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CAMPIN. Merode Altarpiece. Early Renaissance (Northern). Triptych. |
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VAN EYCK. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife. Early Renaissance (Northern). |
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BRUNELLESCHI. Sacrifice of Isaac. Early Renaissance (Italian). |
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GHIBERTI. Sacrifice of Isaac. Early Renaissance (Italian). |
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GHIBERTI. Gates of Paradise. Early Renaissance (Italian). |
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MASACCIO. Holy Trinity. Early Renaissance (Italian). Linear perspective. Fresco. |
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DONATELLO. David. Early Renaissance (Italian). |
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BOTTICELLI. Birth of Venus. Early Renaissance (Italian). |
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The Founding of Tenochtitlan, from Codex Mendoza. Aztec. |
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Reconstruction of the Great Temple, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City. Aztec. |
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Coyolxauhqui, from the Great Temple, Tenochtitlan, Mexico City. Aztec. |
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Coatlicue. Aztec. |
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LEONARDO. Madonna of the Rocks. High Renaissance (Italian). Atmospheric (aerial) perspective. |
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LEONARDO. Last Supper. High Renaissance (Italian). |
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LEONARDO. Mona Lisa. High Renaissance (Italian). Sfumato. |
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RAPHAEL. Madonna in the Meadow. High Renaissance (Italian). |
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RAPHAEL. School of Athens (Philosophy). High Renaissance (Italian). |
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MICHELANGELO. David. High Renaissance (Italian). |
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MICHELANGELO. Sistine Chapel ceiling. High Renaissance (Italian). Fresco. |
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MICHELANGELO. Creation of Adam, detail of Sistine Chapel ceiling. High Renaissance (Italian). |
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BRAMANTE. Tempietto, Rome. High Renaissance (Italian). |
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TITIAN. Venus of Urbino. Renaissance (Mannerism). |
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GRUNEWALD. Isenheim Altarpiece (closed). Renaissance (Northern). |
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Waist Pendant of a Queen Mother. African. Benin. |
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BERNINI. David. Baroque (Italian). |
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CARAVAGGIO. Calling of Saint Matthew. Baroque (Italian). Tenebroso. |
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CARAVAGGIO. Conversion of Saint Paul. Baroque (Italian). |
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VELAZQUEZ. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). Baroque (Spanish). |
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REMBRANDT. Self-Portrait. Baroque (Dutch). |
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Taj Mahal, Agra. Indian. Mughal. |
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WATTEAU. Pilgrimage to Cythera. Rococo. Fete galante. |
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FRAGONARD. The Swing. Rococo. |
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DAVID. Oath of the Horatii. Neoclassicism. |
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GERICAULT. Raft of the Medusa. Romanticism. |
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TURNER. The Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). Romanticism. |
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CONSTABLE. The Haywain. Romanticism. |
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MANET. Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). Realism. |
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MANET. Olympia. Realism. |
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MONET. Impression: Sunrise. Impressionism. |
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DEGAS. The Rehearsal. Impressionism. |
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SEURAT. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. Post-Impressionism. Pointillism. |
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VAN GOGH. Starry Night. Post-Impressionism. |
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HOKUSAI. The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Japanese. Edo Period. |
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PICASSO. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. (Precursor to Cubism). |
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BOCCIONI. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Futurism. |
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DUCHAMP. Fountain. Dada. Ready-made. |
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DALI. The Persistence of Memory. Surrealism. |
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KAHLO. The Two Fridas. Surrealism. |
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MONDRIAN. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow. De Stijl. |
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WRIGHT. Fallingwater (Kaufmann House). |
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POLLOCK. Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). Abstract Expressionism (Action Painting/Gestural Abstraction). |
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ROTHKO. No. 14. Abstract Expressionism (Color Field Painting/Chromatic Abstraction). |
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WARHOL. Green Coca-Cola Bottles. Pop Art. |
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KOONS. Pink Panther. Postmodernism. |
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CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE. Surrounded Islands, Miami. Environmental Art. |
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ELVIS. King of Rock and Roll. |
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The Renaissance movement began in |
Italy |
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In linear perspective, parallel lines appear to recede in the distance and converge at the |
Vanishing point |
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Masaccio's Holy trinity is the first known painting to demonstrate true |
Linear perspective |
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In ___________ perspective, the background becomes more blue and has less contrast as it recedes. |
Atmospheric |
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When did the High Renaissance end? |
1520s |
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In Raphael's School of Athens, the artist shows _________ as a Greek philosopher |
Michelangelo |
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In painting his Last Supper, Leonardo was trying to develop new methods for wall painting. Soon after he completed the fresco, ________ |
It began to decay |
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In Leonardo's Last Supper, the disciples are reacting to what accusation just uttered by Christ? |
"Who ate the last of the bread?" |
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Leonardo's inspiration was ________ |
Closely observed nature |
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Michelangelo was only 27 when he started to carve David for ________ |
His home city of Florence |
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Michelangelo's David was the first monumental, free-standing, male nude carved in marble since _______ |
Antiquity (ancient Greece and Rome) |
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Originally, Michelangelo's David was to have been placed where? |
On a buttress of Florence Cathedral |
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Michelangelo had an unusual way of carving marble. What was it? |
He began cutting from the front face only, moving in layer by layer |
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After being smuggled in to see Michelangelo's unfinished Sistine Ceiling, Raphael may have included a portrait of the older artist in his School of Athens. What evidence may indicate that this is indeed a portrait of Michelangelo? |
This figure was added later than the others The figure's style (Massive: brooding pose) is a tribute to Michelangelo's style |
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In Titian's Venus Urbino, the nude goddess is brought into the bedroom. In the background, a handmaid leans over a wooden chest that symbolizes ______ |
Marriage |
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What city did artists flock to during the Counter Reformation to design an ornament churches |
Rome |
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What is the name of the art style that reflected the optimism and assertiveness of the 17th century Church? |
Baroque |
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What is one reason that Caravaggio was always on the run from the police? |
He killed a man in Rome |
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Why did Caravaggio revolt against idealized depictions of religious figures and instead base his saints and Virgins on everyday people? |
He wanted to make the viewer a participant |
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In which work of art did Gianlorenzo Bernini incorporate his self-portrait |
David |
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Which Baroque element is evident in Gianlorenzo Bernini's David? |
Aggressive movemnt |
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Which painting by Velazquez probably gives us an informal glimpse into the artist's working environment? |
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) |
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In Diego Velazquez probably gives us an informal glimpse into the artist's working environment? |
The King and Queen of Spain |
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True or False? Dutch genre paintings are not just simple images of everyday life, they convey a message |
True |
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The Impressionists started out as _______ |
Radicals |
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The first major scandal of Edouard Manet's career was his Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbre (Luncheon on the Grass), which was rejected by |
The Salon |
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With Manet's Olympia, viewers were shocked by the simple painting style and the _____, which was unlike academic painting |
Harsh Lighting |
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At the First Impressionist Exhibition in the 1874, critics complained that the paintings looked unfinished withe their visible ______ and imprecise definition of form |
Brushwork |
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One of ______'s painted sketches, Impression, Sunrise, caused the naming of the group as Impressionists |
Claude Monet |
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In the 1880s ,a number of young artist tried to push beyond the Impressionist technique in a variety of ways. We call them _______ |
Post-Impressionists |
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Georges Seurat developed a systematic method of painting called _____, in which he applied his paint by means of small dots |
Pointillism |
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Vincent van Gogh left Paris, settled in the South of France and invited _______ to visit him |
Paul Gauguin |
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One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, _______, shows his attempt to make a modern, religious art |
Starry Night |
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True or false? Post Impressionist painters moved away from the real world, rejecting external appearances, in favor of an inner, personal, imaginative truth. |
True |
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In the early years of the 20th century, one city was viewed as the center of modernism; and one artist in this city is still for us the modern artist. Who is the artist and what is the city? |
Pablo Picasso/Paris |
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Pablo Picasso's _________ is repeatedly claimed to be the first modern painting in the 20th century. |
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
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Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon opened the way to the 20th century movement: |
Cubism |
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In Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, multiple viewpoints and the flattening of space were to be characteristic of ____ painting. |
Cubists |
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The nudes in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are presented to us as ______ |
Prostitutes |
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_______ artist attacked truth, beauty, reason, and science |
Dada |
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Marcel Duchamp produced his ______, ordinary items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them |
"Ready mades" |
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In the early 1920s, _______ became one of the first Western artists to paint in a pure, abstract manner |
Piet Mondrian |
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Through his naturalistic style, _____ gives a sense of reality to images that are unreal, inspired by nightmares and visions. |
Salvador Dali |
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As Nazi persecution grew more intense, many artists fled to London and especially to ______ |
The United States |
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Around the years 1939-1940, the center of creative vitality in the Western visual arts moved away from Paris to ______ |
New York |
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The leading Abstract Expressionist was ______ |
Jackson Pollock |
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Raised in the American Southwest, Pollock was influence by _______ |
Native American sand painting |
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Raised in the American southwest, Pollock was influenced by ______ |
Native American sand painting |
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With Pollock, we are shown that ______ has nothing to do with value in art |
A recognizable image |
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Mark Rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only _________ on his canvases |
Gradations of color |
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In his art, Andy Warhol concentrated on the repetition of identical objects that are ______, as well as the repetition of people, especially movie stars |
The products of mass production |
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Where did Christo mount his work Running Fence? |
California |
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Renaissance |
rebirth/ an interest in learning and culture |
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Humanism |
system of thought emphasizing human accomplishment early renaissance around 1400-1520 |
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Illuminated manuscripts |
-fancy decorated page - surface detail and color |
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annunciation |
angel Gabriel telling Mary she is going to have Birth to Christ |
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During Renaissance, statues of artist increases _______ |
greatly |
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Robert Campin |
Northern European artist |
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Alterpiece |
piece of art that sits behind alter in church or chapel |
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triptych |
3 part altarpiece |
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symbolism |
an object has another level of meaning to it |
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symbolic elements |
white lilies, 3 flowers, closed lily, crossed lily, polished bronze vessel, unbroken window |
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white lilies symbolizes _______ |
Virgin Mary |
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3 flowers symbolizes _______ |
Holy trinity |
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Closed lily symbolizes _______ |
Jesus |
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crossed lily symbolizes ________ |
crucifixion |
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Polished bronze vessel symbolizes _______ |
Mary's pure womb |
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Unbroken window symbolizes _______ |
Mary's virginity still pure |
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Van Eyck |
Northern Europe Renaissance painter |
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Fidelity |
Faithful |
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Florence |
birthplace for Renaissance |
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Classical antiquiety |
ancient Greece and Rome has big influence on Italian Renaissance artist |
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"New Athens" |
Florence, Italy |
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Medici Family |
Famous banging family in Florence big art partians |
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Quatrefoil |
"quatro" four very gothic |
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Brunelleschi |
lost competition |
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Ghiberti |
won competition |
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Suggestion of depth |
overlapping |
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Scale Diminution |
objects reduce in scale in the distance/ things look small farther away |
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linear perspective |
method for showing depth using lines/ parallel reciting lines appears to meet in distance |
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Orthogonals |
imaginary lines that meat at vanishing poing |
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Mascocio |
Italian Renaissance painter |
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Fresco |
painting on damp plaster |
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Holy Trinity |
First work of art to show linear perspective |
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Donatello |
early renaissance Italian sculpture shows moment after the battle |
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Nude |
Someone looks appropriate w/o clothes |
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Naked |
Someone looks inappropriate w/o clothes |
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Donatello's David |
First life size, fore standing, nude figure, since classical antiquity |
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Italian Renaissance |
classical antiquity (style) and bible (subject matter) |
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Botticelli |
Early Renaissance Italian painter |
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Birth ______ and rebirth _____ through water |
Venus, Baptism |
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Tlalac |
rain god |
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Huitzilopochtli |
Aztec war god/sun god/ hummingbird god |
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coatlicue |
she of the serpent skirt |
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coyolxauhqui |
she of the golden bells/goddess of moon |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
(1519) scientist/ artist |
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Bramante |
(1514) famous architect |
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Raphael |
(1520) famous painter |
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Michaelangelo |
(1564) Italian, high renaissance artist sculptor/masculine male nude figure art |
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Triangular composition |
firgures fit within a triangle |
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chiaroscuro |
light and dark/ define form |
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sfumato |
smoky/soft light and dark |
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atmospheric perspective |
method for showing depth using atmosphere distant objects appear hazier and bluer |
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Why is Mona Lisa famous? |
Repetition mysterious |
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Mona Lisa's mysterious smile...... |
Entertainers bruxism (compulsive grinding of teethe) stroke syphillis |
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Mona Lisa's mysterious identity |
Lisa Gherodini Francesco del Giocando Lisa del Giocondo La Gioconda (Italy) La Joconde (France) Jocund = "happy one" Mona Lisa (American) Ma Donna = my lady |
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Pope Julius II |
Famous high Renaissance pope |
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Lapiths vs. Centaurs |
shows masculine male nude figure art of Michelangelo |
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Similarities of David (Michelangelo and Donatello) Sculpture |
Subject matter nudity contrapposto |
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Differences of David (Michelangelo and Donatello) Sculpture |
Material (Donatello bronze, Michelangelo, marble) size (D life size, MA way over life size) Moment of story (D after battle, MA before battle) |
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Palazzo Vecchio |
Florence City hall |
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel |
5800 sq. ft. curved ceiling 1981-1989 to clean |
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How is Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel organized? |
Illusionistic architetture genesis (9 scenes), first book of bible Noah (3) Adam and Eve (3) God Creating (3) |
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Creation of Adam |
Fingers do not touch |
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Tempietto |
Little temple Christian Chapel |
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Mannerism |
period right after High Renaissance |
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Titial |
Italian Renaissance artist |
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Dowry chests |
collection of gifts to give to married people indicates marriage |
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dog in painting |
faithful and fidelity |
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grunewald |
germain renaissance painter |
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monastic hospital of St. Anthony |
hospital for poor people |
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Isenheim Altarpiece |
graphic crucifixion does not paint christ in center/is on the side |
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the Resurrections |
more cheerful |
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Olokun |
Benin Sea god |
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oba |
Benin King |
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Benin |
Culture |
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Queen mother Idia |
head of Portuguese mudfish (olokun) |
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Baroque |
1600-1700/ style begins in Rome, Italy |
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Counter reformation |
attempt from Catholic church to fix itself |
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Elements in Baroque art |
dramatic violence lightning (contrast) movement crowded composition |
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Bernini |
Italian Baroque artist Movement during battle (David) |
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Caravaggio |
Italian Baroque painter |
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naturalism |
show someone very normal and every day appearance |
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tenebroso |
high contrast light and dark |
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chiaroscuro |
light and dark |
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Velazquez |
Spanish Baroque painter |
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Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) |
real space painted space reflected space |
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Rembrandt |
Dutch Baroque artist has over 100 self portraits been through a lot of shiz and shows in his self portraits |
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Early Rembrandt |
Typically Baroque |
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Late Rembrandt |
quiet, little actiom few figures dark; muddy colors introspective, psychological reaction |
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Taj Mahal |
wife of king |
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Mausoleum |
fancy tomb |
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Taj |
crown |
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Rococo |
1700-1750/ begins in Paris/France |
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Elements in Rococo Art |
decorative playful upperclass, French Style Soft, pastel like colors erotic |
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Watteau |
French Rococo painter |
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Royal Academy of painting and Sculpture, Paris (1648) |
history religion mythology |
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Fete galante |
elegant party |
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Fete Galante |
elegant party |
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Fragonard |
French Rococo Painter |
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Neoclassicism |
1750-1800 "new classical style" courage classicle 1789: French Revolution morality patriotism antiquity "anti Rococo" crisp lines |
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Pompeii and Herculaneum |
2 ancient Roman Towns |
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David |
French Neoclassical Painter |
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Romanticism |
1800-1850 "romances" French style romance language (Italian, French, Spanish) exotic time/ place man vs nature violence emotions |
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Know the difference |
Rococo = erotic Romanticism = exotic |
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Gericaunlt |
French romantic painter |
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Raft of the Medusa |
Medusa leaves France in June 1816 |
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Constable |
English romantic painter |
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The Haywain |
English romanticism= nature nature= grand and pretty/inviting/not scary |
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Turner |
English Romantic painter |
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Slave Ship |
nature= deadly |
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Realism |
1850-1870, modern art period |
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Manet |
French realist painter |
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Know the difference between the painters |
Monet=impressionism Manet=realism Contemporary subjects |
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Luncheon on the Grass |
subject matter -confusing -shocking (naked woman: Victorian = high class prostitute) style (flat) - visible brush strokes - lack of depth -lack of volume |
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Cat |
opposite of dog/fidelity |
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Monet |
French Impressionist painter |
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Impressionism |
(1870-1890) contemporary subject matter outdoor scene effects of light on color choppy brush strokes water |
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Degas |
French impressionist artist shows interior scenes came from rich family/doesn't want to go out |
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Dancers practicing at the bar |
watering can= mocking dancers |
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Post Impressionism |
(1880-1900) "after impressionism" period not style analytical, scientific |
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Seurat |
French Post impressionist expressive, emotional, spiritual |
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Van Gogh |
Dutch post impressionist painter |
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Pointillism |
painting small dots of color |
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Theo |
(Van Gogh's brother) Supports Van Gogh financially |
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Van Gogh, Self Portrait |
Expressive color dynamic brush strokes |
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Hokusai |
Japanese Artist wood block print art |
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Cubism |
(1907-1918), early 20th century art movement dull, muddy colors fragmentation of foreground and background multiple viewpoints |
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Picasso |
Spanish artist |
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Les Demoiselles d Avignon |
the young ladies of Avignon pre-cursor to cubism (not cubism yet) fragmentation of foreground and background african sculpture influenced multiple viewpoints |
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Futurism |
(1909-1929) early 20th century, after cubism Italian art movement speed, machinery everything is good in the future destruction of museums brighter colors |
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Boccioni |
Italian futurist artist |
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Space = ______ time = _______ |
cubism, futurism |
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Duchamp |
French Dada arist |
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Dada |
(1915-1924) early 20th century post ww1 anti art irrational appropriation: to borrow humor |
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Ready-made |
work of art the artist didnt have to make context |
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assisted ready made |
an artist takes 2 or more ready mades and combines them |
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surrealism |
(1924-1945) above/beyond realism, subconscious/unconsious mind dreamworld time is unchangable |
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Dali |
Spanish Surrealist artist |
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De stijl |
(1917-1931) early 20 century art moment no reference to nature complete abstract primary colors (red, blue, yellow) black and white right angles |
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Mondrian |
Dutch artist |
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Wright |
American architect/ first half of 21 century |
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abstract expressionism |
(1945-1960-) in New York "expressionism" (expressing an inner feeling) |
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Action painting |
1st phase of abstract expressionism |
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colorfield painting |
2nd phase abstract expressionism large areas of solid color |
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Pollock |
American artist, abstract expressionist, action painter "all over composition"= no focal point |
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Rothko |
American artist, abstract expressionist, color field painter |
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popart |
(1955-1965) US art style pop= popular culture (movie ads, comics, consumer goods, etc) appropriation |
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Warhol |
American pop artist "repetition creates fame" |
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Performance art |
(1960-present) artistic action/gesture, not object, is the art |
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Burden |
American performance artist |
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Post modernism |
(1970-today) period, not style appropriation (to borrow) |
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Koons |
American post modern artist |
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Cloristo |
Bulgarian artist |
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Environmental art |
work of art, out in the world |
