Art History Terms

Triptych

3 Panel Painting

Saenredam

Abandoned old tradition of painting imaginary and artificial interiors, Depicted faithful representations of Church interiors using measuring plans and scientific equipment.

The art in Versailles evinces that Louis XIV wanted to be seen as

Apollo

In his presentation, Christopher Atkins shows a painting that depicts the back of a painting

As an example of a sophisticated 17th Century Dutch painting about painting

Banquet of the Officers of the St. Adrian Militia Company, shows Dutch civil servants as a representation of civic pride lighten by a warm, divine light.

False: there is no warm, divine light.

-Naturalistic -presented as beautiful (younger women forced to have sex with 2 men -female artist -awkward protective position

Gentileschi Susanna and the Elders

How is Watteau different than Fragonard?

He introduces ambiguity, intellectual depth.

Rubens often painted modellos. This means that

He made large oil sketches

Fraans Hals

None of the above

Windwills in Baroque Dutch Art...

Often appear soaring over horizon lines, triumphantly

Transubstantiation:

The transforming of bread and wine into flesh and blood of Christ.

Left; mourning and calm followers of Christ; right: violent Roman Soldiers

The wings or the sides of the triptych, show

In the back wall of the room depicted in The Love Letter ...

There is a seascape and a solitary wanderer

Impasto:

Thick layer of paint that stands out from the surface (Hard to see in reproductions)

In, RUEBENS elevation of the cross

Trick Question: Spelled RUBENS

In the back wall of Rembrandts The Love Letter

Trick question: The Love Letter was painted by VERMEER

Tenebroso is a...

extremely high contrast of dark and light.

Rubens...

has painterly style, learning from Caravaggio

Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture replaces

the guild of painters Learning process: copy old masters --> copy from cats -->copy from life--> often naked models* - regulating how you learn -effectively replaced the guild of St Luke -Established a learning programs in which students copied

Hierarchy of painting:

- History Painting -Portrait Painting - Genre Painting -Landscape -Animal -Still Life

Hardown-Mansart and Le Brun, Hall of Mirrors

- One side or mirrors, One side of windows

Lourve Palace, Paris

- Place of Versailles - Louis moves to palace of Versailles -Declaration of Power -Political Significance - Louis @ the center

San Pedro, Andahuaylillas (Peru) "The sistine chapel of the americas"

- Renissance Chapel, not Baroque - vibrant, colors, full of patterns - HYBRID STYLE* a mixture of two styles -create centers to convert population population, mythology, must negotiate with people. - Flowers motifs also of value.

Regarding the motifs and symbols represented

- Some animals are indigenous to South America -There are colorful Phoenix -The mermaid with the guitar is a Peruvians motif

Watteu embarktion for Cytheria

- is an island where venus came from -Fete Gelante= fancy party -Gener? Because everyday life scence, but cannot belief is mythological land -painting doesn't follow academy subjects, style -Temporality

Luis de Riano, Road to Heaven and Hell

- last thing you see when exits church - European tradition Style - Balconyis for those who haven't converted to Christianity, they can't go to church grounds but they can go to balconies.

Ruebens and Le Brun have the following in common

-Both worked in France. -Their royal commissions are permeated with mythological figures to glorify political power.

Berninis project inside S. Peters included

-Cathedra Petri -Baldacchino -Four Piers each with a sculpture and a relic

The Palace of Versailles

-Centralized the French Government -Allowed Louis XIV to avoid risks and aristocratic conspiracies and popular riots.

Watteau

-First modern artists -Academy has a problem with him bc he is one of the most popular artists but was never apart of the Academy.

Who's running the Gov of Paris?

-Louis and the Barocrats are running the Gov - people good at math and economics -you can buy your titles, which makes the nobels not so special anymore

The Project inside St. Peters

-Made a visual argument in favor of the Catholic Church and Popes authority -

1350-1450 Events

-Modern Bank System -Church Crisis -Peasant revolt -Black Death -Warfare Changes -Guttenberg developed printing press -Fall of Byzantine Empire

The Oath of the Horatti, David

-Neoclassicism -Very distinct between male and female gender roles -Teaches you your place in society -women are curved= weak and feminine c) VERY LENIANT. = going out of his way to make message clear d) Contrast between light and dark i) Background is dark to remove structures e) Style is very composed i) Lines created by brothers arms ii) Careful, academic training

Quadratura

-Painting on a ceiling that was made to look like it was on a wall. -Emphasizes Frame -Most expensive art Style at the Time.

Watteau, Shopsign

-The type of shop where paintings where being sold, hung infront of the store where they sell paintings -Unique commissoire - Painterly Style -woman facing he back to us -putting a picture of Louis 14th away/old masters/ baroque artists

The Royal French academy of painting and sculpture..

-effectively replaced the guild of St. Luke -established a learning program in which students began learning by copying old masters

Charles Le Brun, The King Governs Alone

-most important commissioned is commissioned by King. - I am the God of the Son - Supported by Divine figures

Michelangelo vs Titian

= Linear vs. Painterly Style

A still life painting depicting flowers, a skull, fruits, and other items will likely be..

A Vanitas

Chris Atkins refers to the 17th-Century Dutch as...

A highly visual society

A guild is:

A professional group or association of artists/artisans

Tenebroso/Tenebrisim

A pronounced chiaroscuro with a violent contrast of light and dark

-Not clear what is going on -Angel carrying Jesus down to St Paul. -Very manneristic painting -Church rejects this painting

Caravaggio, The conversion of Saint Paul

Berninis project inside S. Peters included:

Cathedra Petri, Baldacchino, Four Piers with each a sculpture and a relic.

The embroidery was made in

China, and it was later assembled and sold in Peru

In the central panel of Rubens's Elevation of the Cross

Christ, triumphant and muscular, actively accepts his fate as he receives God as divine light

The painting Milkmaid and Cattle near Dordrecht..

Conveys Dutch political and religious identity By Albert Cuyp -Conveys Dutch political and religious identity

Paleotti famously wanted catholic art to:

Delight; instruct; move

The Dutch painter Saenredam

Depicted faithful representations of Church interiors using measuring plans and scientific equipment

The painting

Depicts three shepherds who have encountered a tomb, and with it the thought death even in their topic land, depicts a figure tracing a shadow, which some ancient, sources regarded as the first artistic development, invokes arts capacity to transcend death (A,B,C)

Pietro de Cortonas Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power is defined by

Di Sotto in Su; Rome; Theatrically

Pietro da Cortonas Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power is defined by:

Di sotto in su'; Rome; theatricality

Rubens, Raising of the Cross

Evinces catholic pictorial values

Which phrase best defines Tenebroso?

Extremely high contrast of light and dark in painting.

17th Century Dutch Artists all together stopped creating scared and religious images

FALSE.

17th Century Dutch Artits altogether stopped creating sacred and religious images

FALSE.

Banquet of the Officers of the St. Adrian Militia Company shows Dutch civil servants lighten by a warm, divine light..

FALSE.

Chris Atkins argues that Dutch 17th-Century art buyers were only concerned with images that were either political, moralizing, or religious, and that there was basically no interest art for aesthetic pleasure. For this reason, Atkins argues, 17th-Century Dutch art buyers are totally different than modern viewers like us enjoying art for art's sake in a museum.

FALSE.

It was prohibited to sell or send precious materials from 17th and 18th century Spain to its colonies, but such a ruling was not obeyed.

FALSE.

Paintings of Dutch Church interiors, both seen in class and in Chris Atkins' lecture, appear as stark, white-washed spaces; furthermore, 17th-Century Dutch artists altogether stopped creating sacred and religious images.

FALSE.

Judith Leyster is the only 17th Century Dutch woman artist we know of.

FALSE. Theres two as of now.

Rubens often painted modellos. This means that..

He made large oil sketches

Di Sotto in Sa

Illusionary; you can't tell whats real and whats painted, very theatrical -Golde Light= Gods, Gods Power

Didactic

Images that teach you something; you are intended to learn from this

Christ, triumphant and muscular, actively accepts its fate as he receives God as Divine light.

In the Center Panel

What was the main purpose of art in churches after the Council of Trent

It was meant to educate people about the Bible

We can describe the style as..

Linear and classical.

Which of the following defines Berninis David as a Baroque sculpture..

Moment of highest tension (Narrative Climax)

In his lecture, "Naturalism and Meaning in Dutch Art," Christopher Atkins argues that science and 17th Century Dutch art are both rooted in the idea of..

Observation

Modello:

Oil color sketch

Michelangelo is to linear what Titian is to..

Painterly

Rococo sources

Painterly Style, (Titian, Ruebens)

-Pastel Colors -Clear ambitious space -Characteristic of Mannerism -Deviate from Anatomy

Pontormo Disposition/Entombment

Painterly Style:

Quick; visible; brush strokes

The painter of this painting spent most of his time career in beloved..

Rome

One of these artists (is not like the others)

Rubens

This Painting Depicts -Marie de Medici arriving at Marseilles -Marie de Medici safely arriving with the help of mythological beings -Marie de Medici being received by a personification of France.

Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici

This Painting is part of a political cycle

Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici

This painting turns something ordinary into something possibly magnificent

Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici

The surrender of Breda by Valazquez

Shows Spain being magnanimous

These painted murals exemplify the hybrid style found in

South America

This object is a poncho

TRUE

Despite their artistic differences, European, Asian, and American populations all valued quality textiles.

TRUE.

Gerard Houckgeest's The New Church at Delft depicts a funerary monument, which fostered civic unity and patriotism, and around which individuals from different social classes are gathered

TRUE.

The Dutch Golden Age was a time of prosperity encouraged by trade, religious and political autonomy, increased interest in science and learning, and new subject matter for artists

TRUE.

The Dutch Golden Age was a time or prosperity encouraged by trade, religious and political autonomy, increased interest in science and learning, and new subject matter for artists.

TRUE.

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr...

TULP.

The Seventeenth century is the same as..

The 1600's

The painting depicts hell to the views left and heaven to their right

Which was not customary in Europe, in order to appeal to the natives population concepts

This artwork contains silver thread and silk

YES.

Above the murals, there is a balcony

Yes, for those who have not yet converted to Christianity.

A French Garden is:

a type of highly organized garden -shows power of man over nature

Martin Luther..

his ideas were criticized by the Catholic Reformations or Counter Reformation

Gentileschis Susanna and the Elders shows Susanna..

in an awkward, protective position

The naturalism in 17th Century Dutch art, argues Chris Atkins, is to be understood in relationship to...

knowledge and intellectual conceptualization

Renaissance

means "rebirth"