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05/17/2009

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[image]ALBERT DÜRER: “Self-portrait as the Ecce Homo”, c.1500 - oil on panel, Munich

Renn.

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Albert Durer, The Four Apostles

Triptych

German Rennaissance painter

The apostles are recognizable by their symbols:

  • John the Evangelist: open book
  • St. Peter: keys
  • St. Mark: scroll
  • St. Paul: sword and closed book
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Albert Durer, Adam and Eve

1507 oil painting

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

perfect human form corresponded to a system of proportion and measurements

Renn.

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Lucas Cranach the nymph of the spring

after 1537
oil on panel

Oil on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Renn.

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Altdorfer, Danube landscape

oil on panel, c. 1522–25;

in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Renn.

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Bernini Saint Peter's Piazza

Vatican Rome,

Italy, 1656 to 1667

2 arms out of marble collumade row of columns.enterance looks like a facade-roman temple.

Baroque

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Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa,

1647-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome) Italy

3 dimensional angel holding arrow piercing nun.

Baroque

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Bernini's David

1623 Italy

marble sculpture

shows action movement, action of throwing the stone

Baroque

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Bacchus (c.1595) Carravaggio

by Italian Baroque master 

Oil on canvas

baroque

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Caravaggio Calling of St Matthew

1599-1600

Oil on Canvas

Baroque

 

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The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603)

Caravaggio

painted for Santa Maria in Vallicella

oil on canvas

Baroque


 

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Artemisia Gentileschi,

Judith and her Maidservant

(1613-14) Oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence Italy

Baroque

 

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Artemisia Gentileschi La Pittura

(self portrait as the allegory of painting)

Italy

1638-39. Oil on canvas

Baroque

 

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Rigaud Portrait of Louis XIV


Paris, after 1700
Oil on canvas France

expensive clothing, royal robe, golden, wig, looking at us digustingly "the Sun king"

Baroque

 

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mansart and charles le brun hall of mirrors

started in 1678 France

the central gallery of the Palace of Versailles and is one of the most famous rooms in the world.

at the time mirrors were most expensive

used by the sun king

baroque

 

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Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, oil on canvas by Nicolas Poussin, 1640 France

his work was idealistic baroque classicism

studied ancientsculptures

Baroque

 

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Claude Lorrain Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

1648, France

Old testament classicist, temple, house out of the rennaissance. seaport subject, vessels. time conflicts. queen from the bible. there is source of light and depth in painting

baroque


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Velazquez The surrender at Breda

(The Lances) Spain,

before 1635
Oil on canvas

Baroque


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Velazquez Las Meninas (the maids of honor)

Spain,

1656/57. Oil on canvas

velazquez in painting.

Baroque

 

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Rubens Raising of the Cross

1610, Church of Saint Walpurga, Antwerp, Belgium

Flanders

triptych
Oil on panel

Baroque

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Rubens Henri IV Receiving the portrait of Marie de' Medici

                                        1621-1625 Flanders

oil on canvas

Baroque

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Van Dyck Charles I at the Hunt

1635. It was paid for by the king in 1638, and was meant to be a portrait of the monarch "at the hunt," hence his aristocratic - and therefore elegant and distinguished - rather than specifically royal appearance

oil on canvas

 

Flanders

Baroque

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Carla Peeters, Still life with flowers, goblet...pretzel

1611 oil on canvas

goblet was extravagant(silver)

 

Flanders

Baroque

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Judith Leyster Self Portrait

1635

oil on canvas

Dutch Republic

Baroque

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Rembrandt Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering his company (the night watch)

1642

oil on canvas

Dutch Republic

Baroque

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Rembrandt Self Portrait

1659

Oil on Canvas

Dutch Republic

Baroque

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Jan Vermeer Woman holding a balance

1662-1663

Oil on canvas

allegorical(dressed in blue, pregnant, mary)

Dutch Republic

Baroque


 

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Gerard ter Borch The Suitors Visit

1658 oil on canvas


Dutch Republic

Baroque

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Boffrand Salon de la princesse hotel de soubise

(german)

started in 1732

France

Rococo

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Watteau Le pelerinage a lile de cithere (pilgrimage to cythera)

1717 oil on canvas

Setting out for the island of love - or leaving it?

France

Roccoco

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Watteau The signboard of Gersaint

1721
Oil on canvas

France

Roccoco

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Boucher, The triumph of Venus

1743
Black chalk and gouache

French

Roccoco

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Fragonard The meeting

  • Oil on Canvas
  • c. 1771-73
  • France
  • Roccoco

 


 

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Chardin The Governess

 

1739
oil on canvas

France

during roccoco, did still life


 

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Vigee-Lebrun portrait of marie antoinette with her children

1787

(recognized as one of the most famous women painters in 18th cent)

oil on canvas

versailles, France

Roccoco

 

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Labille-Guiard Self portrait with two pupils

1785 Oil on canvas

French

Neoclassicism

 

 


 

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David Oath of the Horatii

1784, oil on canvas

The painting depicts three members of the Roman Horatii family, who, according to Titus Livius' Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City) had been chosen for a ritual duel against three members of the Curiatii, a family from Alba Longa, in order to settle disputes between the Romans and the latter city

neoclassicm, France


 

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Giardon, portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley

1747

neoclassicism, France

 

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Houdon George Washington

1785-1788
marble, life-size

France, neoclassical

 

 

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Lord Burlington Chiswick House

1729

had a lot to do with the grand tour

precursion of neo-classicism

palladiamism-1720's classicism is not existant

neoclassicism, England

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Hackwood/wedgood "am i not a man and a brother?"

1787

Medallion jasperwire, gold

antislavery movement

Enlightenment, England

 

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Wedgewood Vase with Homer
1786

englightenment England


 

 

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Hogarth The marriage contract from marriage a la mode

1745 oil on canvas

a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the miserable tragedy of an ill-considered marriage for money

England. enlightenment?

 

 

 


 

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Reynolds Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces

1765. Oil on canvas

England, enlighten?

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Gainsborough mrs. richard brinsley sheridan

 

1785-1787
oil on canvas

very natural, she blends into nature, sheer clothing, hair blows freely in the wind.

England, enlightenment-romanticism?

 

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Wright an experiment on a bird in the air pump

1768 oil on canvas

everything about enlightenment movement

scientific experimentation, etc.

 

Enlightenment, England

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Angelica kauffmann cornelia pointing to her children as her treasures

1785 oil on canvs

-Cornelia exemplifies the “good mother” (popular subject in late eighteenth century)
-in the reforming spirit of the Enlightenment – depicted subjects that would teach lessons in virtue (didactic paintings)

 

romanticism-enlightenment, England

 

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West The death of general wolfe

1771 oil on canvas

West depicts General Wolfe as a Christ-like figure. This painting has a triangular composition, made by the top of the flag (as the apex) and the positions of the men. It resembles the painting of La Pietà, where Christ is held in the embrace of the Virgin Mary.

 

neoclassical england

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Fuseli the nightmare

1781 oil on canvas

gothic romanticism, depicts creature on the lady

night-mare. supposedly created to show guilty sins

 

romanticism, england

 

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Rosalba carriera charles sackville 2 duke of dorset

1730 oil painting

 

Italy

 

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Canaletto santi giovanni e paolo

1725 oil on canvas

 

 

Italy


 

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Canova cupid and psyche

1793 plaster

cupid abducting psyche(soul)

neoclassical Italy

 

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Jefferson Monticello

1772

near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson

based the residence on the renaissance ItalianPalladio's projects architect

 

neoclassical, USA

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David Napoleon crossing the st. bernard

1800. Oil on canvas

 

France Romanticism

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Ingres Grand Odalisque

1814 oil on canvas

France

a turban here, a fan there — from Oriental artefacts and miniatures in the collections of Gros and Denon. oriental exoticism

Orientalism, France

 

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Gericault Raft of the Medusa

1819 oil on canvas

a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse,

tragedy

France Romanticism

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Delacroix, the massacre of chios

1824 oil on canvas

murder of people in chios

French Romanticism

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Delacroix Liberty leading the people

1830 oil on canvs

Liberty(lady liberty) leading the ppl with a rifle holding the flag of france. held rifle cuz force was needed to make a change

 

France Romanticism

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Goya The 3rd of May1808

1814

oil on canvas

sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808. The painting's content, presentation, and emotional force secure its status as a groundbreaking, archetypal image of the horrors of war.

Romanticism France?

 

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Thomas Cole The Oxbow

 

1836 oil on canvas

Cole relies heavily on European conventions of landscape painting to convey the visual representation of the struggle between wilderness and civilization.

 

USA romanticism

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