Midterm- Humanities – Flashcards
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The geographer
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artist: jan vermeer style: northern baroque this painting not only embodies the intellectual fervor of the age, but also many of the themes and strategies of dutch vernacular painting in the 17th century
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flowers in a wan-li vase with blue tit
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artist: johannes goedaert style: northern baroque still life painting the blue bird is a reminder of the frivolous quality of human existence
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the dancing couple
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artist: jan steen style: northern baroque typical genre scene the church in the background is there to remind us of the fleeting nature of human life as well as the hellfire that awaits those who have fallen into the vices so openly displayed in the rest of the painting
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the anatomy lesson of dr. tulp
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artist: rembrandt van rijn style: northern barqoue this painting was intended to celebrate tulps medicial knowledge as well as his following
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louis xvi, king of france
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artist: hyacinthe rigaud style: royal baroque shows that louis only listened to himself (authority)
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hall of mirrors
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artist: jules hardouin-mansart and charles le brun style:
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the arrival and reception of marie de medici
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artist: rubens style: royal baroque the naked ladies of his work came to be known as rubenesque
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the shepherds of arcadia las meninas
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artist: poussin style: royal baroque poussiniste style
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gin lane
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artist: william hogarth style: enlightenment satire hogarth turned his attention, not to the promise of the english enlightenment, but to the reality of london at its worst
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the morning party
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artist: william hogarth style: enlightenment satire
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the embarkation from cythera
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artist: jean-antoine watteau style: rococo painted with erotic overtones of fetes galantes
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the toilet of venus
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artist: francois boucher style: rococo this piece of work openly acknowledges both madame de pompadour's sexual role in the court and the erotic underpinnings of the rococo as a whole
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the swing
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artist: jean-honore fragonard style: rococo erotic symbolism the lost shoe and naked food was a well known symbol of lost virginity
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the death of marat
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artist: jacques- louis david style: neoclassicism this work is notable for its seemingly unflinching depicition of its hero at the moment of his brutal death
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monticello
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artist: thomas jefferson style: neoclassical (federal)
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the oath of the horatii
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artist: jacques-louis david style: neoclassical his work has a frozen quality to emphasize rationality, and the brushstrokes are invisible, to create a clear focus and to highlight details
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napoleon crossing the saint bernard
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artist: jacques- louis david style: neoclassical/ empire emphasis on right angles the work is pure propoganda
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watson and the shark
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artist: john singleton copley style: romantic the sentiments of wedgwoods cameo find expression even in paintings that seem to have to direct reference to slavery
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the hay wain
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artist: john constable style: romantic one of a series of major paintings began as sketches of london
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the fall of an avalanche in the grisons
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artist: j.m.w. turner style: romantic suggests the extinction of the very hope of man
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snow storm- steam boat off a harbours mouth
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artist: aj. m. w. turner style: romantic turners depiction of the raw experience of nature in its most elemental form
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monk by the sea
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artist: casper david friedrich style: romantic the figure seems to be facing a void (crisis of faith)
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the wanderer
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artist: casper david freidrich style: romantic can be viewed as a projection of ourselves the full magnificence of the scene is only hinted at, a vague promise of eventual revelation
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the third of may 1808
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artist: francisco goya style: romantic one of the greatest testaments to the horrors of war ever painted
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saturn
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artist: francisco goya style: romantic (black painting) abandoned reason dominated his pictures
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rain, steam, and speed
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artist: j. m. w. turner style: romantic to the left lies the preindustrial world and to the right postindustrial modernity
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the raft of medusa
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artist: theodore gericault style: romantic
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la grande odalisque
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artist: ingres style: neoclassical dramatic contrast between the dark background and the lit flesh of the body
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odalisque
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artist: delacroix style: romantic
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liberty leading the people
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artist: eugene delacroix style: romantic a taste of political struggle
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the stonebreakers
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artist: gustave courbet style: realism
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oxbow
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artist: thomas cole style: romanitc the tension between the improvements of cultivation and the sublimity of the wilderness describes the boundary between those lands which the hand of a man has touched and the undefiled wilderness
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negro life in the south
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artist: eastman johnson style: romantic highly ambiguous- could be read as for or against slavery
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a harvest of death
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artist: timothy o' sullivan (negative) and alexander gardner (print) style: realism conveys a useful moral: shows the blank horror and reality of war, in opposition to the pageantry
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ecstasy of st. teresa
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artist: gianlorenzo bernini style: baroque teresa throws her head back in ecstasy as the angel above her withdraws his arrow from her entrails
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david
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artist: gianlorenzo bernini style: barqoue this sculpture captures the young hero in the midst of action davids body twists in an elaborate spiral, creating dramatic contrasts of light and shadow
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conversion of st. paul
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artist: caravaggio style: baroque caravaggio used light to dramatize moments of conversion
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judith and maidservant with head of holofernes
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artist: artemisia Gentileschi style: baroque only uses light from the candle which is very caravaggesque
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church baroque
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Vatican Square Ecstasy of St. Teresa David Conversion of St. Paul Judith and Maidservant with head of Holofernes
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northern baroque
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The Geographer Flowers in a Wan-li Vase with Blue Tit The Dancing Couple The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
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royal baroque
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Louis XIV, King of France Hall of Mirrors The Arrival and Reception of Marie de Medici The Shepherds of Arcadia Las Meninas
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english baroque
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St. Paul's Cathedral, London
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enlightenment satire
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Gin Lane The Morning Party
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roccoco
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The Embarkation from Cythera The Toilet of Venus The Swing
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neoclassical
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The Death of Marat Monticello The Oath of the Horatii Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard La Grande Odalisque
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romantic
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Watson and the Shark The Hay Wain The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Monk by the Sea The Wanderer The Third of May Saturn Rain, Steam, and Speed The Raft of Medusa Odalisque Liberty Leading the People Oxbow Negro Life in the South
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realism
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The Stonebreakers A Harvest of Death
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With what were the 18th century French philosophes concerned?
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Secular and social concerns
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Which of the following does NOT define Rococo interior architecture?
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Symmetrical surfaces
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Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fetes galantes become so popular?
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Their erotic overtones
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Why do so many of Francois Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour show her writing?
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To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor
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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the English garden?
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manicured flowerbeds
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Why was portraiture especially popular with the middle-class seventeenth-century Dutch?
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Affirmation of their financial well-being
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Why did the Dutch rebel against the Spanich in 1567?
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Philip II reorganized their churches under Catholic hierarchy
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From where did Europe receive the first load of tulip bulbs?
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Turkey
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According to Francis Bacon, what were the greatest obstacles to human understanding?
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Superstition and religion
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What manner of inquiry did Rene Descartes advocate?
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deductive reasoning
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Why were the Catholic and Protestant Churches opposed to Kepler's and Galileo's heliocentric theory?
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For contradicting certain biblical passages
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Of what does a vanitas painting remind the viewer?
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To focus on the spiritual, not the material
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Why was Rembrandt so interested in self-portraiture?
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His own face provided the ideal practice subject
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What provided one of the main forms of entertainment at Dutch famliy gatherings
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The performance of keyboard music
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Why has the era of Louis XIV's reign become known as the Age of Absolutism?`
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Louis was a strong monarch who exerted power based on divine right
