NAQT art

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.