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