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CSET Visual Art History
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1. Beauty and proportion of human body; length of body 8 times the head; Myron's Discobolus and Apollo Belvedere
Albert Bierstadt
Romantic Art
Classical Sculpture
Michaelangelo
2. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)
Albrecht Durer
Delacroix
Currier and Ives
Northern Renaissance
3. French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825) - The Oath of Horatii - Death of Socrates - portraits of leaders of French revolution
Thomas Cole
Jacques - Louis David
William Sidney Mount
Matthew Brady
4. 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
Raphael
Jean Honore Fragonard
El Greco
Pieter Bruegel
5. Late 18th to mid 19th c. - reaction against ordiliness of neoclassicism - imagination - romantic/natural subjects; emotional style
El Greco
Romantic Art
Raphael
Renaissance Art
6. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light
Realism
Northern Renaissance
Rembrandt
Currier and Ives
7. The first coherent school of American art
Thomas Eakins
Classical Sculpture
Linear Perspective
Hudson River School
8. German - was called 'Germanic Lord Byron' painted Wandering Above the Sea of Frog and Chasseur Forest
Friedrich
Thomas Eakins
Hudson River School
Francisco Goya
9. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow
Thomas Cole
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Albert Bierstadt
Jean Millet
10. Two business partners who produced colored prints of everyday American life in the nineteenth century.
Currier and Ives
William Sidney Mount
Caravaggio
Gothic Art
11. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew
Boticelli
El Greco
Caravaggio
Donatello
12. (N. Renaissance) used vibrant colors to portray lively scenes of peasant life - Peasant Wedding - from the Netherlands ('genre painting'
Albrecht Durer
Pieter Bruegel
Romantic Art
Delacroix
13. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)
Baroque style
Hudson River School
Michaelangelo
Thomas Eakins
14. The Birth of Venus
William Sidney Mount
Donatello
Boticelli
Francisco Goya
15. 1746-1828; Bullfight is an example of Romantic Art
Gustave Courbet
Francisco Goya
Currier and Ives
Albrecht Durer
16. Rococo artist - The Swing
Jean Honore Fragonard
Leonardo Da Vinci
Romantic Art
Rembrandt
17. 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'
Realism
Hudson River School
Albert Bierstadt
Baroque style
18. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895
Currier and Ives
Winslow Homer
Raphael
Classical Sculpture
19. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)
Rococo Art
Pantheon
Baroque style
Classical Art
20. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses
Albert Bierstadt
Pieter Bruegel
Jean Millet
Gothic Art
21. French - the Stone Breakers (1849)
Currier and Ives
Jean - Antoine Watteau
William Sidney Mount
Gustave Courbet
22. Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (N. Renaissance)
Winslow Homer
Jacques - Louis David
William Sidney Mount
Jan van Eyck
23. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry
Francisco Goya
Classical Art
Michaelangelo
Delacroix
24. 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
Matthew Brady
Jean Millet
Winslow Homer
Albert Bierstadt
25. (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.'
Pieter Bruegel
Henry O. Tanner
Classical Sculpture
William Sidney Mount
26. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)
George Caleb Bingham
Caravaggio
El Greco
William Sidney Mount
27. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)
William Sidney Mount
Thomas Eakins
Winslow Homer
Matthew Brady
28. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life
Neoclassical Art
Rococo Art
Jean - Antoine Watteau
Classical Sculpture
29. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53
Jean Millet
Jan van Eyck
Delacroix
Rembrandt
30. 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
Friedrich
Thomas Eakins
Jean Honore Fragonard
31. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial
Currier and Ives
Pantheon
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Henry O. Tanner
32. 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
Linear Perspective
Leonardo Da Vinci
Augustus Saint - Gaudens
Neoclassical Art
33. A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be
Francisco Goya
Romantic Art
Jan van Eyck
Realism
34. 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.
Matthew Brady
Jean Honore Fragonard
William Sidney Mount
Northern Renaissance
35. American realist painter - The Gross Clinic - 1875
Baroque style
Thomas Eakins
Boticelli
Romantic Art
36. St. George - poised for action - unique face
Realism
Donatello
Currier and Ives
Thomas Cole
37. Built by Romans (emperor Hadrian) from 125-128 CE - includes balance/symmetry (Greeks) and arches (Romans via Egyptians)
Albert Bierstadt
Pieter Bruegel
Francisco Goya
Pantheon
38. 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)
Delacroix
Thomas Eakins
Raphael
Winslow Homer
39. Began in Italy in the 1400's
El Greco
Renaissance Art
Realism
Currier and Ives
40. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions
Gustave Courbet
George Caleb Bingham
Henry O. Tanner
Baroque style
41. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose
Henry O. Tanner
Neoclassical Art
Delacroix
Gustave Courbet
42. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)
Currier and Ives
Leonardo Da Vinci
Boticelli
Henry O. Tanner