Humanities Art History Flashcards

Vocabulary study flashcards mapping famous artworks to their artists and historical time periods.

Ziggurat

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Sumer

Bull's Head Lyre

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Sumer

Law Code of Hammurabi

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Sumer

Pyramid of Djoser

Artist: Imhotep; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

Pyramids of Giza

Artist: Khufu, Khafra, Menkaure; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

Menkaure and Khamerernebty II

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

The Sphinx

Artist: Traditionally attributed to Khafra; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

Djeser-Djeseru, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Artist: Senenmut; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

Nefertiti

Artist: Thutmose; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

King Tutankhamen Mummy Case

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Egypt

Kouros

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Kritios Boy

Artist: Kritios; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Discobolos

Artist: Myron; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

Artist: Polykleitos; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Parthenon

Artist: Ictinus and Callicrates; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Nike of Samothrace

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Venus de Milo

Artist: Alexandros; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Laocoön and His Sons

Artist: Agesandros, Polydoros, Athenodoros; Time Period: Ancient Greece

Augustus of Prima Porta

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Rome

Villa of the Mysteries

Artist: Unknown; Time Period: Ancient Rome

Colosseum

Artist: Vespasian and Titus; Time Period: Ancient Rome

Arch of Titus

Artist: Domitian; attributed to architect Rabirius; Time Period: Ancient Rome

Pantheon

Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus; Time Period: Ancient Rome

Notre-Dame in Paris

Artist: Jean de Chelles and Pierre de Montreuil; Time Period: Middle Ages

Cathedral and Bell Tower of Pisa

Artist: Bonnano Pisano; Time Period: Middle Ages

Santa Trinita Maestà, Madonna Enthroned

Artist: Cimabue; Time Period: Middle Ages

Ognissanti Madonna

Artist: Giotto; Time Period: Middle Ages

Gates of Paradise

Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti; Time Period: Renaissance

Santa Trinita, The Holy Trinity

Artist: Masaccio; Time Period: Renaissance

David (Donatello)

Artist: Donatello; Time Period: Renaissance

Arnolfini Wedding

Artist: Jan van Eyck; Time Period: Renaissance

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi; Time Period: Renaissance

Lorenzo de' Medici (The Magnificent)

Artist: Verrocchio; Time Period: Renaissance

Birth of Venus

Artist: Sandro Botticelli; Time Period: Renaissance

Last Supper

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci; Time Period: Renaissance

Pietà

Artist: Michelangelo; Time Period: Renaissance

Self-Portrait (Albrecht Dürer)

Artist: Albrecht Dürer; Time Period: Renaissance

David (Michelangelo)

Artist: Michelangelo; Time Period: Renaissance

Mona Lisa

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci; Time Period: Renaissance

Garden of Earthly Delights

Artist: Hieronymus Bosch; Time Period: Renaissance

The Crucifixion

Artist: Matthias Grünewald; Time Period: Renaissance

Sistine Chapel, Creation of Adam

Artist: Michelangelo; Time Period: Renaissance

School of Athens

Artist: Raphael; Time Period: Renaissance

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

Artist: Raphael; Time Period: Renaissance

The Last Judgment

Artist: Michelangelo; Time Period: Renaissance

Venus and Adonis

Artist: Titian; Time Period: Renaissance

Bandini Pietà (Deposition)

Artist: Michelangelo; Time Period: Renaissance

Christ on the Cross

Artist: El Greco; Time Period: Renaissance

Martyrdom of Saint Matthew

Artist: Caravaggio; Time Period: Baroque

David with the Head of Goliath

Artist: Caravaggio; Time Period: Baroque

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi; Time Period: Baroque

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini; Time Period: Baroque

Piazza San Pietro

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini; Time Period: Baroque

Versailles

Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart; Time Period: Baroque

Hall of Mirrors

Artist: Jules Hardouin-Mansart; Time Period: Baroque

Louis XIV

Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud; Time Period: Baroque

Las Meninas

Artist: Diego Velázquez; Time Period: Baroque

The Banquet of the Officers

Artist: Frans Hals; Time Period: Baroque

The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens; Time Period: Baroque

The Night Watch

Artist: Rembrandt; Time Period: Baroque

The Milkmaid

Artist: Johannes Vermeer; Time Period: Baroque

The Music Lesson

Artist: Johannes Vermeer; Time Period: Baroque

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Artist: Johannes Vermeer; Time Period: Baroque

Self-Portrait (1669)

Artist: Rembrandt; Time Period: Baroque

Sign for Gersaint's Shop

Artist: Antoine Watteau; Time Period: Rococo

Flora

Artist: Rosalba Carriera; Time Period: Rococo

Nude on the Sofa (The Blonde Odalisque)

Artist: François Boucher; Time Period: Rococo

The Swing

Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Time Period: Rococo

Progress of Love

Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Time Period: Rococo

Marie Antoinette

Artist: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun; Time Period: Rococo

Pantheon (Paris)

Artist: Jacques-Germain Soufflot; Time Period: Classical

Oath of the Horatii

Artist: Jacques-Louis David; Time Period: Classical

Virginia Capitol

Artist: Thomas Jefferson; Time Period: Classical

Death of Socrates

Artist: Jacques-Louis David; Time Period: Classical

U.S. Capitol

Artist: William Thornton; Time Period: Classical

Death of Julius Caesar

Artist: Vincenzo Camuccini; Time Period: Classical

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; Time Period: Classical

The Snowstorm

Artist: J. M. W. Turner; Time Period: Romantic

The Third of May 1808

Artist: Francisco Goya; Time Period: Romantic

Cloister Cemetery in the Snow

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich; Time Period: Romantic

Chalk Cliffs at Rügen

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich; Time Period: Romantic

The Raft of the Medusa

Artist: Théodore Géricault; Time Period: Romantic

Liberty Leading the People

Artist: Eugène Delacroix; Time Period: Romantic

The Kiss

Artist: Auguste Rodin; Time Period: Romantic

Age of Maturity and Youth

Artist: Camille Claudel; Time Period: Romantic

The Stone Breakers

Artist: Gustave Courbet; Time Period: Realism

Third Class Carriage

Artist: Honoré Daumier; Time Period: Realism

Luncheon on the Grass

Artist: Édouard Manet; Time Period: Realism

Impression, Sunrise

Artist: Claude Monet; Time Period: Impressionism

Bal du Moulin de la Galette

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Time Period: Impressionism

The Star

Artist: Edgar Degas; Time Period: Impressionism

Rouen Cathedral Series

Artist: Claude Monet; Time Period: Impressionism

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Artist: Georges Seurat; Time Period: Post-Impressionism

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

Artist: Vincent van Gogh; Time Period: Post-Impressionism

The Starry Night

Artist: Vincent van Gogh; Time Period: Post-Impressionism

The Scream

Artist: Edvard Munch; Time Period: Post-Impressionism

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Artist: Paul Cézanne; Time Period: Post-Impressionism

Guaranty Building

Artist: Louis Sullivan; Time Period: Modernism

American Gothic

Artist: Grant Wood; Time Period: Modernism

Fallingwater

Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright; Time Period: Modernism