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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2008

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Bernini; David; 1623.

 

Suspense, natural human expression.

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Bernini; Ecstacy of St. Teresa; Rome; 1645-52.

Italian Baroque

 

Theatrical, textures.

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Carracci; Flight into Egypt; 1603-04.

Baroque

 

Lost, perfect world.

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Caravaggio; Conversion of St. Paul; Rome; 1601.

 Italian Baroque

 

Tenebrism, unidealized figures, unusual composition.

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Caravaggio; Calling of St. Matthew; Rome; 1597-1601.

Italian Baroque

 

Tenebrism, capturing the moment.

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Velazquez; Water Carrier of Seville; 1619.

Spanish Baroque

 

Interest in detail, influenced by Caravaggio.

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Velazquez; Las Meninas; 1656.

Spanish Baroque

 

Different viewpoints.

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Rubens; Elevation of the Cross; 1610.

Flanders (s. Netherlands) Baroque

 

In the moment, emotional, dynamic.

 

 

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Rembrandt; Hundred-Guilder Print; 1649.

Dutch Rep. Baroque

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Rembrandt; Return of the Prodigal Son; 1665.

Dutch Rep. Baroque

 

Forgiveness, moral side of the story, softer lighting.

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Jacob van Ruisdael; View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen; 1670.

 Dutch Rep. Baroque

 

Landscape only, specific town, 2/3 sky.

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Jan Vermeer; Allegory of the Art of Painting; 1670-75.

Dutch Rep. Baroque

 

Viewer is intruding.

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Pieter Claesz; Vanitas Still Life; 1630's.

Dutch Rep. Baroque

 

Memory and time, fatality, nostalgia.

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Claude Lorrain; Landscape with Cattle and Peasants; 1629.

French Baroque

 

Imagined landscape, mood, soft colors.

Term
[image]
Definition

Georges de La Tour; Adoration of the Shiepherds; 1645-50.

French Baroque

 

Tenebrism, light source visible, no interest in drama.

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Germain Boffrand; Salon de La Princess; Paris, France; 1737-40.

 Rococo


Fanciful

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Antoine Watteau; L'Indifferent; 1716.

France

Rococo

 

Pastels, carefree.

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Antoine Watteau; Pilgrimage to Cythera; 1717.

France

Rococo

 

Amorous festival, upper class.

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[image]
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Francois Boucher; Cupid a Captive; 1754.

France

 Rococo

 

(Watteau's pupil), Baroque composition, playful.

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Jean-Honore Fragonard; The Swing; 1766.

France

Rococo

 

Poke fun at religion, diagonal.

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Clodion; Satyr Crowning a Bacchante; 1770.

France

Rococo


Sensual.

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Joseph Wright of Derby; A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery; 1763-65.

England

Enlightenment

 

Solar system, science, theatrical.

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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin; Saying Grace; 1740.

France

Enlightenment

 

Ordinary, middle class, earth tones.

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Village Bride; 1761.

France
Enlightenment

 

Ordinary, sweet, detailed.

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Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun; Self-Portrait; 1790.

France

 Enlightenment

 

Independent/successful woman, soft colors.

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Definition

William Hogarth; Breakfast Scene; 1745.

 France

Enlightenment

 

Poking fun at aristocracy, immorality.

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[image]
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Thomas Gainsborough; Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan; 1787.

France

Enlightenment

 

Fanciful, soft.

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Benjamin West; Death of General Wolfe; 1771.

France

Enlightenment

 

Theatrical/historical moment.

Term
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Definition

Antonio Canaletto; Riva degli Schiavoni; Venice; 1735-40.

Italy

Enlightenment

 

Tourist, realistic.

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Definition

Jacques-Louis David; Oath of the Horatii; 1784.

France

Neo-classical

 

Symmetry, classical, separation.

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Definition

Jacques-Louis David; Death of Marat; 1793.

France

Neo-classical

 

Hints of violence.

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Jean-Antoine Houdon; George Washington; 1788-92.

America

Neo-classical

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Horatio Greenough; George Washington; 1840.

America

Neo-classical

 

God-like, toga.

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[image]
Definition

Jacques-Louis David; Coronation of Napoleon; 1805-08.

France

Neo-classical

 

Enormous, horozontal.

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[image]
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Antoine-Jean Gros; Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffra; 1804.

Fance

Neo-classical

 

Propoganda.

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[image]
Definition

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; Grande Odalisque; 1814.

France

Neo-classical

 

Erotic, exotic, horizontal.

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Francisco Goya; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; 1789.

 Romanticism

 

Sublime.

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[image]
Definition

Francisco Goya; Third of May; 1814-15.

Spain

 Romanticism

 

Inhuman killing machines, French execution of Spanish.

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Theodore Gericault; Raft of the Medusa; 1818-19.

France

Romanticism

 

X-shaped, not glorified, death, history painting.

Term
[image]
Definition

Eugene Delacroix; Death of Sardanapalus; 1827.

France

Romanticism

 

Color and light, violence, disturbing to emotions.

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Definition

Eugene Delacroix; Liberty Leading the People; 1830.

France

Romanticism

 

French revolution, everyone for the cause, motherly.

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Joseph Turner; The Slave Ship; 1840.

England

Romanticism

 

Landscape.

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Gustave Courbet; The Stone Breakers; 1849.

France

Realism

 

Journalistic, earthy, work.

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Jean-Francois Millet; The Gleaners; 1857.

France

Realism

 

Countryside, poor, harsh, below horizon.

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Honore Daumier; Third Class Carriage; 1862.

France

Realism

 

Natural, unfinished.

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Edouard Manet; Luncheon on the Grass; 1863.

France

Realism

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Edouard Manet; Olympia; 1863.

France

Realism

 

Prostitute, not idealized.

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Thomas Eakins; The Gross Clinic; 1875.

America

Realism

 

Gruesome.

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