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204 Cards in this Set
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Standard of Ur
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Sumerian
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Tell Asmar Statues
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Sumerian, praying
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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
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Akkadian, deification of king
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Babylonian, divine laws
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Ziggurat at Ur
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Sumerian, mud-brick
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Gudea
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Sumerian, diorite
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Ishtar Gate
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Babylonian, glazed brick
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Lion Gate
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Hittite
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Palace of Sargon II
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Assyrian
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Lamassu
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Assyrian
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Lion Hunt
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Assyrian
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Persepolis
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Persian, Darius and Xerxes
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Stepped Pyramid
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Imhotep, Djoser, mastabas, Old Kingdom
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Narmer Palette
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unites upper and lower, Old Kingdom
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Great Pyramids
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limestone, compass points, Old Kingdom
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Great Sphynx
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Khafre, protects pyramids, in situ
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Khafre
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Diorite, rigid, motionless, Egyptian Canon, Old Kingdom\n
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Seated Scribe
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Secular, ka, lifelike, unidealized
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Ti Watching the Hippopotamus Hunt
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mastaba of Ti, hiearchy of scale, Old Kingdom
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Senusret III
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depressed, civil unrest, Middle Kingdom
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Rock Cut Tombs of Beni Hasan
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cliff walls hollowed
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
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coordinated with settting, gardens, first celebration of woman, New Kingdom
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Queen Hatshepsut
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male costume, false beard, New Kingdom
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Ramses II
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pylon, New Kingdom
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Temple of Amen-Re
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Thebes, hypostyle hall, New K
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Akhenaton
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Amarna style, curving, New K
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Nefertiti
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realistic, wife of Akhenaton, New K
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Cycladic Figures
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geometric, harps
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Palace at Knossos
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Minoan, tapered columns
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Toreador Fresco
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Minoan, bull jumping, floating, thin waists, profile
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Spring Fresco
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Minoan, earliest pure landscape
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Corbelled Gallerey
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Mycenean, cyclopean masonry, corbel vault
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Lion Gate (triangular group)
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Mycenean, early pediment
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Treasury of Atreus
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Mycenean, corbel vault
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Funerary Mask
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Mycenean, gold, repousse
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Kouros
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Archaic, frontal, Egyptian stance
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Dying Warrior
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Temple of Aphaia
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Kritios Boy
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480 BC, transition
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Discus Thrower
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Myron
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Spear Bearer
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Polykleitos
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Aphrodite of Knidos, Hermes and Dionysus
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Praxitiles
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Scraper (Apoxyomenos)
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Lysippios
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Dying Gaul
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Pergamom
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the temple in a museum
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Pergamom Altar
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Ajax and Achilles...Dice
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Exekias
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the Roman House
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House of the Vettii
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The Greek looking Temple
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Maison Carree
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the aqueduct
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Pont du Gard
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the multilevel market 137
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market of trajan
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plain, solid brick, cylinder on left end 138
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Aula Palatina
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emperor with judge robes, hitler salute
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augustus of primaporta
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Tellus Relief
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Ara Pacis, mother earth breastfeeds, bounty
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Procession
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Ara Pacis, promoted marriage
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spoils from the temple of jerusalem
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arch of titus (menorah!)
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long narrative column
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column of trajan
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crowded battle scene, late imperial
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ludovisi battle sarcophagus
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basilica-style, st peter is BURIED
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old st peters, Rome
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centrally planned, very roman, boring outside
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Santa Costanza, Rome
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fusion of central and axial, boring exterior, Roman
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Galla Placidia, Ravenna
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sarcophagus, roman architecture, squat (late empire) figures
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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
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combination of central and axial, windows, pendentives, dome
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hagia sophia, istanbul, justinian and theodora
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eight sided, plain, large windows, thin columns, arches
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san vitale, ravenna
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five domes, lots of mosaics, iconostasis, more compartmentalized than hagia sophia
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saint marks, venice
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byzantine mosaic, king in purple, central
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justinian and attendants, san vitale
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roman looking tempera on vellum (classical tradition)
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david composing the psalms
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big angry jesus in mosaic, gold background
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pantocrator, monreale, sicily
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shitty looking triptych, ivory, symmetrical, not natural
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harbaville triptych
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big shiny gold dome, muhammad ascended
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dome of the rock, jerusalem
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striped horseshoe arches
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great mosque, cordoba
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fancy stalactites, light, airy, abstract
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alhambra, in spain
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inspired by hagia sophia, but centrally planned, huge minarets
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mosque of selim II
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saxon, cloisonne, animal style, interlaced
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purse cover, sutton hoo
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manuscript page, man writing, greek letters, symbol is the angel
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saint matthew, lindisfarne gospels
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horror vacui, interlace, complex, carpet page
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chi ro iota page, book of kells
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inspired by arch of constantine, engaged columns/pilasters
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lorsch gatehouse
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king on horseback, looks early medieval, inspired by marcus aurelius
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equestrian statue of a carolingian ruler
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resembles san vitale, central plan, cordoba arches, reserve columns, built for charlemagne
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palatine chapel by odo of metz
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two transepts, side entrances (wtf), WINDOWS DONT LINE UP WITH ARCHES
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saint michaels, hildesheim
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bronze doors, just like pantehon and palatine chapel, bony/emotionial figures
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bishop bernward doors, saint michaels @ hildesheim
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crucifixion, wood, polished, lifesize, FIRST TIME HANGING ON CROSS
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gero crucifix, cologne cathedral
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wood coffered ceiling, striped triforium, classical exterior
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pisa cathedral, romanesque
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strong vertical facade (kinda gothic but not yet), some ribbing parts painted
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saint-etienne
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radiating chapels (new and fancy), barrel vaults, dark (no clerestory)
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saint sernin
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first rib vaults, long nave (thats an english thing)
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durham cathedral
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relief sculpture, legs crossed like in a dance, architecture defines people
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wiligelmo, creation/temptation of adam and eve
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tympanum relief, big jesus little sinners below, linear
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giselbertus, last judgement, st lazare, atun
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wood sculpture, mary is the throne of wisdom
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the morgan madonna
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embroidery on wool, battle of hastings, william the conqueror
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bayeux tapestry
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first gothic building, abbot suger
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saint-denis
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first big flying buttresses, rib vaults dont go all the way down
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notre dame, early gothic
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known for stained glass, rib vaults go all the way, two different towers
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chartres
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extravagant facade, narrow nave, high gothic, huge ass portal sculptures
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amiens
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big central spire, two transepts, in a close, wider facades than french
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salisbury cathedral
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3/4 walls=windows, slender columns, big reliquary
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saint-chapelle, rayonnant
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extremely ornamented, complex, ogee arches
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saint-maclou, flamboyant
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portal sculpture, more 3D than giselbertus, still rigid
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royal portals, chartres
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in front of columns, classical, contrapposto, interacting figures, narrative
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visitation, reims
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patron caryatids (kinda), psychological
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ekkehard and uta
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emaciated christ, HUGE heads, wood
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rottgen pieta
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S-curve, courtly, elegant
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virgin of paris, notre dame, late gothic
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light, open interior, facade marble patterning (roman?)
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florence cathedral
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maniera greca, old school byzantine altars
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cimabue
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altarpiece, figures have weight, mass, 3D (more so)
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giotto
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dynamic perspective, shallow stage, range of emotions
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giotto's lamentation
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rich, complex altar, zigzag drapery, thin elegant courtly figures
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duccio - maesta
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started international gothic, aristocratic, altarpiece, lots of gold
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simone martini - annunciation
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single common viewpoint, interior space, window open to express depth
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lorenzetti - birth of the virgin
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in a public palace, shows prosperous town and rural, fresco, flourishing
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lorenzetti - good government, siena
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five panels in a circle, trefoil arches, antique lions, nude hercules symbolizing christian strength
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pisano - pisa pulpit
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only important 15th century architecture in northern europe, gothic details, rich house (new capitalism/merchant class)
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house of jacques coeur
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international gothic, book of hours, naturalism, accurate architecture
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limbourg brothers - book of hours
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triptych, donors on left, middle class flemish house, planes slant up, people too big for room
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master of flemalle (robert campin) - merode altarpiece
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polyptych, extreme realism, god on top, big field of people with lamb of god underneath, knights and clergy on either side
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jan van eyck, ghent altarpiece
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marriage portrait, realism, detail, symbolism (cancer man and anemia wife)
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jan van eyck - arnolfini wedding
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christ taken off the cross, shallow stage, emotional, cancer turban mary fainted
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van der weyden - deposition
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triptych, newborn christ in center, everyone is looking at him/praying, mary looks post pregnant, saint of birth over on the right
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van der goes - portinari altarpiece
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colorful orgy, phalluses everywhere, kinky sex, hell full of instruments
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bosch - garden of earthly delights
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woodcut saint with scary things pulling at him, is unaffected
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shongauer - saint anthony tormented (by demons)
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relief, four sided thing, drapery solid, heavy, contrapposto, water = blood of christ
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sluter - well of moses
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two layer dome, ogival arches, fixed by lantern
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brunelleschi - florence cathedral dome
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wooden coffered ceilings, more light, more open side bay things, corinthian capitals, not a lot of stained glass
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brunelleschi - san lorenzo, florence
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square fake door, windows, columns, central dome, clerestory/propped up roof/ cornice?
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brunelleschi - pazzi chapel
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three levels of rustication, heavy cornice, roman arches on the bottom
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michelozzo - palazzo medici
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stringcourse runs horizontal, three levels, strong cornice, pilasters run vertical (all the way up)
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alberti - palazzo rucellai
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looks like roman triumphal arch, huge pilasters, FIRST TRIUMPHAL ARCH IN CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE
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alberti - sant' andrea
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fresco, triangular composition, christ on cross, vanishing point at foot of cross, coffered barrel vault behind him
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masaccio - holy trinity
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fresco, man on riverbank to left, on right other w/ halo pays off man
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masaccio - tribute money
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fresco, crying naked man and woman (boo hoo)
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masaccio - expulsion from the garden of eden
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tempera, battle scene, big white horse in front
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uccello - battle of san romano
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two angels in open air column structure, off center, fresco
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fra angelico - annunciation
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last supper, geometric, judas on other side (ttly obvious)
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del castagno - last supper
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engraving of ten naked men fighting with swords
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del pollaiuolo - battle of ten naked men
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christ steps over ledge with white/cross flag, people in foreground
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della francesca - resurrection
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ceiling fresco, circular, clouds and angels and the underside of a pot
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mantegna - room of the newlyweds
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fresco (sistine chapel), huge empty space, key transaction in foreground, one point perspective, centrally planned dome thing in background
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perugino - christ delivering the keys to st. peter
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naked woman on shell, angels around, commissioned by medici
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botticelli - birth of venus
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in a florence house (but religious), staircase off to the left w/ door at top, most going on below the balustrade
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ghirlandaio - birth of the virgin
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big naked angel fight fresco (NOT sistine chapel)
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signorelli - damned cast into hell
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the bronze door winner, international gothic gracefulness
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ghiberti - sacrifice of isaac
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the bronze door loser, more 3D and weighty figures
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brunelleschi - sacrifice of isaac
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the bronze doors (what who where?)
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gates of paradise - ghiberti - florence baptistery
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foppish hat, naked bronze, after slaying
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donatello - david
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woman looks busted, bronze, lots of hair, old (HAGGARD)
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donatello - mary magdalene
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spirited horse, one leg on ball, honeyed cat
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donatello - gattamelata
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crotch shot, wrestling naked men, one has the other by the waist
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del pollaiuolo - hercules and antaeus
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equestrian statue, military leader, looks like bastard from el dorado
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verrocchio - colleoni
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round structure (perfectly round), column levels and then a balustraded porch, balustraded
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bramante - tempietto
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ogival arches (NOT HIS IDEA!!), project started by some other guy and followed by another guy...who?
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saint peters, started by bramante (loved him some greek cross), then michelangelo, then della porta (made the dome ogival)
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last supper, symmetrical, emotional, groups of three, vanishing point above christs head
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da vinci - last supper
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woman, no eyebrows
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da vinci - mona lisa
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charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, modeled by light
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da vinci - virgin and child with saint anne
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fresco ceiling, took a while to do
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michelangelo - sistine chapel ceiling
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fresco, huge wall, two lunettes, feat. dante's inferno
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michelangelo - last judgement, sistine chapel
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great thinkers gather in a big atrium, commissioned by pope julius II, plato has the bible
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raphael - school of athens
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woman (haloed) and two babies, triangular, sweet, clear, chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective
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raphael - madonna with the goldfinch
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huge marble woman with huge marble dead man on her lap, IN SAINT PETERS
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michelangelo - pieta
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naked man, eyes too big, first colossal nude since ancient world, in florence
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michelangelo - david
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looks like neptune or zeus, big beard, twisting it, has some horns, pretty colossal marble
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michelangelo - moses
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picture of people looking at an altarpiece in a semispherical apse, TEACHER TO GEORGIONE AND TITIAN
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bellini - san zaccaria altarpiece
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naked women in a chill picnic with some court dandies/fashionable men
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giorgione (and titian) - pastoral symphony
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soldier in left looking at breastfeeding woman on right, landscape kind of important
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giorgione - the tempest
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woman with ermine fur, round poufy pearl hat
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titian - isabella d'este
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fake arch frames people on huge stairs in the sky, two big columns behind, diagonals, triangles, novel asymmetry
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titian - madonna of the pesaro family
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naked blonde woman on couch, complex space, symbolism, sensuous, first in tradition
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titian - venus of urbino
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crazy use of classical architectural features, "quirky"
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romano - palazzo del te
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head church of the jesuits, doorway highlighted (typical), scrolls unite stories
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della porta - il gesu
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elongated figures, acid colors, no ground line
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pontormo - entombment
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ceiling fresco, sky view, hundreds of flying figures, glowing colors
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correggio - assumption of the virgin
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woman with long neck, long baby, little man on right
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parmigianino - madonna of the long neck
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fat chick looking at something in her hand getting felt up by a twelve year old, complicated allegory
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bronzino - venus, cupid, folly, time
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dinner at a crazy angle, powerful diagonals, heavy shadows, visible rays of light
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tintoretto - last supper
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spiraling, negative space (WHAT RENAISSANCE DIDNT LIKE), encourages you to walk around
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bologna - abduction of the sabine women
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people eating dinner with some midgets, three arches OVERWHELMING, sumptuous
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veronese - christ in the house of levi
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low roman dome, etruscan statues on top, four identical entrances, square
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palladio - villa rotonda
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two intersecting pediments, tall columns, dome in back
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palladio - san giorgio maggiore
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horizontal emphasis, marriage of a french chateau and italian palazzo
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lescot - the louvre
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philip II palace, monastery, mausoleum, church, restrained and severe, understated (just like him)!
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herrera and toledo - the escorial
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guy with a lamb on the right pointing to jesus on the cross, in a hospital for ergotism
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grunewald - isenheim altarpiece
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italian figures, northern european detail/landscape, man and woman
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durer - adam and eve
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skinny man on skinny horse with other horses, inspired by mantegnas prints, crowded/tumultuous
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durer - four horsemen of the apocolypse
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beard man with dreads/ringlets and fur
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durer - self portrait
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paul in the light because protestants liked him, four men standing, peter in shadow
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durer - four apostles
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battle with turks
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altdorfer - battle of issus
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anamorphic skull, left is worldly, extroverted, riht is introverted, nerdy
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holbein - the french ambassadors
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famous fat redhead king, artist in patronage by him
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holbein - henry XII
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nice snowy hunting scene, strong diagonals, peasants, n. european high horizons
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bruegel - return of the hunters
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venetian (titian/giorgione) color, spanish mysticism, mannerist elongation, twisting figures
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el greco - burial of count orgaz
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big ogival dome, wide facade, engaged columns and pediment highlighting entrance
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maderno - facade of saint peters
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huge plaza, embracing arms, keyhole shape
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bernini - colonnade of saint peters
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unusually small, worked into a corner, alternating concave and convex, interior oval dome
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borromini - saint charles of the four fountains
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crazy indian looking spire, complex, dazzling, intricate (hey, baroque!)
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guarini - chapel of the holy shroud...of where
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massive palace structure, built for who? lots of controlled gardens
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le brun - versailles, for louis XIV
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built for james I, modest emphasis on center of facade, rusticated basement, balustraded roof
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banqueting house - inigo jones
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dark light contrast columns, two towers, built after fire, dome is actually three domes, pediment highlights entrance
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wren - saint paul's
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twisting man with goatee, mid action, negative space, meant to be walked around
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borromini - david
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twisty altar cover, where is it?
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borromini - baldacchino - st peters
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angel induced orgasm, marble statue
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borromini - the ecstasy of saint theresa
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jesus in faint halo points to man (who, me?), emphasized by shaft of light
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caravaggio - calling of st matthew
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christ being put in his tomb, boy with hands up in upper right
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caravaggio - entombment
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ceiling fresco, fake frames (quadro riportato)
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carracci - loves of the gods
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angry woman cutting off mans head, grusome
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gentileschi - judith slaying holofernes
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man looking at glass of water, tenebrism
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velasquez - the water carrier of seville
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dutch forced to surrender, looking young and ragtag on the left, disitinct vertical lines on right (spears?)
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velasquez - the surrender of breda
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artist prominent, some interesting visual features, girl and attendants
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velasquez - las meninas
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