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AH111 part 2
art history renaissance to modern part 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/21/2018

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Carlo Maderno, Santa Susanna, 1597
-symmetrical
- viewer involvement: movement, emotional appeal
-Baroque influence
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Francesco Borromini, Quattro Fontane, 1643
interior
-dramatic
-movement
-emotional appeal
- naturalism
-Baroque influence
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Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1534
-sistine chapel
-decorum, doctrinal accuracy (MARY and Christ's throne)
-mannerism (figura serpentina, ideal)
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Veronese, Feast in the house of Levi (last supper), 1571
-counter reformation
-questions decorum,calrity by artistic license
-Luca cap V changes subject from a last supper
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Carracci, Assumption of the Virgin, 1601
-away from hyper idealism of mannerism
-baroque
-diagonal, tenebrism, viewer involvement, naturalism
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Caravaggio, crucifixion of St. Peter, 1600
-drama
-tenebrism
-diagonal movement
-naturalism, saints are ordinary
-baroque
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Bernini, David, 1623
-Baroque in sculpture
-compare to Michelangelo's David
-diagonal and dynamic movement
-naturalism, expression
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Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622
-classic mythology
-movement: diagonals, left to right
-drama, emotion
-narrative
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Bernini, San Andrea, 1658
altar
-viewer involvement: diagonals
-realism, naturalism, illusion
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Bernini, ecstasy of st. Theresa, 1547
baroque
-illusionism, movement
-counter reformation
-diagonals
-tenebrism
-dramatic naturalism
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bernini, piazza san Pietro, 1656
-pope Alexander vii
-movement and viewer involvement
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Bernini, baldacchino, 1624
-for pope urban viii
-st. Peters burial place
-solomonic column: drama, movement, naturalism, emotion
iconography: christs importance, papacy
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bernini, st. peters throne, 1657
-relic
-diagonals
-iconography: angels w papal keys and tiara, St. Peter was first pope
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Rubens, Assumption of the Virgins, 1626
baroque
-tenebrism
-disagonals, movement, excitement,drama
-emotion
-naturalism
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Rubens, exchange of 2 princesses from France and Spain, 1622
-represents real story, allegory
-propoganda for King Henry IV and Regent Queen Marie
-emotion, drama
-tenebrism
-diagonals
-red color catches eye
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Rubens, The landing of Marie de medici, 1621
-glorifies marie
-symbolism: Fame, France, Neptune (travel)
-visual dynamism
-diagonals
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Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656
-influenced by carivaggio
-king phillip IV
-viewer involvement
-displays court life
-scientific perspective (tells us it is an allegory)
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Velazquez, The Spinners, 1657
-spinning thread is not a liberal art, purely mechanic
-background shoes Arachne competition with Minerva
-velazquez worthy of competing w/ gods
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Rembrandt, Rape of Ganymede, 1635
-italian and baroque style mixed
-movement, drama, tenebrism
-beauty, naturalism, not idealized
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Rembrandt, Self Portrait, 1661
-darker colors
-acknowledges own style
-acknowledges Italian tradition
-more focus on light, less on detail
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Rembrandt, anatomy lesson of dr. tulp, 1632 -group portrait, patriotism -psychology of attention of figures -pictorial narrative -diagonals
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Rembrandt, Night Watch, 1627
-group portrait
-action
-clear center figure
-narrative
compare to Banquet of Officers
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Fran Hals, Banquet of Officers, 1627
-military and social
-baroque: tenebrism, diagonals, a lot of action
compare to Night Watch
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Rembrandt, sampling officers of Amsterdam drapers guild,1663
-nobody is center of attention
-figures more important than viewer (elevated view point)
-illusionistic connection to outside world (viewer involvement)
-narrative
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Peter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Dance, 1568
Genre painting
-clearly drunk
-social class is good
-satisfaction
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Jan Steen, Lovesick Girl, 1660
genre painting
-viewer involvment (superior position to doctor)
-pleasure of love, being superior
-symbolism: open legs, hot coals, cupid, Venus, open door, letter in hand, expression
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Jan Steen, woman playing a harpsichord, 1671
Genre painting
-harpsichord --> virginal: sexual and romantic connection between figures
-purity of home connect to Dutch state
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Pieter de hooch, maid with a child in court, 1658
genre painting
-purity
-good morality and judgement
-represents how Dutch state is unified
-ideals of cleanliness, home life, women, morality
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Jan Vermeer, woman seated at a virginal, 1670
genre painting
-wealth
-pleasure in servitude
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Jan Vemeer, woman holding a balance, 1662
genre painting
-dilemma of woman at home and out of home
-last judgement
-morality of the state
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Rembrandt, three crosses, 1653
print
-religious
-baroque: tenebrism, diagonals, motion
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Andrea del pozzo, altar of st. Ignatius, 1695
late baroque, rococo
-diagonals
-distracting details, less drama
-movement
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Fragonard, Rape of Europa, 1770
rococo
-moment before action, no drama
-pastel, dreamlike colors
-not emotional, sensual, sexual, pleasure over drama
compare to Titian's rape of europa
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Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for Cythera, 1717
Genre painting , imagination
-Fete galante: small painting, represent elegant people, blurring of contemporary and historical
-hyper naturalism, beyond reality
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Francois Boucher, The Four Seasons: Autumn. 1755
Genre painting
-symbolisim: sexuality: grapes, rosebud,hat
rococo
-tenebrism of subject/background
-trangular composition+stability
-pastel, dreamlike, playful,sensual
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Fragonard,The Swing,1766
rococo
playful, leisure time, dream like, escaping reality, sensual
-tenebrism
-visual business
-blurr of reality and fantasy
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Jacques-louis David, Oath go Horataii, 1784
neoclassical
Grand Manner paining: big ideas of history that are universalized
-clear organization
-primary colors
-simple
-dont have to know sorry to figure out narrative
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David, The Lictors returning to Brutus the bodies of his sons, 1789
neoclassical
grand manner
-decorum
-restrained expression
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David, oath of the tennis court,1791
neoclassical
grand manner-ish: - not historical, current. - not clear. - what is the universal message?
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David, death of marat, 1793
Neoclassical
grand manner-ish (current event)
-decorum, little blood or murder
-simple, universalizes marat
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David, Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard, 1801
-intellect controlling emotion (calm on rearing horse)
-current event but alludes to classical (grand manner-ish)
-simple
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Thomas Jefferson, Rotunda at UVA, 1822
period eye in architecture
imitating venice
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Jean Antoine Gros, Napoleon on the battle of Eylau, 1808
romanticism
-universalizes Napoleon but not moment
-emotional response
-color & space
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Francesco de Goya, Third of May, 1808
romanticism
-negative
-tenebrism
-confusing, emphasizes emotional response
-narrow constitutive blanks
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Theodore Gericault, Raft of Medusa, 1819
-romanticism
-current events, emotional
-painters as social commentators
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Eugene Delacroix, Masacre at scion, 1824
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Francesco de Goya, sleep of reason produces monsters, 1799
romanticism
-moving away from the reasonable, objective
-using language of emotion
-making fun of Spanish intellectual backwardness
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Francesco de Goya, saturn devouring his children, 1820
romantic although presents s neoclassical topic
-lighting emphasizes disturbing emption
-not objective
-intellectual, rational
-radical rethinking of what art should say
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Titian, concert, 1510
landscape
pastoral painting, 'past'
-allows yourself to go through time
-classical women show up through philosophical conversation between the men
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Claude lorrain, landscape with echo and narcissus, 1644
landscape
pastoral (subject is classical)
-clear, calm, beautiful
-raised viewpoint, viewer involvement
-dusk or dawn blurs reality
-framing landscape
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ablert Cuyp, on the banks of a river, 1655
landscape
Georgic, shows factual life and tradition
-lower view point
-dramatic sky = God says Dutch lifestyle is ideal
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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, 1750
landscape
Georgic AND pastoral
-modern clothes, rural life,responsibility (Georgic)
- pastorally structured, ideal landscape, framing
-dramatic sky is power of God, England is ideal land
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Turner, Snowstorm, 1810
sublime landscape, beyond human control
-physical threat of sky snow clouds, power of god, smallness of man
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Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1868
combined sublime and pastoral landscape
-rocks, snow, sun, nature and god
-calm peaceful, ideal
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