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Leonardo da Vinci

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1452-1519

Born near Florence, Died in Italy as well

Worked in Italy / France after it took over Milan

Notable Works

Last Supper

Mona Lisa

Lady with Ermine

He was called a “Polymath” and was left handed

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Boulevard Monmarte on a Winter Morning

Camille Pissarro

1897

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The Card Players

Paul Cezanne

1894

Musee D’Orsay

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No. 5

Jackson Pollock

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Private Collection, NYC

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American Gothic

Grant Wood

1930

Art Institute of Chicago

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Luncheon of the Boating Party

Pierre August Renois

1880

Washington, DC

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View of Toledo

El Greco

1596

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Rembrandt

1633

Dutch Golden Age

Was in Boston…

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The Night Cafe

Vincent Van Gogh

1888

Yale University Art Gallery

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Rembrandt Van Rijn

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1606-1669

Born and worked in the Netherlands

Dutch Golden Age/Baroque

Notable

Night watch

Storm on the sea of Galilee

The Anatomy Lesson

One of the greatest visual painters of all time.

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Creation of Adam

Michelangelo

1512

Sistine Chapel

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Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley

1778

National Gallery of Art, DC

American Painter. Based on a shark attack in Cuba.

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The School of Athens

Raphael

1509

Vatican

Clear indication of a key theme of the renaissance - throw back to ancient Athens

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Pilgrimage to Cythera

Jean-Antoine Watteau

1717

Rococo

Louvre

(also called the Embarkation for Cythera)

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Carles I in Three Positions

Anthony Van Dyck

Baroque

1635

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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Casper Friederich

1818

Romanticism

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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

Thomas Gainsborough

1750

National Gallery in London

British, not American

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Christina’s World

Andrew Wyeth

1948

MOMA

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Lady with an Ermin

Leonardo da Vinci

1489

Krakow, Poland

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The Nightwatch

Rembrandt Van Rijn

1642

Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam

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Pablo Picasso

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1881-1973

Born in Spain, worked in France most of his life

Cubist, Surrealist

Notable works

Guernica

Don Quixote

Three Musicians

He was inspired by Matisse

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The Flower Carrier

Diego Riviera

1935

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Las Meninas

Diego Velazquez

1656

Baroque

Prado, Madrid

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The Grand Canal Venice Painting

JMW Turner

1835

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Whistler’s Mother

James Abbott McNeil Whisler

1871

Realism

Museum D’Orsay

First American painting purchased outside the USA.

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The Ninth Wave

Ivan Aivazovsky

1850

St Petersburg, Russia

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Happy Accident of the Swing

Jean-Honore Fragonard

1767

Rococo

London

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The Ladies Waldegrave

Joshua Reynolds

1780

Rococo

Scotland

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Et in Arcadia Ego

Nicolas Poissin

1639

Baroque

Louvre

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The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo

1939

Naive Art

Painted shortly before her divorce from Diego Rivera

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The Sleeping Gypsy

Henri Rousseau

1897

MOMA

Example of Naive Art - seems almost childish

Rousseau never travelled out of France, but depicted scenese in exotic locales.

Received very little recognition during his life for his work- it came after.

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Breezing Up

Winslow Homer

1837

National Gallery of Art, Washington

American Realism

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The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

1907

Symbolism

Austria

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Vincent Van Gogh

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1853-1890

Born in Netherlands, died in France

Worked in France

Notable:

Starry Night

Cafe Terrace at Night

The Potato Eaters

Notable that he did over 2100 works

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Johannes Vermeer

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1632-1675

Born and worked in Netherlands

Baroque/Dutch Golden Age

Notable:

Girl with a Pearl Earring

The Astronomer

The Milkmaid

Known for his use of light.

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The Gross Clinic

Thomas Eakins

1875

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Charles I in Three Positions

Anthony van Dyck

Baroque

1635

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Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

1889

MOMA

Painting from the asylum in Saint Remy de Provence

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The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein the Younger

1533

National Gallery, London

Meant to celebrate the two men but also remind viewers of the mortality and imporance of religion (Cross and Skull)

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The Astronomer

Johannes Vermeer

1668

Louvre

Dutch Golden Age

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Sunday Afternoon on the island of Grand Jatte

Georges Seurat

1886

Art Institute of Chicago

Neo Impressionist

On the Seine, at the edge of Paris

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The Scream

Edvard Munsch

Expressionism

1893

Oslo Norway

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A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Edoauard Manet

1882

Impressionism

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The Treachery of Images

Rene Magritte

1929

LA Museum of Art

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Primavera

Sandro Botticelli

1477

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Symobolizes Springtime. SB Also did “Birth of Venus”

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Peacable Kingdom

Edward Hicks

1834

Location: Various - 62 versions

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Annunciation

Leonardo da Vinci

1472

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Hokusai

1831

View of Mount Fuji in the background. Woodblock.

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Claude Monet

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1840-1826

Born in France, worked in France

Notable:

Sunrise

Woman with a Parasol

Water Lilies

Known for water paintings. Also had a unusual marital situation with his mistress and his 1st wife living together in the same house.

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Tower of Babel

Peter Bruegel the Elder

1563

Two versions - the (Great) Tower of Babel and the (Little) Tower of Babel

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Bacchus and Ariadne

Titian

1620

Renaissance

National Gallery, London

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The Gleaners

Jean Francois Milett

1857

Musee D’Orsay

Peasant women picking up the remains of the havest. Symbolizes backbreaking work and plight of the lower class.

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Las Damas Romanas

Juan Luna

1882

Important work form a Filipino Painter

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Morning in a Pine Forest

Ivan Shishkin/Konstantin Savitsky

1889

Moscow

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The Foxes

Franz Marc

1913

Expressionism, Cubism

Dusseldorf

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The Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck

1434

Early Renaissance

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Girl with a pearl earring

Johannes Vermeer

1665

The Haag, Netherlands

Dutch Golden Age

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Flaming June

Sir Frederic Leighton

1895

Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico)

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Bal du moulin de la Galette

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1876

Musee D’Orsay

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A Cotton Office in New Orleans

Edgar Degas

1873

Impressionism

Pau, France

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Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Jacques-Louis David

1801

Near Paris

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May 3, 1808

Francisco Goya

1814

Prado, Madrid

Commemorates Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s occupation of Spain

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Impression, Sunrise

Claude Monet

1872

Paris

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The Avenue in the Rain

Childe Hassam

1917

American Impressionism

White House - painted just prior to USA joining WWI

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Paris Street; Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte

1877

Impressionist/Modern

Chicago

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Cafe Terrace at Night

Vincent Van Gogh

1888

Kroller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

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The Son of Man

Rene Magritte

1964

Surrealism

Private Collection

Self Portrait.

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Persistance of Memory

Salvador Dali

1931

Surrealism

MOMA

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Pollice Verso

Jean-Leon Gerome

1672

Phoenix Arizon

Pollice Verso means “With a turned thumb”

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Composition VIII

Wassily Kandinsky

1923

Abstract

Guggenheim, NYC

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Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

1495

Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Milan

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The Laughing Cavalier

Frans Hals

1624

Baroque, Dutch Golden Age

London

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Guernica

Pablo Picasso

1937

Cubism, Surrealism

Madrid

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Saint George and the Dragon

Paulo Uccello

1470

National Gallery in London

One of the most famous fables of the medieval time.

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Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymous Bosch

1503

76
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The Blue Boy

Thomas Gainsborough

1770

77
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John Constable

Flatford Mill

1816

78
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When were Rembrandt and Vermeer born?

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Rembrandt 1606

Vermeer 1632

79
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Tenebrism Vs Chiaroscuro

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Tenebrism is an extreme form of Chiaroscuro. Tends to show starker contrasts, and may include some degree of sadness. All Tenebrism is Chiarascuro, but the opposite is not true.

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Nighthawks

Edward Hopper

1942

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Goya

Saturn devouring his son

1823

82
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Olympia

1863

Edouard Manet

83
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Name of the doctor who looked after Van Gogh. Alao subject of one painting.

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Dr. Gachet

84
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Who was Van Gogh’s controversial friend and why?

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Paul Gauguin. Lived with him in Arles-speculation thar they had an affair. Some argue that Gaugin cut off Van Gogh’s ear as Gaugin was also into fencing.

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How did Van Gogh die?

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Gunshot to stomach. Some argue he was murdered by a local teen. No gun was found.

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Liberty Leading the People

Eugene Delacroix

1830

July Revolution of 1830 - NOT the French Revolution

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Nude Descending A Staircase

Marcel Duchamp

1912

Cubism

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Washington Crossing the Delaware

Emanuel Leutze

1851

89
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Birth of Venus

Sandro Boticelli

1480

90
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Black strert artist, NYC

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Jean Michel Basquiat 1960-1988

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Tahitian Woman with a Flower

1891

Paul Gauguin

93
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Fauvism

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Wild beasts Simpler than impressionism Unnatural use of colour Matisse and Derain

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Joy of Life Henri Matisse 1906

95
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Portrait of Madame Matisse 1905 Henri Matisse

96
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The Bath Mary Cassatt 1893

97
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Age of Innocence

Joshua Reynolds

1785

98
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How many Guggenheim museums are there? Where?

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Five New York Bilboa Venice Abu Dhabi Berlín

99
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What town in the South of France did Van Gogh move to in February 1888?

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