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