Paintings Flashcards
February
Limbourg Bros
Gothic
Parchment
-First winter landscape
Arnolfini and his Bride
Van Eyck Late gothic, early renaissance oil -Painter incororporated himself -
Flight into Egypt
Giotto
early renaissance
fresco
- 3d figures
Resurrection
Della Francesca
Early Renaissance
fresco
-based on triangular composition
Madonna of the rocks
Da vinci
High Renaissance
oil on canvas
- pyramidal composition, chiroscuro
Descent from the cross
Pontormo
Mannerism
Oil
- reaction against renaissance
School of Athens
Raphael High Renaissance Fresco - plato and aristotle - linear and aerial perspective
return of the hunters
Bruegel Northern renaissance oil and tempera on wood - One of six paintings showing months of the year example of linear perspective
David with the head of goliath
Caravaggio
Baroque
oil
-theatrical, high contrast (chiroscuro)
maids of honour
Velasquez
Baroque
oil
-Theatrical moment in time mirror used as extension of space
THe letter
Vermeer Baroque oil - high contrast - uses keyhole approach
Oath of the horatii
jaques louis David
Neo-classical
Oil
- balanced, stagelike
The third of may 1808
goya
romanticism
Oil
- concerned with tragedy and human suffering, political and social commentary
Raft of the medusa
gericault Romanticism Oil -diagonals, dramatic - depicts incident that became political scandal
Slave ship
Turner
romanticism
Oil
-light and dramatic movement to create drama
-romantic expressionism bordering on absolute abstraction
