Artist: Donatello

Title: David

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Celebration of humanism. First life-sized nude since Roman/Greek.

Artist: Donatello

Title: Mary Magdalene

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Made our of wood. Life-sized. Has some gold paint on it. Pity emotion.

Artist: Brunelleschi

Title: The Florence Cathedral

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Latin cross plan. Brunelleschi built the dome (interior and exterior shell). Lantern on the top.

Artist: Masaccio

Title: The Holy Trinity

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Fresco painting. The dove is a symbol of the Holy Ghost. Vanishing point. Triangle.

Artist: Boticelli

Title: The Birth of Venus

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Had a lot of critics. Modest nude. The painting is actually big.

Artist: Da Vinci

Title: The Vitruvius Man

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Used to find the perfect shapes from the human body (square and circle).

Artist: Da Vinci

Title: The Last Supper

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Original has a door that removed the feet of Jesus. Perspective drawing. Vanishing point. Triangle.

Artist: Da Vinci

Title: Mona Lisa

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Mysterious background. The painting was once stolen. No body really knows who this is a painting of.

Artist: Ghiberti

Title: The Gates of Paradise

Period: Renaissance

Concept: It’s in Florence. The door is made out of bronze.

Artist: Raphael

Title: The School of Athens

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Fresco painting. It was for the Pope’s private library.

Artist: Michelangelo

Title: David

Period: Renaissance

Concept: Made out of marble. It’s 14 feet tall.

Artist: Dome is by Michelangelo

Title: St. Peter’s Basilica

Period: Baroque

Concept: Largest Christian church. It has many classical things (columns, dome, arches).

Artist: Bernini

Title: Baldacchino

Period: Baroque

Concept: Twisted columns made out of bronze from the Pantheon.

Artist: Bernini

Title: David

Period: Baroque

Concept: Used undercutting. Different body position than other David’s. Modest nude.

Artist: Rembrandt

Title: The Night Watch

Period: Baroque

Concept: Chiaroscuro painting (meaning light-dark).

Artist: Rembrandt

Title: The Syndics

Period: Baroque

Concept: Portrait of lawyers in a chiaroscuro painting.

Artist: Monet

Title: Impression Sunrise

Period: Impressionism

Concept: The name Impressionism came from this painting.

Artist: Monet

Title: haystacks

Period: Impressionism

Concept: Painted light in the painting. Did not use black for shadows.

Artist: Degas

Title: The Dance Class

Period: Impressionism

Concept: He painted dancers not dancing. One of few Impressionism paintings that was inside.

Artist: Cassett

Title: The Boating Party

Period: Impressionism

Concept: Cassett is a female artist from America. She captured wakes on the water.

Artist: Cezanne

Title: The Great Bathers

Period: Post Impressionism

Concept: There is hidden geometry (triangle).

Artist: Seurat

Title: The Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Period: Post Impressionism

Concept: Pointillism. Optical color blending.

Artist: Van Gogh

Title: Self Portrait

Period: Post impressionism

Concept: Impasto painting. Van Gogh did a lot of self portraits to practice his painting.

Artist Van Gogh

Title: Starry Night

Period: Post-impressionism

Concept: He painted the wind. Impasto painting.

Artist: Van Gogh

Title: Crows Over a Wheatfield

Period: Post Impressionism

Concept: Last painting he did before he died.

Artist: Matisse

Title: The Green Line

Period: Modernism

Concept: Asian decent influenced. Portrait of his wife. People hated this painting.

Artist: Picasso

Title: Portrait of Gertrude Stein

Period: Modernism

Concept: It’s a portrait of an art collector.

Artist: Picasso

Title: Les Demoiselles d’ Avigon

Period: Modernism

Concept: Means “women of Avigon”. He used African masks. The women are prostitutes. The painting leads to cubism.

Artist: Picasso

Title: The Three Musicians

Period: Modernism

Concept: Took people and turn them in abstract. Cubism.

Artist: Duchamp

Title: The Fountain

Period: Dada

Concept: It was a test sculpture to the board of dada art show. Influenced a lot of artists in 1917.

Artist: Duchamp

Title: Nude Descending a Staircase

Period: Futurism

Concept: The painting is a person walking down the stairs. He wanted to capture movement.

Artist: Boccioni

Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Period: Futurism

Concept: Sculpture of movement. Broken down into cubist.

Artist: Brancusi

Title: Bird in Space

Period: Futurism

Concept: Represents the flight of a bird.

Artist: Mondrian

Title: Broadway Boogie Woogie

Period: De Stijl

Concept: View of a city with only primary colors.