ARH 211 3
Joseph Wright of Derby Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1768 Significance: 18th Century flowering of enlightenment. Experiment with a bird and vacuum pump. Contrast of lights and darks. Linear style. Young couple, mesmerized young boy, young daughters.
An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump
Artist: Honore Daumier Period: Realism Date: 1855
Battle of the Schools
Artist: The Roeblings Period: 19th Century Architecture Location: New York, NY Significance: Against traditional architecture, cables out of long threads of steel. Suspension bridge. Roebling family.
Brooklyn Bridge
Artist: Rembrandt Period: Dutch Baroque Date: 1642 Location: N/A Significance: No indication that it is at night, there aren't any candles. Tenbristic style. Establishing militia ensure law and order. Also called nightwatch
Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company
Artist: P.P. Reubens Period: Flemish Baroque Date: 1625 Location: N/A Significance: Allegorical Painting - King Henry marrying Maria. Symbol always intended to be Queen. Educated women.
Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Maria de' Medici
Artist: Darby and Pritchard Period: 19th Century Architecture Location: England Significance: First use of iron bridge design was in this bridge over the severn river. Indust revolution brought engineering advances and new materials that revolutionized architecture (steel). High structure and does not have catalytics that restrict water flow and traffic.
Ironbridge at Coalbrookdale
Artist: Diego Velázquez Period: Baroque Date: 1655 Materials: oil on canvas Location: N/A Significance: Velazquez depicts himself standing in his studio before a large canvas. The young princess (Margarita) appears in the foreground with her maids, dwarfs, and large dog. In the mirror appears a woman and man (King Philip IV and Queen Mariana). In the background, a chamberlain in a doorway. Diego wanted to rise in social status by being a great artist. Not a commissioned work. Entertain subjects while painting. Shows aristocratic style by painting a red cross.
Las Meninas
Artist: Eugene Delacroix Period: Romanticism Date: 1824 Significance: Small island off turkey. Village slaughtered and destroyed, moral outrage and pronography of the violence. Orientalism - anything not in europe or america.
Massacre at Chios
Artist: Jacques-Louis David Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1785 Significance: Harrati brother runs/separates Karachi brother and kills all separately a moment not depcited in literature. Jacques final work shows what he learned in academy. Expected to be well sourced in the bible, lit, and history. Wins rome prize from academy linear style and challenges the govt
Oath of the Horatii
Artist: Edouard Manet Period: Realism Date: 1865 Significance: Manet scandalized the public with this painting of a nude prostitute and her black maid carrying a bouquet from a client. Critics also faulted him for using rough brush strokes and abruptly shifting tonality. This inclusion of black maid and nude prostitute as evoking moral depravity, inferiority, and animalistic sexuality. One critic described as "a courtesan with dirty hands and wrinkled feet protected all the while by a hideous nigress"
Olympia
Artist: Hardouin-Mansart, Le Brun, and Le Notre Period: French Baroque Date: Begun 1669 Significance: Showed the welath and power of French King, 17th century small hunting lodge. Invents national dept. Stucco with gold. 5000 people lived here, made them tear down their castles and live there. Space of magnificent
Palace at Versailles
Artist: Antoine Watteau Period: Rococo Date: 1717 Location: N/A Significance: Depicts the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society. No emssage or moral story. Type of painting found in rich places. Doesn't reall yhave a name. Loose brush strokes w/ pastel colors and blending of spaces.
Pilgrimmage on Cythera
Artist: John Singleton Copley Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1770 Significance: Silversmith - looks liek simple craftsman. Suggests he is american. First famous american artist. Bsoton first major city in the us. Silver teapot is a fine consumer good made for elite in the US and exports to england.
Portrait of Paul Revere
Artist: Theodore Gericault Period: Romanticism Date: 1818-1819 Significance: A ship was broken. Shipwreck that occured in 1816 off the African coast. A small boat pulled a raft but left them to die. 144 people on the raft. 15 people rescued and made it back alive. Big Trial about this, gericault big into trial and produces this painting. Visits hospitals and morgues to examine corpses and painted them in this painting. Has a symbol of freeing the slaved. Nature vs. Humanity. Raft of humanity
Raft of the Medusa
Artist: Jean-Francois Millet Period: Realism Date: 1857 Location: France Significance: Depiction of french country life. Portrays three impoverished women gathering the remainders left in the field after harvest. Discourse on alienation - do work but don't get fruit from labor. Social realism - paint how things really are.
The Gleaners
Artist: Thomas Jefferson Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1817-1826 Location: Charlottesville, VA Significance: Plantation, slave quarters hidden, raped sally hennings multiple time and had six children and sold them as slaves.
Rotonda of UVA
Artist: Rembrandt Period: Dutch Baroque Date: 1640 Location: N/A Significance: Tenebrism. Awareness of hand that serves mind. Has become wealthy and successful by painting. People who work in carrovisque style.
Self Portrait
Artist: William Hogarth Period: Rococo Date: 1745 Significance: 1 of 6 paintings in a series. Depcits a marriage contract in which a name is sold for money. No name businessman with princess.
The Marriage Contract
Artist: Jan Vermeer Period: Dutch Baroque Date: 1659-1661 Location: N/A Significance: Only made a few paintings. Allegorical art, trying to show us what it takes to be successful. Many surfaces - wooden box, dress, dark and light shadows. three primary colors. About unrequited love depicts a forlorn and wistful milkmaid.
The Milkmaid
Artist: Diego Vasquez Period: Spanish Baroque Date: 1635 Location: N/A Significance: Commemorates the spanish victory over the dutch at Breda in 1625. Victorious spanish army on the right and the defeated dutch on the left. Coepicted space - including audience in painting by completing the circle
Surrender of Breda
Artist: Joseph Paxton Period: 19th Century Date: 1851 Significance: Length is the same as the year (1851). Destroyed 1936. Trolli, Pulley system. Celebrate western culture "worlds fair"
The Crystal Palace
Artist: Jacques-Louis David Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1793 Significance: Letter from Charlotte to meet with Marat. Plunges knife into Marat Chest. Same arm and head of death as Michelangelo
The Death of Marat
Artist: Thomas Cole Period: Romanticism Date: 1836 Significance: Leader of hudson river school. Dark wilderness on the left and sunlit civilization on the right. The miniscule painter at the bottom seems to be asking for adivce about americas future. Oxbow shaped curve of the connecticut river. Romantically appealing to the public.
The Oxbow
Artist: Francisco Goya Period: Romanticism Date: 1798 Significance: Sleep of reason causes monsters. Depicts a young student who falls asleep and mind goes to night mares. Symbols of (owl) folly and (bats) ignorance.
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Artist: Gustave Courbet Period: Realism Date: 1849 Significance: Glimpse into the life of rural menial laborers (lowest in french society). Juxtaposing youth and age, suggesting that those born into poverty remain poor their whole lives working poor as subject matter had special meaning in mid 19th century. Laborers rebelled against the bourgeois leaders of the newly reformed second republic and the rest of the nation for better working conditions.
The Stone Breakers
Artist: Jean Honore Fragonard Period: Rococo Date: 1766 Location: N/A Significance: Natural passions and wilderness. Capresso -whimsical. Flower of languages - uses flowers to tell where and when to meet. Depicts a young woman on a swing with her husband pushing her but a young man hiding in the bushes. Women in a flamboyant dress, lushness and fertility.
The Swing
Artist: John Trumbull Period: Neoclassicism Date: 1817 Location: US Capitol
The signing of the declaration of independence
Artist: Louis Sullivan Period: 19th Century Architecture Date: 1890 Location: St. Louis, MO Significance: Steel frame, load bearing walls, allows light. Father of modern skyscraper. What is a skyscraper plaque
Wainwright Building
Artist: Hendrick de Keyser Period: Dutch Baroque Date: 1620 Location: Amsterdam
Westerkerk