Exam II Flashcards
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polyptych -most gruesome body of Christ -gross details (obviously german) -its all good because we will resurrect-16th century Germany
*Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece, c1505-1515
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-engraving -classical proportions - ideal man, woman -four humors [blood (rabbit); phlegm (ox); yellow bile (cat); black bile (elk)]
*Albrecht Dürer, The Fall of Man, engraving, 1504
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-no religious symbolism -personifies death - sex and death - reminder of death -peel away mortal veil -dance of death -vanitas=momento mori, vanity, don’t worry about earthly beauty -16th century Germany
*Hans Baldrung Grien, Death and the Matron, ca 1520-25
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unornamented style, associated with Spanish -first to establish capital
estilo desornmentado
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-capital -2 Italian Architects -Church in the center -entrance modeled after Church facade -not ornamented -striped of unnecessary stuff
Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan do Herrera, The Escorial, 1563-1584
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-Last Judgment type -Altarpiece -universe as sphere -triptych -Inside=Springtime,Summer,Winter, tiny figures. Springtime: Garden of Eden, discourse already setting in Summer:Descendants having giant orgy Winter: pleasures turned against people in hell -NETHERLANDs
*Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, ca 1510-15
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-scales = judgement -dont cheat people -wife being greedy -old men gossiping -everything on shelf behind them symbolic -man in reflection reading with Church behind him - genre scene -Nethertlands
*Quinten Massys, Money Charger and his Wife, 1514
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-one of the coldest winters -diagonally and back -no mountains in Netherlands -tradition of painting the seasons
*Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565
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only can be viewed at a certain angle
anamorphic image
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scenes of everyday life encoded with morals
genre scene
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-scales = judgement -dont cheat people -wife being greedy -old men gossiping -everything on shelf behind them symbolic -man in reflection reading with Church behind him - genre scene -Flemish
*Quinten Massys, Money Charger and his Wife, 1514
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-Jean do Dinkrille and George do Selve (priest) -broken string= discord (breaking from Catholic church) -anamorphic image (skull) -English
*Hans Holbein the Younger, French Ambassador, 1533
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Ovid’s stories - fun stories about gods -challenging picture frame -spectator drama -Amor Vincit Omnia (Love conquers all)-17th century Italy
*Annibale Carracci, Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne and Polyphemus Furioso, Gallery of the Pallazzo Farnese, 1597-1601
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-painting carried up; painting literally stuck on the wall
quadro riportato
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-exaggerated chiaroscuro (stage lighting)
tenebroso
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-sums up baroque -plebeian types of people -relatable -2 biblical types -contemporary dress -St Matthew to leave material world - Christ has little halo -Christ’s limb gesture reminds us of adam -heavenly light filtering in-17th century Italy
*Caravaggio, The calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli chapel, 1599-1600
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-believable -gory -head will fall out into our space -diagonals come down to the head -caravaggismo style-17th century Italy
*Artemisia Gentilesch, Judith beheading Holofernes, c 1620
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architectural setting figuratively painted, building continues up
*Quadratura
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from below to above
Dal sotto in sú
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-painting spills out over architecture -mixture of all media -blurs boundaries -arrangement -triangular composition -Iesus Hominum Salvator -Jesus savior of man -damned fall out of the bottom -17th century Italy
*Baciccio, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Fall of the Damned, 1672-85
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identified as David because of armor underneath him and holding a sling -During the battle -Baroque makes action scenes -17th century Italy
*Gialorenzo Bernini, David, 1623
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-dead people (Cornaro family) -hidden light source (window) - st, Theresa related to Cornaros -st Theresa is a mystic saint -angel of fire stabs her three times -externalize emotions -bep composto -17th century Italy
*Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Cornaro Chapel, 1642-52
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beautiful whole - painting, sculpture, and architecture working together on one piece
bel composto
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-non commissioned piece -given to the king to earn nobleman ship -one ups Jan can Eyck -Paintings in background represent mortals challenging God’s authority -infanta Margarita (the Princess) -17th century Spain
*Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (Maids of Honor), 1656
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-Pan-European Baroque -Huge painting -first painting depicting during the crucifixion -Northern Naturalism -Italian Classical -17th century Spain
*Peter Paul Rubens, The Elevation of the Cross, Antwerp CAthedral, 1610
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-enlivened portraits -solves last supper problem (natural group portrait around table -variety of poses, head levels, spontaneous technique corrects stiff poses-17th century netherlands
*Frans Hals, Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian, c. 1627
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-unified composition for Great Room in Town Hall -less formal -hen=company’s emblem (pun on leader’s name) -symbol of Dutch Republic-17th century netherlands
*Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642
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scales empty -weighing jewelry -judgment awaits -woman subtly -symbolism in everyday-17th century netherlands
*Jan Vermeer, Woman holding Holding a Balance, ca. 1664
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-less than one-third of painting dedicated to land (mostly sky and clouds) -bright spots lead us back to church, church leads us to sky-17th century france/netherlands
*Jacop van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from Dunes at Overveen, c 1670
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-the new capital -forest removed with man power -every bedroom decorated-17th century france
*Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardovin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, 1669-85
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-less than one-third of painting dedicated to land (mostly sky and clouds) -bright spots lead us back to church, church leads us to sky-17th century france/netherlands
*Jacop van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from Dunes at Overveen, c 1670
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pendants -pair with”Landscape with St John on Patmos” -singular horizon line between the two -move through on human scale -move on ‘s’ shape -17th century france
*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. Matthew and the Angel, 1639-1640
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-the new capital -forest removed with man power -every bedroom decorated-17th century france/netherlands
*Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardovin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, 1669-85
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same as Landscape with St. Matthew
*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1639-1640
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-interior decoration -organic motifs -celebration of life -ideal room and dream decorations for little girls - walls and ceilings -don’t know where they begin and end-18th Century Rococo
*Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise Paris, c 1740
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First of its type - reception piece -must make Masterpiece to be considered a Master -no straight lines -organic fluidity –18th Century Rococo
*Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera, c 1717-19
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same as Landscape with St. Matthew
*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1639-1640
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-English satire of French Aristocrats -arranged marriage between rich middle class woman and poor aristocrat -18th Century Rococo
*William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract, 1743-1745
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-Winner of Prix de Rome -intrigue painting -dude hiding in bushes looking up her skirt -cupid shushing (it’s a secret) -babies in background represent perfect platonic love-18th Century Rococo
*Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766
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-meant to be recruitment piece for French army, used as symbol for revolution instead -story very important to understanding piece: Rome (Horatii) vs. Alba -men ready to die for country -women overtaken by emotions -exemplum virtutis-Neoclassicism
*Jacques-Lois David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
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-meant to be recruitment piece for French army, used as symbol for revolution instead -story very important to understanding piece: Rome (Horatii) vs. Alba -men ready to die for country -women overtaken by emotions -exemplum virtutis-Neoclassicism
*Jacques-Lois David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784
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-assassination of Jacobin propaganda guy -turned into a martyr -head slouched to right in typical martyr symbolism - no religious imagery (only references) -based on Pieta -supposed to ‘take’ what he just finished-Neoclassicism
*Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793
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-Napoleon’s sister and wife -shown as Venus (originally supposed to be Diana (goddess of virginity)) -emphasis on his wife’s infidelity so he hid the statue in a shed -imitating High Classical sculpture -rigid pose - opposite of Baroque -Neoclassicism
*Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808
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-Neoclassicism -based off earlier buildings not church -columns based on recent excavation of Syria
*Jacques Germaim Soufflot, The Panthéon (Sainte Geneviére), Paris, 1755-92
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-Romanticism -exaggerate size -juxtapose figs./arch -Italy -etching
*Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Pantheon, Rome, 1756
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-Romanticism -England -anxiety of losing one’s virginity -virgin in white sleeping -horse = penis ; curtain = vagina -dreaming and sexuality -incubus
*Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781
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-Romanticism -sublime -fire destroying parliament building -Britain
*Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834
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-Romanticism -random executions -emotional appeal -white shirt guy innocent, acts as a martyr -french soldiers dehumanized -shows monks being executed too (french atheist and Spain catholic)
*Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814
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French, Romanticism -equestrian portrait - Glorify French nation -propaganda -control of steed = control of nation -dramatic
*Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the Saint Bernard Pass, 1801
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French, Romanticism -anti-government -modern hi sty dramatized -diagonals - not based of classical subjects
*Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19
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French, Romanticism -France’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” -flag desexes woman, she is an allegorical figure (Liberty) -triangular composition -coming into our space
*Eugéne Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
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French, Romanticism -results closer to drawing -not royal propaganda -riot in poor city left innocent lives dead after soldiers came into their apartment and killed everyone
*Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, 1834
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-a conquest with a nice butt -celebrates erotic love (jouissance)-18th Century Rococo
François Boucher, Girl Reclining: Louise O’Murphy, 1751
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nymph is coming onto satyr (role reversal), terra-cotta table piece -18th Century Rococo
Clodion, Nymph and Satyr, c 1775
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-exoticism -sex slave for sultan -weird proportions -head from Raphael and properties from Bronzino-Neoclassicism
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814
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-Romanticism -contemporary story -Watson attacked by sharks -got his leg bitten off in real life, but painting shows different more dramatic tale -asymmetrical triangular composition
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
