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