The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 66 - 69

Question 1

Blake illustrates poems with his own prints

Answer 1

• 1803

Question 2

David paints splendor of Napoleon’s court

Answer 2

• 1804

Question 3

Goya creates “Disasters of War” prints

Answer 3

• 1815

Question 4

Gericault’s “The Raft of the Medusa”

Answer 4

• 1818-19

Question 5

Constable paints rural landscapes

Answer 5

• 1823

Question 6

Delacroix active

Answer 6

• 1825

Question 7

Daguerre exhibits daguerreotype, early photograph

Answer 7

• 1839

Question 8

Collapsible tin tubes patented for oil paint

Answer 8

• 1841

Question 9

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed

Answer 9

• 1848

Question 10

Courbet’s Pavilion of Realism

Answer 10

• 1855

Question 11

Snapshot photography developed

Answer 11

• 1860

Question 12

Daumier produces satirical drawings

Answer 12

• 1861

Question 13

Salon des Refuses launches modern art

Answer 13

• 1863

Question 14

Whistler eliminates details for color harmonies

Answer 14

• 1871

Question 15

First color photos appear

Answer 15

• 1873

Question 16

Impressionists hold first group show

Answer 16

• 1874

Question 17

Morris designs textiles; Eakin’s “Gross Clinic” incites controversy

Answer 17

• 1876

Question 18

Van Gogh begins painting career

Answer 18

• 1880

Question 19

Picasso born

Answer 19

• 1881

Question 20

Sargent paints “Madame X”; Gaudi begins la Sagrada Familia

Answer 20

• 1883

Question 21

First Chicago skyscraper built

Answer 21

• 1885

Question 22

Impressionists hold last group show

Answer 22

• 1886

Question 23

Portable Kodak camera perfected

Answer 23

• 1888

Question 24

Eiffel Tower built

Answer 24

• 1889

Question 25

Monet’s first haystacks series

Answer 25

• 1890

Question 26

Gauguin goes to Tahiti

Answer 26

• 1891

Question 27

Rodin sculpts Balzac

Answer 27

• 1892

Question 28

Art Nouveau spreads

Answer 28

• 1893

Question 29

Monet finishes Rouen Cathedral series

Answer 29

• 1894

Question 30

Vollard shows Cezanne paintings; Lumiere Brothers introduce movies

Answer 30

• 1895

Question 31

Vienna Secession artists exhibit modernist designs

Answer 31

• 1898

Question 32

Neoclassicism

Answer 32

• 1780-1820

- trendsetter was Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Question 33

French Neoclassicism

Answer 33

• David had breakthrough vision on trip to Rome

- figures arranged like a statue