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AH 1460 N. Renaissance through Romanticism
Ch. 19-24
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
04/05/2012

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Definition

Matthias Grunewald

Isenheim Altarpiece

1510-1515 o/p 16th

Northern Europe

 

Closed: Crucifixion, Lamentation, St. Sebastian, St. Anthony First: Annunciation, Virgin & Child w/angels, Ressurection Second: Temptation of St Anthony

Term
[image]
Definition

Albrecht Durer

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1498

Woodcut

16th Northern Europe

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[image]
Definition

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Blind Leading the Blind

1568

o/p

Term
[image]
Definition

El Greco

The Burial of Count Orgaz

1586

o/c

Term
burin
Definition
a tempered steel rod, with a lozenge-shaped point and a rounded handle, used for engraving furrows in metal.
Term
Edition
Definition
one of a series of printings
Term
Relief Process
Definition
a printing process, such as engraving, letterpress, etc, that employs raised surfaces from which ink is transferred to the paper Ink on surface
Term
Intaglio Process
Definition
incised carving, as opposed to carving in relief. Ink on burrs
Term
Engraving
Definition
the art of forming designs by cutting, corrosion by acids, a photographic process, etc., on the surface of a metal plate, block of wood, or the like, for or as for the purpose of taking off impressions or prints of the design so formed.
Term
[image]
Definition

Bernini Gianlorenzo

Baldacchino (canopy)

1624-1633

gilded bronze

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[image]
Definition

Carvaggio

Calling of St Matthew

1600

o/c

Term
[image]
Definition

Artemisa Gentileschi

Judith and her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes

1625

o/c

Baroque

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[image]
Definition

Annibale Carracci

Loves of the Gods
Ceiling of the Grand Gallery of the Farnese Palace, Rome

frescoes

1597-1601

Term
[image]
Definition

Pietro Da Cortona

Allegory of Divine Providence

ceiling of the great hall of the Barberini Palace

1633-9

frescoes

Term
[image]
Definition

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Triumph of the Name of Jesus

1676-79

fresco and stucco

Term
[image]
Definition

Diego Velasquez

Las Meninas

1656

Baroque

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[image]
Definition

Peter Paul Rubens

Raising of the Cross

1610

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[image]
Definition

Peter Paul Rubens

The Garden of Love

1638

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[image]
Definition

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Militia Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq

(The Night Watch)

1642

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[image]
Definition

Jan Steen

The Feast of St Nicolas

1665-68

Term
[image]
Definition

Jan Vermeer

Woman Holding a Balance

1664

Holland

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[image]
Definition
Peter Bruegel the Elder
Peasant Wedding
1568
Northern Renaissance
Term
[image]
Definition
Bernini
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa
1645-52
Cornaro Chapel
Term
[image]
Definition
Watteau
A Pilgrimage to Cythera
1717
Rococo
Term
[image]
Definition
Chardin
Back from the Market
1739
Rococo
Term
[image]
Definition
Goya
Family of Charles IV
1800
Neoclassical
Term
[image]
Definition
Ingres
Grande Odalisque
1814
Term
[image]
Definition
Hogarth
The Orgy (The Rake's Progress)
1734
Enlightenment
Term
[image]
Definition
David
Oath of the Horatii
1784
Neoclassical
Term
[image]
Definition
Fragonard
The Swing
1766
Rococo
Term
[image]
Definition
David
The Death of Marat
1793
Neoclassical
Term
[image]
Definition
Gros
Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa
1804
French Romanticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Delacroix
Death of Sardanapalus
1826
Romanticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Goya
The Third of May
1814
Romanticism
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[image]
Definition
Turner
The Slave Ship
1840
Romanticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Gericault
Raft of the Medusa
1818-19
Romanticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Constable
The Haywain
1821
Romanticism
Term
[image]
Definition
Watteau
Gersaint's Signboard
1721
Rococo
Term
Bastille Day
Definition
July 14, 1789
Term
Fetes Galantes
Definition
French term referring to some of the celebrated pursuits of the idle, rich aristocrats in the 18th century—from 1715 until the 1770s
Term
Voltaire
Definition
French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state
Term
Rococo in France and England
Definition
lighter colors, more delicate than Baroque
Sensuous brushwork
Decorative
Erotic & exotic
Purpose is to titillate the senses and entertain the viewer
Sense of informality and spontaneity in capturing the moment
Challenges Baroque’s formalism
Subject matters: romantic love – its dreams and disappointments, pleasures and pains, realities
and fantasies.
Artists studied: Watteau, Fragonard
Term
Neoclassicism in France and England
Definition
Characteristics: emphasis on a linear definition of forms rather than loose painterly brushwork
Crisp modeling
Sculptural forms
Academic, intellectual
Subject matters: illustration of heroism and civic virtue, subjects from Antiquity, history painting
Artists studied: David, Ingres
Term
The sublime
Definition
Terrible, horrific, causing strong emotions
Term
Romanticism
Definition
Characteristics: painterly (loose brushstrokes, strong colors)
Dramatic, sometimes violent
Dynamic
Emotional, nostalgic, moody
Exotic
Subjects-matters: individual’s struggle against the state (political freedom and social activism),
religious mysticism, insanity, distant places and far-away times, landscape.
Artists studied: Gros, Gericault, Delacroix, Goya, Constable, Turner
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