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30 Cards in this Set
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Hall of Mirrors ( Palace of Versailles Le Brun 1675 France French Baroque |
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Judith Slaying Holofernes Gentileschi 1620 Italy Italian Baroque |
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Flower Still Life Ruysch 1700 Holland Dutch Baroque |
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Ecstasy of St. Theresa in Cornaro Chapel Bernini 1645 Rome Italian Baroque |
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Monticello Thomas Jefferson 1825 Virginia, USA Neoclassicism |
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Arrival of Maria d'Medici in Marseilles Rubens 1625 Flanders Flemish Baroque |
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The death of General Wolfe West 1770 USA Neoclassicism |
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Las Meninas (the maids) Velazquez 1650 Spain Spanish Baroque |
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The Militia Company Rembrandt 1640 Holland Dutch Baroque |
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The breakfast Scene Hogarth 1740 England Rococo |
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Return from Cythera Watteau 1720 France Rococo |
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The Grand Odalique Ingres 1815 France Neoclassicism |
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Execution on the 3rd of May Goya 1808 Spain Romanticism |
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Liberty Leading the People Delacroix 1830 France Romanticism |
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Raft of the Medusa Gericault 1820 France Romanticism |
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The Slave Ship Turner 1840 England Romanticism |
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Oath of the Horatii David 1785 France Neoclassicism |
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Woman Holding a Balance Vermeer 1665 Holland Dutch Baroque |
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Colonnades of St. Peter Bernini 1665 Rome Italian Baroque |
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Calling of St. Matthew Caravaggio 1600 Italy Italian Baroque |
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Allegory |
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
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Tenebrism |
A style of painting developed by Caravaggio and other 17th-century Spanish and Italian artists, characterized by predominantly dark tones and shadows with dramatically contrasting effects of light. |
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Royal Academy of Arts |
An institution established in London in 1768, whose purpose was to cultivate painting, sculpture, and architecture in Britain. Sir Joshua Reynolds was its first president and he instituted a highly influential series of annual lectures. |
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Camera Obscura |
Is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image on a surface opposite to the opening |
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Etching |
A print produced by the process of etching. |
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Salon |
A hall or place used for the exhibition of works of art / an annual exhibition of works of art by living artists. |
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Enlightenment |
An intellectual and scientific movement of 18th century Europe which was characterized by a rational and scientific approach to religious, social, political, and economic issues. (Age of Enlightenment) |
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Exoticism |
Interest in non-western ethnic culture and art by Europeans. |
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Aquatint |
A print resembling a watercolor, produced from a copper plate etched with nitric acid. |
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Sublime |
Of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. (usually used in the context of nature in romantic era) |
