Calling of St. Matthew

Caravaggio

1599

Facade St. Peter's

Moderno

1607

Piazza St. Peter's

Bernini

1656

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Borromini

1638

Immaculate Conception

Velazquez

1619

Christ on the Cross

Zurbaran

1627

Christ on the Cross

Velazquez

1630

St. Serapion

Zurbaran

1628

Holy Family with a Bird

Murillo

1650

Las Meninas

Velazquez

1656

Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de'Medici

Rubens

1622

Charles I and the Hunt

Anthony Van Dyck

1635

Officers of the Harlem Militia Company of St.Adrian

Frans Hals

1633

Self Portrait

Leyster

1635

The Night Watch

Rembrandt

1642

The Three Crosses

Rembrandt

1653

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

Poussin

1640

Woman Holding a Balance

Vermeer

1664

Palace of Versailles

Le Vau & Mansart

1665

Louis XIV

Riguad

1701

Hall of Mirrors

(Palais de Versailles)

Mansart

1678

Central Block of the Garden Facade

(Versailles)

1668

St. Paul's Cathedral

Christopher Wren

Chiswick House

Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington)

1724

Salon de le Princesse

Germain Boffrand

1665

Salon de la Princesse/Hotel de Soubise

Boffrand

1665

Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera

Watteau

1711

Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children

Vigee-Lebrun

1787

Oath of the Horatii

JL David

1785

Large Odalisque

Dominique Ingres

1814

Raft of the Medusa

Gericault

1818

Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix

1830

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Goya

1799

The Third of May 

(Execution of the Madrilenos)

Goya

1815

The White Horse

Constable

1819

The Slave Ship

Turner

1840

Stone Breakers

Courbet

1850

Mademoiselle V in the Costume of an Espada

Manet

1862

Luncheon on the Grass

Manet

1863

Olympia

Manet

1863

Impression Sunrise

Monet

1872

The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage

Degas

1874

Maternal Caress

Cassatt

1891

Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter

Cassatt

1873

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Cezanne

1885

Starry Night

Van Gogh

1889

Wainwright Building

Sullivan

1890

Aquatint

an intaglio print making technique imitative of water color

ie: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Maternal Cassatt

Assumption 

the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven at the end of her life

bravi

a young, pompous man

ie: Calling of St. Mathew

(carvaggio)

Council of Trent

-16th century council of the Roman Church

-issued condemnations on protestant heresies & defined church teachings in the scripture & tradition

-condemned protestants & defined churches

Counter Reformation

-Catholic Church revival starting with the Council of Trent

-Catholics response aganist the PR's critcisms of art in Roman Catholicism to produce a more stringent style of Catholic art.

-Art was to be direct & compeling in its narrative presentation & biblically accurate & encourage piety.

-Removal of additional imaginative elements to biblical art. 

Curtain Wall

a wall in a building that does not support any of the weight of the structure. 

ie: Wainright Building

(Sullivan)

Cythera

-Island of Venus (pleasure & love)

ie: Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera

(Watteau)

Ecole des Beaux Arts

-influential prestigous art school in France that many important artists attended. 

Enlightenment

-elite cultural movement of intellectuals in the 18th century that sought rational thinking in order to reform society & advance knowledge.

-opposed intolerance & absuses of church and state.

Dry Point / Etching

-metal plate coated with acid resistant resin, then inscribed with a stylus in a design revealing the plate.

-uses a sharp needle to scratch shallow lines in a plate.

-can work very close to the plate

Genre Scene

-lifelike depiction of their world in portraiture.

-scenes from everyday life, still life, also religious scenes.

-intense emotional involvement, lifelike renderings, & classical references may exist.

Tenebrism

-when forms emerge from a dark background into a strong light that often falls from a single sources outside the painting.

-theatrical spotlight

ie: Calling St. Matthew (carvaggio)

Impasto

-heavily applied pigments

-created a rich luminous chiascuro ranging from deep drak shadows to brillant highlights.

Capriccio

-a painting or print of a fantastic imaginary landscape usually w/architecture

Picture Plane

-the theatrical plane corresponding w/ the actual surface of a painting, separating the spatial world evoked in the painting from the spatial world occupied by the viewer

Fete galante

Foreshortening

-the illusion created on a flat surface in which figures & objects appear to recede or project sharply into space.

ie: Charles I and the Hunt

(his elbow)

-the conception of the Virgin Mary without original sin

Japonisme

-a style in French & American 19th Century art was highly influenced by Japanese art.

-flattened figures & picture plane

ie: Maternal Caress

The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage

Loose Brushwork

-the viewer can physically see the artist's hand & their brushwork also called painterly

Naturalism

-the depiction of realistic objects in a natural setting.

-realism advocated naturalism in reaction to the stylized & idealized depcitions of subkects in Romanticism. 

Neoclassicism

-response to the perceived excess of the contemporary Rococo style w/greater restraint in composition & severity of line.

-emulated both classical & rennassaince structures.

-emphasized by order and simplicity.

-inspired by the emphasis of matrial courage seen in the Greek & Latin epics.

-ie: Oath of Horatii

Orientalism

-the fascination w/middle eastern cultures

painterly

-a style of painting which emphasizes the technique & surface effects of brush work

The Pictueresque

- a term describing the taste for the familar the pleasant & the agreeable , popular in 18th & 19th Europe.

-picture-like quality of landscape scenes.

ie: Chiswick House (Boyle)