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Art History Final
Salpointe Humanities Art Fall Final
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11th Grade
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Alice Mason-Limner
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Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary- Limner
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White Squirrel- Titian Peale
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Buffalo Hunt in the Platte Valley- Titian Peale
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Self Portrait-Captain Thomas Smith 
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The Bermuda Group- John Smibert
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Isaac Royall Family- Robert Feke
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Boy with a Squirrel- John Singleton Copley
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Paul Revere- John Singleton Copley
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Watson and the Shark- John Singleton Copley
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Peale Family Group- C.W. Peale
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Staircase Group- C.W. Peale
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Exhuming the Mastedon- C.W. Peale
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The Artist in his Museum-C.W. Peale
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Death of General Wolfe- Benjamen West
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Colenel Guy Johnson- Benjamen West
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Penn's Treaty with the Indians- Benjamen West
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Still Life with Orange and Book- Raphaelle Peale
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After the Bath- Raphaelle Peale
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The Court of Death- Rembrandt Peale
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Porthole Portrait- Rembrandt Peale
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George Washington- James Peale
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The Artist and his Family- James Peale
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Still Life with Balsam Apples- James Peale
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The Death of General Montgomery- John Trumbull
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The Skater- Gilbert Stuart
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George Washington- John Trumbull
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Declaration of Independence- John Trumbull
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General George Washington Resigning his Commission- John Trumble
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The Surrender of General Burgoyne- John Trumbull
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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis- John Trumbull
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Battle of Bunker Hill- John Trumbull
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Athenaeum Portrait- Gilbert Stuart
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Vaughn Portrait- Gilbert Stuart
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Expulsion from the Garden of Eden- Thomas Cole
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The Course of Empire- Thomas Cole

Pastoral State

The Consummation

Destruction

Desolation

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Rising of a Thunderstorm at Sea- Washington Allston
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Hermia and Helena- Washington Allston
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Elijah in the Desert- Washington Allston
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The Voyage of Life- Thomas Cole

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Old Age

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Kindred Spirits- Asher B. Durand
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Forest in the Morning Light- Asher B. Durand
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The Falls of Tequendama- Frederick Church
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Cotopaxi- Frederick Church
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The Rocky Mountain's, Lander's Park- Albert Bierstadt
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Valley of Yosemite- Albert Bierstadt
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Moat Mountain- Albert Bierstadt
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The Oregon Trail- Albert Bierstadt
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Brace's Rock- Fitz Hugh Lane
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Boston Harbor- Fitz Hugh Lane
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Marshfiled- Martin Johnson Heade
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Thunderstorm over Narragansett Bay- Martin Johnson Heade
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The Return of Rip Van Winkle- John Quidor
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The Headless Horsman Pursuing Ichabod Crane- John Quidor
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Farmers Nooning- William Sidney Mount
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The Power of Music- William Sidney Mount
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The County Election- George Caleb Bingham
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Order Number 11- George Caleb Bingam
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The Last Race, Mandan Ceremony- George Catlin
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Caitlin Painting the Portrait of Mah To Toh Pa- Geoge Catlin
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Essentially taught himself the fundamentals of painting, and rarely turned down commissions for work
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Limner
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 Western movements in the decorative and visual artsliteraturetheatremusic, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome
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Neoclassicism

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Genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than artistic style usually depict a moment in a narrative story, rather than a specific and static subject, such as a portrait
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History Painting
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The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aestheticexperience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehensionhorror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting thesublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories
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Romanticism
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he quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
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Sublime
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work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, they give artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture
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Still Life
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An art technique involving realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions
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Trompe L'Oeil
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genre of artworks that vary widely but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their mortality, an artistic theme dating back to antiquity
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Memento Mori
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Painting, usually executed in gouache,watercolour, or enamel.
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Miniatures
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The visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as riverslakes, ponds and thesea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weatherconditions
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Landscape
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A term for an informal group portrait, especially those painted in Britain in the 18th century, beginning in the 1720s. They are distinguished by their portrayal of the group apparently engaged in genteel conversation or some activity, very often outdoors. Typically the group will be members of a family, but friends may be included, and some groups are of friends, members of a society or hunt, or some other grouping. Often the paintings are relatively small, about the same size as a half-length portrait but in horizontal or "landscape" format; others are much larger.
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Conversation Piece
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A mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced byromanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the CatskillAdirondack, and the White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales started by Thomas Cole
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Hudson River School
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 Like Revere, the subject is seated at a table strewn with tools, but this craftsman wears a jacket, stock, and patterned waistcoat. The more formal attire makes the sitter appear posed rather than caught in the middle of his work
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Portrait of Revere
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 An American landscape painting style of the 1850s – 1870s, characterized by effects of light in landscapes, through using aerial perspective, and concealing visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility, and often depict calm, reflective water and a soft, hazy sky.
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Luminism
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Pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. Such representations may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist
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Artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era
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Modern Art Styles
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