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Baldacchino or Baldachin

  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • A ceremonial canopy of stone, metal, or fabric over an altar, throne, or doorway
  • St. Peter’s rome
  • gilded bronze
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St. Peter’s Basilica and Piazza

  • Vatican, Rome
  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • Wrapping around and hugging the faithful who would gather in the piazza
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

  • Rome,
  • Francesco Borromini
  • 1665-67
  • Statue of san carlo
  • Dome shows forced perspective
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David

  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • 1623
  • Marble
  • Linked to notion of theatricality
  • Moment of tension
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Cornaro Chapel

  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • Santa Maria della Vittoria
  • Rome
  • 1640’s
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Boy with a basket full of fruit

  • Caravaggio
  • 1594
  • Oil on canvas
  • Painted directly from observations
  • No linear perspective- diagonal forms throughout painting
  • Within the fruit- there is rotting- telling us that we should enjoy life’s pleasures while they last
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Calling of Saint Matthew

  • Caravaggio
  • 1599-1600
  • Oil on canvas

-Hand from creation of adam

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Judith Slaying Holofernes

  • Artemisia Gentileschi
  • 1614-20
  • Oil on canvas
  • First time a rape was brought to court-
  • Gentileschi painted the face of her rapist as Holofernes and represented herself as Judith
  • Judith and her servant are very strong
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Venus and Adonis

  • Peter Paul Rubens
  • 1635
  • Oil on canvas
  • Emphasized sensual figures and swirling paintings
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The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

  • Rembrandt van Rijn
  • 1642
  • Oil on canvas
  • Secular
  • Person commissioned this

-known as “The Night Watch”

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Self-portrait in a cap Open-mouthed and Staring

  • Rembrandt van Rijn
  • 1630
  • Etching
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Self portrait as Saint Paul

  • Rembrandt van Rijn
  • 1661
  • Oil on canvas
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The Laughing Cavalier

  • 1624
  • Oil on canvas
  • Frans Hals
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The Last Drop

  • Judith Leyster
  • 1628-29
  • Oil on canvas
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Geographer

  • 1668
  • Oil on canvas
  • Jan Vermeer
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View of Delft

  • Jan Vermeer
  • oil on canvas
  • 1660-61
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Vanitas Still Life

  • 1668
  • Oil on canvas
  • Maria van Oosterwyck
  • Vanitas: a theme reflecting on the transitory nature of earthly things and the inevitably of death
  • Life is fleeting and withering away
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Saint Serapion

  • Francesco de Zurbaran
  • 1628
  • oil on canvas
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Venus with a Mirror

  • Diego Velazquez
  • 1648
  • oil on canvas
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Las Meninas

  • Diego Velazquez
  • 1656
  • Oil on canvas
  • Reference to painting being created within the painting
  • Artist painted himself within it
  • Queen and king in the mirror
  • Puts the viewer in painting
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Pilgrimage to Cythera

  • Antoine Watteau
  • 1717
  • Oil on canvas
  • Venus is adorned with roses
  • Roses symbolize fertility, love, and venus
  • Influenced by Da Vinci
  • Couples are shown leaving the island- could symbolize how temporary human happiness can be
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The Swing

  • Jean-Honore Fragonard
  • 1766
  • Oil on canvas
  • scandalous- shows losing virginity
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Self-portrait with two Pupils

  • Adelaide Labille-Guiard
  • 1785
  • Oil on canvas
  • Serious message: masterfield female artist and behind her is her the next generation learning to take after her
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Marie Antoinette and Her Children

  • Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
  • 1788
  • Oil on canvas
  • On the right- her son is pulling curtain back to show empty crib- represents her baby that just died
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Pipe and Jug

  • Jean-Baptiste Chardin
  • Oil on canvas
  • undated
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Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  • Thomas Gainsborough
  • 1785-87
  • Oil on canvas
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Marriage a la Mode II

  • William Hogarth
  • 1743
  • Oil on canvas
  • Unhappy couple
  • Little hints throughout the painting as to what the narrative is about and give hints at Rococo art
  • Downfall of their marriage
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Staircase of the Residenz

-Balthasar Neumann
-Wurzburh, Bavaria
-Showing the ceiling fresco by Giovanni Tiepolo- depicts Apollo and prince bishop- continents depicted as well
1752-53

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The Zwinger

  • Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann
  • Wallpavilion
  • Dresden
  • 1711-22
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Wieskirche

  • Dominikus Zimmerman
  • Bavaria
  • 1745-54
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Chiswick House

  • Richard Boyle
  • Near London
  • 1725
  • Looked to Villa Rotanda for inspiration- classical ideas put into his work in England
  • Library and place of entertainment
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Fireplace niche- Osterley Park House

  • Robert Adam
  • Middlesex
  • England
  • 1761
  • Symmetrical
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Paul Revere

  • John Singleton Copley
  • 1768-70
  • oil on canvas
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Oath of Horatii

  • Jacques-Louis David
  • Exhibited in 1785
  • Oil on canvas
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Death of Marat

  • Jacques-Louis David
  • 1793
  • Oil on canvas
  • Marat had a disease and the bath would give him relief
  • Letter is from person who killed him
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Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass

  • Jacques-Louis David
  • 1800
  • Oil on canvas
  • David made the image more exciting
  • Napoleon wanted himself linked to other great generals
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Arc de Triomphe

  • Jean-Francois-Therese Chalgrin et al
  • Paris
  • 1806-36
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Napoleon Enthroned

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • 1806
  • Oil on canvas
  • All edges are clear, sharp, and precise
  • Ceptor and staff- form V shape
  • Gold wreath on his head looks like halo
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Grande Odalisque

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • 1814
  • Oil on canvas
  • Depicts an idealized woman
  • She turned around to meet viewer’s gaze
  • Neoclassicism meets romanticism
  • Love for clarity
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State Capitol

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • 1785-89
  • looked to greeks for inspiration
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Rotunda

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • 1817-26
  • Inspired by Pantheon
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God creating the Universe (Ancient of days)

  • William Blake
  • 1794
  • Metal relief etching
  • Hand colored and watercolor and gouache
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Raft of the Medusa

  • Theodore Gericault
  • 1819
  • Oil on canvas
  • France
  • Commemorates an actual historical event
  • 1816- French ship (Medusa) hit something off the coast of Africa- captain and others got on lifeboat and saved themselves- the rest (149 people) were on the raft then the captain cut the rope and let them go
  • 13 day voyage- whole raft became floating vision of hell- 15 people survived
  • French gov tried to cover event up until a survivor spoke out
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Madwoman with a Mania of Envy

  • Theodore Gericault
  • 1822-23
  • Oil on canvas
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Liberty Leading the People

  • Eugene Delacroix
  • 1830
  • Oil on canvas
  • Profile of lady liberty is very Greek- looks like marble busts
  • Her dress is off her torso and shows breasts
  • Links antiquity
  • Political manifesto
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Los Caprichos

  • Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
  • plate 3
  • published 1799
  • Etching and aquatint
  • Goya’s warning against instilling needless fears in children
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The Witches’ Sabbath

  • Goya
  • 1798-99
  • Satirizing the irrational belief of witchcraft
  • Oil on canvas
  • Goat man is extending left hoof
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Executions of the Third of May

  • Goya
  • 1808, 1814
  • Oil on canvas
  • Person with arms raised shows a very christ like pose
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Burning of the House of Lords and Commons

  • JMW Turner
  • Oct 16, 1835
  • Oil on fabric
  • Turner witnessed actual event happening
  • Main structure is in bottom right corner
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Sunrise

  • Albert Bierstadt
  • Yosemite Valley
  • No date
  • Oil on canvas
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The Peaceable Kingdom

  • Edward Hicks
  • 1834
  • Oil on canvas
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The Gleaners

  • Jean-Francois Millet
  • 1857
  • Oil on canvas
  • 3 peasants in foreground
  • Gets lighter as you look further into the pic- symbolic that peasants are shadowing and unimportant
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The Stonebreakers

  • Gustave Courbet
  • 1849
  • Oil on canvas
  • Not showing their face
  • No sense of identity
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Burial at Ornans

  • Gustave Courbet
  • 1849
  • Oil on canvas
  • Bourgeoisie attending a funeral
  • No matter what your station is in life, we’ll all end up in the same place
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Third Class Carriage

  • Honore Daumier
  • 1862
  • Oil on canvas
  • Takes place in train car- new technological advancement
  • Sense of calmness
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Sarah Bernhardt

  • Nadar
  • She was famous actress
  • Photograph from a colloidal negative
  • 1864
  • Lighting figure from one side
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The Gross Clinic

  • Thomas Eakins
  • 1875-76
  • Oil on canvas
  • Eakins looked to Rembrandt for inspiration
  • Also used idea of atmospheric perspective in painting
  • Took inspiration from The Anatomy Lesson of -Dr. Nicholaes Tulp by Rembrandt
  • Light in painting is symbolic to define Dr. Gross as being an enlightened figure
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Luncheon in the Grass

  • Eduoard Manet
  • 1863
  • Woman in background isnt realistic because shes too big
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Olympia

  • Eduoard Manet
  • 1865
  • A lot of symbols in the painting that symbolically represent that she’s a prostitute
  • Name olympia means prostitute
  • Similar to venus of urbino
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Eiffel Tower

  • Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel
  • 1887-89
  • wrought-iron superstructure on a reinforced concrete base
  • 984 ft
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A bar at the Folies-Bergere

  • Edouard Manet
  • 1881-82
  • Oil on canvas
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Moulin de la Galette

  • Pierre-Auguste Reoir
  • 1876
  • A lot of motion going on in the background
  • Mimics photography because it shows a split second
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Absinthe

  • Edgar Degas
  • 1876
  • Oil on canvas
  • Absinthe refers to the alcohol in front of the woman
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Dancer with a Bouquet

  • Edgar Degas
  • 1877
  • Pastel and gouache on paper
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The Boating Party

  • Mary Cassatt
  • 1893-94
  • Emphasizes viewers place in painting
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Impressionism Sunrise

  • Claude Monet
  • Impressionism
  • 1872
  • Oil on canvas
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Bassin des Nympheas

  • Water lily pond
  • Claude monet
  • 1904
  • Oil on canvas
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Rouen Cathedral

  • Claude Monet
  • West facade
  • Sunlight
  • 1894
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The Great Wave at Kanagawa

  • Hokusai
  • 1830-32
  • Polychrome
  • Woodblock print
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The Thinker

  • Auguste Rodin
  • 1904
  • Bronze
  • Represents philosophy
  • Very realistic
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Bolt

  • John singer sargent
  • 1882
  • Oil on canvas
  • More traditional
  • Faces are in shadows so you cant tell who the people are
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Nocturne in black and gold The Falling Rocket

  • Whistler
  • 1875
  • Oil on oak panel
  • Influenced by Japanese print making
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Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel

  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • Rome, italy
  • Marble
  • Combines baroque taste for depiction -of inner emotions with sense of mysticism
  • Erotic scene within a church

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