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Sluter
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The outstanding representative of this short-lived school, what is known as the Bergundian school
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Sluter
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His observation of reality was revolutionary (carried us from international gothic to the humanism we see in the renaissance)
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Pucelle
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Revitalizes manuscript illumination
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Pucelle
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His illuminations begin to take on the character of independent painting (they expand to the ends of the page and knock out the text so its just pictures)
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Van Eyck
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He stands out in the eyes of his contemporizes, one of the greatest artist who ever lived
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Van Eyck
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Turned to independent painting of portraits
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Van Eyck
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Secularizes portraits (no more saints, angels, halos, just people)
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Van Eyck
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Leading Northern Painter of the early 15th Century
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Vander Weyden
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Leading Northern Painter of the middle 15th Century
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van der Goes
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Leading Northern Painter of the late 15th Century
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Schongauer
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The Most influential graphic artist in the north of the last quarter of the 15th Century
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Schongauer
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Elevates the print to a position of artistic rivalry like fresco and painting
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Germany
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Country: DID “LINE” WELL
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Durer
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German “Leonardo da Vinci”
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Durer
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Found it difficult to reconcile his tradition, his northern tendency for realism and detail and his theoretical pursuit along with the Italian high renaissance
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Durer
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Never outgrows his German linear characters
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Durer
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First northern artist who fully understood the basic aims of the Italian renaissance
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Durer
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First northern artist to concern himself with classism and the human form
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Holbein
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Chiefly known for his portraits (one of the greatest)
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Holbein
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Strong sense of composition, subtle linear patterns, gifts for portrait, sensitivity to color, faultlessly firm technique
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Patinir
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Invents a new kind of romantic landscape of mood
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Bruegel
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Human activities remain the dominant theme in his landscapes
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Bruegel
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No cast shadows are typical for him
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Bruegel
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Also produces prints that anticipate surrealism
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Clouet
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Best portrait painter of the French royal court
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El Greco
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Luminous and coloristic achievements and nuances of brush strokes
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El Greco
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Influenced by Roman Mannerism
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El Greco
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Last and one of greatest of these byzantine painters
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El Greco
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His style is a blending of byzantine elements and Italian mannerism along with 16 th century venetian influences, His personal style died when he did
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El Greco
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He did not influence any Spanish painters
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Baroque
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Style: Revolt against mannerism
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Baroque
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Style: Interest in dynamic movement and theatrical effects
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Baroque
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Style: Combines various things: architectural, sculpture, and painting
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Baroque
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Style: 17th Century style
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Baroque
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Style: Michelangelo lays ground for this!
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Baroque
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Style: New group of Northern Italian artist in Rome, heralds this new style
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Baroque
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Style: Starts in Rome
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Santa Susanna by Maderno
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First true baroque façade in Rome
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Bernini
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One of the greatest innovators of using water and light
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Bernini
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His sculpture expresses the essence of the Baroque spirit, while in his architecture, he is relatively conservative
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Borromini
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A countercurrent of Bernini, he resists embelishments
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Borromini
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Has a theme on his architecture that has a push and pull of concave and convex
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Guarini
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Uses new kind of brick architecture (uses terracotta, leaves it brown)
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Carracci bros
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The pioneers of Baroque painting in Rome
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Annibale Carracci
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the most important and most gifted of the Carracci family
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Baroque
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Style: a revival of Italian renaissance itself
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Carracci
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synthesis of vigor of Michelangelo with harmony of Raphael, with color of Titian and the mystery of Correggio (inspiration)
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Carracci
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Created his synthesis not through imitation, but through emulation of idealized nature
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Art Academy of Bologna
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First significant institution of its kind in the history of art
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Art Academy of Bologna
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Art can be taught
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Art Academy of Bologna
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Materials of instruction had to include: study of antique, renaissance, and anatomy
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Art Academy of Bologna
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Called academic (intellectual) or eclectic (pulling from different sources)
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Art Academy of Bologna
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Assumed a development of a “correct” style in painting
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Carracci
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Uses Quattro reportato in his work and one of his works was the first major understanding of baroque in rome
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IL Guercino
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His aurora inspired a new wave of enthusiasm for illusionistic ceiling frescos
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Caravaggio
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First artist on record who goes out of his way to shock conventional people (religious scenes in daily life)
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Caravaggio
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Abandons beauty and is interested in depicting reality
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Caravaggio
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Imitated nature instead of just imitating other painters
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Caravaggio
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Called “The Antichrist of Painting”
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Caravaggio
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His type of chiascuro is known as tenebrism (dark manner, art emphasizing night affects and strong shadows)
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Caravaggio
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Had influence on European art and an important aspect of illusionistic baroque
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Caravaggio
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His followers were named “tenebrists”
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Carracci
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Establishes a new type of landscape
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Carracci
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No aerial perspective and real landscape (not imaginary)
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Carracci
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Creates “ideal or classical landscape” it becomes the accepted pictorial representation of nature
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Velazquez
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Didn't like Raphael,classical realism, baroque, or religious subjects
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early 17th Century Flanders
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was not a period conducive to large scale building
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Flemish
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No the major European architects or sculptors of this period were
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Reubens
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A stylistic authority in Flandrs like Michaelangelo in Italy
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Reubens
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Scholar, Diplomat, Painter
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Reubens
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Had a factory of sorts
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Reubens
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Was a colorist and works A La Prima
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Reubens
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solid forms no longer described in terms of light and dark values, now everything is built up in layers of colors and defined by light
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Reubens
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His style is the style of Baroque Flanders
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van Dyck
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Sensitivity to color and shape unlike rubens
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Holland
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Country: Predominantly Calvinist, doesn’t believe in religious pictures
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Holland
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Country: No aristocracy or royal power
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Holland
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Country: No large pictures, everything is living room size
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Holland
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Country: Concentrate on images of daily life and genre and the environment around them
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Holland
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Country: No economic pictures, wanted pictures of leisure
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Hals
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Leading painter of the Harlem School in Holland
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Hals
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Concern with Human Character
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Rembrandt
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Master of stage direction and excels in group portraits
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Rembrandt
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Eventually this “death” mood or mystery will become a primary role or theme in his work
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Rembrandt
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Generally aimed at revealing who the artist is (about self portraits)
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Vermeer
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One of the little dutch masters of the 17th Century, V
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Vermeer
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Uses local colors and color science
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Kelf
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His interest in light is scientific but also poetic
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Kelf
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One of the little dutch masters of the 17th Century, K
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French Baroque
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Style: turn their back on Italian baroque, o See it as excess, and forge their own style
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French Baroque
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Style: stately and reserved classicism in place of the lavish and emotional baroque of Italy (europe)
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French Baroque
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Style: Classism becomes standard by which all things are judged
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French Baroque
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Style: Its during the Reign of Louis XIV that the French Art Academy was established to standardized the arts
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De La Tour
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Most classical painter of the 17th Century
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De La Tour
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Influenced by Caravaggio
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De La Tour
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Prefers Night Scenes
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De La Tour
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Eliminates all emotion and motion
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De La Tour
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Several contradictory elements come together in his work: Classical composure, Fervent Spirituality, Element of genre or realism
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Beginning of 17th Century
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etching bursts into a great flower
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Callot
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Makes 1400 prints
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Callot
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Not since Goya would there be another artist be capable of transforming horrific scenes into universal appeals of humanity
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Callot
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First etcher, printmaker, before Rembrandt, to acquire a national reputation or have any influence on the general arts
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Poussin
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Greatest French painter of the 17th Century
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Poussin
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Attempts to take the viewer back to antiquity
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Poussin
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Early Style Inspired by Titian color and Venetian School
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Poussin
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Changes into a classic and intellectual style, Influenced by Raphael, Carracci, and Bolognese School
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Poussin
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Believes highest aims of a painting is to represent noble and serious human action (must be logically and orderly way, and how they would have happened if nature were perfect)
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Poussin
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Believes artist must appeal to the mind and not the senses
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Poussin
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Stresses form and composition
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Poussin
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Visual arts draws very close to literature (no analogy between painting and literature before him)
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Poussin
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Creates grand manner of French classism but becomes its exceeding exponent in Rome
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Poussin
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Uses the “dorian” mood: things that are stable, grave, and severe. A noble landscape for a noble theme
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Poussin
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greatest modern authority and encourages an academic view which puts severe limitations on artistic development
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Lorrain
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brings out idealistic lanscape aspects
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Lorrain
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Little interest in narrative of story
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Lorrain
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Studies actual light
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Lorrain
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Would have great appeal to landscape painters of the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Versailles
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greatest architectural project of its day
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Puget
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Maverick, most original French sculpture of his day but did not find much acceptance from the academy
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Bosch
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although he was chronologically in the 16th century, he was the last greatest medieval artist
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German art
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Country: in the early 16th century competes with the High Renaissance with Italy and influences great Italian masters
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Durer
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founder of German High Renaissance
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Durer
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first northern artist to travel to Italy to study the art
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Holbein
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the last of the German painters of Northern Renaissance
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Patinir
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first Netherlandish landscape painter, comparable to altdorfer
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Bruegel
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Greatest and most original Flemish Painter of the 16th Century
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Bernini
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undisputed master or King of roman high Baroque
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Maderno
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First definitive steps of urban baroque architecture are by
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Saint Peters
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engaged all the leading architects of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods
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Guarini
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The heir to Borromini’s architectural style
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fresco, Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne
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The first major undertaking of Baroque painting in Rome is
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IL Guercino
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Final Bolognese painter of this early 17th Century style of Baroque
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Caravaggio
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The one giant of 17th Century Baroque painting in Italy
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Caravaggio
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produces a style that revolutionizes European Painting
o Not based on realism, but on his psychological realism
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Carracci
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although Carracci and Caravaggio, powerfully influenced the art of figure painting, he largely determined the dominant course of lanscape painting for the next 200 years
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Pozzo
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Master of Illusionistic Ceiling decorations
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Ribera
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The most important link between Spain and Italy
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frank and brutal realism
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Spains greatest contribution to European art
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Velazquez
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supreme native master of painting in Spain before Francisco Goya
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Rubens
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Glory of Flemish art
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Holland
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For the first time in recorded history, artist are thrown entirely on their own in the open market in the 17th Century (had a positive affect)
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Rembrandt
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greatest Dutch Master
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Rembrandt
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The greatest etcher who ever lived, uses natural forms for emotional power
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Baroque
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age of the self-portrait
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De La Tour
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first important French Painter of the 17th Century
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campin
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his work has a contemporary setting, lots of shadows, and show the influence of sluter in the drapery
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Van der Goes
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not seen in others, his work features disorder, linear drawing, and color.
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Van der Goes
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His work impressed people in late 15th century Florence with its emotion and character.
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Bosch
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fear of death is always present in his work
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Bosch
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his work leads to protestant predestination dream symbolism and surrealism
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Bosch
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never before had there been seen intoxicating imagination coupled with great painting ability
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Fouquet
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this french artist was influenced by the Italian and northern renaissances. the military chaos in France not good for painting.
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Altdorfer
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he followed the development of Italy and the Netherlands in the early 16th century, his inventiveness both competes with and influences the Italian renaissance
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Germany
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this country never fully understood oil painting or the anatomy of Italian art.
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Cranach
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his provincial/naive painting feature the danube mood/style
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durer
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his self portraits have line and surface quality not mass
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Grunewald
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even though his composition is close to Italian static grouping it still has movement
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Durer
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in his adam and eve work he shows contempt for the human body
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Durer
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at the end of his life he finaly reconciles northern realism with southern monumentality
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Holbein
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he transforms German line quality into a major instrument of visual and psychological reality through portraiture
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Holbein
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the school of German renaissance fades with his death
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patinir
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his work shows man frailty and the power of nature
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Chateau de Chambord
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this work has contrasting french Gothic roof and Italian monumentality in the body
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Il Gesu
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the plan for this building became the universally adopted plan and prepares for richly decorate baroque style
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Il Gesu
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the facade of this work is a synthesis of already existing motifs
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St. Peters
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they changed the "pagan" plan of bramante and Michelangelo in this building to better suit large assemblies
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Borromini
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few architects match the unity found in his works
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Rosa
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his proto-romantic style influence 18th century taste for the sublime and terror
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Ribera
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his harsh reality is a precursor to Goya
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Velazquez
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his portrait impressed Italians with the structure of the face, technique, and simple compostion
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Rubens
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his forms were formed with layers of paint and glaze, they seem to pulse with life and blood
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Van Dyck
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in the early 17th century, he sets the tone for portraits for the next 100 years, the blue boy is a homage to him
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Kalf
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his still life appeals to the eye and palate. It is scientific and poetic at the same time
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Orlean's wing of the chateau de blois
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this building has secular contributions by 17th french and the polishes dignity that is the hallmark of french classical baroque
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St. Pauls Cathedral
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this building set the stage for Blenheim palace and cheswick
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