Art History Survey II Quiz Stuff

Ming

Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China.

Veduta

Italian for ""scenic view"—a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista; this genre of landscape originate in Flanders, where artists painted vedute as early as the 16th century. In the 17th century, Dutch painters made a specialty of detailed and accurate recognizable city and landscapes that appealed to the sense of local pride of the wealthy Dutch middle class; by the 18th century, when the itinerary of the Grand Tour became somewhat standardized, familiar scenes like the Roman Forum and the Grand Canal in Venice became popular subjects for painters, such as Canaletto, to provide mementoes for tourists visiting the Continent

Taos Pueblo

New Mexico.

Battle Scene, Hide Painting

North Dakota. Mandan, 1797-1800.

Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise.

Paris. Begun 1732.

Kauffmann

Part of the "Italian Souvenir"; Self-portrait (1775)

Canova

Pauline Borghese as Venus

Machu Picchu

Peru. Inca, 1450-1530.

Tunic

Peru. Inca, c. 1500.

Madonna of Saint Luke

Chinese, late 16th-early 17th century

Adobe

a brick or building material made of sun-dried earth and straw

Capriccio

a painting or print of a fantastic imaginary landscape or cityscape, where the artists mixed actual structures such a famous ruins.

Nahuatl

The language of both the Toltecs and the Aztecs

Quillwork

The traditional technique used by Plains artists to sew and decorate dresses; instead of a needle and thread, they used a porcupine quill and sinew (tendon, usually from a bison) so it was more time consuming and more difficult than beading.

Pastel

a soft, colored chalk stick or crayon made of pigments and a gum binder, usually applied to paper; also, resulting artwork

Kiva

A circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies.

Lacquer Box For Writing Implements, by Ogata Korin.

Edo period, late 17th Century-early 18th century.

Nar Singh

Emperor Akbar holds a religious assembly in Fatehpur Sikri

Emperor Akbar holds a religious assembly in Fatehpur Sikri (including two Jesuit missionaries)

From Akbarnama, painting by Nar Singh, ca. 1605

Llama

From Bolivia or Peru, found near Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. Inca, 15th century.

Akbar Inspecting the Construction of Fatehpur Sikri

From the Akbarnama. c. 1590

Grizzly Bear House-Partition Screen.

From the House of Chief Shakes of Wrangell, Canada. Tlingit people, c. 1840.

Nadir al-Zaman (Abu'l Hasan) Jahangir and Shah Abbas

From the St. Petersburg Album. Mughal period, c. 1618.

View of the Pantheon, Rome

From the Views of Rome series, first printed in 1756.

Enconchado (inlaid mother-of-pearl)

From the word "concha" or shell in Spanish.

Watteau

Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera; Rococo painting

Giuseppe Castiglione

Portraits of the Emperor Quianlong and Empress

Canaletto

The Rialto Bridge & the Church of Il Redentore; part of the "Italian Souvenir"; The Doge's Palace and the Riva Degli Schiavoni

Sebastian Salcedo, Virgin of Guadalupe

1779

Ni Zan

The Rongxi Studio, Dry Brush technique

Aztec

(1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. Practiced human sacrifices and those sacrificed were captured warriors from other tribes and those who volunteered for the honor.

The Swing

1767

Qing

(1644-1911 CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled by the Manchu people: began to isolate themselves from Western culture,

Byobu

folding screen, literally "barrier against the wind"

Feather Headdress of Moctezuma.

Mexico. Aztec, before 1519.

Calendar Stone

Mexico. Aztec, c. 1500

The Goddess Coatlicue

Mexico. Aztec, c. 1500

Flask

Ming dynasty, 1426-1435.

Wampum Belt, Traditionally Called William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware

1680s.

Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera.

1717

The Village Bride, or The Marriage, The Moment When a Father Gives His Son-in-law a Dowry

1761

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump

1768

The Death of General Wolfe

1770

Academicians of the Royal Academy

1771-1772.

Watson and the Shark

1778

The Nightmare

1781

Oath of the Horatii

1784-1785

Statue of George Washington

1788-1792

Death of Marat

1793

Pauline Borghese as Venus

1808

Enlightenment

18th century movement led by French intellectuals who advocated reason as the universal source of knowledge and truth

Romanticism

19th-century western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection.

Wright of Derby

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery (in which a lamp is put in place of the sun); The Annual Girandola at the Castel Sant' Angelo

Tipi

A conical skin-and-frame dwelling, the tipi was an easily moved yet substantial structure used by the nomadic Plains Indians.

Porcelain

A hard, fine grained white ceramic ware fired at high temperatures

Rococo

A popular style in Europe in the eighteenth century, known for its soft pastels, ornate interiors, sentimental portraits, and starry-eyed lovers protected by hovering cupids.

Tokonoma

A shallow alcove in a Japanese room, which is used for decoration, such as a painting or stylized flower arrangement.

Neoclassicism

A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, Neoclassicism was characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.

Quipus

A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records

Taj Mahal

Agra, India. Mughal Period, reign of Shah Jahan, c. 1632-48

Eastern Woodlands

Area in Eastern North America that was home to many Native Americans such as the Iroquois

David

Arrival of Young Traveller and his Suite during the Carnival in Piazza di Spagna

Akbarnama

At the end of his life, Akbar wanted to be remembered so he wants to write a book about his life, however he is not able to write or read. Instead he gets a picture book called the Akbarnama, a picture book written about his life

Wampum

Belts or strings of polished seashells that were used for trading and gift-giving by Iroquois and other Native Americans.

Feathered Basket.

California. Pomo Culture, c. 1877

Tenochtitlan

Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.

Parnassus

Ceiling fresco in the Villa Albani, Rome. 1761.

Potlatches

Ceremonial gatherings of Native Americans and Pacific Northwest

Carriera

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset; part of the "Italian Souvenir"

Monticello

Charlottesville, Virginia. 1769-1782

Coiling, Twining, Plaiting (basket-making techniques)

Coiling consists of sewing a stationary horizontal element (the foundation) with moving vertical elements (the stitches). The stitching and bindings on coiled baskets can be decorative, purely functional, or both. Twining consists of passing horizontal elements (weft) around stationary vertical elements (warp). Specifically, it is a technique in which two wefts cross over each other between warps. Plaiting involves passing strips of fiber over and under each other at a fixed angle. It produces a checked pattern.

The Great Plains

Extensive grassland region/rich farmland (wheat) extends from the Canadian border south to texas from the Rocky Mts. on the east to the mississippi River

Ogata Korin

Exterior (A) and View of Interior and Lid (B) of A Lacquer Box for Writing Implements

Diwan-I-Khas (Private Audience Hall)

Fatehpur Sikri, India. 1570

Handscroll

In Asian art, a horizontal painted scroll that is unrolled to the left and often used to present illustrated religious texts or landscapes.

Hanging Scroll

In Asian art, a vertical scroll hung on a wall with pictures mounted or painted directly on it.

Chattri

In Indian architecture, a rooftop kiosk or pavilion having a dome, usually supported on four columns

Quechua

Incan language

Namban Art

Japanese art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries influenced by contact with the Namban (南蛮?) or 'Southern barbarians', traders and missionaries from Europe and specifically from Portugal and Spain. The term also refers to paintings Europeans brought to Japan.

The Doge's Palace and the Riva Degli Schiavoni

Late 1730s.

Anonymous, Entry into Jerusalem.

Mughal India, 1602-4. From Mirror of Holiness, of Father Jerome Xavier

Mughal

Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Giuseppe Castiglione, Portraits of the Emperor Quianlong and Empress

Oil on Silk, 1737

Artist's Rendering of the Kojoin Guest House at Onjoji

Otsu, Shiga prefecture. Momoyama period, 1601.

A View of the World

Page from Codex Fejervary-Mayer. Mexico. Aztec or Mixtec, c. 1400-1519.

The Founding of Tenochtitlan

Page from Codex Mendoza. Mexico. Aztec, 1545.

Fusuma

Paper or opaque sliding vertical doors/partitions separating it from the other rooms

Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise

Paris, Begun 1732

Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviéve)

Paris. 1755-1792.

Boffrand

Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise; Rococo architecture

Mengs

Self-portrait (1776); Parnassus; Portrait of Winckelmann

Fragonard

The Swing; Rococo painting

Zoffany

The Tribuna of the Uffizi; Academicians of the Royal Academy

Greuze

The Village Bride, or the Marriage, The Moment When a Father Gives His Son-in-law a Dowry; part of the Enlightenment, Reason, and Equality

Shoin

The architecture of the aristocracy and upper classes in Japan, built in traditional asymmetrical fashion and incorporating the traditional elements of residences, such as the tokonoma and shoji screens. — A term used to describe the various features found in the most formal room of upper-class Japanese residential architecture.

Calligraphy

The art of beautiful handwriting

Cuzco

The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru

Baby Carrier

Upper Missouri River area. Eastern Sioux, 19th century

Piranesi

View of the Pantheon, Rome; View of the Square of Saint Peter, Rome; Illumination of the Cross in St. Peter's on Good Friday; part of the "Italian Souvenir"; The Views of Rome series

Plan and Exterior View of Chiswick House

West London, England. 1724-1729.

Ni Zan The Rongxi Studio

Yuan dynasty, 1372.

Kaolin

a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar)

Iwan

a large, vaulted chamber in a mosque with a monumental arched opening on one side

Inca

a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.

Grand Tour

a pilgrimage of aristocrats, wealthy and diplomatic persons to tour the important area of Europe to obtain the knowledge and classical culture.

Lacquer

a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.

The Pueblos

an American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.

Fête galante (elegant outdoor entertainment)

an outdoor entertainment or rural festival, especially as depicted in 18th-century French painting.

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset

c. 1730

Robert Andrews and Frances Carter (Mr. and Mrs. Andrews)

c. 1784-1750

Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures

c. 1785

Featherworks

the working of feathers into a cultural artifact. This was especially elaborate among the peoples of Oceania and the Americas, such as the Incas and Aztecs.

Katsinas

wooden figure that represented spirits