Exam II Flashcards by Kara Neely

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polyptych -most gruesome body of Christ -gross details (obviously german) -its all good because we will resurrect-16th century Germany

*Matthias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece, c1505-1515

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-engraving -classical proportions - ideal man, woman -four humors [blood (rabbit); phlegm (ox); yellow bile (cat); black bile (elk)]

*Albrecht Dürer, The Fall of Man, engraving, 1504

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-no religious symbolism -personifies death - sex and death - reminder of death -peel away mortal veil -dance of death -vanitas=momento mori, vanity, don’t worry about earthly beauty -16th century Germany

*Hans Baldrung Grien, Death and the Matron, ca 1520-25

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unornamented style, associated with Spanish -first to establish capital

estilo desornmentado

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-capital -2 Italian Architects -Church in the center -entrance modeled after Church facade -not ornamented -striped of unnecessary stuff

Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan do Herrera, The Escorial, 1563-1584

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-Last Judgment type -Altarpiece -universe as sphere -triptych -Inside=Springtime,Summer,Winter, tiny figures. Springtime: Garden of Eden, discourse already setting in Summer:Descendants having giant orgy Winter: pleasures turned against people in hell -NETHERLANDs

*Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, ca 1510-15

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-scales = judgement -dont cheat people -wife being greedy -old men gossiping -everything on shelf behind them symbolic -man in reflection reading with Church behind him - genre scene -Nethertlands

*Quinten Massys, Money Charger and his Wife, 1514

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-one of the coldest winters -diagonally and back -no mountains in Netherlands -tradition of painting the seasons

*Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565

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only can be viewed at a certain angle

anamorphic image

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scenes of everyday life encoded with morals

genre scene

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-scales = judgement -dont cheat people -wife being greedy -old men gossiping -everything on shelf behind them symbolic -man in reflection reading with Church behind him - genre scene -Flemish

*Quinten Massys, Money Charger and his Wife, 1514

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-Jean do Dinkrille and George do Selve (priest) -broken string= discord (breaking from Catholic church) -anamorphic image (skull) -English

*Hans Holbein the Younger, French Ambassador, 1533

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Ovid’s stories - fun stories about gods -challenging picture frame -spectator drama -Amor Vincit Omnia (Love conquers all)-17th century Italy

*Annibale Carracci, Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne and Polyphemus Furioso, Gallery of the Pallazzo Farnese, 1597-1601

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-painting carried up; painting literally stuck on the wall

quadro riportato

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-exaggerated chiaroscuro (stage lighting)

tenebroso

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-sums up baroque -plebeian types of people -relatable -2 biblical types -contemporary dress -St Matthew to leave material world - Christ has little halo -Christ’s limb gesture reminds us of adam -heavenly light filtering in-17th century Italy

*Caravaggio, The calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli chapel, 1599-1600

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-believable -gory -head will fall out into our space -diagonals come down to the head -caravaggismo style-17th century Italy

*Artemisia Gentilesch, Judith beheading Holofernes, c 1620

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architectural setting figuratively painted, building continues up

*Quadratura

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from below to above

Dal sotto in sú

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-painting spills out over architecture -mixture of all media -blurs boundaries -arrangement -triangular composition -Iesus Hominum Salvator -Jesus savior of man -damned fall out of the bottom -17th century Italy

*Baciccio, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Fall of the Damned, 1672-85

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identified as David because of armor underneath him and holding a sling -During the battle -Baroque makes action scenes -17th century Italy

*Gialorenzo Bernini, David, 1623

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-dead people (Cornaro family) -hidden light source (window) - st, Theresa related to Cornaros -st Theresa is a mystic saint -angel of fire stabs her three times -externalize emotions -bep composto -17th century Italy

*Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Cornaro Chapel, 1642-52

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beautiful whole - painting, sculpture, and architecture working together on one piece

bel composto

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-non commissioned piece -given to the king to earn nobleman ship -one ups Jan can Eyck -Paintings in background represent mortals challenging God’s authority -infanta Margarita (the Princess) -17th century Spain

*Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (Maids of Honor), 1656

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# picture first -Pan-European Baroque -Huge painting -first painting depicting during the crucifixion -Northern Naturalism -Italian Classical -17th century Spain

\*Peter Paul Rubens, The Elevation of the Cross, Antwerp CAthedral, 1610

# picture first -enlivened portraits -solves last supper problem (natural group portrait around table -variety of poses, head levels, spontaneous technique corrects stiff poses-17th century netherlands

\*Frans Hals, Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian, c. 1627

# picture first -unified composition for Great Room in Town Hall -less formal -hen=company's emblem (pun on leader's name) -symbol of Dutch Republic-17th century netherlands

\*Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642

# picture first scales empty -weighing jewelry -judgment awaits -woman subtly -symbolism in everyday-17th century netherlands

\*Jan Vermeer, Woman holding Holding a Balance, ca. 1664

# picture first -less than one-third of painting dedicated to land (mostly sky and clouds) -bright spots lead us back to church, church leads us to sky-17th century france/netherlands

\*Jacop van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from Dunes at Overveen, c 1670

# picture first image of vanity and death

vanitas

# picture first -the new capital -forest removed with man power -every bedroom decorated-17th century france

\*Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardovin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, 1669-85

# picture first -less than one-third of painting dedicated to land (mostly sky and clouds) -bright spots lead us back to church, church leads us to sky-17th century france/netherlands

\*Jacop van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from Dunes at Overveen, c 1670

# picture first pendants -pair with"Landscape with St John on Patmos" -singular horizon line between the two -move through on human scale -move on 's' shape -17th century france

\*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. Matthew and the Angel, 1639-1640

# picture first -the new capital -forest removed with man power -every bedroom decorated-17th century france/netherlands

\*Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardovin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, 1669-85

# picture first same as Landscape with St. Matthew

\*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1639-1640

# picture first -interior decoration -organic motifs -celebration of life -ideal room and dream decorations for little girls - walls and ceilings -don't know where they begin and end-18th Century Rococo

\*Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise Paris, c 1740

# picture first First of its type - reception piece -must make Masterpiece to be considered a Master -no straight lines -organic fluidity --18th Century Rococo

\*Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera, c 1717-19

# picture first galant party

fête galante

# picture first same as Landscape with St. Matthew

\*Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1639-1640

# picture first -English satire of French Aristocrats -arranged marriage between rich middle class woman and poor aristocrat -18th Century Rococo

\*William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract, 1743-1745

# picture first -Winner of Prix de Rome -intrigue painting -dude hiding in bushes looking up her skirt -cupid shushing (it's a secret) -babies in background represent perfect platonic love-18th Century Rococo

\*Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766

# picture first -meant to be recruitment piece for French army, used as symbol for revolution instead -story very important to understanding piece: Rome (Horatii) vs. Alba -men ready to die for country -women overtaken by emotions -exemplum virtutis-Neoclassicism

\*Jacques-Lois David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

# picture first example of virtue

exemplum virtutis

\*Jacques-Lois David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

# picture first -assassination of Jacobin propaganda guy -turned into a martyr -head slouched to right in typical martyr symbolism - no religious imagery (only references) -based on Pieta -supposed to 'take' what he just finished-Neoclassicism

\*Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

# picture first -Napoleon's sister and wife -shown as Venus (originally supposed to be Diana (goddess of virginity)) -emphasis on his wife's infidelity so he hid the statue in a shed -imitating High Classical sculpture -rigid pose - opposite of Baroque -Neoclassicism

\*Antonio Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808

# picture first -Neoclassicism -based off earlier buildings not church -columns based on recent excavation of Syria

\*Jacques Germaim Soufflot, The Panthéon (Sainte Geneviére), Paris, 1755-92

# picture first figure seen from back, engaged in contemplation of nature; identify with figure

Rüchenfigur

# picture first -Romanticism -exaggerate size -juxtapose figs./arch -Italy -etching

\*Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Pantheon, Rome, 1756

# picture first printmaking; more human looking

etching

# picture first mixture of awe and terror

Sublime

# picture first -Romanticism -England -anxiety of losing one's virginity -virgin in white sleeping -horse = penis ; curtain = vagina -dreaming and sexuality -incubus

\*Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

# picture first -Romanticism -sublime -fire destroying parliament building -Britain

\*Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834

# picture first -Romanticism -random executions -emotional appeal -white shirt guy innocent, acts as a martyr -french soldiers dehumanized -shows monks being executed too (french atheist and Spain catholic)

\*Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808, 1814

# picture first French, Romanticism -equestrian portrait - Glorify French nation -propaganda -control of steed = control of nation -dramatic

\*Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the Saint Bernard Pass, 1801

# picture first French, Romanticism -anti-government -modern hi sty dramatized -diagonals - not based of classical subjects

\*Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19

# picture first French, Romanticism -France's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" -flag desexes woman, she is an allegorical figure (Liberty) -triangular composition -coming into our space

\*Eugéne Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830

# picture first French, Romanticism -results closer to drawing -not royal propaganda -riot in poor city left innocent lives dead after soldiers came into their apartment and killed everyone

\*Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834, 1834

# picture first -a conquest with a nice butt -celebrates erotic love (jouissance)-18th Century Rococo

François Boucher, Girl Reclining: Louise O'Murphy, 1751

# picture first nymph is coming onto satyr (role reversal), terra-cotta table piece -18th Century Rococo

Clodion, Nymph and Satyr, c 1775

# picture first -exoticism -sex slave for sultan -weird proportions -head from Raphael and properties from Bronzino-Neoclassicism

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814

# picture first -Romanticism -contemporary story -Watson attacked by sharks -got his leg bitten off in real life, but painting shows different more dramatic tale -asymmetrical triangular composition

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778

Exam II Flashcards

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