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58 Cards in this Set
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Saint Peter’s Basilica Piazza
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
1651-1700 Vatican, Vatican City |
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Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
1601-1650 Rome, Italy |
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Calling of Saint Matthew
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Caravaggio
1551-1600 Rome, Italy |
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Judith and Maidservant with Head of Holofernes
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Artemisia Gentileschi
1601-1650 Italy |
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Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company (The Night Watch)
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Rembrandt van Rijn
1601-1650 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Three Crosses (first state)
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Rembrandt van Rijn
1651-1700 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Flower Still Life
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Rachel Ruysch
1701-1750 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Louis XIV
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Hyacinthe Rigaud
1701-1750 Versailles, France |
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Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
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Nicolas Poussin
1601-1650 French |
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Saint Paul’s Cathedral
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Christopher Wren
1651-1700 London, England |
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barocco
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Italian for Baroque; an art movement of emotion, movement, and variety
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impasto
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A thick or lumpy application of paint, or deep brush marks (brushstrokes), as distinguished from a flat, smooth paint surface. May also refer to a thick application of pastel.
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Sixtus V
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reformed the church administration; put the changes set by the Council of Trent into effect; Counter-Reformist
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piazza
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an open square
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tenebrism
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a style of painting characterized by high contrast between light and shade — emphasis placed on chiaroscuro to achieve dark, dramatic effects. Frequently the main subjects of tenebrist pictures are illuminated by a single source of light, as if a spotlight shone upon them, leaving other areas in darkness.
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etching
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An intaglio printing process in which an etching needle is used to draw into a wax ground applied over a metal plate. The plate is then submerged in a series of acid baths, each biting into the metal surface only where unprotected by the ground. The ground is removed, ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed
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drypoint
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An intaglio printing process in which burrs are left on the plate by the pointed needle (or "pencil") that directly inscribes lines. A kind of engraving which has a soft, fuzzy line because of the metal burrs.
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camera obscura
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The origin of the present day camera. In its simplest form it consisted of a darkened room or box with a small hole through one wall. Light rays could pass through the hole to transmit an inverted image of the scene outside the room onto a flat surface on its inside.
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Richelieu
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patron of the art; a French nobleman, clergyman and statesman; made France a strong centralized state
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Royal Academy
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an art institution in London
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parterres
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a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern.
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Salon de la Princesse in Hotel de Soubise
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Germain Boffrand
1701-1750 Paris, France |
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Kaisersaal Residenz
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Johann Balthasar Neumann and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1701-1750 and 1751-1800 Wurzburg, Germany |
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The Loves of the Shepherds, especially The Meeting
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
1751-1800 France |
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Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Monument to Bartolommeo Colleoni
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Canaletto
1701-1750 Italy |
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The Park at Stourhead
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Henry Flitcroft and Henry Hoare
1701-1750 Wiltshire, England |
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Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Thomas Gainsborough
1751-1800 England |
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The Governess
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Jean-Simeon Chardin
1701-1750 France |
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Jasperware Vase with Apotheosis of Homer
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Josiah Wedgwood (John Flaxman Jr.)
1751-1800 Staffordshire, England |
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Cornelia Pointing To Her Children As Her Treasures
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Angelica Kauffmann
1751-1800, England |
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Monticello
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Thomas Jefferson
1751-1800 Charlottesville, Virginia |
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The Death of General Wolfe
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Benjamin West
1751-1800 England |
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Samuel Adams
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John Singleton Copley
1751-1800 Boston, American Colony |
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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump
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Joseph Wright of Derby
1751-1800 England |
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The Nightmare
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John Henry Fuseli
1751-1800 England |
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Philosophes
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the intellectuals of the 18th Century Enlightenment
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Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard
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Jacques-Louis David
1801-1850 France |
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Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa
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Antoine-Jean Gros
1801-1850 France |
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Scenes from the Massacre at Chios
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Eugene Delacroix
1801-1850 France |
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Los Caprichos (Caprices), no. 43: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
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Francisco Goya
1751-1800 Spain |
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Third of May 1808
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Francisco Goya
1801-1850 Spain |
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The White Horse
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John Constable
1801-1850 England |
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The Oxbow
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Thomas Cole
1801-1850 New York, USA |
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Altes Museum
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
1801-1850 Berlin, Germany |
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Houses of Parliament
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Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin
1801-1850 London, England |
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Portrait of Charles Baudelaire
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Nadar
1851-1900 Paris, France |
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Romanticism
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emotions depicted with drama and boldness, melancholic, rejection of Classicism and its cool reasoning and restraint
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sublime
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A concept, thing or state of exceptional and awe-inspiring beauty and moral or intellectual expression
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Edmund Burke
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statemen, opposed the French Revolution; founder of modern Conservatism
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Genevois philosopher whose ideas influenced the French Revolution and political thought
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Declaration of the Rights of Man
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THE document of the French Revolution; outlines the rights of all men without exception in terms of the universe
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Jasperware
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form of pottery that has a stoneware body which is either white or colored, which is noted for its matte finish
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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pioneer of art history and scientific archaeology
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Neoclassicism
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reaction to Baroque art; sought to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art; use of classical forms to express ideas about courage, sacrifice, and love of country.
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picturesque
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refers to any scene which seems to be especially suitable for representation in a picture, especially that which is sublime; It is especially associated with an aesthetic mode formulated in the late eighteenth century which valued deliberate rusticity, irregularities of design, and even a cultivated pursuit of quaint or nostalgic forms
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veduta
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a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista
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Grand Tour
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traditional travel of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means; educational rite of passage
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Prix de Rome
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a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture and architecture; extremely prestigious
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