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15 Cards in this Set
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Ms. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary |
Date: 1670's, during colonial phase Artist: Anonymous, possibly Samuel Clemen - shows motherly role, holding baby (8th child), seated - Freakes: well to do Bostonians, have money and material possessions - unsigned painting, simply doing service, "painter" not artist - not 3D except faces - baby: 6 mos, mother: 29 yr. (indicated on painting) - accessories: well done, $$ - not emotional, simply presenting baby - aware of European art: mother and child duo
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The Manner of Their Fishing |
Date: 1585, during medieval phase Artist: John White, observational artist, earliest images of America, came from Europe w/Columbus - watercolor, funded by Sir Walter Raleigh - artist explorer, draw what was seen, document for future reference - "their" is Native Americans - not best artist: not $$, it was dangerous - fish: not underwater, drawn as if dead b/c observed that way - human proportions are okay - fish: horseshoe and hammerhead - top view - job: visually document what was seen |
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The American Village of Secoton |
Date: 1585, medieval phase Artist: John White, no more after 1590, never heard from, 63 paintings total - 1587: returned to London, left drawings then went back to America - watercolor - earliest town painting in America - aerial view, looking down: gives air of superiority - composite of things over time - green corn, sitting at meals, ritual dance - architecture
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Cottage |
Original structure: 1630, reconstructed later Architect: Anonymous - in Salem County, shows what life was like - looks like English county farmhouse - built on ground, wood frame, thatched roof - has a chimney - windows are oiled cloth |
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Adam Thoroughgood House |
Date: 1680's, surviving house Architect: Adam Thoroughgood, owner - indentured servant, did well, in VA - brick, 2 chimneys - glass windows: diamond shape set in lead strips, casement style (swing open), imported - design of house: vertical to draw eyes up, has footing/not built on ground - 1st floor: 2 rooms - hall: "family room", larger, cook, parents sleeping quarters. - parlor: best room of house - 2nd floor: attic, children's bedroom space |
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Parson Capen House |
Date: July 8, 1683 Architect: Anonymous, paid by community - Massachussetts - house for parsonage, funded by people, shows wealth - centralized heating, open to other rooms - 2 room floor plan: parlor - larger in this house for guests. - hall - 2nd floor over hangs 1st floor - supports on either side of door, teardrop supports (decor and catch rain) - natural wood - windows were replaced, would have had diamond paned casement windows - facing green towards meeting house - very imitative of home in England
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Parson Capen House: Parlor Room |
- best room in the house - exposed beans (not white washed - normally would be painted different colors) - low ceiling - large fireplace - large plank wood floors - architects only know 1 way to do it |
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Stanley-Whitman House |
Date: 1720 Architect: Anonymous - behind its time, styles changed in 1700s - overhangs on front of house - doors on side, added later - "lean-to" addition: medieval, on back of house, faces away from southern sun - roof line - sweep - made "lean-to" part of original design in medieval, vertical thrust |
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The Frederick Robie House |
Date: 1908-1910 Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright, "forward-thinker", 20th century modernist, his residential designs were strongly influenced by hearth as central feature of the "hall" - key figure in housing - seems contemporary - Chicago: developing at turn of century - Robie: young enginer - wanted to "see neighbor without them seeing me", wanted privacy - Victorian styles: w/front porches, but sunken in - privacy - where's the entry? - made people look around and see architecture, hidden on side, made FLW in control - 9,000 sq. ft - 3 car garage in 1910?: engineer, liked to build, created "horseless buggies", wife was 1st woman with license, had a car wash system in garage - centralized vacuum system - planters on front: catch rain, created irrigation system - not traditional - cube shaped: FLW related work to nature/landscape and MidWest was sprawled out, flat, horizontal - breaks tradition but still has: fireplace in center, family oriented, used casement style windows w/ lead strips - living room: 1 side of fireplace, opens to other room - recess lighting - outside colors come in; prairie foliage - $57,000 to build, $10,000 custom furnishings - dining room set: table, chairs, self contained lighting, for family, high-backed chair created wall |
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Falling-Water House |
Date: 1935-1938 Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright - owner: Edward Kaufmann - famous house, 5,000 sq. ft - Western PA - department store owner, son wanted father to get vacation house - built on waterfall, FLW one upped nature - in house: can't see, outside: can see - floating balconies, began to tilt - tightened steel rods - metal support: "Cherokee Red" - radiant heating - casement window - away from corner - stairway to on top of water: connects building to environment - built in couches, along walls: focus on room, not conversation - natural rock flooring - recess lighting: moonlight effect |
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St. Luke's Church |
Date: 1632 Architect: Anonymous - church - bricks made in VA - oldest surviving Anglican church in colonial America - church of England - buttresses: part of late medieval style - pointed arches of windows - stained glass: common to urban churches, light becomes colored, creates spiritual feeling, pieces of glass linked by lead strips, religious imagery - verticality: tower at entrance - over scale and not sophisticated, connect earth to heavenly realm - represents common church from England - exposed beams: how construction is done in medieval - 1 aisle: small church
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Old Ship Meeting House |
Date: 1681 Architect: Anonymous - oldest surviving Puritan meeting house - Massachusetts, ship building community - 58th meeting house built in Mass. Bay Colony - didn't have meeting houses in England - don't call it church, separates from England - changes: original roof line would be steeper, would not have had steeple, extensions are added - box-like shape: no church - built by men of community, celebratory to be involved - interior: "boxes" not original, would've been bleacher style seating, ceiling: exposed beams, no plaster, built to like a boat, bent wood, inside boat: "Noah's Ark"
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Joseph Tapping Stone |
Date: 1678 Artist: "The Charlestown Stone Cutter", anonymous - elaborate - becomes vulnerable b/c weather, slate is a soft stone, vandalism - no longer allow "grave rubbing" - solution: in museum but too hard to get permission - relief sculpture: imagery projected off stone, slate - easy to carve - sculpture: Latin inscriptions ("memento mori", "fugit hora" - be mindful of death, time flies by) - hourglass on top of skull - image in lower center: symbolism, candle burning w/candle snuffer held by skeleton, not able to put over flame, arm held by father time (holds hourglass), presents Elizabethon death poem "Why Take Him Now?" - young - on left: date, died in 20's, on right: inscriptions |
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John Freake |
Date: 1671-1674 Artist: Anonymous, unsigned - same person who did wife and child - "gentleman in medieval style" - off of European style: compare to Henry VIII (1540) - standing, but not whole body, looks like royal portrait, looking at audience, direct eye contact, attire (gloves - marital status) - "flat", no shadowing, dark outfit and dark background - blend - lace is good, cuffs w/silver buttons, pinky ring, broache - focus on narcissism, materialism, indicates success - vertical orientation vs. wife seated |
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Thomas Smith |
Date: 1680, baroque phase Artist: Thomas Smith, self-portrait - only surviving 17th century painting w/signature - earliest self-portrait - does not reflect medieval style - "avant garde": ahead of its time - will be known as "baroque" - baroque: Portuguese word/Italian word for irregular shaped pearls - didn't have to satisfy client, for himself - seated, busy background (window/painting?) - battle scene on water, generic naval scene - demonstrates skill: lace collar - left does not match up proportions of rest of picture - hair: well done - signature on sheet of paper in painting - poem on paper is legible, Puritanism, skull on paper, "memento mori", death talks to us - picture of battle - tragic scene, death - baroque: no focus on subject, more going on |
