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Title: Entombment of Christ

Artist: Pontormo

Period: Mannerism

Significance: leaving the compositions of the early Renaissance, vertical axis. void represents loss and grief

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Title: Madonna with the Long Neck

Artist: Parmigianino

Period: Mannerism

Significance: stylish elegance, elongated figures

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Title: Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time

Artist: Branzino

Period: Mannerism

Significance: ambiguous meaning, stron and sculptural contours, provacative subject

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Title: Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa

Artist: Cellini

Period: Mannerism

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Title: The Genius Fountainbleu

Artist: Cellini

Period: Mannerism

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Title: Abduction of the Sabine Women

Artist: Giovanni da Bologna

Period: Mannerism

Significance: first large scale group since calssical antiquity, vertical spiral movement

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Title: West facade of San Georgio

Artist: Palladio

Period: Mannerism

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Title: Villa Rotunda

Artist: Palladio

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Title: The Last Supper

Artist: Tintoretto

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Title: Christ in the House of Levi

Artist: Veronese

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Title: The Burial of Court Orgaz

Artist: El Greco

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Title: Adoration of the Shepards

Artist: El Greco

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Title: Dome, Collunade and facade of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican

Artist: Michelangelo, Bernini, Maderno

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Title: Collunade of St. Peter’s

Artist: Bernini

Period: Baroque

Significance: the dramatic gesture of the embrace of the colonnade makes as worshippers enter symbolizes the welcome to the Catholic church during the Counter Reformation

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Title: baldacchino at St.Peter’s

Artist: Bernini

Period: Baroque
Significance: serves as both functional and symbolic, marks St. Peter’s tomb and the high altar, visually bridges human scale to the lofty vaults and dome above

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Title: Ecstacy of Saint Teresa

Artist: Bernini

Period: Baroque

Significance: passionate drama, the recreation of spiritual experience would encourage devotion and piety

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Title: David

Artist: Bernini

Period: Baroque

Significance: expansive and theatrical, element of time,

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Title: Santa Maria della Salute

Artist: Longhena

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Title: Loves of the Gods

Artist: Carracci

Period: Baroque

Significance: mythological scenes in a quadro riportato format

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Title: Glorification of Saint Ignatius

Artist: Pozzo

Period: Baroque

Significance: merging real and painted architecture, illusion of vaulted ceiling lifting into heaven

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Title: Calling of Saint Matthew

Artist: Caravaggio

Period: Baroque

Significance: stark contrast of light and dark, chiaroscuro, basement lighting, fugitive

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Title: Supper at Emmaus

Artist: Carravagio

Period: Baroque

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Title: Martyrdom of Saint Philip

Artist: Ribera

Period: Baroque

Significance: Martyrdom scenes were common in the Counter Reformation era, scorns idealization

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Title: St. Francis in Meditation

Artist: Zurburan

Period: Baroque

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Title: Still Life Artist: Murillo Period: Significance:
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Title: Las Meninas Artist: Velasquez Period: Baroque Significance: contrast of real, mirrored and picture spaces
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Title: The Lion Hunt Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Period: Baroque Significance:
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Title: Elevation of the Cross Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Period: Baroque Significance: triptych, use of foreshortening, violent action, the tension is emotional and physical
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Title: Arrical of Marie de' Medici Artist: Peter Paul Rubens Period: Baroque Significance: 21 large canvases portraying her, opulent setting,
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Title: The Laughing Cavalier Artist: Frans Hals Period: Baroque Significance:
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Title: Syndics of the Cloth Guild Artist: Rembrandt Period: Significance:
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Title: Three Crosses Artist: Rembrandt Period: Significance: etched
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Title: The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq Artist: Rembrandt Period: Baroque Significance: dramatic use of light contributes to the animation of the group
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Title: Woman Holding a Balance Artist: Vermeer Period: Baroque Significance: scales in perfect balance are an allegory to temperate life, last judgement painting in the background
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Title: Allegory of the Art of Painting Artist: Vermeer Period: Baroque Significance: specialized in domestic scenes, draping breaks up composition diagonally
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Title: Still life with oysters Artist: Claesz Period: Baroque Significance:
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Title: Old Mill Artist: Ruisdael Period: Significance:
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Title:The Adoration of the Shepard Artist: Georges de la Tour Period: Baroque Significance:
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Title: Joseph the Carpenter Artist: Georges de La Tour Period: Baroque Significance:
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Title: Dance Around the Golden Calf Artist: Poussin Period: Baroque Significance: leading calssical painter, heroic and divine subjects modeled after ancient statues
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Title: Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba Artist: Lorrain Period: Significance:
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Title: Entrance to the palace of Versailles Artist: Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun Period: Baroque Significance: Louis XIV ordered his architects to convert a royal hunting lodge at Verailles into a palace with three radial avenues
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Title: Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Artist: Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun Period: Baroque Significance: oranate, mirrors create illusion
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Title: The Swing Artist: Fragonard Period: Rococo Significance: the eptiome of Rococo, pastel colors, light scene
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Title: Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode Artist: Hogarth Period: Rococo Significance: satires of English life, shows the marital immoralities of the upper class
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Title: Coronation of Napoleon Artist: David Period: Neo Classicism Significance: first painter of the Empire, coronation with pope as witness,
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Title: Oath of the Horatii Artist: David Period: Neoclassicism Significance: ideologist of the French Revolution, large scale, celebrates ancient Roman patriotism, sacrifice features, classical architecture
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Title: Napoleon I on his Empirical Throne Artist: Ingres Period: Significance:
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Title: Grande Odalisque Artist: Ingres Period: Neo Classicism Significance: reclining female nude was a Greco Roman subject, Turkish harem, Romantic taste for the exotic
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Title: Pity like a Newborn Babe Artist: Blake Period: Neo Classicism Significance:
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Title: Liberty Leading the People Artist: Delacroix Period: Romanticism Significance: balanced mis of history and poetic allegory
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Title: Death of Sardanapalus Artist: Delacroix Period: Romanticism Significance: Assyrian kind on his funeral pyre, richly colored, emotionally charged, exotic figures
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Title: Raft of the Medusa Artist: Gericault Period: Romanticism Significance: historical painting, rejection of Neoclassical composition, Romantic spirit of suffering
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Title: Third of May Artist: Goya Period: Romanticism Significance: empathy for the massacred Spanish peasants, humanity
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