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VCU ARTH104
Exam 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2012

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Baldacchino

Bernini

1624-1633

100' tall

St. Peter's Basilica

Comm. by Bar Berini fam

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St. Peter's square

Bernini

1656-1657

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Cornaro Chapel

Bernini

1642-1652

in Santa Maria de la Victoria church

for Federico Cornaro (Cardinal)

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St. Teresa of Avila in Esctasy

Bernini

Chiaro Scuro

sometimes seen as erotic

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David

Bernini

1623

Patron: nephew of Pope Paul V

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Ceiling of Gallery, Palazzo Farnese

Carracci

Baroque illusionism (added arch., foreshortening of people)

Commemorating wedding

Earthly love

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The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

1672-1685

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Bacchus

Caravaggio

1595-1596

rotting fruit - vanitas

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The Calling of St. Matthew

Caravaggio

1599-1600

used to be tax collecter, Levi

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Judith and Her Maidservant w/ the Head of Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi

1625

Tenebrism - theatrical use of Chiaro Scuro

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Water Carrier of Seville

Velazquez

1619

Offic. Court painter of Phil IV

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Las Meninas

Velazquez

1656

Princess Infanta Margarita

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The Esquilache Immaculate Conception

Murillo

1645-1650

from Seville

Many works ended up in Mexico

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Sebastian Salcedo

1779

Mexico

Mary: Patron Ste. of Americas

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The Raising of the Cross

Rubens

1610-1611

Antwerp

Painter to the Duke of Mancha

1st International artist

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Henry IV Receiving Portrait of Marie de' Medici

Rubens

1621-1625

She is Reagant

Engagement painting (falling in love)

Aligorical figure of France on right

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Sight

Brueghal and Rubens

1617-1618

Series of 5 senses painting

Patrons: Hapsburg Govs.

Venus and Cupid

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Charles I at Hunt

Anthony Van Dyck

1635

had own students and studio at 16 yo

Asst of Rubens

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Henry XIV

Hyancinthe Rigaud

1701

"Sun King" (Henry)

High Heels

Founded Royal Accademy of Painting and Sculpture (decided artists)

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The Garden Facade, Versailles

Louis Le Vau-unable to finish

Jules Hardouin-Manzart picked up commission 1670

Bottom floor rusticated to look taller

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Hall of Mirrors, Versailles

Jules (arch.) & Charles Lebrun (paintings)

240' long

17 windows

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The Holy Family

Poussin

1648

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Landscape with St. John on Patmos

Poussin

1640

writin Revelations

Light/dark

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Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise

Germain Boffrand

Begun 1732

Paris

Rococo mov. took hold after King Louis 14 death (1715)

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The Pilgrimage to Cythera

Jean-Weatteau

1717

Fete galante: elegant outdoor party

Cythera: Venus's mythical island

Putti: cupids

W. died of TB in early 30's

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Triumph of Venus

Francois Boucher

1740

hired to copy Weatteau's paintings

Sensual painting

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The Swing

Fragonard

F. won Prix de Rome at Academy

Best known decorator of interiors at Academy

Part of Progress of Love

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The Meeting

Fragonard

Du Barry commished series but Rococo went out of style

Part of Progress of Love

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Woman with Owl on Shoulder

Frans Hals

Mixes attn to detail w/ tenebrism

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Catharina Hooft and her Nurse

Frans Hals

1620

Triangular interaction

Dutch = Detail

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Three Crosses, first state

Rembrandt

spiritual realism

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Self-Portrait

Rembrandt

1658

When he was bankrupt

illiminated head/hands

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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

Rembrandt

1632

Group portrait

illuminated heads = enlightened

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The Night Watch

Rembrandt

1642

Was very dirty, washed it

Found out painting was inside

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Self-Portrait

Judith Leyster

1630

Genre scene

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Flower Still Life

Rachel Ruysch

after 1700

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Self-Portrait

Chardin

1771

Neither baroque, neoclassicism, rococo

"Master of still life"

Louis XV gave studio in the Louve

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Soap Bubbles

Chardin

Drama from bubble about to pop

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Anteroom, Syon House, Middlesex, England

Robert Adam

1760

Made "Grand Tour" in 4 years, mostly in ROme

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Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

1772

Palladianism

Changed in 1790's (French influence)

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Cupid and Psyche

Antonio Canova

1787-1793

Venus cursed Psyche bc relationship w. Cupid

Put in coma >> Cupid kisses her

X composition

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Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

Thomas Gainsborough

1750

Top portraitist (upperclass)

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Mr. and Mrs. Mifflin

John Singleton Copley

1773

Boston

man is quaker/patriot

Woman is weaving

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The Marriage Contract

William Hogarth

1743-1745

Moralized Genre painting

1st in "Marriage a la Mode" series

Emphasizes love based marriage

Sleeping dig=infidelity

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Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures

Angelica Kauffman (Swiss)

1785

History painting (Highest from of painting)

Family values

Glorification of mother big in 18th c.

Moved to England in 1766, 1768 evnovled w/ Academy

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette w/ her Children

Vigee-Lebrun

1783

Part of Academy

Motherhood theme

Just lost child, crib

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Self Portrait w/ Two Pupils

Labille-Guiiard

1785

Petitioned to lift restriction b/c she's woman

Entered Academy

Feminest

7' tall

Bust of her father in background

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Oath of the Horatii

David

1784

Inspired by classical play (Horus)

1789-French Rev. -> New people in power

Political flipflopping

1799- Napoleon

Flips back -> Court painter for Napoleon

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Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard

David

1800

St. Bernard pass in Alps

Actually passed on donkey

Power

Sharp lines-Raphael

Left France after Nap. died

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Large Odalisque

Ingres

1814

Student of David

Prix de Rome (1806-24)

Director of French Academy in Rome (6yrs)

Orientalizing style (Near east(Turkey))

Harum (place) Turkish concubine

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