Art History Test 3 Painting Identification

Name: Elevation of the Cross

Artist: Rubens

Era: Baroque Flanders

Name: Marie de Medici, Queen of France, Landing in Marseilles, 3 November 1600

Artist: Rubens

Era: Baroque Flanders

Name:Supper Party

Artist: Gerard van Honthorst

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard

Artist: Frans Hals

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: The Night Watch

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: The Milkmaid

Artist: Jan Vermeer

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen

Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: Vanitas Still Life

Artist: Pieter Claesz

Era: Baroque Netherlands

Name: The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Artist: Nicolas Poussin

Era: Baroque France

Name: Burial of Phocion

Artist: Nicolas Poussin

Era: Baroque France

Comparison

Baroque France Lanscape: idealized, classical, structured, NOT from direct observation

Dutch Baroque Landscape: realistic, observational, atmospheric, focused on everyday landscape, from direct observation and recreation

Name: Departure from the Island of Cythera

Artist: Antoine Watteau

Era: Rococo

Name: Cupid a Captive

Artist: Francois Boucher

Era: Rococo

Name: The Swing

Artist: Jean-Honore Fragonard

Era: Rococo

Name: Filial Piety (The Paralytic)

Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Era: Enlightenment

comparison

Rococo: playful, romantic, aristocratic, focused on pleasure and fantasy, loose brushwork, soft edges, pastel colors, airy and flowing composition

Enlightenment: moralizing, realistic, focused on family, virtue, and social values, tighter brushwork, clearer forms, more natural color, structured composition