Exam #2 Study Guide
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| Artist | Title | Date |
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| Pontormo | Entombment | 1525-28 |
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| Tintoretto | The Last Supper | 1592-94 |
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| El Greco | Burial of Count Orgaz | 1586 |
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| Hieronymus Bosch | Garden of Earthly Delights | c. 1505-15 |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini | Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstacy | 1645-52 |
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| Caravaggio | The Calling of Saint Matthew | 1599-1600 |
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| Artemisia Gentileschi | Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes | 1625 |
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| Nicolas Poussin | Landscape with Saint John on Patmos | 1640 |
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| Diego Velazquez | Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) | 1656 |
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| Peter Paul Rubens | The Raising of the Cross | 1610-11 |
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| Rembrandt van Rijn | The Night Watch | 1642 |
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| Jan Vermeer | Woman Holding a Balance | c. 1664 |
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| Rachel Ruysch | Flower Still Life | after 1700 |
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| Germain Boffrand | Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise | Begun 1732 |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau | Pilgrimage to Cythera | 1717 |
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| Jean-Honore Fragonard | The Meeting | 1771 - 73 |
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| William Hogarth | The Marriage Contract | 1743 - 45 |
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| Angelica Kauffmann | Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures | c. 1785 |
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| Benjamin West | The Death of General Wolfe | 1770 |
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| Jacques-Louis David | Oath of the Horatii | 1784 - 85 |
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| Jacques-Louis David | Death of Marat | 1793 |
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Key Terms
Know the definition of the following terms. |
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| Academy | French Revolution | Neoclassicism |
| Age of Enlightenment | Genre painting | Palace of Versailles |
| American Revolution | Grand Manner | Poussinistes |
| Arabesque | Grand Tour | Prix de Rome |
| Baroque | Hierarchy of Genres | Quadro riportato |
| Camera obscura | History painting | Rococo |
| Caravaggisti | Illusionistic ceiling composition | Rubenistes |
| Chiaroscuro | Industrial Revolution | Still-life |
| Classic landscape | Invisible complement | Tenebrism |
| Counter-Reformation | Mannerism | The Salon |
| Fetes galantes | Mixed-media | Vanitas |
| People Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to art history. |
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| Denis Diderot | George Washington | Louis XIV |
| Dutch middle-class | John-Paul Marat | Louis XV |
| Questions to Consider Be able to answer each of the following questions. |
| What characterizes mannerist works? |
| What characterizes the Baroque style? |
| How did the works commissioned by the Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation assist the Church in wooing back the faithful? |
| Describe Caravaggio's "new realism." What was controversial about his work? How did the public and art patrons respond to his work? |
| Why was Veronese called before
the Inquisition to explain his painting, Feast in the House of Levi? How did he defend himself? What compromise did he make? |
| What characterizes Poussin's style? |
| What role did the Academy have regarding the kind of art that was produced, how it looked and the artists who made it? |
| What is the difference between a salon, the Salon and a salon style exhibition? |
| What three revolutions greatly influenced the history and art of the 18th century? |
| What characterizes the Rococo style? |
| From what art form did the Rococo style originate? |
| What characterizes the Neoclassic style? What artist is considered the leader of the movement? |
| What three revolutions greatly influenced the 18th century? |
| Were women allowed into the Academies during the 18th century? If so, what restrictions were placed on their participation? What influence did these restrictions have on the success of women artists? |