Studied by 2 people
Lescot, Francis I
Louvre Genre: Building Date: 1546 Freq:137
Ictinus and Callicrates
Genre: Building
Parthenon
Date: 447
A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
unkown
Genre: Building Norte dame cathedral: Date: 1160-1345 Freq:108 Site of where Napoleon was crowned Emperor
Leonardo da vinci
Genre: Painting
mona lisa
Date: 1500
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is now of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.
Bartholdi
Genre: Sculpture
Statue of Liberty
Date: 1886
a large statue symbolizing hope and freedom on Liberty Island in New York Harbor
Picasso
Genre: Painting
Guernica
a Spanish town that was brutally bombed and was full of innocent civilians it was supposed to encourage fear, ____________ painted a famous painting capturing Guernica
Other notes: The bull head is mentioned a lot. It depicts the bombing of Guernica.
Henry III
Genre: Building
Westminster Abbey
Date: 1245
a cathedral near Houses of Parliament where royal coronation, weddings, and funerals take place
Lahori Shah Jahan
Genre: Building
Taj Mahal
Date: 1632
A beautifulrn tomb built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan to honor his wife.
Sixtus IV, del doci
Genre: Building
Sistine Chapel
Date: 1473
A Catholic church in Vatican City, Italy. Its ceiling was painted by the Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
Botticelli
Genre: Painting
The Birth of Venus
Date: 1480
Other Notes: Venus standing in the shell is mentioned. Zephyr (the god of winds) blowing her towards the shore is mentioned.
Wren
Genre: Painting
Saint Paul's Cathedral
Date: 1708
a cathedral in central London, which is the largest Protestant church in the UK and one of the best-known buildings in London. ... A previous cathedral in the same place was destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666).
Borglum
Genre: Sculpture
Mount rushmore
Date: 1927-1941
A mountain with the four faces carved onto it: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Hopper
Painting
Night Hawks
1942
70 portrays people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner's large glass window. Also portrayed are the exteriors of the urban structures across the street from the diner.
Other Fact: 1 cent Phillies are mentioned a lot. There is a version of this with Marilyn Monroe called the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Building
Empire State Building .
1931
68 An office building in New York City, over one thousand feet high. Opened in the 1930s, it was for many years the tallest skyscraper in the world.
Bramante
Building
St. Peter's Basilica
1626
Largest Christian church in the world. Located in the Vatican City in Italy. The dome was created by Michelangelo.
Salvador Dali
Painting
The Persistence of Memory, 1931
-The landscape of the scene echoes the area around Portlligat, Dalí's home. -Currently belongs to the MOMA Other Notes: Surrealism. Melting clocks are often mentioned.
Henry Bacon
Building
Abraham Lincoln memorial
1922
Rodin (18)
Sculpture
The thinker
1900
64 The work shows a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, often used as an image to represent philosophy.
Rembrandt
Painting
The night watch
1642
62 These were groups of able-bodied men who, if the need arose, could be called upon to defend the city or put down riots.
Other Notes: Official Name: "The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenhurch"
wright
Building
Fallingwater
1936
62 he designed fallingwater to rise above the waterfall over which it is built. Completed with a guest house and service wing in 1939,
Raphael
Painting
School of Athens
1509
62 represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other. These figures all lived at different times, but here they are gathered together under one roof.
Leonardo da Vinci
Painting
Last Supper
1495-1498
the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday.
Grant Wood
Painting
American Gothic
1930
The meaning of the portrait, which features two solemn-faced individuals, is something that has been debated since its creation.
Donatello
Sculpture
David
c. 1440
one of the most important sculptures of the early Renaissance SPEAKER 2: Important because it was the first free-standing nude sculpture since classical antiquity. extremely realistic and a prime example of Renaissance naturalism. His body appears lithe as he stands with one foot atop Goliath's decapitated head.
Van Eyck
Painting
The Arnolfini wedding
1434
Other Notes: The woman in the green and the dog is mentioned. The oranges get mentioned too.
One of the great panel paintings of the Netherlandish Renaissance, filled with fascinating detail and complex is a formal picture of a wealthy couple holding hands in the bedchamber of their Flemish ho Arnolfini
David
Painting
The Death of Marat
1793
a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution.
Wright
Building
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1959
opened in 1959, and contains one of the most impressive and comprehensive collections of Modern art, spanning mid-19th-century Realism to Postmodern sculpture and installation.
Vasari Cosimo de' Medici
Building
Uffizi Palace
1560-1581
art museum in Florence that has the world's finest collection of Italian Renaissance painting, particularly of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculpture, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.
Rodin
Sculpture,
The Gates of Hell
1880
a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures.
Goya
Painting
The Third of May, 1808
1814
depicts an execution, an early event in the so-called Peninsular War between France and Spain. ... The Third of May is cited as an influence on Pablo Picasso's 1937 Guernica, which shows the aftermath of the Nazi German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Van Alen
Building
Chrysler Building
1930
considered a leading example of Art Deco architecture. It is constructed of a steel frame in-filled with masonry, with areas of decorative metal cladding. The structure contains 3,862 exterior windows.
Van Gogh
Painting
Starry Night
1889
an oil canvas painting that describes the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an ideal village.
Whistler
Painting
Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: The Artist's Mother
1871
a portrait of a 67-year-old American named Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler (1804-81), who had been painted by her son with whom she had lived in London since 1863. ... Despite the artist's disclaimer, this celebrated painting is usually known today as 'Whistler's Mother'.
Al Ahmar
Building
Alhambra
1354
an ancient palace, fortress and citadel located in Granada, Spain. The eighth-century-old site was named for the reddish walls and towers that surrounded the citadel: al-qal'a al-hamra in Arabic means red fort or castle.
Saarinen
Building
Gateway Arch
1965
a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere, and Missouri's tallest accessible building.
Eiffel
Building
Eiffel tower
1889
1,063 feet (324 meters) tall, including the antenna at the top. Without the antenna, it is 984 feet (300 m). It was the world's tallest structure until the Chrysler Building was built in New York in 1930. The tower was built to sway slightly in the wind, but the sun affects the tower more.
Brunelleschi
Building
Cathedral of Florence
1420
as well as being the fourth largest church in the world. The typical Italian Gothic building, the ____________________________, is dedicated to "Santa Maria del Fiore". The church was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio (c1245-1302) who considerably enlarged the existing religious structure.
Solomon
Building
Temple of Jerusalem
10th century Bc
any of a series of structures which were located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. These successive temples stood at this location and functioned as a site of ancient Israelite and later Jewish worship.
Thornton, Latrobe and Bullfinch
United states capitol
1793-1811 (reconstructed 1815-1826)
among the most symbolically important and architecturally impressive buildings in the nation. It has housed the meeting chambers of the House of Representatives and the Senate for two centuries. The Capitol, which was started in 1793, has been through many construction phases.
Velázquez
Painting
las meninas
1656
an oil painting by a Spanish painter. The painting hangs in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It was painted in 1656. The word "Menina" means "lady-in-waiting" or "Maid of Honour", i.e. a girl who serves in a royal court.
Michelangelo
Pieta
Édouard Manet
Luncheon on the Grass
Brancusi
Bird in Space (1928)
In the Bird in Space works, _____________ concentrated not on the physical attributes of the bird, but instead on its movement. The bird's wings and feathers are eliminated, the swell of the body is elongated, and the head and beak are reduced to a slanted oval plane.
Wyeth
Christina's World (1948)
Set in the stark landscape of coastal Maine, Christina's World depicts a young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field. ... ________ neighbor Anna Christina Olson inspired the composition, which is one of four paintings by ______ in which she appears.
Bartholdi
Liberty Enlightening the World
Ten years later sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with 1876 in mind for completion, to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The Statue was named "Liberty Enlightening the World" and was a joint effort between America and France.
Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People (1830)
Liberty Leading the People, oil painting (1830) commemorates the July Revolution in Paris that removed Charles X, the restored Bourbon king, from the throne.
Titian
Venus of Urbino
It was a gift from the Duke to his young wife. The painting represents the allegory of marriage and was a "teaching" model to Giulia Varano, the young wife of eroticism, fidelity and motherhood.
Bernini
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
The traditional interpretation of ___________ Ecstasy of Saint Teresa is relatively straightforward. The sculpture portrays the Saint's overpowering sense of spiritual pleasure in serving Christ.________ employs imagery that suggests sensual pleasure, but only in order to convey the tangible nature of Teresa's experience - a manifestation of her love of God and her yearning for spiritual union with him. The work is consistent with the aims of the Catholic Counter-Reformation art campaign, which sought to convey the mysteries of Catholicism as cogently as possible.
Bosch
Garden of Earthly Delights
Uses complex symbolism to explore themes of sin and moral failing. Very original in his iconography
Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912
-The painting combines elements of both the Cubist and Futurist movements. In the composition, Duchamp depicts motion by successive superimposed images, similar to stroboscopic motion photography.
-created a sensation when shown at the 1913 Armory Show in New York, where one critic referred to it as "an explosion in a shingle factory."
Cellini
Perseus with the Head of Medusa
The statue had a political meaning and represented the power of the Duke who had "cut off the head" of the Republic. Medusa symbolizes the Republican experiment and the snakes coming out of her body are the discords that have always affected democracy.
Klimt
The Kiss
Other notes: "The Kiss" painting is by Klimt "The Kiss" sculpture is by Rodin
The Kiss is housed in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna's Upper Belvedere Palace. The painting depicts a couple embracing in a field of flowers. ... Klimt depicts the couple locked in intimacy, while the rest of the painting dissolves into shimmering, extravagant flat patterning.
Rembrandt (53)
The Shooting Company of Captain Franz Banning Cocq
Perhaps the most famous painting is the work by Rembrandt known as The Night Watch. It is a group portrait of a militia company. These were groups of able-bodied men who, if the need arose, could be called upon to defend the city or put down riots.
John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Madame X
Turner, 1844
Rain, Steam, and Speed
Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Johannes Vermeer
girl with the pearl earring (1665)
Monet
Impression: Sunrise (1872)
Other notes: This painting is the inspiration for the name of the "Impressionist" movement. Monet lived at Giverny (his famous house in France).
Pieter Bruegel
Fall of Icarus
Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Socrates, 1787.
Matisse
Dance
Rodin(62)
Burghers of Callais
Van Gogh(63)
The Potato Eaters
Wright(64)
Great Workroom of the Johnson Wax Workers (building)
Dali
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
Delacroix(66)
Death of Sardanapalus
Rodin(67)
Man with the Broken Nose (sculpture)
Van Gogh(68)
The Night Cafe
Delacroix(69)
Massacre at Chios
Raphael(70)
Sistine Madonna
Gauguin
Yellow Christ
Botticelli(72)
La Primavera
J. M. W. Turner
Hannibal Crossing the Alps
Edward Munch
Death in the Sickroom
Wright
mile-high Illinois tower (blueprint, never built)
El Greco
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Wright(77)
Rosenbaum House
Valezquez
Rokeby Venus
Chagall
Bella with White Collar
Picasso(80)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (or the Young Ladies of Avignon)
Other Notes: French sounding painting by a Spanish artist
The Girl with the Red Hat
Vermeer
Michelangelo
The Creation of Adam
Renoir
The Umbrellas Impressionism
Cezanne
Boy in a red hat
NOT VERMEER (when you hear "person" in/with a "thing" it's often Vermeer)
Van Gogh
The Potato Eaters
Warhol
Campbell's Soup Can
Other Notes: The artist is famous for being a part of the "Pop Art" movement. Warhol's studio (which was famous) was called "The Factory."
Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Other Notes: Pointillism (lots of little dots Make up the picture.) Painting was featured in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in the 1980s because the paintings is in the Art institute of Chicago.
Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Other Notes: Meant to be a bird's eye view of NYC streets
Chagall
I and the Village, 1911
-its considered a "dream-like scene"
Matisse
The Red Room
Other Notes: official name is "The Dessert: Harmony in Red"
Rodin
The Thinker
Other Notes: "The Thinker" is part of a larger piece by ___________ called "The Gates of Hell" which is doorway depicting a scene from Dante's "Inferno" which is part of Dante's "Divine Comedy"
Michelangelo
David (Sculpture of Marble)
David (sculpture in BRONZE) is by Donatello—Sometimes it's called the "bronze David"
Alexandros of Antioch (but you will rarely have this artist as the answer line)
Venus de Milo
Other Notes: This often comes up in questions where the answer line is Venus and other works with Venus are mentioned. The missing arms are mentioned.
Fauvism
A painting style developed by Henri Matisse in 1905 that formally lasted until 1908. The means "fierce animal." The style rejects Neo-Impressionism and expresses flat, bold, un-naturalistic color with impulsive brushwork; sometimes the blank canvas shows between brushstrokes.
Expressionism
Originating in Germany at the start of the 20th century, a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
"The Bridge" and "the Blue rider" are derived from this
Cubism
Coined by Louis Vauxcelles
Developed entirely by Picasso
an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
Futurism
An early-20th-century Italian art movement that championed war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology.
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