Soph Review Art History Exam

Ancient Egypt, Queen Tiye, c. 1352 BCE.

Classical Greece, Riace Warrior A, c. 460-450 BCE.

Classical Greece, Iktinos and Kallikrates, The Parthenon, Athens, 447-432 BCE.

Hellenistic, School of Rhodes, Laocoön, 1st century BCE.

Imperial Rome, The Pantheon, Rome, c. 110-128 CE

Imperial Rome, Equestrian portrait of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, c. 176 CE.

Late Roman Empire, The Head of Constantine, Rome, c. 325 CE.

Late Roman Empire, Priestess of Bacchus Conducting Rites, c. 400 CE.

Byzantine, The Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, San Vitale, Ravenna, c. 547.

Early Medieval, Chi Rho Page from the Book of Kells, late 8th, early 9th century.

• Found in the Gospel of Matthew. marks the birth of jesus.

Ottonian, Gero Crucifix, c. 970.

Romanesque, Gislebertus, Last Judgment Tympanum at Autun Cathedral, c. 1120-30.

• high-relief sculpture. limestone.

Gothic, Rose Window and Lancets, Chartres Cathedral, c. 1230-35.

Gothic, Upper Chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1239-48.

Gothic, Virgin and Child (Virgin of Jeanne d’Evreux), c. 1324-39.

Northern Renaissance, Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding, 1434.

• oil paint.

• many theories of the couple in painting.

Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1497-98.

• woodcut print

Northern Renaissance, Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1510-12.

Early Renaissance in Florence, Lorenzo Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402.

• Relief panel for the doors of the Florence Baptistery

Early Renaissance in Florence, Fillipo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral, Florence, 1420-36.

Early Renaissance in Florence, Masaccio, Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, c. 1425-1427.

• first painting to apply the mathematical laws of linear perspective

Early Renaissance in Florence, Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-86.

• Tempera on canvas

• risky for the time

• Zephyr (the west wind) and Aura or Chloris blow Venus toward the land.

High Renaissance, Raphael, The School of Athens, The Vatican, Rome, 1510-11.

• Fresco

• Michelangelo, Aristotle, and Heracleitus can be seen throughout.

High Renaissance, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican, Rome, 1508-1512.

Italian Baroque, Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Theresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-1652.

• marble sculpture

Italian Baroque, Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, 1599-1600.

Northern Baroque, Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1610-11.

Neo-Classicism in France, Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatti, 1784-85.

Neo-Classicism/Romanticism in France, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Grand Odalisque, 1814.

• oil painting

Romanticism in France, Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19.

• oil painting

Romanticism in England, James Mallord William Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834, 1834.

Photography, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, The Artist’s Studio, 1837.

Realism in France, Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849.

Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, 1863.

• oil on canvas painting

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863.

• oil painting and scandalous for the time

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies Bergère, 1881-82.

• oil on canvas painting

• woman stands infront of a mirror

Impressionism, Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal on Stage, c. 1874.

• The dancers display natural, ungraceful postures of tiredness, capturing the physical labor of the job

Impressionism, Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral: The Portal in Sun, 1894.

Post-Impressionism, Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86.

• oil painting. Pointillism.

• Found in Chicago

Post-Impressionism, Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889.

Late 19th century sculpture, Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-89.

Fauvism, Henri Matisse, The Woman with a Hat, 1905.

• oil-on-canvas painting

• fauvism - style uses wild, non-naturalistic colors and rough brushstrokes instead of realistic tones.

Proto-Cubism, Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907.

• oil painting

  • means “the young ladies of Avignon”

German Expressionism, Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisaion 28 (2nd Version), 1912.

• oil on canvas painting

• named his works "Improvisations" to link painting with music.

DaDa, Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

• Duchamp pioneered the "readymade"—taking an ordinary manufactured object and designating it as art through intellectual choice rather than physical craftsmanship

Early Modern Sculpture, Constantin Brancusi, Newborn, 1915.

• marble sculpture

• it symbolizes a infants first cry

Abstract-Expressionim, Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (No.30), 1950.

• drip painting

Abstract-Expressionism, Mark Rothko, Lavender and Mulberry, 1959

• Oil paint on paperboard

Pop Art, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962.

• silkscreen painting

Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein, Oh Jeff… I Love You, Too… But… , 1964.

• oil and magna on canvas painting

Performance Art, Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965.

Post-Industrial Architecture, Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1993-97.

Video Art, Nam June Paik, Electronic Super Highway: Continental U.S., 1995.