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Art History Test 2
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- 1—Facade of St Peter's
Cailo Moderno
1606-1612
Italian Baroque
Architecture
-irregular facade creates dramatic shadows: tenebrism
-massive unnecessary columns
-grand, opulent, church response to reformation meant to awe lower class
-statues on balustrade and in front - 2—Tabernacle
Bernini
1624-1633
Italian Baroque
Architecture
-aka Baldachino "silks from baghdad"
-solomonic columns covered in bumblebees
-bees = barberinni family who donated bronze by stripping colloseum
"what barbarians couldn't do, the barberinnis did"
-under Michelangelo's dome
-95 ft tall, taller than house
- 3—Scala Regia
Bernini
1663-1666
Italian Baroque
Architecture
-transitional space
-heraldic, officious, grandiose: consider light at top of stairs
-ionic columns
-illusionistic architecture: columns get gradually smaller as they recede
-compare to Borromini's Arcade
- 4—David
Bernini
1623
Italian Baroque
Marble
-taking action, in movement! different from all other stationary Davids
-ppl won't walk in front of it, so convincing
-all subtractive
- 5' 7" : taller than avg man at this time
- 5—Ecstasy of St Teresa
Bernini
1645-1652
Italian Baroque
Marble
-combines architecture, painting, sculpture
-below window so sun illuminates bronze rods, framed pictoral scene
- St is in supplication
-arrow pointed at groin = basically porn, ppl HATED IT
- 6—Judith Slaying Holofernes
Artemesia Gentileschi
1614-1620
Italian Baroque
Oil
-Judith snuck into enemy lines to save village
-Jewish heroines in yellow
-old testament
-caravagisti: follower of Caravaggio
-popular subject: she did it best tho
-tenebrism
- 7—St Serapion
Zubaran
1628
Spanish Baroque
Oil on Canvas
-martyr, tied up and tortured
-depicted as immaculate
-light shining = attention to tragic death increases drama = tenebrism
-facial features depicted as common man
- 8—Water Carrier of Seville
Diego Velazquez
1656
Spanish Baroque
Oil on Canvas
-contrast in every aspect: rich to poor, young to old, etc
-focus is on rough hands vs boy hands
holding glass
-jug has droplets of water = hot room, cold water
-genre scenes
- 9—Philip Iv of Spain
Diego Velazquez
1644
Spanish Baroque
Oil on Canvas
-size = status
- phallic pole in his hand
- looks dutch
-opulent, effusive
-hat in hand also large
- 10—Martyrdom of St Philip
Jose de Ribera
1639
Spanish Baroque
Oil on Canvas
-torture and pain
-being hoisted into Christlike pose
-rejects idea of idealization
-bones in skin bag
- 11—Elevating the Cross
Peter Paul Rubens
1610
Flemish Baroque
Oil on Panel
-part of tryptic
-gusto, dramatic, huge
- Christ is muscular = idealization
- religious upheaval : Holland turn protestant, Flanders catholic
- 12—Still Life with Flowers
Clara Peters
1611
Dutch Baroque
Oil on Panel
-vanitas : vanity, still life of delicacy that won't last, what middle class aspire to
-showcase of skill in accuracy
-typical breakfast scene
-dark background = depth = you can reach in and grab it
- 13—Night Watch
Rembrant
1632
Dutch Baroque
Oil on Canvas
-lord of light
- Venetian glass crushed into his paintings
- tenebrism
- over 20 portraits in one painting = extremely difficult
- group portraits = popular
- gets darker and shinier with age
- 14—Flower Still Life
Rachel Ruysch
After 1700
Dutch Baroque
Oil On Canvas
- flower painting insanely popular in Holland
- she was highest paid for century
-painting is completely imagined, she is daughter of botanist
- did not publish, therefore faded from imagination
- 15—Calling of St Matthew
Hendrick Brugghen
1621
Dutch Baroque
Oil on Canvas
- painted after returning from Italy, influenced by Caravaggio
- group portraits popular, Dolans
- despite being Dutch it is a religious subject in a protestant nation
- calvinism = reject art in church
- 16—Allegory of Painting
Jan Vermeer
1670 - 1675
Dutch Baroque
Oil on Canvas
- painter of a painting painting a painting like Velazquez
- curtains = Baroque device revealing a scene
- painting was not his priority = small body of work
- died in debt = mother in law kept this painting in court by suing daughter over long enough for debt collectors to leave and keep painting for family
- 17—The Death of General Wolfe
Sir Benjamin West
1770
Neoclassical
Oil on Canvas
- historical painting considered superior
- West was American painter
- Wolfe = Christ (swoon)
- Set at Battle of Quebec
- exsanguination - hemorrhage of blood but no blood in piece = war is sanitized and glorified
- 18—George Washington
Jean- Antoine Houdon
1788 - 1792
Neoclassical
Marble
- neoclassicism = preferred style of sculpture in America
- references to Roman Republic : column he leans on
- 13 rods = 13 colonies
- no sword = peacetime
- compare to Horatio Greenough's: turned Washi in God, semi nude, enthroned, holds sword
- 19—Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
1770 - 1784, 1796 - 1806
Neoclassical
Architecture
- inspired by Villa Palladio, note symmetry, separate kitchen building
-built to be private
- similar to chiswick house: columns and dome
- worked on it through his presidency - 20—Death of Marat
Jacques David
1793
Neoclassical
Oil on Canvas
-memorial to friend and propaganda
- Marat = terrorist, wrote and inspired revolutions, violence
- wife of murdered soldier tracked Marat down and killed him
-2/3 of canvas left dark = more weight in image = amplifies emotional severity
- 21—Cornelia Presenting Her Children
Angelica Kauffman
1783
Neoclassical
Oil on Canvas
- other woman is richly adorned + boastful
- Cornelia says "my treasure are my children"
- Children = future of society
- story from classical antiquity
-moralizing, preachy
- 22—Still Life in Studio
Jacques Louis Daguerre
1837
Early Photography
Daguerreotype
- images etched on plate, fixed with chemicals
- incredibly detailed, capturing texture, gradation
- composition central in daguerreotype = continuity between painting and photo
- this tech became incredibly popular
- 23—Nadar Raising Photography to the Heights of Art
Daumier
1862
Early Photography
Lithograph
-Nadar was a successful portrait photographer: captured essence of ppl
-Became champion of photography as art form
- originally took photos for caricature ref
- ironic = Daumier criticizes the lengths Nadar will go to raise photo to high art, makes him look eccentric and crazy
- 24—Horse in Motion
Eadweard Galloping
1878
Early Photo
Calotype Print
-set up cameras attached to trip wires to capture successive images
-showed cameras could be used as evidence
-movies owe a lot to his work
-came about due to bet : proved horse was airborne during cycle
- 25—Third Class Carriage
Daumier
1862
Realism
Oil on Canvas
-plight of those disenfranchised by industrial revolution
-riders are poor, grimy, crammed together
-depicted unposed
-anonymous, insignificant, bleak
- 26—Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
1863
Realism
Oil on Canvas
- used color to draw attention to painting surface
- moved away from illusionism
-realist: contemporary scene, all figures based on actual ppl
-no one has interest in picnic, not listening to man, nude woman is without shame looking at viewer
- 27—Olympia
Manet
1863
Realism
Oil on Canvas
-prostitute and maidservant carrying bouquet from client
-compare to venus of urbino by titian (he started the reclining nude)
-criticized for rough brush stroke and abrupt shift in tones
-Olympia was common working name for prostitutes
- 28—The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins
1875
Realism
Oil on Canvas
-recording realities of human experience
-painted as he saw = in line with American hunger for truth
- operation = increasing faith in science and medicine
-gruesome, hard to look at , but real
- 29—The Thankful Poor
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1894
Realism
OIl on Canvas
-dignity of African American Life
-lighting reinforces painting reverential spirit
- quiet devotion
- main subject in great detail while the rest dissolve into near impressionist stroke
- 30—The Gleaners
Millet
1857
Realism
Oil on Canvas
-barbizon school = specialized in French country life
- impoverished women gathering scraps left after harvest
-sentimental quality
- french public reacted with disdain
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