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CSET Visual Art History
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1. Found his subjects in the people and occupations of everyday life - one of the French painters of country life that settled near the village of Barbizon - 'The Gleaners' - 1857- oil on canvas
Gothic Art
Pieter Bruegel
Jean Millet
Boticelli
2. A technique which made it possible to represent three dimensional objects on a flat surface in a systematic way - so that all the lines receding at right angles on the picture plane converge at a vanishing point on the horizon (Filippo Brunelleschi 1
Jacques - Louis David
Donatello
Linear Perspective
Hudson River School
3. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)
Jean Millet
Albrecht Durer
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Pantheon
4. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose
Neoclassical Art
Albrecht Durer
Jacques - Louis David
Classical Sculpture
5. St. George - poised for action - unique face
Gustave Courbet
Friedrich
Donatello
Currier and Ives
6. The first coherent school of American art
Hudson River School
Classical Art
Rembrandt
Jan van Eyck
7. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life
Winslow Homer
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Rococo Art
Jacques - Louis David
8. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)
Hudson River School
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Neoclassical Art
Michaelangelo
9. School of Athens (fresco depicting ancient Greek philosophers and Renaissance painters) - The Marriage of the Virgin (good example of linear perspective) - Cowper Madonna (gentle style)
Jan van Eyck
Jean - Antoine Watteau
George Caleb Bingham
Raphael
10. Known for his large landscapes of the American west - foremost painter of Westward Expansion scenes - part of Hudson River School - 'Storm in the Rocky Mountains' - 'Looking Down Yosemite Valley' - 'The Oregon Trail' 'Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak'
Albert Bierstadt
Hudson River School
Neoclassical Art
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
11. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)
Boticelli
Pieter Bruegel
Jean - Antoine Watteau
William Sidney Mount
12. Late 18th to mid 19th c. - reaction against ordiliness of neoclassicism - imagination - romantic/natural subjects; emotional style
Thomas Eakins
Romantic Art
Currier and Ives
Donatello
13. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)
Albrecht Durer
Albert Bierstadt
Leonardo Da Vinci
Northern Renaissance
14. A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Gustave Courbet
George Caleb Bingham
Realism
Pantheon
15. (1859-19370) This African American artist is best known for his style of painting. He was the first African American painter to gain international acclaim. 'The Banjo Lesson.'
Jan van Eyck
Jean Millet
Henry O. Tanner
Boticelli
16. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light
Albert Bierstadt
Linear Perspective
Classical Art
Northern Renaissance
17. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895
Winslow Homer
Albrecht Durer
Gothic Art
El Greco
18. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) - The Oath of Horatii - Death of Socrates - portraits of leaders of French revolution
Raphael
Currier and Ives
Northern Renaissance
Jacques - Louis David
19. Began in Italy in the 1400's
Renaissance Art
Jean Honore Fragonard
Leonardo Da Vinci
Pantheon
20. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew
El Greco
Jean Honore Fragonard
Michaelangelo
Caravaggio
21. 1746-1828; Bullfight is an example of Romantic Art
Donatello
Pantheon
George Caleb Bingham
Francisco Goya
22. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow
Thomas Cole
Jean Honore Fragonard
William Sidney Mount
Winslow Homer
23. German - was called 'Germanic Lord Byron' painted Wandering Above the Sea of Frog and Chasseur Forest
Classical Sculpture
Friedrich
Raphael
Hudson River School
24. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry
Rococo Art
Classical Art
Gustave Courbet
Delacroix
25. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial
Delacroix
Renaissance Art
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
El Greco
26. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53
Renaissance Art
Winslow Homer
Jacques - Louis David
Rembrandt
27. Rococo artist - The Swing
Linear Perspective
Raphael
Neoclassical Art
Jean Honore Fragonard
28. Was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers - best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.
Jean Honore Fragonard
Rococo Art
Albert Bierstadt
Matthew Brady
29. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions
Thomas Eakins
Donatello
Baroque style
Delacroix
30. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)
Rococo Art
Romantic Art
Caravaggio
Thomas Eakins
31. Beauty and proportion of human body; length of body 8 times the head; Myron's Discobolus and Apollo Belvedere
Michaelangelo
Pantheon
Classical Sculpture
William Sidney Mount
32. Built by Romans (emperor Hadrian) from 125-128 CE - includes balance/symmetry (Greeks) and arches (Romans via Egyptians)
Pantheon
Thomas Cole
Michaelangelo
Rembrandt
33. Two business partners who produced colored prints of everyday American life in the nineteenth century.
Currier and Ives
Classical Sculpture
Romantic Art
Francisco Goya
34. The Birth of Venus
George Caleb Bingham
Jean Millet
Rembrandt
Boticelli
35. This French painter was important to French Romantic art. He often used his painting to convey a political message - and he is best known for his painting depicting the socialist revolution of 1830: Liberty Leading the People.
Delacroix
Linear Perspective
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
36. American realist painter - The Gross Clinic - 1875
Thomas Eakins
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Neoclassical Art
Raphael
37. Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (N. Renaissance)
Renaissance Art
Gustave Courbet
Jan van Eyck
William Sidney Mount
38. (N. Renaissance) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life - Peasant Wedding - from the Netherlands ('genre painting'
Pieter Bruegel
Henry O. Tanner
Gothic Art
Classical Sculpture
39. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)
Leonardo Da Vinci
Currier and Ives
George Caleb Bingham
Neoclassical Art
40. French - the Stone Breakers (1849)
Classical Art
Gothic Art
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Gustave Courbet
41. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses
Realism
Gothic Art
Winslow Homer
Renaissance Art
42. Works in Spain - but shows Italian (mannerist) influence in distortion and choice of colors. Lots of motion - dynamism in later paintings. View of Toledo. Baroque - like style
Francisco Goya
El Greco
Linear Perspective
Gustave Courbet