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Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1618, oil on canvas, 7 ft x 7 ft, Baroque, Netherlands

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Rubens, The Garden of Love, 1630, Baroque, oil on canvas, 6.5 ft. x 9 ft., Netherlands

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Rembrandt

The Blinding of Samson

1636

oil on canvas

7 ft x 9 ft, Baroque, Holland

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Rembrandt, The Night Watch,  1642, oil on canvas, 12 ft x 14 ft, Holland, Baroque

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Rembrandt, Supper at Emmaus, oil on canvas, 1628, oil on panel, Baroque, Holland

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Rembrandt, Supper at Emmaus, 1648, oil on wood, 2 ft x 2 ft, Baroque, Holland

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Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665, oil on canvas, 17 in x 15 in, Holland, Baroque

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Vermeer, View of Delft, 1660, 3 ft x 4 ft, oil on canvas, Holland, Baroque

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Vermeer, The Letter, 1670, oil on canvas, Baroque, Holland, 17” x 15”

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Ruisdael , Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond II, Holland, Baroque, 1650, 3 ft x 4 ft, oil on canvas

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Hobbema, The Alley at Middelharnis, oil on canvas, 3.5 ft x 4.5 ft, 1669, Holland, Baroque (was the greatest landscape painter of the Dutch School after Ruisdael)
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Saenredam, 1645, oil on panel,  16” x  13”, Interior of Utrecht, Dutch Baroque

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Claude Lorrain,  Baroque, French but worked in Italy, oil on canvas, 1650s

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Claude Lorrain,  Baroque, French but worked in Italy, oil on canvas, 1650s

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Poussin, The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648, oil on canvas, French Baroque,

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Poussin, The Dance to the Music of Time, 1640, oil on canvas, 3 ft x 3.5 ft, French Baroque

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Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise, French Rococo, multi media, 1740

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Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1719, oil on canvas, 4 ft x 6 ft, French Rococo

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Boucher, The Triumph of Venus, 1740, oil on canvas, 4 ft x 5 ft, French Rococo

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Boucher

Venus Comfronting Cupid

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Fragonard, The Happy Accident of the Swing, 1767, oil on canvas, French Rococo

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Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1700, oil on canvas, French Rococo, 9.5 ft x 5 ft

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Gainsborough, The Morning Walk, 1785, English Rococo, 30” x 20”, oil on canvas

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Hogarth, Scene from Marriage a la Mode, 1743, oil on canvas, 2’ x 3’

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Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768, Neoclassicism, oil on canvas, 5 ft x 8 ft., American working in England
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West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770, oil on canvas, 5 ft x 7 ft, American working in England, transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism

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Ben West, Death on the Pale Horse, American working in England, 1796, 2 ft x 4 ft, oil on canvas, Romanticism

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David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, Neoclassicism, oil on canvas, French, 11 ft x 14 ft

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David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas, 5 ft x 4 ft, French, Neoclassical

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David, The Death of Socrates, 4’ x 6 ft’, oil on canvas, 1787, Neoclassical, French

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David, Napoleon at St. Bernard’s Pass, 1800, oil on canvas, 8.5 ft x 7 ft, transition into Romanticism, French

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Jefferson, Rotunda, University of Virginia, 1822, Neoclassical, American

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Greenough, George Washington

1841

Neoclassical

12' tall

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Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1819, 16 ft x 21 ft, oil on canvas, French romanticism

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Gericault, Madwoman, 1822, oil on canvas, 2.5 ft x 2, French romanticism

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Delacroix, Boat of Dante, 1822, oil on canvas, 6 ft x 8 ft, oil on canvas, French romanticism

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Delacroix, Death of Sardanopolis, 1827, 12 ft x 16 ft, oil on canvas, French romanticism

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Delacroix, The Women of Algiers, 1834, oil on canvas, 6 ft x 7.5 ft, French romanticism

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Goya, The Executions of May 3, 1808; 1814; oil on canvas, 8.5 ft x 11 ft; Spanish Romanticism

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Courbet, Funeral at Ornans, 1850, 10 ft x 22 ft, Realistic Romanticismm, oil on canvas, French

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Courbet, the Stone Breakers, 1850, 5 ft x 8.5 ft, oil on canvas, French realism

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Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas, 4 ft x 6 ft, French realism

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Monet, Terrace at Sainte-Adresse, 1867, oil on canvas, French impressionism

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Monet

Cathedral Facades of Rouen

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Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 4 ft x 6 ft, oil on canvas, French impressionism, 1876

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Baroque
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realism more important than beauty, dramatic charischuro, evoked emotional rathar than intellect
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Poussin
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head of French academy (Baroque)

STUDIED FRESCOES BUT DID OILS

Raphael is his idol

primary colors bc color was to emotional

looked back to Renaissance, used graph paper for paintings, wants reasonable response to paintings, very controlled. Lines all linked

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Claude
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french baroque never belonged to academy

LANDSCAPES

went out into real landscape and drew pieces BUT took them back to his studio and pieced them together- light and space is imporant to claude

varnish gave works a golden glow, atmospheric perspective. 

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How Claude made his landscapes high on academys heirarchy of subject matter
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he would have two parts to his titles, landscape and noble theme

ex. "Landscape: Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca"