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ART, Northern renaissance and baroque, neo classical, rococo, romanticist, impressionists
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Arnolfini and his bride, Jan Van Eyck
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Triptych
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Garden of earthly delights, Hieronymus Bosch.

First entry for Surealistic painitng.

Subject = consequences of original sin.

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Apocalypse, Durer
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The Seasons Retrun of the Hunters Breughel the Elder
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Tower of Babel,Bruegel the Elder
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The (two) French Ambassadors, Hans Holbien the Younger. Bizzare Anamorphic skull, - a symbol of ever impending death.

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Baldachino by Bernini
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Apollo and Daphne by Bernini
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The Ecstacy of St Theresa by Bernini
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Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles

Responsible - Hardouin Mansart

 

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St Peters Basicilica, Bernini
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ST Peters Colonade, Bernini
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Judith Beheading Holofernes by Gentileschi
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The Nightwatch by Rembrandt
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Las Meninas by Velasquez
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David and Goliath, Caravaggio
Goliath's head is a self portrait of Caravaggio.
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Campin, Merode Altar Piece, tryptych
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Ghent Altar Piece Open, Hubert and Jan Van Eyck
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Ghent Altar Piece Closed, Jan and hubert Van Eyck
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Susanna and the Elders, Gentileschi
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Judith with Maidservant with Head of Holefrenes, Gentileschi
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Death of Marat, Jacques Luis David, Neo-Classical,

Marat is posed in a bath (marat was confined to a bath due to rash). Arm dangling as Jesus's arm in Michealangelo's Pieta. Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. Marat believed that mass executions were helpful to the French Revolutionist's cause. He wrote this in his pamphlets. Charlotte disagreed with Marat's position of beheading.
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Raft of the Medusa, Theo Gericault, Romanticist
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Death of Sardanapalus, Delacroix, Romanticism, disiple of the ugly.
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Third of May, Romanticist, French invasion of Spain.
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Sleep of Reason produces monsters, Goya, Romanticist, Los Caprichos prints (etching). If man is not rational it is a great source of evil.
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kRONOS (Saturn) Devouring one of His Children,
Goya, Romanticist,
one of Goya's black paintings he composed on the wall of his home. Not meant for public viewing. One of 14 total black paintings.
Saturn recieved a prediction that one of his children were going to overthrow him. So he devoured all of his children. Man is forerever jealous of other men, he consumes the other but remains hungry.
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Burning of the Houses of Parliment, Turner, Romanticist
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Slave Ship, Truner, Romanticist, Slavers throwing over the dead and dying, Typhoon coming on.
Zong = name of ship.
Slaves thrown overboard for insurance money.
TURNER--turbulent sea pix
COLOR IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FIDELITY TO NATURE.
British romanticist painter. Few friends. Sad tormented life. Mother dies in mental assylum.
Died rich, willed much money to three women.
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Rain Steam and Speed, The Great Western Railway. Turner, Romanticist, Turner stuck his head out of a moving train to capture this image.
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Rue Transionian, Duamier, Realism, a workers demonstration over tenament conditions was answered with all of the people in a tneament being killed.
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Gleaners, Millet, Realist, workers gleaning the fileds for leftovers. In the background is a large quantity of bounty for the market that the gleaners have picked. Peasent paintings and backbreaking labor.
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Luncheon on the Grass, Manet, Realism to Impressionism, men in the park with whires.
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Seuralt, Post Impressionism, influenced by modern science, many sketches before completing final project. POINTILLISM.
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Potatoe Eaters, Van Gough, Post Impressionist, WORK BEGINS WITH EARTH TONES, TRANSITIONS TO INTO VIBRANT COLORS. Mentally ill eplitic, work reflects mental state, Has good relationship with brother Theo,
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Starry Night, Van Gogh, Post impressionisn, Sky(cyprestier???)
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Irises, Van Gogh, Post Impressiomism
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Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going? Variety of different ages and different satges of life. tahiti natives.

Gaugin, Post Impressionist. *Rich colors and flat quality of painting. Exoctic subject matter. *Tahiti, paints tropics and natives.
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Oath Of Horatii, Jacques Luis David, neo classical
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Death of Socrates, david, neo-classical
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Le Grande Odlasque, Ingres, neo-classical
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Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, Kauffmann, neo classical
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The Happy Incident of the Swing, Fragonard, rococo
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The Apothoesis of Homer, Ingres, neo classical
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Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, romantisism
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Rouen Cathedral (series of pix), Monet, Impressionism
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At the Opera, Cassat, Impressionism
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Self Protrait with Ear Bandge, Van Gogh, post impressionism
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Mothers and Children, Breakfeast in Bed, Cassatt, impressionism
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Marie Antoinette and Children, Vigee-LeBrun, Rococo
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self portrait with two pupils, Vigee Lebrun, rococo
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Yellow Christ, Gauguin, post impressionism
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David Beheading Holoferenes, caravaggio, Baroque
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The Proposition, Juduth Leyster, Baroque
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David, Bernini, Baroque
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