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Western Art & Culture After 1400
Exam 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/18/2012

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Title: Madonna and Child Enthroned

Artist: Giotto

Date: ca. 1300-1310

Other info: From Florence.  Most likely painted for the high altar of the Church of the Ognissanti (All Saints)

 

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Title: Tres Riches Heures

Artists:  Limbourg Brothers

Dates: 1413-16

Fun Fact: Painted as a part of a calendar, comissioned by the King who was really friendly with the Limbourg Bros.

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Title:  Merode Altarpiece

Artist:  Campin, Robert

Date:  c. 1425-28

Fun Facts:  Lil' baby Jesus is flying in through the window!  Mousetrap= SATAN!  The patrons are in the left panel, Mary in the middle, and Joseph in the right panel.

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Title:  Ghent Altarpiece

Artist:  Van Eyck Bros.

Date:  Completed 1432

Fun Fact:  Hubert Van Eyck died before he completed it, so his brother finished the work. Closed, it shows the Enunciation and some patrons, painted as saints.

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Title:  Arnolfini Wedding Portrait

Artist: Jan Van Eyck

Date:  1434

Other Stuff:  All sorts of symbols.  Thought to be proof of the marriage, rather than a portrait, because Van Eyck wrote "Jan was here" rather than "Jan made me."

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Title:  Deposition

Artist:  Rogier Van der Weyden

Date:  c. 1435

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Title:  Portinari Altarpiece

Artist:  Hugo van der Goes

Date:  1476

Fun Facts:  Comissioned work.  Flowers represent Jesus' sacrifice. Weird, dreary, pallett complemented by the weird(er) baby Jesus just laying on the floor. Flemmish.

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Title:  Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine

Artist:  Masaccio, Masolino

Date:  1426-27 (Masaccio and Masolino) ; ca. 1482-84 (Filippino Lippi)

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Title:  Ghent Altarpiece

Artist:  Van Eyck Bros.

Date:  Completed 1432

Fun Fact:    Open, it shows the holy trinity, mary, and John the Baptist in thrones.  Under, is the lamb of god.  It's a polyptych.

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Title:  Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove

Artist:  Hans Memling

Date:  1487

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Title: Temptation of St. Anthony

Artist:  Martin Schongauer

Date:  c. 1480-90

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Title: Dome; Florence Cathedral

Artist: Fillipe Brunneleschi

Dates: 1417-36; lantern completed 1471; the gallery, 1515.  Brunneleschi was a little bit on the crazy side.  He made a bet that whoever could stand an egg up straight could "win" and be the designer of the dome...  He cracked the egg, winning the challenge and pissing off his peers :)

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Title: David

Artist: Donatello
Dates: ca. 1420-1460s

Contrast with Raphael's David: Donatello's is triumphant while Raphael's is contemplative.  Donatello's is feminine/adolescent while Raphael's is a big strong man.  D= Bronze. R= Marble.

 

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Title: Battle of Nudes

Artist: Antonio del Pollaiuolo

Date: 1465–1475

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Title: Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors ; Church of Santa Maria Novella.

Artist: Masaccio

Date:  ca. 1425-27/28

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Title: Tribute Money ; Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine

Artist: Masaccio, Masolino

Date: 1427

Fun fact:  Meant to encourage people to pay taxes. "Look, Jesus is paying his taxes!  It's the cool thing to do!"

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Title:  Expulsion From Paradise ; Brancacci Chapel, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine

Artist:  Massacio, Masolino

Date:  1427

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Title:  Annunciation

Artist:  Fra Angelico

Date:  1441

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Title:  Baptism of Christ

Artist:  Piero della Francesca

Date:  1450

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Title:  Christ Giving Keys to Saint Peter

Artist:  Pietro Perugrino

Date:  1481-1483

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Title:  Primavera

Artist:  Sandro Botticelli

Date:  1478

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Title: The Birth of Venus

Artist: Botticelli

Date: 1484-86

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Title: Saint Francis In Ecstasy

Artist:  Gentile Bellini

Date:  1470

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Title:  The Last Supper

Artist:  Da Vinci

Date:  1495-1498

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Title: The Mona Lisa

Artist: Da Vinci

Date: 1503-06

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Title: Madonna of the Goldfinch

Artist: Raphael

Date: 1505-06

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Title: The School of Athens

Artist: Raphael

Date: 1510-1511

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Title:  David

Artist:  Michelangelo

Date:  1501-04

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Title:  Sistine Chapel, Vatican

Artist:  Painted by Michelangelo, construction by ???

Date: Built 1475-81; ceiling painted 1508-12; end wall, 1536-41

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Title: Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Creation of Adam

Artist: Michelangelo

Date:  1511-12

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Title:  The Fall of Man and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden

Artist:  Michelangelo

Date:  1509-1512

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Title:  Tempietto, Church of San Pietro In Montorio

Artist:  Donato Bramante

Date:  1502-10

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Title: Fall of The Giants

Artist: Giulio Romano

Date:  1530-32 (Mannerist!)

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Title:  Pastoral Concert, or Allegory on the Invention of Pastoral Poetry

Artist:  Titian

Date: 1510

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Title: Venus of Urbino

Artist:  Titian

Date:  1538

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Title:  Entombment

Artist:  Pontormo

Date:  1525-28

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Title: Madonna With the Long Neck

Artist:  Parmigianino

Date:  1534-1540

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Title: Allegory with Venus and Cupid

Artist: Bronzino

Date:  Mid-1540s

INCEST!

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Title:  Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel

Artist:  Michelangelo

Date:  1536-41

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Title: Last Supper

Artist: Jacoppo Tintoretto

Date:  1592-94

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Title:  Villa Rotonda

Artist:  Palladio

Date:  1560's

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Title:  Isenheim Altarpiece

Artist:  Matthais Grunewalde

Date:  ca. 1510-15

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Title:  Isenheim Altarpiece (open)

Artist:  Matthais Grunewalde

Date:  ca. 1510-15

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Title: Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse

Artist:  Albrecht Durer

Date:  1497-98

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Title: Adam & Eve

Artist:  Albrecht Durer

Date:  1504

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Title:  Chateau of Chenonceau

Artist:  ??? Comissioned by Queen of France

Date:  1513-2

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Title: The Burial of St. Orgaz

Artist:  El Greco

Date:  1586


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Title: The Garden of Earthly Delights

Artist: Heironymus Bosch

Date: 1505

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Title: Return of the Hunters

Artist: Peter Bruegel

Date: 1565

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Title:  The Dead Christ

Artist: Antrea Mantegna

Date: 1490

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Title: Las Meninas, "The Maids of Honor"

Artist:  Diego Velazquez

Date:  1656

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Title:  The Garden of Love

Artist:  Ruebens

Date:  1631

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Title:  The Arrival of Marie de Medici in Marsailles

Artist:  Ruebens

Date:  1621

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Title: Return of the Prodigal Son

Artist:  Rembrandt

Date:  1667

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Title: Landscape with the Body of Phocion Carried out of Athens

Artist:  Pousssin

Date:  1648

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Title: Et in Arcadia Ego, "Even I (Death) is in Arcadia"

Artist: Poussin

Date:  1638

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Title:  Meat Stall

Artist: Aertsen

Date: 1551

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Title: Vanitas Still Life

Artist:  Champagne

Date:  1660

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Title:  Louis XIV

Artist:  Rigaud

Date: 1701

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Title:  Journey to the Island of Cythera

Artist: Watteau

Date:  1717

(Fete Gallant)

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Title:  The Store Sign of the Art Dealer Gersaint

Artist:  Watteau

Date:  1720

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Title: Madame de Pompadour

Artist:  Boucher

Date:  1755

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Title:  Diana Getting Out of Her Bath

Artist:  Boucher

Date:  1742

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Title:  The Swing

Artist:  Fragonard

Date:  1766

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Title:  The Young Schoolmistress

Artist:  Chardin

Date:  1736

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Title:  The Ray

Artist: Chardin

Date: 1728

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Title:  Lady Caroline Scott as "Winter"

Artist:  Reynolds

Date:  1776

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Title:  The Village Bride

Artist:  Jean-Baptiste Grueze

Date:  1761

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Title: Broken Eggs

Artist: Greuze

Date:  1756

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Title: Marriage a la Mode, 1. The Marriage Settlement

Artist:  Hogarth

Date:  1742

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Title:  Rialto Bridge

Artist:  Canaletto

Date: 18th Century

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