Lion of BelFourteen Flashcards
“Chartres Cathedral”
Completed 1220
Located in Chartres, France
(said to house the robe Mary wore while giving birth to Jesus. Called the ‘Sancta Camisa’)
(Design expanded the clerestory to increase window size)
(Heavy use of flying buttresses that distinguish exterior)
(Features the “Blue Window” window nicknamed “Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere” or “Our Lady of the Lovely Window”)
(Only four stained glass survived the 1194 fire that destroyed early version of cathedral)
(Two asymmetric spires: 349ft plain Romanesque & 377ft ornate one rebuilt in 1500s)
(Yves Delaporte resolved a debate whether this cathedral was built from west to east rather than east to west)
(Developed type of compound column called “pilier cantonne”
“Ginevra de’ Benci”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
High Renaissance
(Only da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere)
(National Gallery in DC, purchased from the Prince of Lichtenstein)
(Latin motto “Vitrutem forma decorat” or “Beauty adorns virtue” on back)
(wreath of laurel and palm wrapped around juniper spring, which is a pun on sitter’s name)
(Modeled after Verocchio’s “Lady Holding Flowers”)
(da Vinci used his fingers in wet pigment to smoothen out lines)
(bottom third cut off including arms, maybe because of the misuse of Bernardo Bembo’s coat of arms)
“The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
(Shows St. Lawrence reaching towards a single beacon of light piercing black clouds)
(Being roasted alive by Roman soldiers)
(Phillip II commissioned second version for El Escorial, residence of King of Spain)
“The Fertile Crescent series”
Anselm Kiefer
German
Contemporary
(Trip to rural brick factories in India inspired series)
“Osiris and Isis”
Anselm Kiefer
German
Contemporary
(Used large books, shards of porcelain plumbing fixture, and bits of TV circuit board)
“Parsifal series”
“Parsifal I”
Anself Kiefer
German
Contemporary
(Four paintings)
(Used strips of woodchip wallpaper specially laid onto canvas to create wooden attic space)
“Parsifal II”
“To the Unknown Painter”
Anself Kiefer
German
Contemporary
(Placed a palette in the middle of an abandoned plaza)
(Courtyard based on Albert Spear designed for the Reich Chancellery)
“Margarete”
Anselm Kiefer
German
Contemporary
(Used straw embedded in paint)
(Depicts golden hair of a figure in Paul Celan’s poem “Death Fugue”
Painting technique where where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Seems as if the paint is coming out of the painting.
Example: “Taos Mountain, Trail Home” by Cordelia Wilson
technique
Impasto
(comes from the Italian root for “to paste”)
(Other examples include “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” and “Rain, Steam, and Speed”)
“On the Farm”
John Kane
American
Naive Art
(features the Gettysburg Address on the back)
“Scene of the Scottish Highlands”
John Kane
American
Naive Art
(Was accepted into the 1927 Carnegie International Exhibition)
“Calling the Scouts”
John Kane
American
Naive Art
“Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman”
Sandro Botticelli
Italian
Renaissance
(damaged wall fresco)
(discovered in 1873)
“Fifty Days at Iliam”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
(Ten-part cycle based on Homer)
“VIRGIL series”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
(this series was just him painting the word ‘Virgil’)
“Discourses on Commodus”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
(Influenced by his cryptologist background)
(Located in Guggenheim Bilbao)
“Three Studies from the Temeraire”
Cy Twombly
American
Abstract Expressionism
(Based on the JMW Turner painting)
“Fonte Gaia” or “Fountain of Joy”
Jacopo della Quercia
Italian
Early Renaissance
(found in Siena, Italy)
(shows the she-wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus, plus scenes from the Book of Genesis)
(replaced a pagan statue that was believed to be the cause of the Black death)
“After Sir Christopher Wren”
Charles Demuth
American
Precisionism
(Used forced lines to crystallize the sky behind Provincetown’s Central Methodist Episcopal Curch)
“Aucassin and Nicolette”
Charles Demuth
American
Precisionism
(Portrays Lancaster, PA)
“Arthur Dove, 1924”
Charles Demuth
American
Precisionism
(portrait, somehow, of artist Arthur Dove)
(example of one of his “poster portraits”)
(large scythe and word “Dove” in sky)
“Corner Counter-relief”
Vladimir Tatlin
Russian
Constructivist
(Named from being placed in an area of a room traditionally reserved for religious icons)
(Consisting of several layers of differently shaped metal intertwined with six wires that stretch from one wal to the other)
“The Bottle”
Vladimir Tatlin
Russian
Constructivist
(Semi-abstract collage that overlays a cylindrical sheet of metal on top of a piece of wallpaper and a bottle)
“The Black Brunswicker”
John Everett Millais
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(Napoleon Crossing the Alps hangs in the background)
