Academic League Art Packet Study Notes

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Paleolithic Period
Cave Painting

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Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain

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Sculpture

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Venus of Willendorf (Germany)

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Neolithic Period
Stonehenge

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Salisbury Plain in England

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Ancient Greece
Kourous Statue

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Nude male figures in a frozen stance

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Kritios Boy

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Weight Shift

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Discobolos

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Discus Thrower by Myron

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Doryphoros

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proportion of parts by Polykleitos

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Apoxyomenos

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moves in three dimensions by Lysippos

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Phiidias

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sculptor of statue of Zeus (one of 7 wonders), helped build Parthenon

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Praxiteles

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Praxiteles – sculptor of Hermes carrying the baby Dionysus

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Acropolis

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Temple Structure in Athens, Built under Pericles, The Main temple = Parthenon, Elgin Marbles
(frieze from Parthenon removed by Lord Elgin and taken to British Museum)
Columns: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

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Ancient Rome
Mosaics and Painting preserved in Pompeii

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“Villa of Mysteries”

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Colosseum

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Pantheon

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Dome temple to the Gods, Raphael is buried here

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Basilica

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shape will later be used by churches

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Used Arch, Dome, and Concrete

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Middle Ages
Illuminated Manuscripts

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Book of Kells (Ireland)

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Byzantine

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Mosics, Icons, Church of Haiga Sophia in Istanbul

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Romanesque Architecture

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massive, solid, blocky, rounded arch

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Gothic Cathedrals

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height, light, stained glass (rose window), flying buttress (Chartres, Notre Dame,
Reims), Church layout = cross, Pointed arch, ribbed groin vaults

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Ghiotto

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Italian painter, first attempts to show space

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Donatello

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(Florence) brings back weight shift, David (bronze)

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Ghiberti

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Gates of Paradise = Bronze Baptistery Doors (Florence)

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Bellini

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Venice, painter, The Agony in the Garden

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Brunelleschi

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Florence Cathedral Dome

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Botticelli

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Birth of Venus, La Primavera

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Da Vinci

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Mona Lisa, Virgin on the Rocks, Last Supper (Milan), Invited to France by Francois I

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Michelangelo

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David, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Moses, Pieta (only work he signed)

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Raphael

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School of Athens (Plato and Aristotle, Plato is modeled after Da Vinci)

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Titian

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Venetian painter, Venus of Urbino

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Masaccio

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The Tribute Money

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Tintoretto

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Venetian painter, Finding the Body of St. Mark

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Northern Renaissance
Jan Van Eyck

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15th Century Flemish Painter, Man in a Red Turban

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Durer

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engravings

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Holbein

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portraits, made many of Henry VIII of England

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Brueghel

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The Peasant Wedding

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Mannerism
El Greco

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Domenikos Theotocopoulos, Greek but worked in Spain, Color, Burial of Count Orgaz, The

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Baroque: 1600-1750
Peter Paul Rubens

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Flemish

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Rembrandt

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Dutch/Flemish, chiaroscuro (light/dark), The Night Watch, Self-portraits

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Frans Hals

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Dutch, The Laughing Cavalier

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Diego Velazquez

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Spanish, portraits of Spanish Royal Family

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Christopher Wren

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English Architect of St Paul’s Cathedral in London

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Bernini

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Roman Fountains, sculptor of Apollo and Daphne

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Caravaggio

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Saints in the form of ordinary people, The Conversion of St. Paul

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Vermeer

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Dutch, use of light, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Woman with a Water jug

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Gainsborough

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English, portraits, Blue Boy

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Bernini

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sculptor, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

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Hogarth

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English, engravings, The Rake’s Progress