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