Women in the Garden by Claude Monet, 1866-67

-painted outside (rather than sketched)

-depicts a scene of everyday life

-tried to capture light and color vividly

The Sacrifice of Isaac by Fillippo Brunelleschi, 

-created it top to bottom

-not as classical as Ghib's

Sacrifice of Isaac by Lorenzo Ghiberti

-more classical than Brun's

-created left to right

-Ghib won the east doors (comp was for North)

Jacob and Esau by Lorenzo Ghiberti

-on Gates of Paradise of Florentine Chapel

-used square rather than quatrofoil for depth

David by Donatello 1450, Medici Palace 

-1st freestanding full scale bronze nude since antiquity

-very sensual and casual gaze

-naked even though wasnt in the story

-gaze shows that he is comprehending the power that was within him(Willaims' article) 

Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, 1485 Florence

-Pagan sbuject matter, strange for the time

-born from dad's genitals being thrown into the ocean

-drew from ancient Venus statues

-shows Venus as a model of desire

David by Michelangelo, 1501-1504 marble, Florence

-less true to the story, shows him before the battle

-looks mature, sling over his shoulder

-completely idealized

-shows how tense the moment was 

-gigantic bc it was supposed to be atop Flor Cat

Virgin and Child by LDV, 1501

-charcoal on paper

-soft contours

-interested in capturing essence, not perfection

Virgin and Child w/ St Anne (paint) by LDV 1501

-takes out St John

-MAry is still on St Anne's lap

-later cleaned to reveal true colors

-loses the soft contours

-fails to capture the essence as well as the drawing did

Star of Bethlehem by LDV (1506-08)

-science drawing

-very detailed and scientifically accurate

Mona Lisa by LDV 1517

-paints her in nature even though she probs wasn't

-develops portraiture from Ginevra de Benci

Ginevra deBenci by LDV (1478-1480) 

-Revolutionary for its time

-simple clothing unlike most women's portraits

-focussed on her not the clothes

-perspective is facing right towards her

-LDV claimed that eyes were "the window to the soul"

Alpine Storm by LDV 1500

-storm is main focus even though they are just strokes on paper

The Fetus and the Linining of the Uterus by LDV (1510)

-shows his fascination/expertise in anatomy

Female Anatomy by LDV 1510

-again fascination/expertise in anatomy

-also fascination w/ understanding women

Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian (1520-23)

-modern version of an ancient painting

-soft contours

-intereseted in material sensuality

-depth and perception is a little off (god in the back)

San Lorenzo Plan by Brunelleschi 

-modularity was key, simple geometry for the plan

-takes ceiling from Pantheon

-used a sail vault 

San Lorenzo exterior by Brunelleschi 1421-46

-modularity was key, simple geometry for the plan

-takes ceiling from Pantheon

-used a sail vault 

-no time to decorate

San Lorenzo nave by Brunelleschi 1421-46

-modularity was key, simple geometry for the plan

-takes ceiling from Pantheon

-used a sail vault 

Dome of the Florence Cathedral exterior by Brunelleschi 1420-36

-inspire by Roman Architecture 

Dome of Flor Cat cutaway drawing by Brunelleschi

St Peter's Plan by Bramante 1506

-not the final plan

Bronze Medal of St Peter's by Cristoforo Caradosso 1506

-what Bramante originally planned 

-most likely done in the earliest stage of design

Michelangelo's elevation for St. P's by Etienne Duperac(1546-64)

-Mike's initial vision when he took Bramante's place

-added steps to elevate

St. Peter's Church ext by Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta (1590)

-did everything except for the facade

Plan for St Peter's by Michelangelo

-adds steps, two rows of columns(Pagan), facade

-thicker walls

-adds plasters everywhere adds dynamism

Transportation of the Obelisk by Domenico Fontana(1590)

-depicts how an obelisk was placed in St. P's square

-difficult process, pretty incredible for its time

St Peter's Plan by Carlo Maderno 1606-1612

-longer and narrower than Mike's

-makes facade gigantic

St. Peter's Facade by Carlo Maderno 1612

-much taller than Mike's plan

-covers most of the dome

St Peter's Square by Gianlorenzo Bernini 1656-1666

-a lot of preexisting conditions but Bernini didn't mind

-very symmetrical 

-can see the pope from anywhere

-purposefully designed that way

Pieta (accent on e) by Anibale Carracci (1600)

-Mary mourning the death of Jesus

-both figures are naturalisitic and idealized

-modeled after Mike's Pieta

-example of paragone

-baroque

Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio 

-Jesus walks in and tells Matt to follow

-uses divine light to light up Matt's face

Matyrdom of St Matthew by Caravaggio 1597-1601

-Contarelli Chapel

-Matthew on the ground in a cruciform shape

-not a lot of blood; follows decorum

-Caravaggio puts himself in as an observer 

St Matthew (destroyed) 1601-02

-Matt writing his gospel

-priests didn't like this one

-too sexual; shows his legs

-angel guiding him

St Matthew by Caravaggio (1602)

-more covered up

-more dignified Matthew

-writing by himself

Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio (1598-99)

-made Judith beautiful 

        -highlighted by ugly maid

-bloody, dramatic

-Judith is idealized but emotionless

Judith and Holofernes by Artenisia Gentileschi (1612)

-modeled after Caravaggio

-biggest difference: painted in woman's POV

-Judith gets into, no longer timid

-even bloodier

La Pittura by Artemisia Gentileschi (1638-39)

-Baroque style

-inspired by Cesare Ripa's quote about painting

David by Gianlorenzo Bernini 1623

-shows David in action

-lots of texture

-placed in the doorway where the observer will want to see more

-forced to participate in the work

-used himself as a model

-has pubic hair

Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by PPRubens (1615)

-ambiguity throughout the piece

-commissioned by powerful men

-Carroll article

-represents political prowess for the Medici family

-inspired by Polyphemus by Annibale Carraci

October from Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by Limbourg Brothers(1416)

-daily life in October

-shows pagan world order

-explains the hierarchy of the pagan world

Hunters in the Snow by Peter Bruegel 1565

-village, people skating below

-shows hunters in their work

-displays a great understanding of foreground/background

Landscape with St John on Patmos by Nicolas Poussin (1640)

-interested in archaelogical accuracy

-foreground architecture is ruined

       -suggests the end of Pagan order

The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca by Claude Lorrain (1648)

-warm lighting again

-trees on either side with subjects in the middle

-walled town in background adds to the richness of the painting

Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba by Claude Lorrain (1648)

-still follows the structure of trees(in this case monuments) on either side

-buildings were from all different periods

-marine/urbanscape

-leaving to see King Solomon

Landscape w Arch of Constantine by Claude Lorrain (1651)

-can see Colloseum behind arch

-lighting and framing of trees again

-cattle moving throughout the land gives a farm/nature vibe even though major monuments can bee seen in the distance

View of Carthage w Dido and Aeneas by Claude Lorrain (1675)

-mixes up architecture periods again

-unique in that building and trees rather than same(framing is the same though)

-very similar to Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

Landscape w Chateau Steen by PPRubens 1636

-this is his land, shows he is v wealthy

-farmer and his wife shown, working for Rubens

-he and his family are in it, contrasts with the farmer

-a lot of warm/fall colors

View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen by JAcob van Ruisdael (1675)

-low horizon line, broken by Church

-shows linen fields, sun bleached it naturally

-God controlled the weather, everything

Windmill at Widjk by Jacob can Ruisdael (1670)

-simple houses with rickety fence

-shows dutch countryside

-low horizon line

-mill on one side, water on the other, captures a lot of different subjects

Acaademicians of the Royal Academy by Johann Zoffany (1772)

-one of the first Academies in London

-contained a lot of copies

-no women shown, hard for them to make it

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi by Angelica Kauffman

-figures wearing ancient dress

-story comes from antiquity

-women raise men for future generation

-didactic quality, linear style, primary colors

George Washington by Jean Atoine Houdon 1785

-clothed even though Neo-classical

-simple, alludes to Classical

-plough behind him, shows he was a farmer

Perseus by Antonio Canova (1800)

-holds head of Medusa, based on ancient copy

-Medusa looks more lively than Perseus

-tries to be archealogical accurate

Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova 1787-1793

-represents union of love and soul

The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis David 1785

-charged to improve public morality

-supposed to inspire patriotism

-didactic in nature

-very clearly Neo Classical

      -doric order on columns

-faced immediate criticism 

-loved by pre revolutionaries 

The Death of Marat by Jacques Louis David 1793

-stabbed in the bath by political enemy

-very stark and simple

-writing stand next to bath 

-looks like Mike's Pieta 

        -makes him into a Christ figure

Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques Louis David 1800

-huge painting, over life sized

-names at the bottom of other great leaders

      -equating them with Napoleon

-identifies with imperialism

-drew from Bernini's Constantine

The 3rd of May 1808 by Francisco Goya (1814)

-riot against Napoleonic forces

-not glorifying, shows the horror

-more naturalistic

-commemorates riot, shows the horrors of war

-can't see the soldiers, dehumanizes them

Death of Sardanapalus by Eugene Delacroix (1827)

-history is ancient but not Roman nor Greek

-king on red bed (represents fire)

-violent tinged with eroticism 

-inspired by PPRubens Rape of Daughters

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix 1830

-commemorate the uprising

-interested in showing chaos

-libert is personified holding the flag and a bayonette

         -naked, references antiquity

         -idealized, beautiful

         -central to painting

-all classes holding all types of guns, doesn't justify uprising

Slave Market by Jean Leon Gerome 1866

-man looking at her teeth

-shows the horros/daytoday of slave trade

Burial at Ornans by Gustave Courbet 1850

-no action, just seing the moment

-bleak gloomy day

-horizon line broken by crucifix

-represents ordinary funeral at the scale of a history painting

-saying past is irrelevant

Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe by Eduoard Monet 

-large like a history painting

-shows real people

-portrays Victorine without beauty, unidealized, like a prostitute 

-critics were insulted, they thought it was a joke

-fruit, bread, and flask, the illusion is clear

Decline of the Carthaginian Empire by JMW Turner 1817

-framing on eitherside

-alludes to Embarkation of Queen of Sheba

-message: destructive nature of empires

       -Britain was an empire at that point (India)

The Fighting Temeraire by JMW Turner 1838

-eye witness to the event

-on its way to being destroyed

-no longer using sailboats

Rain, Steam, Speed by JMW Turner 1844

-train travel was huge, he loved them

-shows how trains are in nature

-forces of nature w/ forces of modern life 

The Haywain by John Constable 1821

-combines naturalism w/ expression

-very simple yet detailed

-possibly influenced by a Dutch painting

Women in the Garden by Claude Monet 1867

-painted outside

-scenes of everyday life

-tries to capture color and light

-"try not to think about what you're looking at"

La Grenoulliere by Claude Monet 1869

-limited palette

-borgeoisie leisure site

-floating restaurant

-cuts off many of the objects to suggest space

-2 parts, both very intimate

Impression: Sunrise by Claude Monet 

-brush strokes very visible

-"try not to think what youre looking at"

Boulevard des Capucines by Claude Monet 1873

-large streets were practical

-creates the illusion of 3D

-hard to capture every figure bc they were all moving

      -something a camera could not even do at the time

Gare St Lazare by Claude Monet

-loves the steam and its atmosphere

-shows train in station rather than moving

     -compare to nature its like an animal in its den/home

Mount Sainte Victoire by Paul Cezanne 1887

-mount St Victor in the background

-more expansive scene than most, captures a lot of land

-repeats patches of colors

        -juxtaposes these colors to suggest depth

The Red Studio by Henri Matisse 1911

-more direct in its expression

-gives nice prospective; line where corner should be is not there

-light coming in from the window

-all these works are his

-movement away from nature to expression in form

The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse 1906

-uncertainty everywhere; grass or sand? bottom right: one person or two people?

-manipulates space, middleground people are really small

Reclining Nude 1 by Henri Matisse 1907

-anatomically abstract 

-takes from African culture

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso 1907

-scael of history painting

-began as a symbolic picture (philosophical brothel)

Ambroise Vollard by Pablo Picasso 1910

-see all sides of him even though only looking at front

-later called cubism

-can still see face, suit

Ambroise Vollard by Pablo Picasso 1915

-later than the cubism one

-shows that he can still do realism, but prefers cubism

Still Life with Chair Caning by Pablo Picasso 1912

-JOJ is a play on words meaning "a game"

       -playing a game with art

Guitar by Pablo Picasso 1912

-cubist sculpture

-orginally made in cardboard

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash by Giacomo Balla 

-all about dog not owner

       -can still see the dynamism of the owner

-shows/blurs the motion of the legs of both objects

Unique forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni 1913

-made in bronze

-looks futuristic

-aimed to show motion of the figure

-ironically resembles Nike of Samothrace