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Survey of Western art test II
art vocab
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
03/10/2008

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Franz Hals
Definition

Group portraits

portraits

gypsy girl 

Laughing Cavalier

long wispy impression-like brushstroke 

Dutch

1580-1660 

 

Term
Rembrandt
Definition

foremost dutch portrait painter

 Anatomy lesson 1631

Nightwatch 1642

Self portraits 

prodigal son 1662 

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peter paul rubens
Definition

World traveler but originally flemish

famous for his fusion of religion and mythology

marie de medici cycle

elevation of the cross(tryptich)

Virgin and child adored by angels(vallicella) 

Last judgment 

 

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Mannerism
Definition

elongated forms, exaggerated, out-of-balance poses, manipulated irrational space, and unnatural light

Parmigianino-Madonna with long neck

 Tintoretto-Last supper

El greco-Baptism

 

Term

Trompe-L'oeil 

 

Definition

Fool the eye

ie) 

Term
Impasto
Definition

most commonly refers to a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible

ie]The merry drinker-Frans Hals

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Camera Obscura
Definition

was an optical device used in drawing

ie)Possibly vermeers view of delft 

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Arabesque
Definition
an elaborative application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals
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Guido Reni
Definition
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Watteau
Definition

Pilgrimage to Cithera (1721)

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Signboard of Gersaint(1720) 

French

Rubens tradition 

Term

The repentant Magdalene

 

Definition

George de La tour

french 

1640 

(vanitas) 

Term
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Definition

caravaggio entombment(1604)

Italy

baroque

Chiascurro 

Term
Claude Lorraine
Definition

Landscape with Merchantsc. 1630. oil on canvass

french 

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judith leyster
Definition

Dutch (1633)

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Self portrait

competition between the artist and the musician 

Term

Rachel Ruysch

 

Definition

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Bouquet 

was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers.

 

Term
Poussin
Definition

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nicolas poussin

rape of the sabine women

neo-classical 

 1650

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Definition

Claude lorrain

Landscape painter 

Baroque

french 1630

"landscape with merchants" 

 

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Rococo
Definition

Post 1715

Rococo style rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings. It was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.

Boucher

pinou

watteau (fete gallant) 

Term
Prix de rome
Definition
a scholarship for art students. It was created in 1663 in France under the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual burse for promising artists (painters, sculptors, and architects) who proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest.
Term
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Definition

Francois boucher

"Triumph of venus" c. 1743

france 

rococo

first copied watteau

softcore porn legitimized by mythological characters

 

Term
Grand manner
Definition
Originally applied to history painting, regarded as the highest in the hierarchy of genres, the Grand Manner came thereafter also to be applied to portrait painting, with sitters depicted life size and full-length, in surroundings that conveyed the nobility and elite status of the subjects.
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memento mori
Definition
a Latin phrase that may be freely translated as "Remember that you are mortal," "Remember you will die," or "Remember your death". It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose, which is to remind people of their own mortality.
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Definition

Zurbaran

St. Serapion

1628 

Spanish Caravaggio

trompe l'oei 

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Palazzo babarini

maderno and borromini then when maderno died bernini

1625

italy 

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Definition

Louis XIV (1701)

Rigaud

french baroque

*dancer legs 

Term
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Definition

francois girardon

Apollo attended by the nymphs of thetis

french baroque

1666 

Term
Jusepe de ribera
Definition

matyrdom of st phillip c. 1639

st francis of assisi

spanish caravagisti

tenebresi

 

Term
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Definition

Honthorst

dutch

Margareta Maria de Roodere and Her Parents  c. 1650

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