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Artist: Jacopo da Pontormo (1526-28)

Art work: Pietá

  • used characteristics of mannorism 
  • Commissioned by Ludovico di Gino Capporni
  • his figure are sculpture like inspired by michealangelo

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Artist: Agnolo Bronzino (1546)

Art: Allegory of Venus 

  • 7 figures, 2 masks on the floor
  • roes: folly, gest, or playfullness
  • young girl and snake: , fraud, or pleasure
  • mask: symbols of duplicity 
  • Bald man: tears back the curtain from Fraud
  • figure tearing his hair: Jealousy or Pain
  • the moral is Pleasure blind one to the jealousy and fraud of sensual love, which time reveals

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Artist: Giovanni Bologna (1583)

Art: The Rape of the Sabine Woman

  • Very intresting as the composition changes as you move around the statue
  • the figures spiral into a dramatic, violent, raw state 
  • The subject matter was drawn from lengends of ancient Rome

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Artist: Coreggio (1532)

Art: Jupiter and Io

  • Jupiter turn himself into a cloud that embraces Io which creates sexuality in the picture.
  • Commissioned for an elite audience (Mannerism)
  • The eroticism is heavy in this painting

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Artist: Parmigianino (1524)

Art: Self-Portrait

  • done from a concave mirror. Notice the enlarge hand almost creates a fantasy like effect.
  • desmonstrates his skill at painting what your eyes see

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Artist: Parmigianino (1535)

Art: The Madonna with the Long Neck

  • This painting was not meant for everyone. It was for an elite audience. 
  • Was his most famous painting 
  • the left side is compressed to open the space on the right
  • many body parts are elongated 
  • As a element of Mannerism the paint draws the skill of the artist

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Artist: Andrea Palladio (designed 1565)

Art: Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

  • The façade is renaissance on a longitudinal church
  • The church is classical with a temple façade
  • It has a wide lower level that contains aisle

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Artist: Andrea Palladio (1567-70)

Art: Villa Rotonda

  • The circle on a square comes from renaissance architecture
  • the Rotonda has 4 facades which are ionic
  • Has geometric clarity 
  • Its clean, pure, and classical 

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Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto (1594)

Art: The Last Supper

  • His style plays off from Titian in being more expressive and less realistic in their effects 
  • Highly charged atmosphere 
  • Jesus is the center of the composition
  • big distinction between natural and supernatural
  • the painting play an important part in the Miracle of the Eucharist
  • The painting was placed in San Giorgio Maggiore which played a role in the reform movement.

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Artist: El Greco (1586)

Art: The Burial of Count Orgaz

  • outlookers are the local aristocracy
  • the top of the painting gives a miracle vision
  • located in the Santo Tome in Toledo
  • the commision emphasizes the Roman Catholic position of achieveing salvation. 
  • Also says that saints serve as intercessors with Heaven
  • Similar to Tintoretto's Last Supper

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Artist: Matthias Grünewald (1509)

Art: Isenheim Altarpiece closed

  • Intense human relationalism
  • was create for the families of the community of St. Anthony
  • St. Anthony's fire caused the pations to have great pain
  • German Images are far more graphic: suffering 
  • There is a connection between Christ suffering for you

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Artist: Albrecht Dürer (1498)

Art: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

 

  • Plays of Revelation 6:1-8= war, plauge, famine, and death overrunning the earth
  • Done within the reformation in Germany
  • woodcut- very complex composition
  • very frightning yet entergetic and shocking 

 

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Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (1540)

Art: Henry VIII

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Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

Art: The Return of the Hunters

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Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1568)

Art: Peasant Wedding

 

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Artist: Caravaggio (1599-1600)

Art: The Calling of St. Matthew

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Artist: Caravaggio (1601)

Art: The Conversion of St. Paul

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Artist: Caravaggio (1595)

Art: The Musicians

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Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (1625)

Art: Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes 

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Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (1638-39)

Art: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting 

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Artists: Carlo Maderno-(1607-12) and Gianlorenzo Bernini (1657)

Art: Carlo- Facade of St. Peter; Bernini- colonnade 

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Artist: Bernini (1624-33)

Art: Baldacchino

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Artist: Francesco Borromini (1665-67)

Art: Facade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome

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Art: Dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-41)
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Artist: Francesco Borromini (1642)

Art: Exterior of Sant'Ivo, Rome

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Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini (1623)

Art: David

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Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini (1645-52)

Art: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

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Artist: Diego Velázquez (1619)

Art: The Water Carrier of Seville

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Artist: Diego Velázquez (1650)

Art: Juan de Pareja

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Artist: Diego Velázquez (1656)

Art: The Maids of Honor

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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1610-11)

Art: The Raising of the Cross

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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1606)

Art: Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria

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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1622-25)

Art: Marie de' Medici, Queen of France, Landing in Marseilles 

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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1638)

Art: The Garden of Love

 

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Artist: Anthony van Dyck (1635)

Art: Portrait of Charles I Hunting

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Artist: Frans Hals (1628-30)

Art: The Jolly Toper

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Artist: Judith Leyster (1633)

Art: Self-Portrait

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Artist: Rembrandt (1642)

Art: The Night Watch

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Artist: Rembrandt (1647)

Art: The Hundred Guilder Print

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Artist: Rembrandt (1654)

Art: Bathsheba with King David's Letter

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Artist: Rembrandt (1658)

Art: Self-Portrait

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Artist: Jan Vermeer (1664)

Art: Woman Holding a Balance

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Artist: Georges de la Tour (1642)

Art: Joseph the Carpenter

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Artist: Nicolas Poussin (1640)

Art: Landscape with St. John on Patmos

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Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701)

Art: Portrait of Louis XIV

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Art: Palace of Versailles

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Artists: Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun (1678)

Art: Hall of Mirrors

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Artist: Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1669-85)

Art: Garden front of the center block of the Palace of Versailles 

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Artist: Inigo Jones (1619-22)

Art: Banqueting House

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Artist: Sir Christopher Wren (1675-1710)

Art: Facade of St. Paul's cathedral

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Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1717)

Art: A Pilgrimage to Cythera

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