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26 Cards in this Set
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Oath of the Horatii
David 1785 Oil on Canvas |
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Raft of the Medusa
Gericault 1820 Oil on Canvas |
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Raft of the Medusa
Gericault 1820 Oil on Canvas |
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Fighting Temeraire
Turner 1838 Oil on Canvas |
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The Polar Sea
Friedrich 1824 Oil on Canvas |
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George Washington
Houdon 1792 Marble |
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Comtesse d'Haussonville
Ingres 1845 Oil on Canvas |
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Paul Revere
Copley 1775 Oil on Canvas |
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Washington Athenaeum
Stuart 1796 Oil on Canvas |
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Puritans believed that whatever was not eternal was __ __ __ __.
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eternally out of date
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The belief that all of nature is spiritually significant and alive is called __.
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pantheism
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19th century Romanticism faded as an artistic movement because it became increasingly __ from contemporary life.
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isolated
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In the painting The Polar Sea, Friedrich portrays a specific idea about Nature and human beings. What term describes this specific idea? Explain
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fatalism - we're all going to die
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Turner often quoted from an unpublished poem of his called "The __ of Hope."
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Fallacy
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Gilbert Stuart's Atheneum Portrait appears on what modern object?
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The one dollar bill
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Paul Rever is wearing a linen shirt in his portrait by Copley. What is the significance of this?
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He was a silversmith and it was his workshirt made of banned linen. It is a protest against Britain.
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Name on series of artworks by William Hogarth.
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Beer Street and Gin Lane
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Hogarth's works were intended to teach. Artworks that are intended to teach are known as __.
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didactic
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What is the "Treasury of Cornelia" as portrayed by Angelica Kaufmann?
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Her children
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Houdon's full length portrait of George Washington has a symbol from Republican rome. What is this symbol called and what does it symbolize?
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Fasces-stength and unity, political authority
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In Houdon's full length portrait of George Washington, how many rods are bundled, and why that number?
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13 for the 13 original colonies
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What Roman General is represented by the Plow in Houdon's full length portrait of George Washington?
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General Cincinnatus-had the power to take over but chose not to make himself king
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The painting Boy with Squirrel was sent by J.S. Copley to the English Royal Academy as proof of his skill in painting. Name three elements of Boy with Squirrel intended to display skill of the artist.
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the texture of the cloth, the reflection on the table, the chain
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What is unusual about Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe?
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It's a painting of a current event, but historical paintings were of things at least 20 years old. It's propoganda.
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What is unusual about Copley's portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin?
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Mrs. Mifflin is looking at us and Mr. Mifflin is looking at Mrs. Mifflin.
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Tell the story of the Raft of the Medusa
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A ship run by an incompetent aristocrat crashes and there aren't enough lifeboats. The capt'n leaves them.
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