Arth Quiz 2

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Las meninas

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1656 painting by Diego Velazquez. Princess Margaret Theresa is surrounded by her maids and bodyguards. Art Historians are not sure what the true meaning of this painting is. Image on back wall may be a mirror.

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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Dutch painter and etcher. Considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art.

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Genre scene

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Works of art connected by a common theme

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Judith Leyster

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Dutch Golden Age painter who painted genre works, portraits, and still life. Her own work wasn't attributed to her until 1893.

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The Dutch Republic

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Also known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Republic in Europe that existed from 1581-1795.

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Rococo (the style)

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Jocular, florid and graceful approach to the Baroque. Light colors, asymmetrical designs, curves, and gold. Playful and witty themes.

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Jean-honore Fragonard

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French painter and printmaker who used Rococo style. One of the most prolific artists towards the end of The Ancien Regime. Genre paintings of intimacy and eroticism.

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Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun

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Prominent French painter. Neoclassical/Rococo style. Served as a portrait painter to Marie Antoinette.

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Pastels

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Soft and delicate shades of colors.

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Jacques Louis David

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Influential French painter in Neoclassical style. Preeminent painter if the Era. Active supporter of the French Revolution. Dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

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Salon (big s)

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The annual art exhibition of painting and sculpture by the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, later known as the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

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salon (little s)

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large room, such as a drawing room, used for receiving and entertaining guests.

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Linda Nochlin

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American art historian, professor of modern art at new York University, and writer. Prominent feminist art historian.

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The Jacobins

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Most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution.

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The Sublime

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NOT DONE

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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French Military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century.

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The Medusa

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NOT DONE

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The Hudson River school

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Mid 19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism.

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Casper David Friedrich

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19th century German Romantic landscape painter. Considered the most important German artist of his generation. Known for allegorical landscapes

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Bourbon Monarchy

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European royal house of French origin. Ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century.

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Goya

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Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. Considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Referred to as the last of the Old Masters.

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Los Caprichos

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Set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by Francisco Goya. An artistic experiment

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The Disasters of War

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Series of 82 prints (1810-1820) by Francisco Goya. Viewed as a visual protest against the Dos de Mayo Uprising, the peninsular war and the restoration of the Bourbon empire.