Arts: Christ's Entry In 2 Brussels Flashcards
“8 Spruce Street”/”Beekman Tower”
nyc
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(today called “New York by Gehry”)
“A Dance to the Music of Time”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Classicism
(Aurora leads a chariot where Apollo can be seen holding a giant ring that symbolizes the zodiac)
(Two-headed statue of Janus with a ring of plant around it)
(Old man playing a lyre)
(The four figures, including a male that may symbolize Autumn, perfrom the title action in the center)
“A Girl with a Watering Can”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French
Impressionism
(Monet’s garden Argenteuil)
(Mademoiselle Leclere)
“Apollo and Daphne”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian
Baroque
“Aristide Bruant in his cabaret”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
(Nightclub owner)
“Art Gallery of Ontario renovations”
ontario #canada
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(also designed this pretty cool spiral staircase)
“Assumption of the Virgin”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
(Heroic scale of the Madonna and the contorted poses of the Apostles)
(Titian established hiimself as leading painter in Venice with it for Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari)
(First public commission)
(Largest altarpiece in Venice)
“At the Circus Fernando”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“At the Foot of Sinai by Clemencau illustrations”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“At the Races”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
“Automat”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
(one glove)
(yellow radiator)
(row of lights above her head)
“Bacchus and Ariadne”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
(the sail of a small boat can be seen in the distance off the coast of Naxos)
(Bacchus wears a blue and red robe and stands in a contrapposto pose next to two leopards)
(Originally named ‘Laocoon’)
“Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore”
baltimore #maryland
Benjamin Latrobe
American
Architecture
(first Roman Catholic cathedral in US)
(second man to work on Capitol, first was William Thorton, third Charles Bulfinch)
“Beata Beatrix”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“Bedroom in Arles”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
(He admired quality of light)
“Bicycle Wheel”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surrealism
(This is a readymade)
(First kinetic structure)
“Blue I, II, III tripytch”
Joan Miro
Spanish
Surrealism
“Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa”
Antoine-Jean Gros
French
Neoclassical
“Cafe Terrace at Night”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
“Carlos IV of Spain and his Family”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
(no one is smiling)
“Carolina Weiss Law Building in Houston”
houston #texas
Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
“Cathedral of Brasilia”
“Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Aparecida”
brasilia #brazil
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian
Modern architecture
(Sixteen hyperbolic columns)
(Three angels suspended by steel cables)
(White, blue, green, and brown stained glass created by Marianne Peretti)
“Chiat/Day Building”
la
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(called Binoculars Building)
“Christ at the Sea of Galilee”
Tintoretto
Italian/Venetian
Renaissance
“Christ in the House of His Parents”
John Everett Millais
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(Charles Dickens criticized this painting for ugliness; said “dislocated throat” of kneeling Mary; Jesus “blubbering, red-haired boy”)
(Saw and a ladder with a white dove resting on it form two thirds of a triangle on the wall)
(A small drop of blood can be seen on the left foot of Jesus)
(Shirtless boy coming to bring him water to clean it)
(Painting was originally exhibited untitled except with a verse from Zechariah)
(A single red flower and a herd of sheep are seen in an open door in this painting)
(The female figure dressed in black and white in this work was modeled by Mary Hodgkinson)
“Chrysler Building”
nyc
William Van Alen
American
Architecture
(Art Deco)
(42nd street)
“Dancing House in Prague”
prague #czech
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(Inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
“Darmstadt Madonna”
Hans Holbein
German
Northern Renaissance
“Diana Leaving the Bath”
Francois Boucher
French
Rococo
(Madame de Pompadour)
“Dogs Playing Poker”
“Waterloo”
C. M. Coolidge
American
Modernism
“Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“Drowning Girl”
Roy Lichtenstein
American
Pop Art
“Etant donnes”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surrealism/Sculpture
(viewed through keyhole)
(final, as he gave art for chess 25 years earlier)
“Experience Music Project in Seattle”
seattle #washington
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(smashing guitars)
(home of the ‘Sky Church’)
“Expulsion from the Garden of Eden”
Masaccio
Italian
Early Renaissance
“Farnsworth House near Chicago”
chicago #illinois
Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
(built in floodplain of Fox River)
“Flatiron Building”
nyc
Daniel Burnham
American
Architecture
(23rd / Fifth / Broadway)
“Fountain of the Four Rivers”
rome #italy
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian
Baroque
“Four Darks in Red”
Mark Rothko
American
Abstract Expressionism
Color Field
(has a chapel with his work in Houston)
(painted for Four Seasons Restaurant)
“Full Fathom Five”
Jackson Pollack
American
Abstract Expressionism
“action painting”
(title comes from The Tempest)
“German Pavillion in Barcelona”
barcelona #spain
Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
(first made for 1929 International Expo in Barcelona)
(now called ‘Barcelona Pavillion’)
(introduced the Barcelona Chair)
“Glass House in New Canaan, CT”
conn
Philip Johnson
American
Architecture
“Grande Odalisque”
Ingres
French
Neoclassicism
(3 vertebrae too many)
“Great Piece of Turf”
Albrecht Durer
German
Landscape
(Dandelions and plantagno)
“Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(the woman represents Greece)
“Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain”
bilbao #spain
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
“Hotel Lobby”
Edward Hopper
American
Realism
“Houses of Parliament series”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
“IDS Center in Minneapolis”
minneapolis #minnesota
Philip Johnson
American
Architecture
(Tallest building in Minneapolis)
(Design with use of “zogs”)
(Home of the Mary Tyler Moore Table)
(Home of the Crystal Court)
“In Advance of a Broken Arm”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surrealism
(This is a readymade)
“In Bed - The Kiss”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“Isabella”
John Everett Millais
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(orange being passed)
“Jane Avril Dancing”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
(He painted a series of Jane Avril)
“Jay Pritzker Pavillion in Millenium Park in Chicago”
chicago
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
“Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?”
Richard Hamilton
British
Pop Art
(Considered one of the first arts of Pop Art)
(Shown at the ‘This is Tomorrow’ exhibition)
(Shows Zabo holding a Tootsie Pop)
“Knight, Death, and the Devil”
Albrecht Durer
German
Engraving
“Lady With a Squirrel”
Hans Holbein
German
Northern Renaissance
(Anne Lovell)
“Lobster Telephone”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“Lobster Trap and Fish Tail”
Alexander Calder
American
Mobilist
“Mesa Labratory of Natl. Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO”
colorado
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American
Architecture
“Metamorphosis of Narcissus”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“Metropolis”
Otto Dix
German
German Expressionism
“Miracle of the Slave”
Tintoretto
Italian/Venetian
Renaissance
(from the St. Mark series)
“Miss Amelia Van Buren”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“MLK Memorial Library in D.C.”
dc
Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
(finished after his death, his last)
“Modena Tripytch”
Adoration of the Shepherds / Christian Knight / Baptism of Christ
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
Annunciation to Mary / Mount Sinai / Adam and Eve
“Mr. and Mrs. Izard”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar”
qatar
I M Pei
Chinese-American
Architecture
(Situated on its own island)
“Mystery of a Summer Night”
Edvard Munch
Norwegian
Expressionism
(smiling face in rocks)
“Namesake ‘Plan’ in redesigning Oklahoma City”
I M Pei
Chinese-American
Architecture
“Namesake Fountain in D.C.”
dc
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French
Sculpture
(the fountain is the Bartholdi Fountain)
“Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne”
Ingress
French
Neoclassicism
“Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin”
berlin #germany
Mies van der Rohe
German-American
Architecture
(created building and sculpture gardens)
“Nighthawks”
Edward Hopper
American
Modernism
(The sign above the diner is ad for the cigar brand Phillies being sold at 5 cents)
(The door in the diner is yellow, the waiter is white, the woman’s dress is red, and the cash register in the other store is green)
“Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket”
James Whistler
American
Impressionism
“Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge”
James Whistler
American
Impressionism
“Open Window”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
“Opening of the Fifth Seal”
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
“Ophelia”
John Everett Millais
British
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“Origin of the Milky Way”
Tintoretto
Italian/Venetian
Renaissance
(Hercules sucking Hera)
“Ovid among the Scythians”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
“Paris Street; Rainy Day”
Gustave Caillebotte
French
Impressionism
(Saint Lazare train station)
(An umbrella is blocking a lamppost partially)
“Paul Revere”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“Pierrot and Skeletons”
James Ensor
Flemish-Belgian
Expressionism
“Poppies Blooming”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
(blue parasol)
“Portinari Alterpiece”
Hugo van der Goes
Flemish
Early Netherlandish
“Portrait of Dr. Gachet”
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
Post-Impressionism
(took care of van Gogh at the end of his life)
(most expensive painting ever)
“Portrait of Leo X”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
(future Pope Clement VII, Luigi de Rossi, and Pope Leo X)
“Portrait of Madame Recamier”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(Vestal virgin)
“Portrait of Maud Cook”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“Proserpina”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
“Puerto Rico Wedding”
Roger Brown
American
Chicago Imagism
“Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT”
MIT #boston #mass
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
(MIT sued Gehry for faulty design in 2007, which included leaks)
“Rhinoceros”
Albrecht Durer
German
Woodcut
(Albuquerque expedition / Manuel I / not correct)
“Sacred and Profane Love”
Titian
Italian
Renaissance
(Shows a bride sitting next to a nude Venus on a sarcophagus)
(Commissioned for the marriage of Niccolo Aurelio)
(Baby angel digs through sarcophagus)
(Rabbits, white castle with horses)
“Saint Lazare Train Station series”
Claude Monet
French
Impressionism
(notice the smoke)
“Self Portrait with a Twisted Arm”
Egon Schiele
Austrian
Expressionism
“Self-Portrait as Allegory of Painting”
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian
Baroque
“Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”
Parmigianino
Italian
Late Renaissance
“Seven Sacraments”
- Baptism
- Ordination
- Confirmation
- Penance
- Eucharist
- Marriage
- Extreme Unction
Nicholas Poussin
French
Classicism
“Side-Saddle”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
Post-Impressionism
“Sony Tower / AT&T Tower in Manhattan”
nyc
Philip Johnson & John Burgee
American
Architecture
(Criticized because it looks like Chippendale furniture)
“St. Jerome in his Study”
Albrect Durer
German
Woodcut
(Dog and lion, Jerome is compilng the Vulgate)
“St. Paul’s Cathedral”
london
Sir Christopher Wren
English
Architecture
(Chapel of the Order of St. Michael)
(Golden, Stone, and Whispering Galleries)
(along with Nicholas Hawksmoor)
(atop Ludgate Hill)
“St. Peter Chapel in Sao Paulo”
saopaulo #brazil
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian
Architecture
(Won Pritzker Prize for this)
“Statue of Christ the Redeemer”
rio #brazil
Designer: Heitor da Silva Costa
Sculptor: Paul Landowski
Brazilian / Polish-French
(concrete and soapstone)
(Corcovado Mountain / Tijuca Forest NP)
“Still Living Moving Fast”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“Subway series”
Mark Rothko
American
Abstract Impressionism
“Swans Reflecting Elephants”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“The Agnew Clinic”
Thomas Eakins
American
Realism
“The Barque of Dante”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
(That’s Virgil and Dante in the boat, the River Styx, and the ‘City of the Dead’ burning in the distance)
(Guy biting thumb)
“The Battle of Anghiari”
Peter Paul Rubens
German
Baroque
(Based on a lost work by da Vinci)
“The Bellelli Family”
Edgar Degas
French
Impressionism
“The Second of May, 1808”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
(Also called the Charge of Mamelukes)
(Reaction to an uprising at the Puerta del Sol against French troops commanded by Joachim Murat)
(Mustachioed man holding a knife and wearing a white turban)
(man leaning away from the viewer with a green jacket may be the same figure in Third of May)
(Blood gushes from the stabbed right foreleg of horse; on top of horse is a man in garish red pants is bent backwards in pain)
(The sword that a man holds on the left of this canvas is mostly obscured by a red blotch due to damage when transporting this painting to the League of Nations headquarters for safe keeping)
“The Chateau de Steen with Hunter”
Peter Paul Rubens
German
Baroque
(Steen castle)
“The Death of Major Pierson”
John Singleton Copley
American
Portraiture
“The Death of Sardanapalus”
Eugene Delacroix
French
Romanticism
“The Despair of Pierrot”
James Ensor
Flemish-Belgian
Surrealism
“The Dessert: Harmony in the Red Room”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
(The only person in this painting is a maid)
(The tablecloth matches the wallpaper)
(Was delivered to Sergei Shchukin)
(Originally exhibited with a green and then blue motif)
(Signature of artist partially underneath cut-off wooden chair in bottom left)
(The maid holds the dessert)
(Vases of oil and vinegar surround a bouquet of flowers)
(A pink house is partially cut off, and is near two white poplar trees)
(After seeing the painting at the Salon d’Automne, Isaac Grunewald said “suddenly I stood in front a wall that sang, no screamed, color and radiated light”, and then joined Fauvism)
“The Disembarkation at Marseilles”
From the Maria de Medici series
Peter Paul Rubens
German
Baroque
(two angels hold rods that support a white and gold canopy, near which another angel blows on two horns)
(a figure blows a conch shell into the grey beard of a sea deity)
(while one of the three fleshy nude women grasps a rope and a pier)
(title figure in this work is greeted by a man in a helmet with a blue cape decorated with a fleurs de lys pattern)
(man in black armor watches his wife walk across a red-carpeted bridge to the title city, and that man is Henry IV)
“The Disputation of the Sacrament” / “La Disputa”
Raphael
Italian
Renaissance
(In the room Stanza del
“The Disrobing of Christ”
El Greco
Spanish
Mannerism
“The Education of Dogs”
Jean Honore Fragonard
French
Rococo
“The Exhumation of the First American Mastadon”
Charles Willson Peale
American
Portraiture
“The Farm”
Joan Miro
Spanish
Surrealism
(Rise to fame: 2012 USC Puzzle Hunt)
“The Feast in the House of Levi”
Paolo Veronese
Italian
Renaissance
(drunk people, buffoons, etc.)
(originally called “The Last Supper”)
(Three arches divide)
(Veronese refused to purge “buffoons, drunken Germans, [and] dwarfs” when the Inquisition came knocking)
“The Fire in the Borgo”
Raphael designed
Giuilo Romano painted
Italian
Renaissance
“The Floor Scrapers”
Gustave Caillebotte
French
Impressionism
“The Funeral of Phocion”
Nicolas Poussin
French
Landscape
“The Gates of Hell”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
“The Hallucinogenic Toreador”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
(green tie)
The Helga (Testorf) Pictures
“Braids”
Andrew Wyeth
American
Realism
“The Jolly Flatboatmen”
George Caleb Bingham
American
Luminism
“The Judgment of Paris”
Peter Paul Rubens
German
Baroque
(Hera, Athena, Aphrodite)
(second wife Helene Fourment said to have posed in this)
“The Kiss”
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian-French
Sculpture
“The Kiss”
Auguste Rodin
French
Sculpture
“The Last Supper”
Andrea del Castagno
Italian
Renaissance
“The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”
Jacques-Louis David
French
Neoclassicism
(Brutus in front of statue that reads “A Roma”)
“The Light of the World”
William Holman Hunt
English
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(found in St. Paul’s Cathedral)
“The Madonna of Port Lligat”
Salvador Dali
Spanish
Surrealism
“The Ship of Fools”
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(Man steering with a giant ladle)
(Several people are trying to eat a pancake on a string with just their face, including a nun playing a lute)
(Plate of cherries represent gluttony)
(A man is trying to cut down a turkey)
(Ship has a pink banner with a white crescent moon)
(Man with donkey’s ears sits on rope drinking wine)
(Either an owl or a skull sits in the tree)
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”
Francisco Goya
Spanish
Romanticism
“The Snail”
Henri Matisse
French
Fauvism
“The Steerage”
Alfred Stieglitz
American
Photo Seccessionism
(wife Georgia O’Keeffe)
(boat here is Kaiser Wilhelm II)
“The Temptation of St. Anthony”
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch
Early Netherlandish Renaissance
(Hangs in Lisbon)
(Center panel shows buildings burning in the background)
(Demons participate in a Black Mass)
“The Three Graces”
Peter Paul Rubens
German
Baroque
(second wife Helene Fourment said to have posed for this)
“The Tilled Field”
Joan Miro
Spanish
Surrealism
(has scenery from ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’)
“The Toilet of Venus”
Francois Boucher
French
Rococo
“The Tower of Blue Horses”
Franz Marc
German
Expressionism
(co-founded Blue Rider movement)
“The Wedding at Cana”
Paolo Veronese
Italian
Mannerism/Renaissance
(21 by 32 foot behemoth)
(Mary near Jesus)
(Menu: Sugar, fruits, quince jam, sacrifical lamb)
(Veronese is himself playing a viola da braccio)
(Jacopo Bassano playing a violin behind to white dogs)
“The Statue of Liberty”
nyc
Frederic Bartholdi
French
Sculpture
“Three Musicians”
Pablo Picasso
Spanish
Cubism
(A Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk)
“Useless Machines”
Bruno Munari
Italian
Visual arts
“Virgin on the Rocks”
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian
Renaissance
“Walt Disney Concert Hall”
la
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
“Weisman Art Museum at the Univ. of Minnesota”
minneapolis #minnesota
Frank Gehry
American
Architecture
“Why Not Sneeze, Rose Selavy?”
Marcel Duchamp
French
Surealism
(This was a “readymade”)
“Woolworth Building”
nyc
Cass Gilbert
American
Architecture
(Nicknamed the Chamber of Commerce)
(featured twin murals named “Labor” and “Commerce”)
(heavy steel frame is hidden by its detailed terra cotta shell and Gothic exterior)
(Tallest in world from 1913-1930)
(Stands opposite City Hall)
“Sixth Boy Scout Handbook”
Norman Rockwell
American
Realism
(Rockwell was the official artist for the BSA, designing many BSA calendars, as well as the covers of the 3rd, 6th, and 7th handbooks)
(At 19, he became the art editor for Boys’ Life, and designed his first magazine cover “Scout at Ship’s Wheel”)
(He was the mentor to Joseph Csatari, another American realist, who is the 2nd and current artist for the BSA)
