Art History Practice Flashcards

A collection of vocabulary flashcards identifying key artworks, their creators, dates, materials, and locations based on the lecture transcript.

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Calf Bearer 570 B.C.E., Marble, 5'4", Acropolis Museum, Athens

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Kore in Dorian Peplos c. 530 B.C., Marble, Height 48", Acropolis Museum, Athens

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Anavysos Kouros 530 B.C.E., Marble, 6' 4", National Archeological Museum, Athens

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Herakles Strangling the Nemean Lion Amphora, c. 525 B.C., Height 19 1/2", Museo Civico, Brescia

Pederastic Courtship Scene

An Attic Black-figure amphora attributed to the Phrynos Painter, dated 575-525 BCE.

Discus Thrower

A Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze by Myron, dated circa 450 BC, located in the National Roman Museum, Rome.

Polyclitus, Spear-bearer

A 6'11" Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze, dated circa 450-440 BC, located in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

A 6'8" Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze, dated circa B.C., located in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

Augustus of Primaporta

A 6'8" marble copy of an earlier bronze from circa 1st Century C.E., located in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

A 16' 8" tall bronze statue from 173 C.E., located in the Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.

Raphael, La Belle Jardinière

A 1507 oil on panel painting, 122 x 80 cm, located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Michelangelo, Pieta

A 1499 marble sculpture located in St. Peter's, Vatican.

Botticelli, Birth of Venus

A circa 1485-86 tempera on canvas painting, measuring 67 7/8" x 109 5/8".

Donatello, David

A 5'2" bronze sculpture created in 1432.

Donatello, Judith and Holofernes

A bronze sculpture created between 1446-60.

Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes

A circa 1598 oil on canvas painting, located in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes

An oil on canvas painting created between 1612-13.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Susannah and the Elders

A 1610 oil on canvas painting.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina

A 1621-22 marble sculpture, 295 cm tall, located in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, David

A life-size marble sculpture created in 1623.

François Girardon, The Rape of Proserpine

A 1677-99 marble sculpture, 270 cm in height, located in the Garden of the castle, Versailles.

Diego Velázquez, The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano

An oil on canvas painting created between 1642-45.

Diego Velázquez, The Dwarf Sebastian de Morra

A circa 1645 oil on canvas painting.

Diego Velázquez, Don Diego de Acedo (El Primo)

A circa 1645 oil on canvas painting.

Rembrandt, Adoration of the Shepherds

A 1646 oil on canvas painting.

Botticelli, Adoration of the Magic

A painting from 1475.

Jan Steen, The Dissolute Household

A 1661-64 oil on canvas painting, measuring 81 x 89 cm, located in the Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London.

Nicolas Poussin, The Judgement of Solomon

A 1649 oil on canvas painting.

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii

A 1784 oil on canvas painting.

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat

A 1793 oil on canvas painting.

Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps

An 1801 oil on canvas painting.