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Critical Histories of the Arts- FINAL TEST
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Undergraduate 2
05/02/2011

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Pericles

Artist: Unknown  

Date: c.450-425 bce

Place: Unknown

Medium: Roman copy in marble of Bronze original

Comment: Relates to similar sculptures of textual sources. Helmet signifies his role as a military general in the campaigns of the Peloponnesian war. 

Athenian general and statesman largely responsible for the full development of Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire.

 

 

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Theater at Epidauros

Artist: PolyKleitos the Younger   

Date: c.350 BCE

Place: Epidauros, Greece

Medium: Mostly Marble

Comment: (relate to readings, plays) Dedicated to Aesclepius, god of medicine. Suggests that drama was related to the healing cults of ancient Greece.

 

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Kritios Boy

Artist: Unknown    

Date: c.480 BCE    

Place: Acropolis, Athens

Medium: Marble-NOT a Roman copy

Comment: Development of kouros (male youth sculpture). Bridges archaic to classical era. Contrappusto (lifelike accuracy ex. lips, ribs). Found at the Acropolis. 

 

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Parthenon

Artist: Ictinus and Kallicrates  

Date: c.448-432 BCE

Place: Acropolis, Athens      

Medium: Pentelic Marble

Comment: Perfection of Greek Temple Typology. Dedicated to Athena Parthenos. Periclean Athens. Doric Order/Ionic features. Enduring symbol of Ancient Greece.

 

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Athena Parthenos

Artist: Phidias  

Date: c. 447- 432 BCE    

Place: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens

Medium: Ivory and gold over wood frame

Comment: Sponsor goddess of the City of Athens

 

"Parthenos": a virgin

  1. a marriageable maiden
  2. a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man
  3. one's marriageable daughter

 

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Parthenon Metope

(Lapith Overcoming a Centaur)

Artist: Phidias    

Date: 448-432 BCE

Place: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens    

Medium: Pentelic Marble

Comment: Honored Athena (wisdom). democratic present. Relived the stark angularity of the post-and-lintel structure.Centaur (forces of barbarism) Celebrates victory of intellect over unbridled passion. 

 

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Cincinnatus (Lucius Quictius Cincinnatus)

Artist: Unknown    

Date: 514-438 BCE    

Place: Cincinnati, Ohio

Medium: Bronze

Comment: This is a 20th c. sculpture of a 6th c.BCE Roman Republican figure. Hero of early Rome, model of civic virtue and simplicity. Farmer and dictator.

 

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Julius Caesar

Artist: Unknown    

Date: 1st. c. BCE  

Place: ?

Medium: Green schist

Comment: Realistic Roman portraiture; death = end of the Republic

 

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Augustus Primaporta

Artist: Unknown

Date: c. 20 BCE    

Place: vilage of Prima Porta

Medium: Copy of probably Bronze original

Comment: Octavian becomes Augustus;

Pax Romana (era of peace & stability under his rule) Cupid & a dolphin at feet reminding of alleged divine descent from Venus.  


 

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Trajan's Victory Column

Artist: Unknown    

Date: 113 CE      

Place: Forum, Rome

Medium: Marble

Comment: Part of a complex of libraries and markets. Commemorating Roman imperial victory over the Dacians

 

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Tarquin and Lucretia

Artist: Titian      

Date: 1668  

Place: ?

Material: Oil on Canvas

Comment: Titian Painting only is key work. Remember sexy renaissance venice

 

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Theater of Marcellus

Artist: Unknown

Date: 13 BCE

Place: Rome

Medium: Concrete, brick, travertine

Comment: Like colosseum structure but smaller, complex role of theater in life of rome, compare greece

 

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Pantheon

Artist: Possibly Hadrian

Date: 118-25 CE

Place: Rome

Material: Concrete, marble columns

Comment: Temple for all of the gods; possibly designed by emperor architect, epitomizes Roman Empire. 

 

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Bayeux Tapestry

Artist: ? 

Date: c. 1080 CE

Place: Bayeux, France

Medium: Wool embroidery on linen

Comments: Norman Conquest of England


p. 133

 

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St. Gall Monastery

Date: 9th c CE

Place: Plan found in St. Gall, Switzerland

Material: Ink on vellum plan 

Comment: Monastic life under order of St. Benedict; self sufficiency. Preservation of classical learning. Floor plan and organization  manifested classic principals of symmetry and order. Plan for "ideal monastery" is a manuscript located in its library

 

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Scivias

Artist: Hildegard of Bingen

Date: c. 1146 CE

Place: ?

Medium: Text and accompanying illuminated manuscript 

Comments: Hildigard's (Christian visionary) 1/3 writing's of visions (26 of them), includes play, Ordo Virtutum 

 

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Chartes Cathedral

Artist: ?

Date: 1194-and after

Place: Chartes, France

Medium: Gothic Architecture 

Comments: Quintessential Gothic cathedral. On the floor of CFA

 

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Lorenzo de' Medici

Artist: Andrea del Verroccio

Date: 1487

Place: Florence

Medium: Terra cotta

Comment: Renaissance patron, keen likeness, definitive family

 

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Pico de Mirandola

Artist: Cristofano dell'Alitissimo

Date: 1493

Place: unknown

Material: Oil on panel

Comment: Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man (manifesto of humanism. argued free will and perfectibility of individual)

1486 is the key issue


 

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Birth of Venus

Artist: Boticelli

Date: 1482

Material: Tempera on canvas

Comment: Earthly vs divine love. Classical work recreated

 

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Donna di Dentro

Artist: Henrich Isaac

Date: 1510 

Medium: Frottola

Comment: Secular festival song by composer medici

 

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Vitruvian Man

 

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

 

Date: 1490

 

Ink on parchment

 

Comment:

 

Vitruvius, Neoplatonism, Renaissance

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Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio)

Artist: Bramante

Date: 1502

Place: Rome

Medium: Stone

Comment: Perfect High Renaissance temple 

 

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St. Peter's

Artist: Bramante, Michelangelo, others

Date: 1507-1564+

Place: Rome

Medium:?

Comment: Replaces Old St. Peter's; definitive building of High Renaissance 

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School of Athens

Artist: Raphael

Date: 1510-11

Place: Stanza della Segnatura, St. Peter's

Medium: fresco

Comment: Pope Julius II's revived Church surpasses and encompasses the glories of the ancients. Embodiment of classical spirit of the high renaissance

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Villa Rotunda

Artist: Andrea Palladio


Date: 1570


Place: (outside) Vincenza, Northern Italy


Medium: stone, brick, plaster


Comment: Symbolism of dome, columns were stunning for a private home

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Erasmus of Rotterdam

Artist: Albrecht Dürer


Date: 1526


Place: ?


Medium: Copperplate etching frontispiece for Moriae Encomium


Comment: Both image and text are important. Erasmus, humanist thinker critiques some contemporary christian ideals but does not leave church. Image with lines that make it look very real. 

 

His widely read The Praise of Folly (1509) poked satirical fun at church and state. As a Christian humanist, he advocated religious and biblical education toward a simple faith accessible to all. These ideas further riled the Catholic establishment and heavily influenced Reformers such as Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli.



 

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Martin Luther

Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Date: 1533

Place: Wittenberg, Germany

Medium: oil on panel

Comment: Translated bible from Latin for the ppl. 95-theses author. Rejected idea that you could buy your spot in heaven from the Catholic church.  


 

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The Kiss

Artist: Gustav Klimt

Date: 1907

Medium: Painting

 

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Magnanimous Cuckold Set

Artist: Lyubov Popova

Date: 1922

Medium: Stage Set

 

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Paris Metro Station

Artist: Hector Guimard

Date: 1900

Place: Paris

Medium: Architecture

 

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Visual Synthesis of the Idea: War

Artist: Gino Severini

Date: 1914

Medium: Painting, Oil on Canvas

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Demoiselles d'Avignon

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Date: 1907

Medium: Painting, Oil on Canvas

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Scheherezade

Artist: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nijinsky, Bakst

Date: 1888, 1910

Medium: Music, Ballet, Set & Costume Design

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Firebird

Artist: Stravinsky, Fokin, Bakst

Date: 1910

Medium: Music, Ballet, Set & Costume Design

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Rite of Spring

Artist: Stravinsky, Nijinsky, Roerich

Date: 1913

Place: Paris Debut

Medium: Music, Ballet, Set & Costume Design

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Parade

Artist: Cocteau, Satie, Massine, Picasso

Date: 1917

Place: Paris Debut

Medium: Music, Ballet, Set & Costume Design

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Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear

Artist: Erik Satie

Date: 1903

Medium: Music

 

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IGNATIUS LOYOLA

Artist: Anonymous

Date: 1535

Medium: Historical figure, shown in engraving

Meaning: He is an important religious figure - many colleges now named after him.

Founder of the Jesuits

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COUNCIL OF TRENT

Artist: Pasquale Cati

Date: 1588

Medium: Painting

Meaning: Group of the most influential Roman Catholic figures

Served to revitalize Roman Catholicism.

Ruled against Martin Luthers "justification by faith"

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PIAZZA SAN PIETRO

Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini

Date: 1656.1667

Where: Vatican City, Rome

Medium: Architecture

Meaning: Great Italian architecture, huge, new technology

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DAVID

Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini

Date: 1623

Medium: Sculpture

Meaning: Epicts the story of David and Goliath.  Revolutionary in sculpture because shows human in movement.

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ECSTASY OF ST. TERESA

Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini

Date: 1645-52

Where: Rome

Medium: Sculpture/Architecture

Meaning: Very Romantic, sexual. Shows people in movement with extreme emotion.

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BEHEADING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

Artist: Michaelangelo Caravaggio

Date: 1610

Medium: Painting

Meaning: To the religious, John is a martyr. But Caravaggio depicts this scene almost dirty/scary.  Obviously not religious.

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CALLING OF ST. MATTHEW

Artist: Michaelangeo Caravaggio

When: 1600

Medium: Painting

Meaning: In a dark time, there is a light overlooking the discussion, representing god.

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LOUIS XIV

Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud

Date: 1701

Medium: Painting

Meaning: Grande emperor of France. Controversy with his clothing/high heels.

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ANATOMY LESSON OF DR. NICOLAES TULP

Aritst: Rembrandt van Rijn (stupid last name...)

Date: 1632

Medium: Painting

Meaning: Showing the evolution of science.  One of the first depictions of medicine/biology in an artistic painting.

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DE HUMANI CORPUS FABRICA
Artist: Vesalius

Date: 1543

Medium: Book with illustrations

Meaning: study of human body in EXTREME detail - evolution of technology/science/curiosity of the body from a non-artistic standpoint

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LOUIS XIV AS THE SUN KING

Artist: Unknown artist

Date: 1653

Medium: Book Illustration

Meaning: French emperor - maybe to show that he thought he was the centre of the world? Sun? Power?

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DE REVOLUTIONIBUS

Artist: Nicolaus Copernicus

Date: 1543

Medium: Book illustration

Meaning: Heliocentric vs. geocentric

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VAUX LE VICOMTE

Artist: Le Vau, Le Notre, Le Brun

Date: 1657-61

Where: Maincy, France

Medium: Architecture, Landscape, Painting

Meaning: French chateau

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Charles-Claude d'Angiviller

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Date: 1763

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas

Comment:

*Director-General of Buildings, 

Gardens, Arts, Academies and
Royal Manufactories of the King

*Creates art museum at
Luxembourg Palace

*Art’s highest goal is to promote
virtue and combat vice

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Voltaire in Old Age

 

Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon

Date: 1781

Medium: Sculpture

Comment:

 

more importantly... he wrote Candid

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Corinthian Order. The Antiquities of Athens

 

Artist: James Stuart and Nicholas Revett

Date: 1762

Medium: Book of Engravings

Comment:

 

//no comment in slides

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  Lord Thomas Dundas    //prob Exam

 

Artist: Pompeo Balboni

Date: 1764

medium: painting, oil on canvas

 

Comment:

 

Painting of Lord Dundas in museum. Painting to prove his wealth and culture traveling

 

In 1770s, people though by going to Greece and Rome you can rediscover art. But really a new trend of wealthy traveling to Greece/rome.

 

 

 

 

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Death of Socrates

 

Artist: Jacques Louis David

Date: 1787

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas

Place: Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Comment:

 

Sympathetic painting of revolutionary fighters

 

 

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Gardens by Le Notre, Versailles

Artist: Andres Le Notre

Date: 1680

Place: Versailles, outside Paris

Medium: Landscape

Comment: Louis XIV summoned Notre to build upon the base of the primitive garden of Louis XIII. He employed the classic French garden style where man was dominant over nature. He created tiers, walls, waterways and pools to create optical illusions of infinite space. 

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Bassin d'Apollon

Artist: Louis d Chastillon

Date: 1683

Place: Versailles, outside Paris

Medium: Sculpture, Water

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Plan of Brookes

 

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1788

Medium: Engraving

 

Comment:

 

Fiero, p. 305

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Tintern Abbey

Artist: J.M.W. Turner and William Wordsworth

Date: 1794 +1798

Place:

Medium: Painting, watercolor and poem

Comment: 2 different works on the same subject

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Galerie des Glaces

Artist: Jules Hardouin Mansart

Date: 1684

Place: Versailles, outside of Paris

Medium: Architecture, Mirrors...

Comments: Where the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the end of World War 1. Large ballroom with 17 giant mirrors lining one side, to reflect the frescoes.

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Napoleon Crossing the Alps

 

By: Jacques-Louis David

Date: 1800

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas

 

 

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Georg Wilhelm Hegel

1770-1831
(Lazarus Sichling, 1828)

A Philosopher....

wrote:

The Philosophy of History

*Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

*The essence of spirit (Geist) is
freedom, which finds its ultimate
expression in the state

*(See also Schopenhauer, The
World as Will and Idea, 1819:
Temporary solace in art and music,
wisdom through spiritual insight)

 

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Le Roi Gouverne par Lui-Meme

Artist: Charles Le Brun

Date: 1680

Place: Galerie des Glaces, Versailles, outside Paris

Medium: Painting. Oil on panel. 

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Charles Darwin

1809-1882

 

wrote:

 

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored races in the Struggle for Life 1859

 

Descent of Man, 1871

 

Darwin explains process – Natural
selection of key survival traits…

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Artist: Unknown Artist

Date: 1680

Place: 

Medium: engraving from a book

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Rain, Steam, Speed

 

Artist: J.M.W. Turner

Date: 1844

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas

 

Comment:

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/turner/

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Tintern Abbey

 

Artist: J.M.W. Turner and William Wordsworth

Date: 1794+1798

Medium: Painting, watercolor and poem

Place: Near River Wye in southwest England

 

Comment:

 

-The Abbey collapsed because its lead roof was
sold for scrap.

 

 

-I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of
all my moral being.

 

 

 

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White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas

 

Artist: George Catlin

Date: 1844-45

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas

 

Comment:

 

 

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Third Symphony, "Eroica,"

First Movement

 

MUSIC

 

Ludwig van Beethoven

1804

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?  v=tHvztnHOWEQ

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Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist

 

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich

Date: 1818

Medium: Painting- Romanticism!!!

 

Comment:

 

Important Painting!

 

 

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"Enfin, il est en ma Puissance" from Armida

 

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Date: 1686

Place:

Medium: Music 

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The Wanderer

 

Artist: Franz Schubert

Date: 1822

 

MUSIC

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bKwun_eSU68

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Revolutionary Etude

 

By: Frederic Chopin

Date: 1831

 

MUSIC

 

 

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Liberty Leading the People

 

Artist: Eugene Delacriox

Date: 1830

Medium: Painting, Oil on Canvas

 

 

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Renaud et Armide

Artist: Niclas Poussin

Date: 1630

Place:

Medium: Painting, oil canvas

Comment: Story and painting precede opera

 

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Prelude to L'Apres Midi d'un Faune

Artist: Debussy, Nijinsky

Date: 1885, 1912

Place: Paris, for the Opera debut

Medium: Music (inspired by poetry) and Ballet

 

Comment: Know music and ballet

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Moliere 

Artist: Nicolas Mignard

Date: 1658

Medium: painting

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Marche Pour La Ceremonie des Turcs

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Date: 1670

Medium: Music

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"Hallelujah Chorus," Messiah

Artist: George Frideric Handel

Date: 1742

Medium: Music

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Branernburg Concerto #2 in F

Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach

Date: 1721

Medium: Music

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Artist: Joseph Wright

Date: 1768

Medium: Painting

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Thomas Jefferson

Artist: Jean-Antoine Houdon

Date: 1789

Medium: Sculpture

 

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Encyclopedie

Artist: Denis Diderot, et. al.

Date: 1762-77

Medium: Publication

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Hotel de Soubise (Salon de la Princesse)

 

Artist: Germain Boffrand

Place: Paris

Medium: Architecture 

 

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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan

 

Artist: François Boucher

Date: 1754

Medium: Painting

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Hamerschlag (Machinery) Hall

 

Artist: Henry Hornbostel

Date: 1906-12

Place: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Medium: Architecture

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Symphony #40 in G Minor, Molto Allegro

 

Artist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Date: 1788

Medium: Music

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Love Duet: Tristan und Isolde

 

Artist: Richard Wagner

Date: 1859

Medium: Opera

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Tristan und Isolde

 

Artist: August Spiess

Date: 1881

place: Neuschwanstein, Bavaria, Germany

Medium: Wall Painting  


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Lohengrins

Artist: August von Heckel

Date: 1882

Place: Neuschwanstein, 

Bavaria, Germany

Medium: Wall Painting  


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Bridal Chorus, Lohengrin

Artist: Richard Wagner 

Date: 1850

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Neuschwanstein

Artist: Christian Jank, Eduard Riedel

Date: 1869-

Place: Bavaria, Germany

Medium: Architecture  


 

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Crystal Palace

Artist: Joseph Paxton

Date: 1851

Place: London

Medium: Architecture

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The Gleaners

Artist: Jean-François Millet

Date: 1857

Medium: Painting, oil on Canvas  

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The Apotheosis of Homer

Artist: J.A.D. Ingres

Date: 1827  

Medium: Painting, oil on canvas 

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Friedrich Nietzsche 

19th-century German philosopher, poet and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be

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Human Zoo

artist: Unknown artist

Date: 1879

Place: Dresden Expo 1879 Engraving of Exposition 

exhibit 


 

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Huckleberry Finn

Artist: Thomas Hart Benton

Date: 1885, 1936

Medium: Book, Painting  


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 Theater at Bayreuth

Artist: Otto Brueckwald

Date:1872- 5

Place: Bayreuth, Germany

Medium: Architecture

Comment: Wagner

 

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Donna e Mobile, Rigoletto

Artist: Giuseppe Verdi

Date:1851

Medium: Opera  


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Habanera, Carmen

Artist: Georges Bizet 

Date: 1875  

Medium: Opera  


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 Dying Swan from Carnival of the Animals

Artist:Camille Saint-Saëns

Date: 1866  

Medium: Music, Ballet  


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