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30 Cards in this Set
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Helene Fourment
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Peter Paul Ruben's second wife
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LDM
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Little Dutch Masters
small scale paintings giving social realist view of Dutch life |
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Union of Utrecht
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1579
treaty separates low countries Holland and Belgium |
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tulip mania
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til 1637
example of LDM little dutch masters symbol of status; Holland |
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Hans Van Meegeren
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most famous art forger charged with collaboration with Nazis
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Thore Burger
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19th century art critic who rediscovered Vermeer
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camera obscura
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optical device used in drawing and leads to the invention of photography
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circles of confusion
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little white dots "imperfections" in painting/pictures
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troppo vero
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too true
pope's reaction to Velazquez's portrait of him social realist goal |
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Donna Olympia
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notorious sister-in-law
of Pope Innocent X |
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ideal landscape
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intellectually constructed nature
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repousoir
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illusion of depth
to push back |
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rococo
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decorative, graceful style known for its soft pastels
feminine, frivolous, sensuous |
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Cythera
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mythical isle of love
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Fete galante
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elegant and graceful celebration
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Madame de Popadour
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king's mistress hires Boucher to paint voluptuous paintings with scenes of sensuous pursuits of pleasure and escapes from boredom
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fancy pictures
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poetic landscape paintings
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Hogarth Act
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1735
secured copyrights for artists |
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brothel picture
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used to teach, advocate and mock
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Adams Style
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revival of ancient Rome design, "interpretations"
light, spacious, symmetrical view of the ideas |
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picturesque
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romantic attiude in art, that like the sublime arouse strong emotions
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prix de rome
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1774
symbol of best in country |
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Pauline Bonaparte Borghese
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Napoleon's sister caused scandal in Rome
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Venus Victrix
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from story of Judgement of Paris
golden apple |
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Elgin Marbles
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British ambassador
Lord Elgin obtained permission to remove sculptures from Acropolis opportunity to study classical art |
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Johann Winckelmann
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German art historian and archaeologist
artists should "imitate" the timeless ideal for us of the classical world |
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odalisque
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female
usually a slave from a Turkish harem and Ingres painted several works on the subject |
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medusa
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name of French ship off coast of Africa is shipwrecked
cannibalism and tragedy |
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sardanapalus
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play by Lord Bryron
Assyrian King who upon learining that his armies were defeated, had everything he owned destroyed |
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artist painted with a drunken broom
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how critics viewed Delacroix
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