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Bonaventura BERLINGHIERI


Panel From St. Francis Altarpiece


1235          Italy          Byzantine

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CIMABUE


Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets (Maesta)

 

1280-1290              Italy              Byzantine 

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DUCCIO

 

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (From Maesta Altarpiece)

 

1308-1311                Italy               Byzantine

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DUCCIO

 

The Betrayal of Jesus (Detail from Maesta Altarpiece, Sienna Cathedral) 

 

1309-1311           Italy           Byzantine

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GIOTTO di Bodone

 

Madonna Enthroned

 

1310            Italy           Proto-Renaissance

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GIOTTO di Bondone

 

Lamentation

 

1305                 Italy                   Proto-Renaissance

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Simone MARTINI

 

The Annunciation

 

1333               Italy                International Gothic

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Pietro LORENZETTI

 

The Birth of the Virgin

 

1342              Italy               Proto-Renaissance

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Ambrogio LORENZETTI

 

Peaceful City (Detail from Effects of Good Government in the City and Country)

 

1338-1339           Italy             Proto-Renaissance

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Ambrogio LORENZETTI

 

 Peaceful Country (Detail from Effects of Good Government in the City and Country)

 

1338-1339           Italy             Proto-Renaissance

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LIMBOURG BROTHERS

 

January (Illumination from The Very Sumptuous Hours of the Duke of Berry)

 

1413-1416        Flanders        International [Gothic] Style

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LIMBOURG BROTHERS

 

October (Illumination from The Very Sumptuous Hours of the Duke of Berry)

 

1413-1416        Flanders        International [Gothic] Style

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Claus SLUTER

 

Well of Moses

 

1395-1406          Flanders         Northern Renaissance  

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ROBERT CAMPIN 

 

The Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation)



1425-1428           Flanders           Northern Renaissance

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JAN VAN EYCK

 

The Ghent Altarpiece (Closed)

 

1432            Flanders            Northern Renaissance

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JAN VAN EYCK

 

The Ghent Altarpiece (Open)

 

1432              Flanders              Northern Renaissance

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JAN VAN EYCK 

 

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait)

 

1434            Flanders           Northern Renaissance    

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JAN VAN EYCK

 

Man in a Red Turban

 

1433            Flanders             Northern Renaissance

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ROGIER van der WEYDEN

 

Deposition (The Escorial Deposition center panel from an altarpiece)

 

1435              Flanders               Northern Renaissance

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ROGIER van der WEYDEN

 

Portrait of a Lady

 

1460               Flanders              Northern Renaissance

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HUGO van der GOES

 

The Portinari Altarpiece

 

1476              Flanders            Northern Renaissance

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NANNI di BANCO

 

Four Crowned Saints (Or San Michele, Guild Hall)

 

1410-1416                 Italy              Renaissance

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DONATELLO

 

St. Mark (from Or San Michele)

 

1411-1413                Italy                  Renaissance

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DONATELLO

 

David

 

1440-1460 or 1428-1432            Italy          Renaissance

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DONATELLO

 

Equestrian Statue of Erasmo da Narni (Gattemelata)

 

1445-1453                  Italy               Renaissance

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Humanism
Definition

 In the Renaissance, an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge (especially of classical antiquity), the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty. 

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Hierarchical Scale
Definition

An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance. 

 

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Naturalism
Definition

The doctrine that art should adhere as closely as possible to the appearance of the natural world. Naturalism, with varying degrees of fidelity to appearance, recurs in the history of Western art. 

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Iconography
Definition

Literally "the writing of images." The term refers both to the content, or subject of  an art work and to the study of content in art. Includes the study of the symbolic, often religious, ,eanngs of objects, persons or events depicted in works of art. 

Term
Medieval (Middle Ages)
Definition

In European history, the period of roughly 1000 years (c. 400 AD & 1400 AD) from the end of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance. 

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Approximate (Intuitive) Perspective
Definition

A method of giving the impression of recession by visual instinct, not by the use of an overall program or system.

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Buon Fresco
Definition

Fresco painted on fresh, wet plaster so the pigments become chemically bound to the plaster.

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Fresco a Secco
Definition

Fresco painted on dry plaster so it just sits on top and is not bound to the plaster. 

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Genre
Definition

A style or category of art; also a kind of painting that realistically depicts scenes from everyday life. 

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Allegory
Definition

The representation in a work of art of an abstract idea or concept using specific objects or human figures. 

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Illumination
Definition

Decoration with drawings (usually in gold, silver & bright colors), especially on medieval manuscript pages; Conceived in such a way that the imagery "sheds light" on the written text. 

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Secular
Definition

Pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual or sacred; temporal; concerned with non-religious subjects. 

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Polyptych
Definition

An altarpiece composed of more than three sections

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Attribute
Definition

The symbolic object or objects that identify a particular deity, saint or personification in art. 

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Grisaille
Definition

A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture. 

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Omnivoyant
Definition

Seeing everything; depicting every minute detail to represent that God sees everything.

 

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Incorporeal
Definition

Not composed of matter; having no physical existance.

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Corporeal
Definition

Pertaining to the body as opposed to the spirit

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Bruges
Definition

Capital and largest city of Flanders. 

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Guild
Definition

An association of merchants, craftspersons, or scholars in medieval and Renaissance Europe. 

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Medici
Definition

Politically influential banking family in Florence during the Renaissance. 

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Classical
Definition

A term referring to the art and architecture of the ancient Greeks and Romans. 

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classical
Definition

Any aspect of later art or architecture reminiscent of the rules, canons, and examples of the art of ancient Greece and Rome. Also, generally, any art aspiring to the qualities of restraint, balance, and rational order exemplified by the ancients. 

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Idealization
Definition

The representation of things according to a preconception of ideal form or type; a kind of aesthetic distortion to produce idealized forms. 

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Canon
Definition

Rule, e.g., of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beauty to be a matter of "correct" proportion and sought a canon of proportion, in music and for the human figure. 

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Predella
Definition

The narrow ledge on which an altarpiece rests on an altar. 

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Contrapposto
Definition

The disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part (usually hips and legs one way, shoulders and chest another), creating a counterpositioning of the body about its central axis. Sometimes called "weight shift" because the weight of the body tends to be thrown to one foot, creating tension on one side and relaxation on the other. 

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Chiaroscuro
Definition

In drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling. 

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Linear Perspective
Definition

All parallel lines or surface edges converge on one, two, or three vanishing points located with reference to the eye level of the viewer (the horizon line of the picture), and associated objects are rendered smaller the farther from the viewer they are intended to seem.

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Aerial (Atmospheric) Perspective
Definition

Creates the illusion of distance by the greater diminution of color intensity, the shift in color intensity, the shift in color toward an almost neutral blue, and the blurring of contours as the intended distance between eye and object increases. 

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Foreshortening
Definition

The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight. 

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Façade
Definition

Usually, the front of a building; also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally. 

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Tondo
Definition
A circular painting or relief sculpture.
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Écorché
Definition
The representation of a nude body as if without skin.
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Engraving
Definition
The process of incizing a design in hard material, often a metal plate (usually copper); also, the print or impression made from such a plate.
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Neoplatonism
Definition
A revival in the study of Plato's ideas on humanism (among other things) during the Renaissance.
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Treatise
Definition
A written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
Term
Putto/Putti
Definition
A cherubic young boy/boys.
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Trompe l'oeil
Definition
French, "fools the eye." A form of illusionistic painting that aims to deceive viewers into believing they are seeing the real objects rather than a representation of those objects.
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Di sotto in sù
Definition
Italian, "from below upward." A prespective view seen from below.
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Pendant
Definition
An artistic, literary, or musical composition intended to match or complement another.
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Sacra Conversazione
Definition
Italian, "holy conversation." A style of altarpiece painting popular after the middle of the 15th century, in which saints from different epochs are joined in a unified space and seem to be conversing either with one another or the audience.
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Sfumato
Definition
Italian, "smoky." A smokelike haziness that subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio.
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Pastoral
Definition
Portraying or evoking country life, typically in a romanticized or idealized form.
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Sack of Rome
Definition
A military attack on Rome in 1527 carried out by Charles V. Entirely halted the Renaissance in Rome.
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Counter-Reformation
Definition
The reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuried that was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation.
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Idealization
Definition
A process in art through which artists strive to make their forms and figures attain perfection, based on pervading cultural values or their own image of what the ideal is.
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Giorgio Vasari
Definition

(1511-74) Italian painter, architect, and biographer. His Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550, enlarged 1568) formed the basis for the later study of art history in the West. 

 

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Reformation
Definition
16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. Martin Luther's 95 theses. 
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Iconoclasm
Definition
The banning or destruction of icons and religious art. Iconoclasm in 16th and 17th century Protestant territories arose from differing beliefs about power, meaning, function, and purpose of imagery in religion and religious practices.
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Anamorphic image
Definition
A distorted image that must be viewed by some special means (such as a mirror) to be recognized.
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Memento Mori
Definition
Latin, "reminder of death." An object, such as a skull or extinguished candle, typically found in a vanitas image, symbolizing the transience of life.
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Vanitas
Definition
Latin, "vanity." A term describing paintings (particularly 17th century Dutch still lifes) that include references to death.
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Cycle
Definition
A series of paintings, frescoes or tapestries depicting a single story or theme intended to be displayed together.
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Theophany
Definition
"Appearance of god." The appearance of a deity to a human being.
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Bel composto
Definition
Unifying painting, sculpture, and architecture.
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Tenebrism
Definition
Painting in the "shadowy manner," using violent contrasts of light and dark, as in the work of Caravaggio. The term derives from tenebroso.
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Caravaggisti
Definition
Painting in the style of Caravaggio.
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Illusionism
Definition
An appearance of reality in a work of art created by the use of certain pictorial means such as perspective and foreshortening; the quality of having an illusionistic appearance.
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Bourgeois
Definition
Of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
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Colorito
Definition
Italian, "colored" or "painted." A term used to describe the application of paint. Characteristic of the work of 16th-century Venetian artists who emphasized the appplication of paint as an important eleent of the creative process. Central Italian artists, in contrast, largely emphasized "disegno," the careful design preparation based on preliminary drawing.
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Disegno
Definition
Italian "drawing" and "design." Renaissance artists considered drawing to be the external physical manifestation (disegno esterno) of an internal intellectual idea of design (disegno interno).
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Corporation Picture
Definition
A painting done of several people of equal importance, usually not the aristocratic class.
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Impasto
Definition
A layer of thickly applied pigment.
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Still Life
Definition
A picture depicting an arrangement of inanimate objects.
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Etching
Definition
A kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate. The parts of the plate left exposed are then etched (lightly eaten away) by the acid in which the plate is immersed after incising.
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Rococo
Definition
A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiours featured lavish decoration, including small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel paintings, tapestries, reliefs, wall paintings, and elegant furniture. The term Rococo derived from the French word "rocaille" (pebble) and referred to the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors.
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Fête Galante
Definition
French, "amorous festival." A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society.
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French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Definition
Paris, established 1648. They held a high standard for the arts in Paris and aimed to professionalize the practice of art making.
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Royal Academy
Definition
London, established 1768. An organization with the goals of creating a professional status for artists by making a solid system of education and of promoting and organizing exhibitions of art.
Term
Grand Tour
Definition
A rite of passage trip through Western Europe passing through the major cities of Antiquity and the Renaissance with the intention of absorbing the tradition and culture. Popular with English men in the mid 1600s.
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Naturalism
Definition
The style of painted or sculptured representation based on close observation of the natural world that was at the core of the classical tradition.
Term
Prix de Rome
Definition
A prize offered to the best young artist by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and paid for by Louis XIV. The prize was a free, 3 to 5 year stay in the Palazzo Mancini in Rome.
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Hierarchy of Subjects
Definition

Established by the Royal Academy of Art. 

History Painting

     Religious

     Classical 

     Actual History

Portraiture

Genre 

Landscape

Animal

Still Life

Term
History painting
Definition
Term denoting those paintings including figures in any kind of historical, mythological, or biblical narrative. Considered since the Renaissance (until the 20th century) as the noblest form of art. History paintings generally convey high moral or intellectual ideas, often painted in a grand pictorial style.
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Grand Manner
Definition
A grand and elevated style of painting popular in the Neoclassical period of the 18th century. An artist working in the Grand Manner looked to the ancients and to the Renaissance for inspiration; for portraits as well as history painting, the artist would adopt the poses, compositions, and attitudes of Renaissance and antique models.
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Joachim Winckelmann
Definition
Widely recognized as the first modern art historian. He published Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture.
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Orientalism
Definition
The imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures in art
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Sublime
Definition
Awe mixed with terror (a Romantic theory put forth in 1757 by the Englishman Edmund Burke concerning the psychological basis for aesthetic enjoyment)
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Dauguerreotype
Definition
A photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal; developed by Louis J. M. Dauguerre.
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Lithography
Definition
A printmaking technique in which the artist uses an oil-based crayon to draw directly onto a stone plate and then wipes water onto the stone. When ink is rolled onto the plate, it adheres only to the drawing. The print produced by this method is a lithograph.
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En Plein Air
Definition
French, "in fresh air" or "outdoors." An approach to painting much favored by the Barbizon landscape painters and Impressionists; they frequently sketched and/or painted outdoors, direct from nature, to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. (Sketches/paintings often taken back to the studio for reworking into more finished works of art.)
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realism
Definition
The representation of things according to their appearance in visible nature (better and more accurately said, naturalism)
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Realism
Definition
A movement that emerged in mid-19th century France; artists represented the subject matter of everyday life (especially that which up until then had been considered inappropriate for depiction) in a realistic mode.
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Alla Prima
Definition
Painting technique in which opaque pigments are laid on in one application of a loaded brush, with rapid, sketch-like strokes; little or no blending of successive layers of paint. (Do not confused alla prima with impasto)
Term
Pavillion du Réalisme (1855)
Definition
One-man exhibition organized by Courbet in a separate building at the Paris Exposition Universelle; issues what amounts to a realist manifesto.
Term
Salon des Refusés, Paris (1863)
Definition
By Emperor Napoleon III's decree, an alternative salon held in an adjacent room to show 687 of the 4,000+ works rejected by the official Salon, so that the public could make up their own minds about the works by the feisty artists confronting a stubborn status quo
Term
Avant-garde
Definition
French, "advance guard" (in a platoon). Late-19th and 20th century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work. Also used as an adjective.
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[image]
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LORENZO GHIBERTI 

 

Gates of Paradise

 

1425-1452      Italy      Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

GENTILE da FABRIANO 

 

Adoration of the Magi

 

1423       Italy       International Style  

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[image]
Definition

MASACCIO

 

Tribute Money

 

1424-27      Italy     Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

LORENZO GHIBERTI

 

Isaac and His Sons

 

1425-1452      Italy     Renaissance 

Term
[image]
Definition

MASACCIO

 

Expusion of Adam and Eve from Eden

 

1424-27       Italy      Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

MASACCIO

 

Holy Trinity

 

1424-27       Italy       Renaissance 

Term
[image]
Definition

Filippo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Duomo

 

1420-36      Italy      Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Filippo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Santo Spirito (interior)

 

1436        Itally         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Fillipo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Santo Spirito (plan)

 

1436      Italy      Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Fillipo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Pazzi Chapel (facade)

 

1442          Italy         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Filippo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Pazzi Chapel (plan)

 

1442         Italy         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Filippo BRUNELLESCHI

 

Pazzi Chapel (interior)

 

1442          Italy          Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

FRA ANGELICO

 

Annunciation

 

1440-50        Italy        Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Andrea del CASTAGNO

 

The Last Supper

 

1445-50        Italy       Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Paolo UCCELLO

 

The Battle of San Romano

 

1455         Italy         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

FRA FILIPPO LIPPI

 

Madonna and Child with Angels

 

1455         Italy         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Sandro BOTTICELLI

 

Primavera

 

1482       Italy       Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Sandro BOTTICELLI

 

The Birth of Venus

 

1482          Italy           Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Antonio POLLAIUOLO

 

Battle of the Ten Nudes Engraving

 

1475        Italy        Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Antonio POLLAIUOLO

 

Hercules and Antaeus


1475        Italy        Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Andrea del VERROCCHIO

 

David

 

1465-70        Italy       Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Andrea del VERROCCHIO

 

Equestrian Monument to Bartolommeo Colleoni

 

1483-88        Italy       Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista ALBERTI

 

Palazzo Rucellai

 

1452-70        Italy       Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista ALBERTI

 

Sant' Andrea (facade)


1470        Italy        Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista ALBERTI

 

Sant' Andrea (plan)


1470       Italy        Renaissance     

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista ALBERTI

 

Sant' Andrea (interior)


1470       Italy        Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

 

Resurrection

 

1463         Italy       Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

 

Flagellation of Christ


1455-65      Italy      Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

 

Enthroned Madonna and Saints Adored by Frederico da Montelfelfeltro (Brera Altarpiece)

 

1472-74       Italy         Renaissance

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[image]
Definition

Andrea MANTEGNA 

 

Camera Picta (frescoes)

 

1474         Italy          Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Andrea MANTEGNA 

 

Camera Picta (ceiling)

 

1474         Italy          Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Andrea MANTEGNA 

 

The Dead Christ

 

1500         Italy          Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Luca SIGNORELLI

 

The Damned Cast into Hell

 

1499-1504      Italy    Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

PERUGINO

 

Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter

 

1481-83       Italy       Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

BRAMANTE

 

Tempietto

 

1502       Italy      High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

BRAMANTE

 

Plan for new St. Peter's


1505      Italy       High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

LEONARDO da VINCI

 

The Virgin of the Rocks

 

1485       Italy      High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

LEONARDO da VINCI

 

Cartoon for Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John

 

1505-07     Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

LEONARDO da VINCI

 

Vitruvian Man

 

1485-90    Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

LEONARDO da VINCI

 

Mona Lisa

 

1503-05     Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

Pietà

 

1498      Italy      High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

David

 

1501-04     Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

Bound Slave

 

1513-16      Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

Moses

 

1513-15     Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel


1508-12      Italy     High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

MICHELANGELO Buonarotti

 

Creation of Adam


1508-12      Italy     High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

RAPHAEL Sanzio

 

Madonna of the Meadow

 

1505-06     Italy    High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

RAPHAEL Sanzio

 

School of Athens (Philosophy)

 

1509-11    Italy     High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

RAPHAEL Sanzio

 

Galatea

 

1513      Italy      High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Giovanni BELLINI

 

San Zaccaria Altarpiece

 

1505       Italy     Venitian Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Giovanni BELLINI (and TITIAN?)

 

The Feast of the Gods

 

1514/1529  Italy  Venitian Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

GIORGIONE

 

The Tempest

 

1510      Italy     Venetian Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

TITIAN (and/or GIORGIONE)

 

Pastoral Symphony

 

1508-11    Italy   Venetian Renaissance

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TITIAN

 

Assumption of the Virgin

 

1515-18    Italy   Venetian Renaissance  

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TITIAN

 

Madonna of the Pesaro Family

 

1519-26    Italy   Venetian Renaissance  

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TITIAN

 

Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne

 

1522-23    Italy   Venetian Renaissance  

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TITIAN

 

Venus of Urbino

 

1536-38    Italy   Venetian Renaissance  

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HIERONYMOUS BOSCH

 

The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych) Creation of Eve

 

1505-10        Flanders       Northern Renaissance

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HIERONYMOUS BOSCH

 

The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych) Garden of Earthly Delights

 

1505-10        Flanders       Northern Renaissance

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HIERONYMOUS BOSCH

 

The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych) Hell

 

1505-10        Flanders       Northern Renaissance

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Matthias GRÜNEWALD

 

Isenheim Altarpiece (closed)

 

1510-15     German     Northern Renaissance

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Matthias GRÜNEWALD

 

Isenheim Altarpiece (open)

 

1510-15     German     Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht DÜRER

 

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 

1498   German   Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht DÜRER

 

The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)

 

1504   German   Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht DÜRER 

 

The Great Piece of Turf

 

1503   German   Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht DÜRER

 

Knight, Death, and the Devil

 

1513   German   Northern Renaissance

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Albrecht DÜRER

 

Melencolia I

 

1514   German   Northern Renaissance  

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Albrecht DÜRER

 

Four Apostles

 

1526   German   Northern Renaissance

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Hans HOLBEIN the Younger

 

The French Ambassadors

 

1533   German   Northern Renaissance

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Pieter BRUEGEL the Elder

 

Hunters in the Snow

 

1533   Netherlands  Northern Renaissance

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Pieter BRUEGEL the Elder

 

Netherlandish Proverbs

 

1559    Netherlands    Northern Renaissance

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MICHELANGELO

 

Last Judgement


1534 or 1536-41   Italy     High Renaissance/Mannerism

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Jacopo da PONTORMO

 

Descent from the Cross

 

1525-28           Italy           Mannerism 

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PARMIGIANINO

 

Madonna with the Long Neck

 

1535       Italy         Mannerism

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BRONZINO

 

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time (The Exposure of Luxury)


1546          Italy          Mannerism

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Gianlorenzo BERNINI

 

David

 

1623             Italy            Baroque

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Gianlorenzo BERNINI

 

Piazza of St. Peter's

 

1656-67         Italy          Baroque 

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Gianlorenzo BERNINI

 

Baldacchino

 

1624-33         Italy          Baroque

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Gianlorenzo BERNINI

 

St. Theresa in Ecstasy


1645-52        Italy          Baroque

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CARAVAGGIO

 

Calling of St. Matthew

 

1597-1601          Italy           Baroque 

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CARAVAGGIO

 

Conversion of St. Paul

 

1601            Italy              Baroque

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Artemesia GENTILESCHI 

 

Judith Slaying Holofernes

 

1614-20        Italy        Baroque

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Giovanni Battista GAULLI

 

Triumph in the name of Jesus

 

1676-79          Italy          Baroque 

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Fra Andrea POZZO

 

The Glorification of St. Ignatius

 

1691-94        Italy         Baroque

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EL GRECO

 

The Burial of Count Orgaz

 

1586       Spain       Mannerism/Proto-Baroque

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Diego VELÁZQUEZ

 

Surrender of Breda

 

1634-35      Spain        Baroque

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Diego VELÁZQUEZ

 

Las Meninas

 

1656           Spain          Baroque

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Peter Paul RUBENS

 

The Elevation of the Cross

 

1610         Flanders           Baroque

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Peter Paul RUBENS

 

Arrival of Marie de'Medici at Marsailles

 

1622-25         Flanders       Baroque

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Peter Paul RUBENS

 

Allegory of the Outbreak of War or Consequences of War


1638         Flanders         Baroque

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REMBRANDT van Rijn

 

Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

 

1632         Dutch/Holland        Baroque

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REMBRANDT van Rijn

 

Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch)


1642     Dutch/Holland    Baroque

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REMBRANDT van Rijn

 

Self-Portrait

 

1659-60     Dutch/Holland      Baroque

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REMBRANDT van Rijn

 

Return of the Prodigal Son

 

1665       Dutch/Holland         Baroque

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REMBRANDT van Rijn 

 

Christ with the Sick Around Him, Receiving the Children or Hundred Guilder Print


1649        Dutch/Holland         Baroque

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Jaques CALLOT

 

Hanging Tree from the Large Miseries of War


1633              French          Baroque

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Nicolas POUSSIN

 

Et in Arcadia Ego

 

1655            French            Baroque

 

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Hyacinthe RIGAUD

 

Louis XIV 

 

1701          French             Baroque

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Charles LE BRUN et al

 

Palace at Versailles

 

begun 1669        French        Baroque

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Jules HARDOUIN MANSART and Charles LE BRUN

 

Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors)

 

1680        French          Baroque

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Antoine WATTEAU

 

Return from Cythera

 

1717-19          French            Rococo 

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Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD

 

The Swing

 

1766            French           Rococo

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Jaques-Louis DAVID

 

Oath of the Horatii

 

1784          French         Neoclassical

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Jaques-Louis DAVID

 

The Death of Marat

 

1793          French          Neoclassical

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES

 

Apotheosis of Homer

 

1827          French          Neoclassical

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES

 
Grande Odalisque
 
1814  French  Neoclassical/Orientalism
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Théodore GÉRICAULT

 

Raft of the Medusa

 

1818-19       French         Romanticism

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Eugène DELACROIX

 

Death of Sardanapalus

 

1826-27       French        Romanticism

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Eugène DELACROIX

 
Liberty Leading the People
 
1830           French          Romanticism
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J. M. W. TURNER

 

The Slave Ship

 

1840         England        Romanticism

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Gustave COURBET

 

The Stone Breakers

 

1849          France         Realism

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Gustave COURBET

 

Burial at Ornans


1849           France              Realism

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