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