Ahs 253 Test 3

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Sèvres plates popular motif

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laurel wreath

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popular textile motif

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Egyptian

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Swiss, worked in France from 1807, Prix de Rome 1813
Sculpture

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Jean-Jacques Pradier

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Pradier had what tendancy?

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to eroticize images

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what piece of Pradier's was controversial?

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Satyr & Bacchante Controversial: government of Louis-Philippe refused to buy it

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Sculpture, Grand Prix in 1812, becomes known for bronze

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Rude

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break from neoclassicism –
not a mythological subject

contemporary lower-class character
genre “picturesque” theme
not considered appropriate for sculpture

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Rude

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What piece of Rude's was
Swaggering, complex,
dramatic, Baroque quality
departs from neoclassicism

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relief on Arc de Triomphe:
La Marseillaise (Departure
of the Volunteers of 1792

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studied sculpture and painting; also with Napoleon’s master goldsmith
1831: attracts public attention with sculptures of wild predators

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Bayre

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project of Bayre, dropped

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chosen to create a colossal eagle for the top of the
Arc de Triomphe

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how Rude made his money

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making small-
scale bronzes of animals in series
that could be sold to upper-middle-class.
Romanticism:
wild animals,
dramatic action,
rough surfaces

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Napoleon’s first great victories. Street in
Paris along Louvre & Tuileries palaces,
renamed & redesigned as new urban space

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Rue de Rivoli

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Rue de Rivoli
Principal designer

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Percier

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The square laid out late 18th cent. as real estate speculation; now the Ritz
took influence from what?

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Vendôme Column
Trajan Column

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How was Vendome different from Trajan?

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Instead of stone,
bronze relief
cladding over
stone core

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Rude's success with Fisher Boy
led to commission for what?

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relief on Arc de Triomphe:
La Marseillaise (Departure
of the Volunteers of 1792).

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is the most important name
in 19th century French sculpture
until ---- at the end of the century

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Rude, Rodin

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Prudhon
painting
nature rich in
Romantic symbolism

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Portrait of king in rome
Baby in wilderness

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What helped Prud'hon in Neoclassical age?

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excellence in
drawing served

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How is Prud'hon's style different than Davids?

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style & temperament
softer, more lyrical

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Prud'hon, unusual for this era, interested in what?

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interested
in Baroque tenebrism

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Re-appearance of standard
Christian iconography a fact

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of Catholic resurgence in
the Bourbon Restoration

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student of David, Prix de Rome 1789, returned 1795
c
• strong emotions and fantasy, especially eroticized imagery
• eccentric, egotistical, bohemian, often worked at night
• 1812 inherited a fortune and did little painting after that

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Girodet

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Girodet's style?

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technique neoclassical but spirit definitely Romantic

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the picture that made Girodet famous
seems

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homoerotic, although Diana
is present in the shaft of light

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Another painting of Girodet's that may be homoerotic?

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Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley,
Deputy of Santo Domingo to
Convention of France

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Scandelous painting of Girodet?

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Mademoiselle Lange as Venus 1797 and as Danae 1798
Lange an actress (unsavory occupation). Story: she dislikes, he gets even

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Painting that made David call Girodet a lunatic?

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The Spirits of French Heroes
Welcomed by Ossian
into Odin’s Paradise

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claimed
to have discovered & trans-
lated works by 3rd-century
Gaelic poet Ossian

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James MacPherson

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Girodet’s most famous painting

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Death of Atala

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Death of Atala expressed what?

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Christian faith and repressed sexuality among savages in the American wilderness

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Student of David,
friend and rival of Girodet

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Gerard

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Gerard painted whom?

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The women in Napoleon’s life

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How did Gerard rival Girodet?

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Ossian Awakening
the Spirits on the Banks
of the Lora

after 1801, for Napoleon
(companion to Girodet’s

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After restoration of the monarchy, Gérard named

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First painter to king

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Entered David’s studio
at age 14; to Italy to
escape the Terror,
met Napoleon there
& became devoted to him.

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Gros

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Gros’s first commissioned portrait

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Painting of Napolean

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How is Gros different from David?

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Energetic and fluid, unlike David’s
strict, stoic neoclassicism

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Although Gros received many honors

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felt out of place after fall of Napoleon
and increasingly frustrated with the lack
of direction in his work.

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Gros painting that caused a stir at the Salon

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Sappho at Leucadia
1801

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What marks Sappho as Romantic?

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eerie light effects and stormy
setting in addition to emotional
anguish

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Gros appointed as what?

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official campaign artist for Napolean

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Gros’s most famous painting

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Bonaparte at the Pest-House at Jaffa

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In Pest House painting, style more..

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Style more like Rubens than Poussin/David

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in French, the term for “hobby

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violon d’Ingres

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Ingres to Paris to study with

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Jacques-Louis David

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How did Ingres portrait of Napolean seem throwback to
15th cent. styles

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Objections to airless clarity,
obsessive detail, rigid formality

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Ingres Trademark style

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precise, flowing contour line
in imitation of Raphael and Greek vase painting.

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Jupiter and Thetis style

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Long, supple, almost eel-like
anatomy (back, throat, fingers)
characteristic of Ingres

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what led Ingres to stay in Rome

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Consistently poor reception of work in Paris

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How did Ingres follow the crowd?

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Songs of Ossian

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Ingres Perhaps most famous work

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the Grand Odalisque

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Odalisque means

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Harem woman

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rampant in early 19th century western Europe

Romanticism

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orientalism

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"That guy was an abstract painter ....
He looked at the canvas more often
than at the model

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Barnett Newman, abstract expressionist

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Ingres brings up what image repeatedly?

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The Bather of Valpinçon

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Why did Manet reject Ingres art?

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polished linear quality
and the historical/mythological/exotic references

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director of French Academy in Rome
several journeys to north Africa

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Vernet

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Vernet specialty

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battle scenes on enormous canvases, with descriptive detail
and oriental themes

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How was Vernet's oriental images differnt from Ingres?

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Informed by observations in the field, more realistic

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Student of Vernet senior & neoclassicist Guérin,

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Géricault

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Géricault’s first major painting;

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Officer of the Hussars
ambitious, energetic, dramatic

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Gericault's fav theme

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Horses

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After return from rome,
Gericault painted what?

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painted portraits of insane people (patients of a friend);

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What was interesting to Romantics?

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insanity (lack of reason) fascinating to post-Enlightenment Romanticism

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Gericault bizarre paintings

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severred body parts

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Themes of raft of medusa

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protest against corrupt authority
humanity’s battle with nature
contemporary event

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Medusa bound for

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Senegal

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student of Gros, successes begin 1820s
friend of Géricault and Delacroix
both Neoclassical and Romantic qualities

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Delaroche

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highest status work of Delaroche

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hemicycle fresco

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Delaroche’s last work

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The Young Martyr
Drowned in the Tiber

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Father of record a radical revolutionary,
but likely biological father Talleyrand,

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Delacroix

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Delacroix a committed _____, but drawn to _____
and _____ vigorous painterly style

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Neoclassicist
Baroque
Gericault

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Gros says what about Delacroix's Massacre at Chios

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massacre of art

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What was Death of Sardanapalus based of
Critics thought what?

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Lord Byron play

colors and lines too busy

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Delacroix
Inspired by the
events of the 1830
revolution

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Leading the People

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famous people delacroix painted

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Hugo, Balzac,
Stendhal, and George Sand, and the
musicians Liszt, Berlioz, and Chopin

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Delacroix accompanied a
French government mission to

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Algeria nad Morroco

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What frustrated Delacroix about Algeria?

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Islamic customs
kept the women
covered up and
indoors

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Delacroix Sublime painting?

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The Fanatics of Tangier

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The greatest native artist of Spain between Velazquez and Picasso

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Goya

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Goya first major job and style

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paint cartoons for tapestry
Rococo

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What life changing event happened to Goya that led to his alienation?

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serious illness (temporary paralysis, partial blindness) left him
completely deaf at age 46

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set of 80 etchings, biting symbolic satire of life published

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Los Caprichos:

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One of the most infamous royal portraits in history, was acutally what?

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Family of Charles IV
pompous
idiots they were,
and they were too
stupid to know it

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What was Family of Charles IV modled after?

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Velasquez Las Meninas

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Due to cultural taboos,
____ was extremely rare in
Spanish

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nudity

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82 etchings
Never released to public in lifetime.
Among most blood-curdling images

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Disasters of War

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Wellington Liberated Madrid

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In 1812

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gyEptian cavalry, serving in French
army, attacked by citizens of Madrid.

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May 2, 1808

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Third major set of etchings

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Disparate

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where he painted dramatic fantasies on the plaster walls.

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“Quinta del Sordo

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Ferdinand VII re-established absolute
monarchy in Spain, and liberals under pressure
more than ever before

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1823

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The Vendôme Column
Percier

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w

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opened his own teaching studio specifically to challenge the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts

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Couture

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Couture best known painting

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Romans of the Decadence

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Photo based off Couture

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Oscar Rejlander
produced his famous
“combination print”
photograph, The
Two Ways of Life

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student of Delaroche
almost entire career outside
the official limits of this course

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Gerome

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Gerome artwork represents what?

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represents the lingering neoclassical/Romantic
styles and themes in the time of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

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manages to combine a fantasy
of antiquity with sentimental Christianity in one work

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Age of Augustus

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Legend: the famous, wealthy courtesan is on trial in Athens; her beauty displayed
to the court demonstrates that she enjoys the favor of the gods and cannot be guilty.

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Phryne before the Areopagus

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Where did Gerome travel to?

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Constantine (istanbul and Cairo

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Mid-19th century reaction against slick, elite, escapist salon art;
emphasis on contemporary political conditions and the underclass

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Realism

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Never had a “classical” fine-art education; first artwork while employed
by a publisher-lithographer

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Daumier

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Caricature of king who eats all
the goods of the exhausted
people and defecates decrees
and edicts

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Daumier
Gargantua

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caricatures of leading politicians, originally in clay

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Daumier

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At Transnonain street,
3 blocks from Daumier’s house, a police officer was shot. The police entered
the tenements and massacred many innocent people

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La Rue Transnonain 1834

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It’s a pun: the word ventre in French also

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Belly
Le Ventre Legislatif (The Legislative Body)

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Daumier had no patience for

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finicky detail of neoclassical style –
bold, simplified masses painted thickly; rather modern abstraction

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most politically radical artist in France since David
very involved in socialist/communist movements

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Courbet

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Courbet said what about his painging Burial at Ornans

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I have buried romanticism