ART OF THE WESTERN WORLD 2/ Western Art 2 (Fall 2024)

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Title: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Medium: marble, stucco and gilt
Location: Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Title: Apollo and Daphne
Medium: marble
Location: Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Caravaggio
Title: The Calling of Saint Matthew
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Annibale Carracci
Title: Love of the Gods
Medium: Fresco
Location: Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Title: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Diego Velázquez
Title: Las Meninas
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Spanish Baroque
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Title: Consequences of War
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
Period: Flemish Baroque
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Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Title: Woman Holding a Balance
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Dutch Baroque
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Artist: Rachel Ruysch
Title: Still Life with Flowers
Medium: Oil on wood
Location: n/a
Period: Dutch Baroque
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Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Title: The Swing
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Rococo
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Artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Title: Marie Antoinette and Her Children
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Versailles, France
Period: Neoclassical
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Artist: Antoine Watteau
Title: Pilgrimage to Cythera
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Rococo

Artist: William Hogarth
Title: Breakfast Scene from Marriage à la Mode
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Eighteenth-century painting
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Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby
Title: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: 18th century
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Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Title: The Oath of the Horatii
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Neoclassical
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Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Title: Death of Marat
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Neoclassical
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Artist: Francisco Goya
Title: Third of May, 1808
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Romanticism
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Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Title: Liberty Leading the People
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Artist: Thomas Cole
Title: The Oxbow
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Romanticism/ Hudson River School
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Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: The Stone Breakers
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Period: Realism
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Artist: François Boucher
Title: Cupid a Captive
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Rococo
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Artist: Edouard Manet
Title: Olympia
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Realism
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Artist: Claude Monet
Title: The Saint-Lazare Station
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Impressionism
Location: n/a
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Artist: Caravaggio,
Title: Conversion of Saint Paul
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Cerasi chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy
Period: Italian Baroque
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Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Title: Immaculate Conception of the Escorial
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: n/a
Period: Spanish Baroque
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Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby
Title: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Eighteenth-century painting
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Artist: Théodore Géricault
Title: Raft of the Medusa
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Romanticism
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Artist: Henry Ossawa Tanner
Title: The Thankful Poor
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Realism
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Artist: Jean-François Millet
Title: The Gleaners
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Salon

a government-sponsored exhibitions of artworks held in Paris

*Another definition: In French, the word salon simply means living room or parlor, and Rococo salons refer to central rooms that are designed in the Rococo style.

You could pick either and it would not be wrong.

exemplum virtutis

a painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer.

Grand Tour

in order to complete their education young Englishmen and Americans in the eighteenth-century undertook a journey to Italy to absorb ancient and Renaissance sites

avant-garde

An innovative group of artists who generally reject traditional approaches in favor of a more experimental technique

En plein-air

painting outdoors to directly capture the effects of light and atmosphere on a given object.

Venice Biennale

A major show of contemporary art that takes place every other year in various venues throughout the city of Venice; begun in 1895

*Guernica was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1937

Genre painting

Painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted

Impasto

A thick and very visible application of paint on a painting surface

Tenebrism

Vanitas

A theme in still life painting that stresses the brevity of life and the folly of human vanity

Dada

An early-20th-century art movement prompted by a revulsion against the horror of World War I. Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive. A disdain for convention, often enlivened by humor or whimsy, is characteristic of the art the Dadaists produced.

sublime

Any cathartic experience from the catastrophic to the intellectual that causes the viewer to marvel in awe wonder and passion.

Prix de Rome

Rome Prize

*Fragonard won the prize in 1752

Orrey

Technological model used to demonstrate a theory of the universe

fête galante

an eighteenth-century French style of painting that depicts the aristocracy walking through a forested landscape

Impressionism

A late-19th-century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the elusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.

True color

An object's true color in white light.

memento mori

Latin, "reminder of death." In painting, a reminder of human mortality, usually represented by a skull

Divine Right

The belief in a king's absolute power as God's will.

Louis XIV of France

Gleaning

The collection by peasants of wheat scraps left in the field after a harvest.

Artist: Edgar Degas
Title: The Rehearsal
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Impressionism
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