Midterm Flashcards
Stefano Maderno
St. Cecilia
1620 - Italian Baroque
marble
St. Cecilia, Rome, Italy
- Preserved body of a saint
- Represents her incorruptability
- Theatric scene
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656 - Spanish Baroque
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Elevation of status of artist
- Scene of his studio
- King and Queen in the mirror
- Clothing represents aspirations, not reality
- Viewer standing in place of the subject matter
- King and Queen are waiting on him.
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Piazza di San Pietro (St. Peter’s Square)
1656 - Italian Baroque
travertine
St. Peter’s, Rome, Italy
- Oval shape
- Original design – very open
Rembrandt
The Nightwatch (The Company of Captain Frans Banning)
1642 - Dutch Baroque
oil on canvas
Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam
- Massive historical portrait
- Use of light
- Symbolism
Titian
Venus of Urbino
1538 - Venetian Renaissance
oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
- Introduction of oil
- Classical nude, classical gesture, wedding portrait
- Private commission
El Greco
Burial of Count Orgaz
1588 - Mannerism
oil on canvas
Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain
- Brushwork more ecstatic in upper register
- Concept of visionary space
- Counter reformation
Caravaggio
The Calling of St. Matthew
1599-1600 - Italian Baroque
oil on canvas
S. Luigi dei Francesci, Rome, Italy
- High contrast - use of light
- Ridiculous looking outfits
- Theatricality
Jan Steen
The Doctor’s Visit
1660s - Dutch Baroque
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- Genre scene- moralizing story
- Pregnancy
- Different aspects of the picture represent different things
Raphael
School of Athens
1511 - High Italian Renaissance
fresco
Stanza della Segnatura, Borghese Apartments, Vatican, Rome, Italy
- Representation of architecture - classical architecture
- Great philosophical figures
- Calling great artists same as philosophical figures
Fillipo Brunelleschi
S. Maria dei Fiore (Il Duomo) Dome
1417-36 - Early Italian Renaissance
Lantern 1471
Florence, Italy
- Completion of dome - largest dome
- Chained dome, no scaffolding
Annibale Carracci
The Triumph of Bacchus
1597-1601 - Italian Baroque
Fresco
Galleria Farnese, Rome, Italy
- Dynamic, energy
- Large format frescos
- Adaptation of classical subject matter
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
c. 1508-12 - High Italian Renaissance
fresco
Vatican, Rome
- Completed in 2 major phases
- First phase - small figures, large epic narratives, illegible
- Second phase - larger figures, central figures
Gerard Ter Borch
The Parental Admonition
1654 - Dutch Baroque
oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
- Genre painting
- Warning - how not to act
- Red bed, man with coin
Antonio Canova
Eros & Psyche
1783-93 - Neoclassical
marble
Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Rational vs. passionate
- Classical themes and subject matter
Pietro da Cortona
The Glorification of the Reign of Urban VII
1633-39 - Italian Baroque
fresco
Palazzo Barberini, Rome
- Allegory of Divine Providence
- Meant to be viewed in parts
Gianlorenzo Bernini
The Ecstasy of S. Theresa
1645 - Italian Baroque
mixed media
Cornaro Chapel, S. Maria della Victoria, Rome, Italy
- Ovals instead of circles, trapezoids instead of squares
- Theatrical
- Obscures light source
- You are experiencing vision
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
1770-1784/1796-1809 - Neoclassical
Near Charlottesville, Virginia
Robert Campin (Master of Flemalle)
Merode Altarpiece
c. 1426 - Northern Renaissance
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cloisters), New York
- Oil painting - greater nuance, greater saturation
- Emblems, symbols - candle, scripture, lillies, lightbeam, patrons, Joseph
- No perspective lines
Diego Velázquez
Los Borrachos (The Drinkers)
1628 - Spanish Baroque
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Classical figures shown with current contemporary figures
Caravaggio
Bacchus
1596 - Italian Baroque
oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
- Chiaroscuro
- Contrast between light and dark
- Rotten fruit - Naturalism? Representative?
- Painted without guidelines
Michelangelo
David
1505 - High Italian Renaissance
Marble
Galleria dell’Academia, Florence, Italy
- Flawed piece of marble
- Originally intended to go on top of Domo
- Classical, contraposto, anatomy, nude
- Doesn’t look much like David
- Don’t know where in the narrative it is
Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
c. 1484-86 - Early Italian Renaissance
tempera on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
- Classical subject matter, Christian representation
- Representation of the human soul (interpretation)
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
1495 - High Italian Renaissance
fresco
S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan
- Composition and perspective
- Perspective to Christ’s head
- Judas breaking barrier
- Embedded linen in fresco
Frans Hals
Malle Babbe
1650 - Dutch Baroque
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
- Expressive brushwork
- Genre painting
Andrea Palladio
Il Redentore
1576 - Venetian Renaissance
marble and brick
Venice, Italy
- More theatrical architecture
- Curvilinear form
Giotto
Arena Chapel
1305-6 - Early Italian Renaissance
fresco
Padua
- Replication of precious materials
- Overlapping, expressions, backs of people
- Elevation of artist
Artemesia Gentileleschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes
1614-20 - Italian Baroque
oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
- Female artist features strong passionate women
- Threatrical scene
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623 - Italian Baroque
marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome
- Primarily sculptor – massive workshop
- Meant to be seen from all directions
- About action and the moment, immediacy
Donatello
David,
c. 1420 - Early Italian Renaissance
bronze
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
- Revival of large bronze casting
- Christian subject matter, classical representation
- Nude (heroic, athletic), contraposto
Francisco Zurbarán
S. Serapeion
1628- Spanish Baroque
oil on canvas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- Saint in martyred state
- Treats as still life
- Spiritual symbolism
Georges de La Tour
The Penitent Magdalene
1640 - French Baroque
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Magdalene contemplating sin
- Light and dark contrast
Vermeer
Woman at the Virginal
1670 - Dutch Baroque
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London
- Similar paintings - window with light to the left
- Genre painting - metaphor
Poussin
Rape of the Sabines
1636-37 - French Baroque
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Masaccio
Trinity
c. 1425-27/28 - Early Italian Renaissance
fresco
S. Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
- Mathematical perspective
- Illusion of space
Heironymous Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
1510-15 - Northern Renaissance
oil on wood
Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Represent garden of Eden
- State of Man in sin - fornication
- Hell – torture by musical devices
Jan Van Eyck
Arnolfini Wedding Portrait
1434 - Northern Renaissance
oil on panel
The National Gallery, London
- Legal document
- Symbolism
- Passion of Christ
Peter Paul Rubens
Crucifixion (Raising of the Cross)
1610 - French Baroque
oil on panel
Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp
Parmigianino
Madonna of the Long Neck
1535 - Mannerism
oil on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
- Effected, emotional, expressive
- Strange proportions
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Swing
1767 - Rococo
oil on canvas
Wallace Collection, London
- By aristocrats, for aristocrats
- Frivolous subject matter
