstruction by Baron Haussman

Question 9

Mr and Mrs Andrews

Answer 9

Artist: Thomas Gainsborough
Date: 1750
Style: Rococo + at the time of the enlightenment
Genre: Conversation Piece - An informal group portrait set in an interior or garden setting, popular in 18th century England

Question 10

Reading (The artist’s mother and sister)

Answer 10

Artist: B. Morisot (female artist)
Date: 1869-70
Setting: Intimate, domestic setting

Question 11

Madonna

Answer 11

Artist: Edvard Munch
Date: 1894-5

Question 12

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his army Crossing the Alps

Answer 12

Artist: JMW Turner
Date: 1812
Subject: Historical Landscape
Style: Romantic
Combines the artist's own memories of a blizzard in Yorkshire with the aim to depict the dramatic story of Hannibal's army on their way to invade Italy in 218BC

Question 13

Crystal Palace

Answer 13

Architect: Joseph Paxton
Date: 1851
Location: Hyde Park, London= centre of the British Empire

Question 14

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Answer 14

Artist: Piet Mondrian
Date: 1942-43

Question 15

Bathers at Mortizburg

Answer 15

Artist: Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner
Date: 1909 (reworked in 1926)
Depicts a paradise

Question 16

Five Women on a Street

Answer 16

Artist: Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner
Date: 1913
the women stand for miserable city life (contrast to the bathers at morizburg)

Question 17

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Answer 17

Artist: Caravaggio
Date: 1598-99
Great sense of drama in the painting

Question 18

The Holy Trinity

Answer 18

Artist: Masaccio
Date: 1427-28
Religious art, A fresco

Question 19

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Answer 19

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1907
Shatters ideas about sexuality by depicting prostitutes as ugly and confrontational

Question 20

Glass Bottle of Suze

Answer 20

Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1912
Style: Cubism

Question 21

Woman with a Hat

Answer 21

Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1905
Style: Fauvist
Traditional portraiture with untraditional use of colour and techniques

Question 22

Carmelina

Answer 22

Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1903
Pre-fauvist, severe modeling and naturalism

Question 23

Luxe Calme et Volupté

Answer 23

Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1904-05
evidence of pointillist influence

Question 24

Le Bonheur de Vivre

Answer 24

Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1905-06
Very dream-like, non-naturalistic colours