Western Art History

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Naturalistic, Akhenaten

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Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Classical style.

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Idealism, stoicism.

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Hellenistic, natural looking, draped clothing.

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Roman colosseum, rounded arches.

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The Pantheon, in Rome, made of concrete by Brunecceli.

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Gothic architecture (pointed arches, ribbed vaults, exterior buttresses, stained glass)

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Renaissance style painting, Giotto, more realistic posed figures.

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Donatello's David, life size bronze.

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Birth of Venus by Botticelli, classical mythology and realistic proportions.

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Da Vinci's Last Supper, linear perspective, fresco

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Michelangelo's David, 13ft tall, exaggerated proportions, natural pose.

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Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo

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Titian's Venus of Urbino (reclining nude). Deep colors, naturally proportioned.

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Nothern Renaissance, Jan Van Eyck. Deep colors, deep meaning to every detail.

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Hans Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas More.

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Peter Brugal's Hunters in the Snow, one of the first landscape styles, genre painting.

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Tintoretto's The Last Supper. Alternative linear perspective.

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Baroque Period

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Classified by people questioning religious and government authority, science flourished.

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El Greco's Purification of the Temple. Flowy fabrics, elongated forms, mannerism influenced.

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Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus. Oil painting, mid action, man facing away.

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Artemisia Gentileschi, gothic, dark, woman artist.

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Bernini's David. Mid action, nudity covered.

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Tenebroso

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In a dark manner, dimly painted art.

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Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, Kings court perspective, tenebroso.

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Jan Vermeer, Woman with a Water Jug, shows imported goods, also did woman with pearl earring painting.

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Rembrandt, Nights Watch painting, highlights certain members, adds young girl, controversial. He later did self portraits with different hats.

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Palace of Versailles, France commissioned by Louis XIV

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Jacques-Louis David, Neoclassical, inspired by classic paintings, bright.

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Goya, The Third of May, man in white about to be shot by soldiers in the French Revolution. Romanticism.

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Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, romanticism.

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Daumier, lithograph

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Counter-Reformation

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The Catholic church instructing artists to create entertaining and electrifying works.

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Rococo

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Aristocracy, playfulness, romantic.

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Neoclassisism

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A visual expression of the ideas of the Enlightenment, of value and order, and a rejection of both the high drama and murky atmosphere of Baroque art and the misty sentimentality of the Rococo.