Art History Final

Annibale Carracci, Galleria Farnese, Palazzo Farnese, 1600

Annibale Carracci, Galleria Farnese, Palazzo Farnese, 1600

Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1639

Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1638

Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672

Quadro riportato

the Italian phrase for "carried picture" or "transported paintings". It is used in art to describe gold-framed easel paintings or framed paintings that are seen in a normal perspective and painted into a fresco

pentimento

a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas.

quadratura

describes a form of illusionistic mural painting in which images of architectural feature are painted onto walls or ceiling so that they seem to extend the real architecture of the room into an imaginary space beyond the confines of the actual wall of ceiling.

Chiaroscuro

Abrupt transition from dark to light

Bernini, David, 1624

Bernini, Saint Theresa in Ecstasy 1652 (cornaro chapel)

Bernini, Baldacchino, 1634, Vatican, Saint Peter’s Basilica

Borromini, Corridor, 1630

Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling (fresco) and Dome (canvas), 1694 (saint ignazio)

di sotto in su

“from below to above”) in drawing and painting, extreme foreshortening of figures painted on a ceiling or other high surface so as to give the illusion that the figures are suspended in air above the viewer

quadratura

a mixture of geometrically accurate architecture in forced perspective and elements of fantasy, like cherubs and floating saints.

trompe l'oeil

a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality

forced perspective

a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator

Jan Brueghel and Pieter Paul Rubens , Sight (From a series of the Five Senses) 1618

Jan Brueghel and Pieter Paul Rubens, Madonna in a Garland, 1620

Rubens, Marie de Medici Series: 4. The Presentation of Marie’s Portrait to Henry IV, 1624

Rubens, The Horror of War, 1639

Jan Van Kessel the Elder, Painting Cycle—The Four Parts of the Earth, 1666

Juan Sánchez Cotán, Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, 1602

Francesco de Zurbaran, Crucifixion, 1627

Velazquez, The Waterseller of Seville, 1618

bodegón

is a still life painting depicting pantry items

Velázquez, The Surrender of Breda, 1635

Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Biombo with the Conquest of Mexico and View of Mexico City, New Spain, late 17th century

Virgin of Guadalupe, 16th century

acheiropoieta

a work not made by human hands

Juan Baptista Cuiris, image of Christ made with feathers, 1600

Baltasar de Echave Ibía, The Hermits, Saint Paul and Saint Anthony, 1620

Parish of San Sebastián, detail from the Procession of Corpus Christi series, 1680

Frans Hals, Officers of the Saint George’s Militia Company, 1616

Rembrandt, Self Portrait (34), 1640

Rembrandt, The Hundred Guilder Print (Matthew Chapter 19) 1642

etching (an intaglio process)

lines or areas are incised using acid into a metal plate in order to hold the ink

Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1663

Jan Steen, In Luxury Look Out, 1663

Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Nautilus Cup, 1662

Ruisdael, View of the Dunes near Overveen, ca. 1675

Willem van de Velde the Younger, Ships in a Gale, 1660

Frans Post, View of the Rio São Francisco Brazil with Fort Maurits and a capibara, Frans Post, 1639

Albert Eckhout, Tapuya Woman, 1641

Jacques Callot, Miseries of War: the Hanging, 1633

Georges de la Tour, The Penitent Magdalen,1640

(Louis) Le Nain, A Peasant Family, 1640

Philippe de Champaigne, Ex Voto of 1662, 1662

Charles Le Brun, Everhard Jabach and His Family, 1660

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701

Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Versailles 1685

Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Hall of Mirrors 1684

Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Salon of War 1686

Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Salon of Peace 1680

Le Nôtre, Latona Fountain, 1670

Le Brun (designed), Apollo Basin, 1671

François Girardon and Thomas Regnaudin (sculptures) Thetis and Apollo Grotto, 1675

Salon

public exhibition

Jean François de Troy, A Reading of Molière or Reading in a salon, 1728

Germain Boffrand, Salon de Princess, 1740

(hotel de soubise, Duke of guise, Rohan-Soubise family)

hôtel

(grand town house)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Cajoler & Faun 1708

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Fêtes Vénitiennes, 1719

fêtes galantes

These were scenes in which exquisitely dressed young people idle away time in dreamy, romantic, pastoral settings. They appear joyful but are often tinged with melancholy.

salon(small s)

a room

Watteau, Gersaint‘s Shop Sign, 1721

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, A Lady Taking Tea, 1735

François Boucher, The Triumph of Venus, 1740

François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1759

(mistress to louis XV, gained power in the political sphere)

Fragonard, The Progress of Love, 1763

(madame du berry, mistress of louis xv)

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun, Self-Portrait, 1790

Hogarth, Signing the Contract, from Marriage a la Mode, 1745

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews,1750

Thomas Gainsborough, The Cottage Door, 1778

Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, The Park at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England, 1750.

(end of the seven years war, george the III)

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, Alfred's Tower, 1750

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, Temple of Ceres, now Flora, 1750

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, Temple of Apollo, 1750

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, Temple of Hercules - now the Pantheon,1750

Henry Fitcroft and Henry Hoare II, the grotto,1750

Giovanni Paolo Panini , Modern Rome, 1757

(Duke de Choiseul, ambassador to Rome from 1753 to 1757; he is shown seated in an armchair)

Johann Zoffany, Charles Towneley in his Sculpture Gallery, 1782

Joshua Reynolds, Sir William Hamilton, 1777

Johann Zoffany, Group Portrait of Sir Elijah and Lady Impey, 1783

Shaikh Zain ad-Din of Patna (attributed) Mary, Lady Impey, Supervising Her Household, 1783