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22 Cards in this Set
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Giotto, Lamentation, Italian Renaissance Context: Arena Chapel, Fresco Subject: Christ, Mary, mourners Composition: Foreground, diagonal rock Style: Unrealistic, halos, thick line |
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Leonardo, Virgin of the Rocks, Italian Renaissance Context: Oil painting, artist "from the bones out" Subject: Mary, John, Jesus, Angel Composition: Triangle, foreground Style: Muted colors, loose brush |
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Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Italian Renaissance Context: Commissioned Pope Julius II, fresco Subject: Bible, sibyls Composition: Chronological to Noah, minimal background Style: Strong line (fresco), light colors |
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Michelangelo, Last Judgement, Italian Renaissance Context: Pope Leo X Subject: Jesus, last judgement, Bart martyr Composition: Dificulta Style: Bright colors, heroic bodies, light |
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Raphael, School of Athens, Italian Renaissance Context: Pope's study, Vatican palace Subject: Plato & Aristotle, grounded vs abstract ideas Composition: Plato & similar, left. Right, opposite Style: Vanishing point |
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Titian, Venus of Urbino, Italian Renaissance Context: Oil Subject: goddess Venus Composition: Venus in foreground, simple background Style: Warm colors, tight line, realistic with ideal beauty |
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Palestrina, Kyrie Eleison, Italian Renaissance Context: Post Council of Trent Subject: Lord, Have Mercy Composition: Cascading lines Style: Singable lines |
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Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, Northern Renaissance Context: Oil painting Subject: Italian merchant and wife Composition: Foreground Style: Used light to evoke space in interior |
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Durer, Self-Portrait (1500), Northern Renaissance Context: Oil painting on wood panel Subject: Self, depict seriousness of calling Style: Tenebrism, photographic, realistic |
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Durer, Four Apostles, Northern Renaissance Context: Commissioned for civil building Composition: Showing them the word Style: Realistic, tight brushwork |
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Shakespeare, Hamlet (2BON2B Sol.), English Renaissance Context: Climax Subject: Hamlet, live or die Style: Language invented by Shakespeare, flowery |
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Caravaggio, Crucifixion of St. Peter, Catholic Baroque Context: Oil on canvas, church Subject: St. Peter, subdued emotion, dirty feet Composition: Diagonal, mostly foreground Style: Tenebrism, realistic, unheroic |
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Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, Catholic Baroque Context: Oil on canvas, educational Composition: Susanna foreground, centered Style: Realistic, tight brushwork |
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Bernini, Cathedra Petri, Catholic Baroque Context: Subject: Chair, held up by 4 Popes, behind Baldacchino Style: Gold colors, realistic carvings, ornate, dramatic |
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Rubens, Allegory of War, Catholic Baroque Context: Not commissioned Subject: God of love, God of war, soldier and wife Composition: Wife on left, Gods holding onto soldier, bottom right has art, science, family |
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Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath, Protestant Baroque Context: Oil on canvas Subject: Bathsheba, letter from king, character Composition: Foreground, black background Style: Tenebrism, realistic body type, unglorified |
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Rembrandt, Judas Repentant, Protestant Baroque Context: Oil on canvas Subject: Judas returning money, character Composition: Bottom right is Judas Style: Tenebrism, emotion |
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Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Baroque Context: Organ Subject: Abstract Composition: Repetition, building, imitation, improvise Style: Dissonance, dramatic, building |
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Jacques-Louis David, Oath of Horatii, Neoclassicism Context: Ancient Rome, oil, commissioned by Louis XVI Subject: Brothers oath, fight to death Style: Tight brushwork |
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Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 Ode to Joy, Classical Context: Piano Subject: Characteristic of his life, final symphony Composition: Classical form Style: Harmonic, triumphant |
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Goya, Third of May, Romanticism Context: Commissioned by Spanish govt. Subject: Spaniards shot by Frenchmen Composition: Frenchmen robotic, emotion on Spaniard's face, monk included Style: Tenebrism, loose brushwork, light on execution-to-be |
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William Wordsworth, Tables Turned, Romanticism Context: Industrialization time period Subject: Nature teaches best Composition: Rhyming with meter, sometimes abandoned Style: Colloquial language (for the time) |
