Test 3 Flashcards
On what is the arcaded courtyard in Gros’s Napoleon Visiting the Pest House at Jaffa based?
Islamic architecture.
What is the pose of Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of Madeleine probably intended to recall?
It was intended to recall Raphael’s The Fornarina (1518-1519).
What are the two cultural poles represented by Chactas and the hooded priest in Girodet’s Burial of Atala?
. Native Americans (nature and the earth) and the hooded priest (the pull of religion).
What is the sculpted object shown next to Jean-Baptiste Belley in Girodet’s Portrait of Belley?
A bust of Guillaume-Thomas Raynal.
What room is the main source of inspiration for Ingres’s Apotheosis of Homer?
Rapheal’s Stanza della Segnatura.
Who owned Ingres’s Grande Odalisque?
Caroline Murat - Queen of Naples and Bonaparte’s sister.
What is the implied setting of Ingres’s Grande Odalisque?
The implied setting is that of an Islamic/Turkish harem.
What did critics say about the skin of the three figures in Odalisque with a Slave by Ingres?
Critics praised Ingres for having captured the “variety and nature of the races.”
On what did Ingres base the figure of the musician in Odalisque with a Slave?
He studied a European woman model for his Ethiopian slave (at the time the slave was assumed to be Abyssinian).
What is the art historical term for the feeling evoked by the vast, disturbing, painful, frightening, or ugly?
The sublime; is ”of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.”
What printmaking technique is responsible for the speckling of the background of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya?
Aquatint.
What does the pose of the man in white in Goya’s Third of May, 1808 evoke?
Outstretched arms evoke Christ on the Cross. He has a wound on his hand, and he is more illuminated.
What is the significance of the black man at the apex of the pyramid in Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa?
He is one of the 15 survivors, a soldier named Jean Charles. Waved down Medusa’s companionship, Argus. France was trying to re-establish its colony in Senegal, West Africa, but by this point they had already liberated slaves - the French were proud of being such forward-thinking people. The ship was on a journey to West Africa, where it hit a rock and sank.
Who owned Géricault’s portraits of the insane?
Etienne-Jean Georget, an alienist.
Why is the nude woman in the foreground of Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus being killed?
He ordered all of his personal belongings, including his concubines, to be killed in favor of not being taken/raided by the enemy.
What was the name of the Sultanate in which the Indian painting of Shah Jahan as an older man was produced?
Abul Hasan Qutb Shah.
What is the building with two towers in the background of Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix?
Notre Dame, Paris. Allegorical painting, the personification of liberty.
What was the political context for Delacroix’s watercolor showing the approach to Meknes?
France was in the process of colonizing what is now the country of Algeria, which is east of Morocco. They were trying to get help from Morocco
What are the notes Delacroix leaves for himself in his drawing of A Harem in Algiers?
Color notes of the clothing. The white shirt with flowers turns from gold to salmon in the painting.
In what ways is Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Prayer on the Rooftops associated with a colonial ideology?
The men are all shown facing the same way, suppressing any sense of individuality that we’ve seen in paintings of Europeans. This painting makes Middle Eastern people seem like mindless acolytes of Islam - people who are brainwashed and have no individuality. Exoticisizing, mired in the past, and unmodern.
What are the sources that Osman Hamdi Bey stitches together into a unified image in his At the Mosque Door of 1891?
He and his family members as models, and he uses various architectural styles from different photographs and places, as well as objects and props from his studio—also, ethnographic costumes.
How does the subject of The Burial at Ornans correspond to Courbet’s Realist values?
He doesn’t paint angels because he has never seen angels - he only paints things he has seen with his own eyes. The subject at Ornan is a very humble burial - it’s not a scene from classical myth, it’s something Courbet knows is a real and rough subject. He is elevating this humble and rustic subject to the status of a painting by doing so on this scale; it is a large painting.
What is the relationship of Edouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe to Marcantonio Raimondi’s Judgment of Paris?
The sources of the three figures are found in Marcantonio’s Judgement of Paris.
What is the identity of the model who posed as the black maid in Manet’s Olympia?
Laure, an Afro-Caribbean Parisian.
