Term 1

Definition 1

Jacopo Pontormo (1494-ca.1556).

Descent from the Cross? (Entombment?). 1525- 1528

  • there's no cross
  • looks kinda like an entombment but there's no tomb
  • don't know subject matter - typical of mannerist art
  • Christ and Virgin Mary
  • brighter colors - arbitrary colors - make them up - not naturalistic at all
  • center is empty - figures tend to gravitate to edges
  • figures seemed to be piled up in space - not rational - no clue how it moves up
  • glare on pic. with no explanation -  not lilke nature
  • unnaturally stretch out figures
  • not natural colors; not proportional; 2 men carrying Jesus on their tiptoes
  • woman with head turned - no legs
  • bad spacing - guy w/ green at top and green fabric at bottom; void of space in middle - Virgin Mary's emptiness
  • don't know deposition or entombment bcs no background or other objects

Term 2

Definition 2

Giorgio da Castelfranco , called Giorgione 

 

 La Tempesta (The Tempest). ca. 1510

  • landscape is the subject
  • no idea who the subject matter is; think he just made them up; first time this happened
  • man looks like an urban figure
  • storm in background - lightning
  • figure nursing child - earth is nurturing
  • the city dweller goes out into nature and kind of recreates himself

 

Term 3

Definition 3

Tiziano Vecellio (1485-1576), called Titian (in English)

Venus of Urbino. ca. 1538

 

  • painting that appealed to the senses
  • could mean about elevated love bcs she's elevated - window looks out to sky
  • conrtoversey between Michelangelo and Titian - who is the best painter? - people would say Mich. bcs his pics were well; draws better, designed, esp. naked bodies; he has a thorough understanding of anatomy - proportion and correct anatomy; disegno
  • Venice people said Titian bcs his coloing was much better; colorito
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Term 4

Definition 4

Andrea Palladio. Venice, 1570

 

Villa Rotunda (Villa Capra). Vicenza, ca. 1566-1570. finished by V. Scamozzi

  • Thomas Jefferson used to own a copy of this; his home reflects it
  • surrounded by beautiful countryside; was a functioning farm - supplied the family with food and sell the rest
  • in summertime - gets hot and stinky - so wealthy people spend summer in villas like this
  • porches on all 4 sides - didn't want to sit in the sun - porches similar to Pantheon, dome in center

Villa Rotunda (Villa Capra). Vicenza, ca. 1566-1570. finished by V. Scamozzi

  • Thomas Jefferson used to own a copy of this; his home reflects it
  • surrounded by beautiful countryside; was a functioning farm - supplied the family with food and sell the rest
  • in summertime - gets hot and stinky - so wealthy people spend summer in villas like this
  • porches on all 4 sides - didn't want to sit in the sun - porches similar to Pantheon, dome in center

 

 

 

 

Term 5

Definition 5

Heironymous Bosch. Flemish

 

Garden of Earthly Delights. ca. 1505–1510

  • not an altarpiece but for a person
  • inscription: "For he spoke and it was done, he commanded and.."
  • Left: God, Adam, Eve seems to be floating up; just finishing creating them; Garden of Eden
  • Center: Ground with hole filled with water; 4 rivers joining - in all 3 panels
  • Right: Hell; consequence of behavior
  • creation of mankind
  • we don't know exactly what's going on; strange stuff and animals
  • seems very sensual, touching e/o, fruits and flowers

Term 6

Definition 6

Pieter Brueghel, the Elder. Flemish

 Netherlandish Proverbs (“The Blue Cloak”). 1559

 

  • the blind leading the blind (futility of ignorance) - 3 blind people in corner
  • big fish eat little fish
  • man bites column - hippocracy
  • ambitious idiot
  • short - sighted fool
  • to bell the cat
  • over 100 proverbs illustrated - he shoots 1 arrow after another but hits nothing
  • blue cloak - woman puts cloak on hubby; hiding infidelity
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Term 7

Definition 7

Pieter Brueghel, the Elder. Flemish

 Hunters in the Snow. 1565

  • part of a series of pics - sometmies rep. months or seasons
  • inn in background w/ sign falling off - St. Eustus rep. on it
  • ppl skating on ponds
  • house on fire
  • seems very cold and true to life
  • Carlos William poem about it

Term 8

Definition 8

Matthias Grünewald. German

Isenheim Altarpiece. ca. 1510-1515. Closed

  • polyptych
  • Closed: made for the chapel in the hospitalof the Order of St. Anthony of Isenheim
  • St. Sebastion - plague - left
  • St. Anthony's Fire - fungus ergotism - right; grew on rye
  • Lamentation of Christ on bottom (division of lamentation on legs like they're amputated - happened from disease)
  • Crucifixion in center - Christ's body covered w sores as if he has ergotism) - St. John to his right w/ sacrificial lamb; Mary Mag. looking up at him; "He must increase, but I must decrease" quote by John about death

Term 9

Definition 9

 Matthias Grünewald. German

 

Isenheim Altarpiece. ca. 1510-1515. Open

  • Left: Annunciation
  • Center: Nativity and heavenly (carved relief guilded w/ gold)
  • Right: Resurrected
  • Open again?: center carved by Nikolaus Hagenauer; woodcarvings
  • Across bottom?: 2 people holding animals - St. Anthony was patron of animals; St. Paul the hermit in desert living off a palm tree and God sent raven w/ bread everyday, then visited by St. Anthony
  • Right: St. Anthony being attacked by demons, peice of paper w/ inscription "Where were you, good Jesus..." - spirit descending down to help him
  • German artists - attention to detail, very expressive, share interest in nature w/ Italy
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Term 10

Definition 10

Albrecht Dürer

Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man). Engraving. 1504. German

  • Eve holding limb and fig from tree in which they'll sin
  • haven't eaten the fruit yet, but have decided to disobey God
  • illustrates a particular subject matter
  • bodies very similar to ancient sculptures; classical; no blemishes, proportioned except for Eve's shoulders
  • branch w/ parrot and plague - from tree of knowledge
  • "Durer was making this" - boasting that he's like Apelles
  • 4 humors are there - all is right, but will soon be wrong

Term 11

Definition 11

Albrecht Dürer

Four Apostles (Sts. John, Peter, Mark and Paul). 1526. German

  • Inscription: “All worldly rulers in this threatening time, beware not to take human delusion for the Word of God." - words in German, verses from Bible

  • oil painted as a gift to his mative city

  • Peter's head - much detail and rep. of nature (left back)

  • combo. of classicism and detail of nature

  • right front: light in eye, vein in head, wrinkles, flesh looks oily

  • St. Peter was the 1st Pope and is stuck in background; St. John kinda took over in Lutheran Doctrine; St. Paul writes about being saved by faith alone in front

  • peice is in point of view of Martin Luther

Term 12

Definition 12

Domenico Theotokopoulos, called El Greco

The Burial of Count Orgaz. 1586. Spanish

  •  medieval
  • Orgaz was very religious and charitable
  • St. Stephen and Augustine appeared to help bury Count Orgaz
  • his soul is being accepted by Heaven/God
  • loose application of the paint
  • not a mannerist artist - you can understand it and it doesn't make you uncomfortable
  • change in style between lower and upper portion - not as much detail at top
  • supposed self portrait of him and his son; paper in son's pocket w/ El Greco's signature and date, refers to sons birthday
  • top: anger and figure in angel's hand - pushing his soul thru opening to Heaven; death - born into eternal life
  • conquistadors in background - some looking up - kinda helps connect the two portions; angel at top - her drapery help connect top and bottom
  • bottom - venetian
  • top - mannerist - long arm, some bright colors

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Term 13

Definition 13

Calling of St. Matthew. Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.

ca. 1597-1601

Early Baroque. Caravaggio.

  • alla prima - working directly from nature w/o any preparation; no pre drawings
  • tenebrism- form of light and dark - rep. of dramatic lighting; strong highlights, dark shadows; adds drama and mystery
  • Jew that collects taxes for Romans - neither like him counting $ - Jesus walks by and says follow me and Matthew does
  • chiaroscuro - light and shadow, especially gradation
  • tenebrism - very strong contrast of light and shadow
  • some ppl found this upsetting bcs they couldn't see and interpret faces/expressions
  • transformation of Levi into Matthew
  • they're in a bar
  • Christ arm is similar to Creation of Adam; can tell its Christ bcs you can barely see a halo above his head
  • severe diagonal highlights Christ and points to Matthew
  • patron was a French Bishop named Matthew

Term 14

Definition 14

Entombment. ca. 1603

Caravaggio

  • opening of a tomb in back
  • Mary, Nicodemus- grimy
  • tenebrism, jutting diagonals - arm reaches out to viewer
  • very diff from Mannerist - indefinite background
  • altarpiece - looks like Christ will go down onto the altar and become bread and wine; transubstantiation
  • artist didn't have any pupils, but he did have followers and they imitated it

Term 15

Definition 15

Judith and Holofernes. ca. 1614-1620

Artemisia Gentileschi

  • female artist - learned from her father - first woman accepted in art academy
  • comes from a collection of books - not cononical - holy/divine
  • one story - Judith - female parallel to David
  • she cut off head and took it to Israel - she was a heroine
  • Grusome rep. of story - knife not all the way through similar to Caravaggio? style - detailed rep. of nature; tenebrism, dramatic lighting, and indefnite background, sharp diagonals
  • she was raped by her father's friend - take out her rage on man
  • movement and emotion

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Term 16

Definition 16

Ceiling, Farnese Gallery, Farnese Palace, Rome. 1597-1601

Polyphemus, Galatea, Acis. by Annibale Carracci.

classicism early baroque

  • theme: loves of the gods
  • made drawing before painting unlike Caravaggio
  • ceiling painting flourishes in 17th century
  • 3 ways to ceiling paint: 1. quadratura: illusionistic architecture 2. quadro riportato: illusion of a wall/easel painting placed in a ceiling or 3. combination of the two
  • polythemus (cyclops) jealous and angry; holding stone to throw at other 2
  • polythemus' form has classical proportion no blemishes, etc.

Term 17

Definition 17

Flight into Egypt (landscape). 1603-1604

 

Annibale Carracci. classicism early baroque

  • landscape becomes very popular
  • he paints an ideal view of landscape - there's calm, clarity, harmonized
  • Mary, Joseph and Jesus
  • people are less important than landscape
  • colorito

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Definition 18

St. Peter's Basilica, Facade. Early 17th Century

Carlo Maderno

  • Maderno extended the nave and facade
  • sense of movement - walls jut out
  • Maderno also responsible for belltower bases
  • they extended the nave to be sure the covered all of the holy ground of the old church - the dome no longer dominates
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Term 19

Definition 19

St. Peter's Basilica. Piazza and Colonnade. Mid 17th century.

Bernini

  • Bernini made side elements converge bcs no belltower = really wide church
  • room for people
  • clarifies space in front of church and separates it from surroundings
  • cover from rain/sun

Term 20

Definition 20

David. 1623

Bernini

  • carved armor that David took off; naked w/ cloth
  • in the act of throwing the stone
  • facial expression - studied his own face in mirror to find the appropriate expression
  • looks at ancient sculptors and the painted polyphemus
  • sense of movement, dynamic pose
  • engages the viewer; Goliath's presence is implied - coexstensive space; space btw viewer and art is fused

Term 21

Definition 21

Ectasy of St. Theresea of Avila, Cornaro Chapel, Sta. Maria della Vittoria, Rome. Mid 17th century

Bernini

  • entire chapel is the art of work
  • St. Theresa is having vision of an angel and the dove of the Holyh Spirit is descending upon her - describes in her autobiography; pierces her soul w/ a spear/arrow - says an angel in her vision waws on fire; drapery looks flamelike
  • colorful marble
  • St. Theresa is on a cloud floating above the altarpiece; up top clouds are painted but looks 3D
  • coextensive - once you enter, you're standing in the work of art
  • family in little boxes on sides - look like they're watching
  • hidden window at top so light comes in and viewer can't tell
  • St. Teresa explains to the people of the church her spiritual encounter in terms everyday people can understand - sex
  • Her drapery is heavy and rep. of earth - angel is light and heavenly
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Term 22

Definition 22

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome. Mid/Late 17th Century

Borromini

  • sometimes called San Carlino bcs it's small
  • dedicated to St. Charles Borremeo
  • most ppl would build a wooden model
  • his models were made of wax or clay - very maleable materials that can easily make shapes
  • interior - walls painted white; wavy walls, complex ground plan; unusual walls meet regulat ceiling - complex interior; reduce size of shapes makes dome seem tall when its shallow - 3 shapes in it -> Holy Trinity
  • even smaller than it appears on the outside
  • during counter reformation
  • four fountains outside, one on each corner

Term 23

Definition 23

Water Carrier of Seville. Early 17th Century.

Diego Velazquez

  • strong light; emphasis on details, like the pot, wrinkles on face - like Carravaggio
  • naturalism
  • objects closer to us have more detail than in back
  • tenebrism; lots of details
  • face in shadow, indefinite background
  • genre painting - scene from everyday life
  • fig in glass - gives it the taste of freshness

 

 

Term 24

Definition 24

Surrender at Breda, Early 17th Century

Velazquez

  • Dutch - Protestants; Spanish - Catholic
  • caused war; seige of town of Bratah
  • right: Spanish troops; Left: Dutch
  • Spanish won; Dutch leader is lower, bowing, giving keys
  • more Spaniards, more spears - strong army - opp. for Dutch
  • commemorates this famous surrender; famous bcs it was very gentlemanly, polite, civil, humane
  • Spanish leader not taking key, looking into eye, hand on shoulder
  • optical naturalism: based on patterns of light and dark
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Term 25

Definition 25

King Philip IV of Spain, Early 17th Century

Velazquez

  • detail in face
  • from Habsburgs family - protruding jaw - result of incest
  • patterns of light and dark - sleeve and coat; your brain fills it in and it looks very 3D
  • very honest in portrayals of ppl - not more or less of who they are - doesn't glorify - made up for it by making his clothes look very regal  

Term 26

Definition 26

The Maids of Honor, Mid 17th Century

Velazquez

  • Princess Margarita w/ maids of honor and others
  • self portrait - see him painting; important bcs he's standing very close to Princess (royal); mirror in back shows king and queen - standing close to them too
  • social position of artist - makes a point to use his hand, using hands for work was low on social standing a begin Ren.; it got better - reflection of that in painting
  • tribute to Rubens in paintings in room
  • Margarita - optical natural - focus of painting; she's the most distinctly painted figure
  • Velazquez was painting the king and queen portrait until margarita comes in and all attention goes to her; see image thru king and queen's point of view
  • Red cross on Velazquez's chest - Cross of Santiage - could only belong in aristocrat group to wear, took him a long time to prove his aristocrat status - painted on later after he died

Term 27

Definition 27

Raising of the Cross. Early 17th century

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

  • triptych
  • Arnand, Walpurga, 2 other on outside when closed
  • often called eclectic - borrowed elements from past and present artists
  • lighting and naturalism similar to Caravaggio
  • similar interest to Michelangelo in anatomy
  • colors remind of Venetians
  • shows extreme emotions
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Term 28

Definition 28

Allegory of the Outbreak of War. Early 17th Century

Rubens

  • traveled to places in Europe as painter but worked behind the scene to create peace
  • Temple of Janus - in time of war - door open
  • Europa - personification of Europe - orb/world w/ cross behind her - they're Catholic
  • Venus - love and beauty; restraining Mars
  • Mars - in front of Venus; war
  • harmony - holds a lute; being trampled by mars
  • mother and child - foundations of civilization trampled also
  • architect- arts; being trampled
  • fury alekto, pestilence, famine - didn't get

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Definition 29

Charles I Dismounted. Early 17th Century.

Anthony Van Dyck

  • elegance, way nature is treated
  • informality
  • Charles - off horse, satin coat and velvet trousers, no armor, he's clost to normal ppl taking care of his horse but his back is still to them
  • relaxation - foreshadow 18th century

Term 30

Definition 30

Still life with flowers goblet, dried fruit and pretzels. early 17th century

Clara Peeters

  • painted her portrait in the goblet, reflection, witty
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Term 31

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Women Regents of the Old Men's Home at Haarlem. late 17th century

Frans Hals

  • group of women in charge
  • optical naturalism - hand looks very real, light and dark colors
  • primarily a portrait painter
  • very subtly distinguished the personality of the women

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Definition 32

Self Portrait. early 17th century

Judith Leyster

  • one of first artist to become an acutal artist, she was in the guild
  • hired aprentices
  • showing herself at easil - not ashamed of profession
  • typical subject matter (man w/ violin on canvas)
  • hand in cneter - proud of being an artist and work with hands

Term 33

Definition 33

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp. early 17th century

Rembrandt

  • group portrait
  • each person paid Rem. to put them in this portrait
  • Dr. Tulp official anatomist in amsterdam - giving a lecture - happened once a yr, rare - cadaver had to be a criminal - Aris Kindt
  • Dr. Tulp lifting pieces of the anatomy of arm
  • someone else actually disected it
  • man holding paper with 7 names on it; man on left was prob. added later
  • action w/in the picture that the figures are focused on; like a narrative
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Term 34

Definition 34

Night Watch. Early 17th century

Rembrandt

  • capt. and lt. - in charge of a militia - formed to protect towns
  • as peace arrives the militias become social organizations
  • cpt. tells lt. to gather men together to march across a bridge
  • little girl w/ children around her waist; in the light - kind of mascot for the militia; usually go in front or parade, etc.
  • chicken - emblem of the shooting company/militia
  • shows using weapons at 3 diff. stages

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Definition 35

Hundred Gilder Print (etching). Mid 17th century

Rembrandt

  • guilder - was $
  • piece of work was sold for $100 which was a lot so it stuck
  • he would bury the states of his prints - re-etch the plate; ppl want 1st and 2nd states - more $ for Rembrandt

Term 36

Definition 36

Return of the Prodigal Son. late 17th century

Rembrandt

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Term 37

Definition 37

Palace at Versailles, late 17th century, architecture and interiors by Louis le Vau, Charles le Brun

  • guilded plaster, huge mirrors, crystals
  • lawn of war on one side, lawn of peace on other - visitors knew where they stood
  • face huge garden
  • king on display - as godlike - called himself godgiven and equated himself to Apollo
  • center: stables better living than most citizens
  • astonishing gardens
  • souvelleince - Louis wanted to control everything; subjection
  • hunting lodge turned to palace
  • Versailles basically became the new capital
  • triad of loads lead to Paris; their centered toward king
  • plants carved like statues or embroidery
  • enormous ponds and gardens - parties, mock battles even w/ ships
  • barely any privacy
  • aristocrats would watch and applaud king wake up and go to bed

Term 38

Definition 38

Salon de Princesse, Hotel de Soubise, Paris, Early/mid 18th century, architecture by German Boffrand (paintings and decorations by Natoire)

  •  a private aristocratic house
  • no predominent gardens; more interior focused
  • Prince de Soubise and trophy wife lived there
  • looks simple, classical, dignified outside
  • completely remodeled palace to accomodate his wife - she had a "princess floor", in center was an oval salon
  • place to have parites/entertain guests
  • round arches, no clear distinction where wall ends and ceiling begins
  • no corners, no orders
  • full of light, big windows and mirrors
  • light in color; organic
  • guilded plaster; luxurious place
  • large mirrors - rare and expensive - meant to delight, not awe like Versailles
  • was a space to show transformation of Princesse, like a stage
  • psyche - large, sheet mirror
  • mirrors - create confusion; kinda magical; also feminine - venus also depicted thru mirrors; also relate to painting in room; story of Cupid and psyche
  • Marie Sophie is like Psyche in the story and its like her palace
  • she rep. herself as smart bcs she knows her mythology and can live it out; she's beautiful and smart

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Definition 39

Return from Cythera, early 18th century

Watteau

  • used warm, rich tones; light figures, graceful, self conscious, postured, almost dancing
  • cythera - island of love; beautiful ppl came to "frolick" on the island; lover's paradise
  • they're leaving
  • fete gallante - myth scene, but ppl are in contemporary clothes
  • needed to be graceful to survive in the court world
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Term 40

Definition 40

The Swing, late 18th century.

Fragonard

  • more playful, woman on swing in luxurious garden w/ her elderly guardian
  • man in bushes peeking up her skirt, she's flirting, cupid saying shh, she kicks her leg up
  • naughty secrets, sexy, desire
  • fertility landscape
  • abandonment of civilization and into fantasy, etc.

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Definition 41

Balthasar Neumann, Church of the Vierzehnheiligen, near Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany, mid/late 18th century

  • Rococo connected to church
  • cruciform plan, pilgrimage church
  • uneducated peasants didn't know what to expect; surprised, hear rumors, walk forever to get there
  • symmetrical facade w/ 2 towers, divided into 3, similar to Baroque, oval plan, curved facade
  • intense lightness inside, dislodges ideas and expectations - structure hidden by ornaments; light colors; material looks
  • appeals to passion
  • meant to convince skeptical and delight the believing
  • an endpoint for pilgrims

Term 42

Definition 42

Grace at Table, mid 18th century

Chardin

  • "The taste for the natural"
  • began to paint peasants and middle class people
  • simple clothes, simple colors, furnishings
  • not dancing across the canvas
  • genre painting of normal people, w/ no myth. or any other reference
  • moral tale, emphasis on the quiet dignity
  • owned and for Louis 15th; owned bcs it became a fashion; an escape - imagine life as simple
  • clothes aren't torn or anything - can't push reality too far
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Definition 43

Lord Burlington and William Kent

Chiswick House (London), early 18th century

  • estate building, reaction against Rococo
  • Progressive Aristocrats - houses look more simple, identified w/ ancient Roman traditions
  • English villa/countryhouse
  • harmony w/ nature
  • based similar to Palladio, Villa Rotunda
  • Rotunda - circle/dome in center
  • only 1 porch, much simpler, based on bookplates

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Definition 44

Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, late 18th century

Kaufmann

  • in a building, dressed in simple, elegant clothes
  • simplicity to the whole scene and colors
  • hiroty painting - moral drawing - teach us something from history
  • Cornelia was an aristocratic woman (in white, purity), visited by a guest showing off her jewels; Cornelia calls her children her jewels; kids grew up to be political reformers
  • good mother breeding good kids and giving them to the state to do good for the people
  • moral story, humble, good character
  • her father was a successful painter and taught her. she was able to travela nd gain access to other artists. she was still limited in subject matter - no war/sex - yes domestic scenes. made it into some academy

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Definition 45

Oath of the Horatii, late 18th century

David

  • figures are set in a stage like space/box
  • david worked for king, napolean, etc. (opportunists)
  • wanted to make timeless statements - political etc.
  • commissioned by king louis 16th
  • meant to teach ppl proper attitude toward ppl and state
  • story: shallow stage, 4 men 4 women, framed by 3 arches, checkered floor emphasizes the focal pt. (swords and hand); strong light, everything is clear; male strength and female emotion; younger men taking oath to their father to fight for family and nation, sisters are sad/emotional, soft;
  • men - stiff, hard, strong
  • sister is engaged to boys' enemy
  • only one brother returns tells them fiance is dead, sister cries, brother kills her bcs she's putting love, personal feelings,and loss before family and state
  • large painting in public places to teach lessons
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Death of Marat, late 18th century

David

  • Marat was a revolutionary hero who was murdered
  • very recent event (painted 3 mo. later) almost journalistic
  • he takes grusome murder into propaganda
  • Marat was in bath tub (extreme skin disorder); he was a writer, has desk in bath and wrote revolutionary tracks; servant brought note that Charlotte O'Day was there to visit and she kills him w/ a butcher knife
  • light coming from unknown source above
  • half of painting is empty; minimal form
  • note in hand also seems tombstone like
  • heavenly, mysterious setting around him

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Definition 47

University of Virginia's Library (Charlottesville, VA) early 19th century

Thomas Jefferson

  • our quad is based on theirs
  • based on ancient Roman stuff
  • Library; then leaves middle open - arms welcoming - pantheon

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The Nightmare, late 18th century

Henry Fuseli

  • woman has been tossing and turning
  • red, velvet satin curtian - lust, passion
  • emerging from curtain is horse w/ white eyes
  • weird figure above her
  • she has pale flesh; she's been ravished - maybe sexually
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Definition 49

Raft of the Medusa, early 19th century

Gericault

  • story: a recent disaster at sea; almost journalistic; shipwreck off coast of Africa; French ship w/ aristocratic captain; captain and officers took lifeboats, food and water and escaped, leaving almost everyone (scandolas) French media covered for him; 149 ppl scrounged wood together, 15 ppl survived
  • 15 living ppl and 5 corpses in front, living ppl in back rise up and flag w/ a shirt
  • highlights the faces of annonomyous ppl
  • injustice by corrupt state; dark sky and ocean
  • strong diagonals
  • very realistic, interviewed survivors, visited morgues, made wax models
  • huge painting - cinematic, 16 x 23 ft - large impact

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Definition 50

Abbey in the Oak Forest, early 19th century

Friedrich

  • often see landscapes of torment, ravished - passion
  • dark/stormy sky usually; broken trees; small people; ruins of buildings; ocean storms - Romanticism characteristics
  • dark poetic mood, ruined church, little priest
  • vast landscape

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, late 18th century

Francisco de Goya

  • etching - a metal plate covered in wax, bath plate in acidwhere you strip the wax and use ink to make imprints
  • exhausted sleep after work/worry
  • nightmares - cats, bats, owls, - emerging on him
  • humans aren't rational or reasonable - let down guard when we're asleep - reason is like a mask - about freedom and the lack thereof
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Saturn Devouring one of his children, early 19th century

Francisco de Goya

  • turmoil in Spain, series of battles where pit bro vs. bro or bro vs. dad; Napoleon tried to seize power
  • referred to as his black paintings; not meant to be seen by anyone but him
  • he painted for the king so he knew everything the king had said in meetings and etc.
  • saturn ate all his kids so they couldn't overtake him but Zeus escaped and overtook him
  • story of battle btw generations
  • you see Goya's distress
  • big eyes, bloody strump, brightness in center, frenzied eyes

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Definition 53

Executions of the Third of May, 1808, early 19th century

Francisco de Goya

  • Goya was a public figure/artist
  • commisioned by the king
  • meant to be seen by ppl and educate them about what just happened and that the French caused their pain
  • French soldiers on right, Spain on left
  • bright rich color emerging from shadows
  • blood saturates the scene
  • can't see french faces, merge w/ their weapons, become inhumane monsters
  • idividual portraits of the spainards, can see fright/emotion
  • very intimate, bright, clean white shirt
  • man's arms in crucifixion form, hoping for redemption
  • viewer is meant to empathize for the underdog

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Definition 54

Liberty Leading the People, early 19th century

Delacroix

  • image of the underdog; recent event
  • July 1830 - uprising against French monarchy
  • built baracades from their furniture
  • charging toward French police and military; over furniture and dead commrades
  • Paris was rebuilt so things like this couldn't happen anymore - weblike streets - long, straight blvds.; also helps w/ transportation, etc.
  • Notre Dame Cathedral in back
  • French flag - red, white and blue - also shown in other places
  • guns held aloft
  • smoke, heat, open mouths
  • center - Liberty - not a real person - like a classical goddess - allegory
  • brushiness of painting, rushed out, bright red scattered - flag, passion, blood
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Definition 55

Death of Sardanapalus, early 19th century

Delacroix

  • based loosely on Lord Byron's poem
  • he destroys all of his stuff before he commits suicide so his enemy can't do it
  • lots of red but no blood - foreshadowing of blood and death
  • death and sex combined - women treated as beautiful objects even though they're being destroyed
  • dark side is only dark because we don't know it

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Definition 56

The Letter, late 17th century

Vermeer

  • Dutch artist - innkeeper
  • genre painting
  • looking in through doorway, girl is recieving her letter - know it's a love letter bcs lute is ymbolic of love
  • painting in back w/ ship - unregulated love or lover is far away
  • camera obscura - image is reflected on mirror so you can trace

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Definition 57

Et in Arcadia Ego, Mid 17th century

Poussin

  • look back at classical anitiquity
  • guy pointing w/ spear
  • momento mori - reminder to people to remember death - focal point is tomb w/ text
  • woman kinda looks like she's leaning on man - symbolic of death
  • not a genre scene - uses personification and imaginary place
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Burial of Phocion. mid 17th century

Poussin

  • historical narrative (specific ppl)
  • didn't look at nature
  • architecture - blocky and linear
  • landscape daytime
  • oil painting

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Definition 59

Landscape with Goatherd and Goats. Mid 17th century

Lorrain

  • vague ppl, kinda genre
  • went and observed nature
  • no architecture - give romantic/beautiful mood
  • more depth
  • daytime
  • oil painting

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Definition 60

Creation of Adam. Sistine Chapel Ceiling. fresco. Vatican, Rome. early 16th century

Michelangelo

  • God is creating him; Adam is laying kind of limp, looks like God's finger is going to zap him; looks like Virgin Mary and baby Jesus; God's touchgin Christ like preachers touch communion bread (body of Christ)
  • foretells Adam was going to sin and Christs was coming
  • convex and concave bodies
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Definition 61

Fall of Mankind and Expulsion from Eden. Sistine Chapel ceiling. fresco. Vatican, Rome. early 16th century

Michelangelo

  • snake also turns into a woman
  • Eve looks more guilty
  • Arc of movement, continuous narration

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Definition 62

The School of Athens (Philosophy), Fresco. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome. early 16th century

Raphael

  • where Pope signed off on documents
  • 1 pt. perspective
  • roman architecture and greek philosophers
  • aristotle wearing blue and brown (earth), pionting to ground
  • plato pointing to sky
  • rapheal paints himself in the painting and michelangelo in the front, he used mich. style of painting to paint mich.; writing - poety, block - sculpture

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Definition 63

Virgin and Child with St. Anne. early 16th century

Da Vinci

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Definition 64

Madonna and child with saints. ealry 16th century

Giorgione

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Definition 65

Assumption of the Virgin. early 16th century

Titian

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Definition 66

Madonna of the Long Neck. early 16th century

Parmigianino

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View of Haarlem from the dunes at overveen, late 17th century

Ruisdael

  • linen stretching and bleaching industry
  • windmills and church
  • specific landscape
  • 75% is sky

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Definition 68

Banquetting House at Whitehall, London, England, early 17th century.

Jones

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New St. Paul's Cathedral, London, late 17th century

Wren