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Survey of Western Art - ARTH 104 Exam 2
VCU professor Dennis Durham
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
04/02/2012

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Definition

Saint Theresa of Avila in Ectasy

1645-1652

marble

Cornaro Chapel, Church de Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

Gianlorenzo Bernini 

 

 

 

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[image]
Definition

Saint Peter's Basilica and Square

1656-1657

Vatican, Rome, Italy

Gianlorenzo Bernini

 

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[image]
Definition

David

1623

marble

Gianlorenzo Bernini

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[image]
Definition

Triumph in the Name of Jesus

1676-1679

fresco and stucco

Church of Gesu, Rome, Italy

Giovanni Battista Gualli

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[image]
Definition

Entombment

1603-1604

oil on canvas

Caravaggio

Term
[image]
Definition

Hall of Mirrors

1678

Palais de Versailles, France

Jules Hardouin-Mansart & Charles Le Brun

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[image]
Definition

Magdelen with the Smoking Flame

1640

oil on canvas

Georges de la Tour

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[image]
Definition

Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

1648

oil on canvas

Claude Lorrain

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[image]
Definition

Las Meninas

1656

oil on canvas

Diego Velazquez

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[image]
Definition

Allegory Showing the Effects of War/ The Horrors of War

1637-1638

oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens

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[image]
Definition

The Raising of the Cross

1609-1610

oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens

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[image]
Definition

The Night Watch

1642

oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn

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[image]
Definition

Self-Portrait

1659

oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn

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[image]
Definition

Woman Holding a Balance

1664

oil on canvas

Jan Vermeer

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[image]
Definition

Banquetting House

1619-1622

Whitehall Palace, London, England

Inigo Jones

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[image]
Definition

Saint Paul's Cathedral

1675-1709

London, England

Christopher Wren

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[image]
Definition

The Embarkation from Cythera

1717

oil on canvas

Jean Antoine Watteau

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[image]
Definition

The Meeting

1771-1773

oil on canvas

Jean-Honore Fragonard

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[image]
Definition

The Marriage Contract

1734-1746

oil on canvas

William Hogarth

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[image]
Definition

Cupid and Psyche

1787-1793

marble

Antonio Canova

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[image]
Definition

Samuel Adams

1770

oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley

Term
[image]
Definition

Oath of the Horatii

1784

oil on canvas

Jacques Louis David

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[image]
Definition

George Washington

1788-1792

marble

Virginia state Capital

Jean-Antoine Houdon

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[image]
Definition

Monticello

1770-1784

Charlottesville, Virginia

Thomas Jefferson

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[image]
Definition

Large Odalisque

1814

oil on canvas

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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[image]
Definition

Scenes from the Massacre at Chios

1822

oil on canvas

Eugene Delacroix

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[image]
Definition

Third of May

1808

oil on canvas

Francisco Goya

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[image]
Definition

The Artists Studio

1837

early photography

Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

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[image]
Definition

The Stone Breakers

1849

oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet

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[image]
Definition

Le Dejeuner Sur L'herbe (luncheon the grass)

1863

oil on canvas

Edouard Manet

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[image]
Definition

Olympia

1863

oil on canvas

Edouard Manet

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Grand Manner
Definition

idealized aesthetics taken from the ancient and renaissance styles

(associated with Neoclassicism)

Term
Contrapposto
Definition

a pose where the body is slightly twisted or the weight is on one leg

(a reference to older art forms used in Neoclassicism)

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Picturesque
Definition
ordinary but pleasent aesthetics, not as extreme as the idealized aesthetics of beauty and sublimity
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Memento Mori
Definition
"remember your mortality" the genre associated with venitas
Term
Fete Galante
Definition

well dress subjects depicted in park usually

(associated with the Rococo era)

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History Painting
Definition

paintings based on historical, biblical, or mythological narratives

(associated with Neoclassicism)

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Salon
Definition
anual display of art typically of the work by the French Academy in Paris
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Caravaggisti
Definition
stylistic followers of Caravaggio
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Colore
Definition

the stress of color and process of applying paint to the disegno

(associated with the Rubeniste)

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Disegno
Definition

the stress of the drawing, design, concept, content, or general compositional layout of a piece

(associated with the Poussiniste)

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Poussiniste
Definition

stylistic followers of Nicolas Poussin

(stress of disegno)

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Rubeniste
Definition

stylistic followers of Peter Paul Rubens

(stress of colore)

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Venitas
Definition

symbolic work focusing on the mortality and transcience of life

(often still-life of genre painting)

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Camera Obscura
Definition
an early cameralike device
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Tenebrism
Definition

very pronounced chioroscuro, heavy contrasts of light and dark

(associated with Caravaggio)

Term
Allegory
Definition

representation of an abstract concept, idea, or story

(deeper meaning)

Term
Trompe I'Oel
Definition

three-dimensional respresentation used to fool the eye

(associated with Gaulli)

Term
Cartouche
Definition
the frame for heiroglyphic inscriptions often surrounding honored or sacred names
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Portico
Definition
projecting roof or porch supported by columns
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Pediment
Definition
triangular gable over windows or doors
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Pilaster
Definition
decorative column petruding from the wall
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Impasto
Definition
thickly applied pain that gives a three-dimensional surface quality
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Naturalism
Definition
style of depiction in which the physical appearance in nature is the primary inspiration
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Genre
Definition

scenes from everyday life

(associated with Velazquez)

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Realism
Definition

opposition to romanticism in which truth, objectivity, and accuracy are the goals

(associated with Manet and Courbet)

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Romanticism
Definition

opposition to realism in which dramatic representation is used to stir the public's emotions

(associated with Delacroix and Goya)

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Neoclassicism
Definition

focus on balance and idealized representation and history painting

(associated with Louis David and Ingres)

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