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Period: Baroque in Italy.


Artist: Caravaggio.


Title: The Calling of St. Matthew.


Key terms/ideas: oil on canvas, innovator in use of light (shallow, deep darkness, contrast, theatrical), tenebrism (shock of light and deep darkness, spot light), not interested in ideal figures, uses gesture to emphasize central force.

Period: Baroque in Italy. Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi. Title: Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. Key terms/ideas: first women studied, an exception, follower of Caravaggio, gesture, theatrical, tenebrism

Period: Baroque in Italy. Artist: Bernini. Title: Colonnade at St. Peter's.


Location: Rome. Key terms/ideas: artist is multi talented, oval and trapezoid instead of symmetrical shapes to show movement.

Period: Baroque in Italy. Artist: Bernini. Title: David. Key terms/ideas: Shown in action, movement. Different narrative moment. Emphasis of gesture and theatrically in Baroque period.

Period: Baroque in Italy. Artist: Bernini. Title: The Ecstacy of Saint Teresa. Key terms/ideas: 1st historical multi media piece, gilt wood, terracotta studies, sculpted audiences, spiritual enlightenment shown through physical ecstasy. Very theatrical

Period: Renaissance and Reformation in 16th Century Northern Europe. Artist: Dürer. Title: The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Key terms/ideas: woodcut, black and white only

Period: Renaissance and Reformation in 16th Century Northern Europe. Artist: Grünewald. Title: Isenheim Altarpiece. Key terms/ideas: oil on panel, for monastery church of the Order of St. Anthony at Isenheim (France), St. Anthony's fire wide spread disease at time represented in Christ, when open, shows healing

Period: Renaissance and Reformation in 16th Century Northern Europe. Artist: Dürer. Title: Adam and Eve. Key terms/ideas: engraving, reprintable, value difficult, so it's impressive

Period: Renaissance and Reformation in 16th Century Northern Europe. Artist: Bruegel. Title: The Return of the Hunters. Key terms/ideas: wealthy artist, first painting with landscape focus

Period: Baroque in Spain. Artist: Ribera. Title: Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew. Key terms/ideas: Caravaggisti, uses tenebrism, shallow, red drapery, painting becomes sculpture

Period: Baroque in Spain. Artist: Velázquez. Title: The Water Carrier of Seville. Key terms/ideas: not religious painting, genre scene, incredible use of texture, economic use of oil paint

Period: Baroque in Spain. Artist: Velasquez. Title: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). Key terms/ideas: used hints of impressionism

Period: Baroque in France. Artist: Georges de la Tour. Title: Joseph the Carpenter. Key terms/ideas: tenebrism, low key religious imagery

Period: Baroque in France. Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Title: Palace of Versailles, and Hall of Mirrors. Key terms/ideas: interested in Classicism, repetition, built palace outside of Paris to be removed from crowd, poor, revolution, danger. Mirrors extremely ornate and lavish, further division with poor. Gardening emerges as another art form

Period: The Baroque in the Netherlands. Artist: Rembrant. Title: The Night Watch. Key terms/ideas: "candid" group photos, some figures given more "weight," angel is symbolic representation of militia. New type of art because moving away from religious paintings.

Period: Baroque in the Netherlands. Artist: Rembrandt. Title: The Hundred Guilder Print. Key terms/ideas: etching and dry point, price amount in title, printable, but limited. Used ink to add personal touch to prints.

Period: Baroque in the Netherlands. Artist: Pieter Saenredam. Title: Interior of the Choir of St. Bravo's Church at Haarlem. Key terms/ideas: Interested in scientific perspective, impossible view of church, no decoration

Period: Baroque in the Netherlands. Artist: Vermeer. Title: Woman Holding a Balance. Key terms/ideas: icon of Christ in background, camera obscura

Period: Baroque in the Netherlands. Artist: van Ruisdael.


Title: Bleaching Grounds Near Haarlem.


Key terms/ideas: clouds 2/3 of painting, seems secular, but hidden religion

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: Piranesi.


Title: Tomb of the Metalli.


Key terms/ideas: etching, return to classical world, based on Rome architecture with hidden despair, decay

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: Kauffman. Title: Cornelia Presenting her Children as Treasures. Key terms/ideas: historical painting, woman on left presenting her gold/gems, other woman shows children as treasures, men shown as powerful and independent, different than woman

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: West. Title: The Death of General Wolfe. Key terms/ideas: used nature to draw drama to the scene

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: David. Title: The Oath of the Horatii. Key terms/ideas: based on mythological story, history painting (the BEST painting, teaches something), The Academy (strict rules on what made paintings good/bad, art school)

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: David. Title: The Death of Marat. Key terms/ideas: propaganda-ist painting, cleans up darker details, Marat was revolutionist in France, murdered

Period: Art in the Age of Enlightenment (Neoclassicism). Artist: Canova. Title: Cupid and Psyche. Key terms/ideas: return to ideal proportions and ancient mythology, classical antiquity returning, balanced, less theatrical and movement, focus on symmetry

Period: Art in the Age of Romanticism.


Artist: Goya. Title: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Key terms/ideas: etching, aquatint (sprinkle resin in image and has different reaction with acid creating gray solid tones), lost money making this, more interested in expressing this, showing war and personal tradegy (going deaf, Spain going through violent transformation)

Period: Art in the Age of Romanticism. Artist: Goya. Title: The Third of May, 1808. Key terms/ideas: shows event from a few years ago, group of rebels met with firing squad and murder, pose is reminiscent of crucifixion, hopelessness and despair

Period: Art in the Age of Romanticism. Artist: Turner. Title: The Slave Ship. Key terms/ideas: abstract, bright/violent colors, another recent scandal, captain threw slaves overboard to collect insurance money, "the sun is God," people in sea

Period: Art in the Age of Romanticism. Artist: Ingres. Title: The Grand Odalisques. Key terms/ideas: no violent brush strokes, but subject makes it Romantic, Oriental woman fantasy, orientalism (western fantasy of eastern world), elongated spine, soft and sensuous

Period: Art in the Age of Romanticism. Artist: Géricault. Title: The Raft of the "Medusa". Key terms/ideas: based on horrible historic event, out of hundreds, 15 survived, political scandel, wealthy people saved but others abandoned, pyramid of hope, ship in background

Period: Realism. Artist: Courbet. Title: Burial at Ornans. Key terms/ideas: deeply controversial, no one is looking at crucifixion. Mixing of social classes, no hierarchy, no effort to elevate qualities. Audience is standing in grave, the truth of morality, 22 ft long

Period: Realism.


Artist: Manet.


Title: Luncheon on the Grass.


Key terms/ideas: France, nude women actually exist on same plane, likely a prostitute, Salon des refuses, rooting new ideas in something (Titian, Muses)

Period: Realism. Artist: Eakins. Title: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull. Key terms/ideas: America, used known bridge from Philadelphia and a known popular athlete, rising interest in physical culture

Period: Realism. Artist: Homer. Title: Snap the Whip. Key terms/ideas: America, joyful and innocent, yet gritty in it's violence. Freedom and depth

Period: Impressionism. Artist: Monet. Title: On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt. Key terms/ideas: not interested in details, but still positivism and LIGHT, japonisme

Period: Impressionism. Artist: Monet. Title: Impression: Sunrise. Key terms/ideas: haziness, background pushing into foreground, flattening of space, as found in Japanese art. Japonisme used in this piece. Giving us a moment

Aquatint

Sprinkles resin on plate and when dipped in acid it creates the gray background.