pointillism

Expressionism

Analytic Cubism

Fauvism

synesthesia

Surrealism

Dada

readymade

World War I 1914-1919

REALISM

Honoré Daumier (1808-1879, French)

Rue Transnonain, 1834. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Third-Class Carriage, c.1862. (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877, French)

Burial at Ornans, 1849. (Paris, Musée d’Orsay)

Edouard Manet (1832-1883, French)

Dejeuner sur l’herbe, 1863. (Paris, Musée d’Orsay)

Olympia, 1863. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

The Boat, 1874. (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916, American)

The Gross Clinic, 1875. (Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson Medical College)

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937, American)

The Banjo Lesson, c.1893. (Virginia, Hampton University Museum)

IMPRESSIONISM

Claude Monet (1840-1926, French)

La Grenouillère, 1869. (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Impression: Sunrise, 1872. (Paris, Musée Marmottan)

Rouen Cathedral, 1894. (New York, MMA; Paris, Musée d’Orsay’ Boston, MFA; Essen, Folkwang Museum)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919, French)

La Grenouillère, 1869. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

Moulin de la Galette, 1876. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French)

Ballet Rehearsal, 1874. (Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries)

The Tub, c. 1885-86. (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Mary Cassat (1844-1926, American)

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, 1878 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art)

The Letter, 1891 Drypoint, etching, and aquatint.

Terms:

Revolution of 1848

Salon of the Academy

Salon des Refusés 1863

Salon des Independents

Baudelaire

flaneur (man about town)

en plein air

japonisme

ROCOCO

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, Palace of Versailles. Versailles, France, begun 1669

Hyacinth Rigaud (1659-1743), Portrait of Louis XIV of France, 1701. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Fragonard (1732-1806), The Swing, c. 1765-70. (London, Wallace Collection)

NEO-CLASSICISM

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Oath of the Horatii, 1784. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Death of Marat, 1793. (Brussels, Musées Royaux)

Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800. (Versailles, National Musem)

J. A. D. Ingres (1780-1867)

Grande Odalisque, 1814. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Paganini, 1819. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845. (New York, Frick Collection)

ROMANTICISM

Théodore Géricault (1791-1824, French)

Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19. (Paris, Louvre)

Study of Truncated Limbs, c.1819. (Montpelier, Musée Fabre)

Insane Woman, 1822-23. (Lyons, Musée des Beaux-Arts)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863, French)

Death of Sardanapalus, 1826. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Liberty leading the People, 1830. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Paganini, c. 1832 (Washington, D.C, The Phillips Collection)

Francisco de Goya (1746-1828, Spanish)

The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters from the Los Caprichos series, c. 1798

The Third of May, 1808, 1814. (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840, German)

Abbey in the Oak Forest, 1809 (Berlin, Schloss Charlottenberg)

Monk by the Sea, 1808-9. (Berlin, Staatensgalerie)

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851, British)

The Slave Ship, 1840. (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts)

Thomas Cole, (1801-1848, American)

The Oxbow, 1836. (New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Terms:

French Revolution 1789

Reign of Terror 1793

Napoleon crowned Emperor 1803

Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo 1815

1830 Revolution

ITALY

Caravaggio (1576-1610)

            Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600. S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.

            Conversion of St. Paul 1601. Sta Maria del Popolo, Rome.

Bernini (1598-1680)

            David, 1623. (Borghese Gallery, Rome)
            Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1645-52. Sta Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

            Baldacchino, 1624-33. St. Peter’s, Vatican.

            Piazza and Colonnade of St. Peter’s, begun 1656. Vatican.

FLANDERS

Rubens (1577-1640)

      Elevation of the Cross, 1610.  Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp.

HOLLAND

Rembrandt (1609-1669)

      Artist in the Studio, 1627-38. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

      Self-Portraits, etchings, c. 1629-30.

      Cornelis Anslo and His Wife, 1641 (Berlin, Staatliche Museen)

      Return of the Prodigal Son, c. 1669 (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)

Terms:

Counter-Reformation

tenebrism

NETHERLANDS

Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516)

Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1505 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-69)

Triumph of Death, c. 1562 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Return from the Hunt, 1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Blind Leading the Blind, 1568 (Museo Nazionale, Naples)

GERMANY           

Mathias Grünewald (d. 1528)

 Isenheim Altarpiece, ca .1510-15 (Musée Unterlinden, Colmar)

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

 Self-Portrait, 1498 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Self-Portrait, 1500 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

Adam and Eve, 1504. Engraving

Melancholia I, 1514. Engraving

Terms:

Adamites

genre

Reformation

indulgences

iconoclasm

St. Anthony’s Fire/ergotism

woodcut

engraving

burin

humors

HIGH RENAISSANCE

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

            Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1483-86. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

            Last Supper, c. 1495-98, S. Maria della Grazie, Milan.

            Mona Lisa, c. 1503-5. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

            Star of Bethlehem, drawing. (London, Windsor Castle)

            Deluge, drawing. (London, Windsor Castle)

            Anatomical Drawings

           Vitruvian Man (London, Windsor Castle)

Bramante (1444-1514), Plan for St. Peter’s, c. 1505. Rome.

Raphael (1483-1520)

            Madonna of the Meadows, c. 1505-06. (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)

            School of Athens, c. 1510-11.  Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican.

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

            Pietà, c. 1499-1500.  St. Peter’s, Vatican.

            David, 1501-4.  (Florence, Galleria dell’Accademia)

            Sistine Ceiling, 1508-12.  Sistine Chapel, Vatican.

            The Last Judgment, 1534-41. Sistine Chapel, Vatican.

            Plan and Dome of St. Peter’s, 1546-64.  Rome.

VENETIAN RENAISSANCE

Giorgione (1478-1510), Pastoral Concert, c. 1508. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Titian (1488/90-1576)

            Assumption of the Virgin, 1516-18. Church of the Frari, Venice.

            Venus of Urbino, 1538.  (Florence, Uffizi)

MANNERISM

Pontormo (1494-1556/7), Entombment/Deposition, c. 1526-28.  Santa Felicita, Florence.

Bronzino (1503-1572), Allegory of Venus, Cupid, and Time, c. 1545 (National Gallery, London)

Terms:

aerial/atmospheric perspective

chiaroscuro

sfumato

serpentine

ignudi

colore vs. disegno

conceit

The Limbourg Brothers, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413-16. (Chantilly, Musée Conde)

            January, February, March, May, June

Robert Campin (Master of Flemalle), The Merode Altarpiece, c. 1425-30.  (New York, The Cloisters Collection)

Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (Adoration of the Lamb), c. 1426-32. St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium.

Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding, 1434. (London, National Gallery)

Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross, c. 1435. (Madrid, Museo del Prado)

Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460. (Washington, D.C., National Gallery)

Hugo van der Goes, The Portinari Altarpiece (Adoration of the Shepherds), c. 1476. (Florence, Uffizi)

Terms:

book of hours

tempera

feudalism

bourgeoisie/burgher

tempera

triptych

polyptych

sfumato

Goths: Visigoths, Ostrogoths

Vandals

Feudalism

Anglo-Saxon

scriptorium/scriptoria

insular

zoomorphic

Benedictine

apse

bay

nave

buttress

sexpartite vault/rib vault

cluster/complex pier

reliquary

mandorla

crypt

jamb

Lecture 6 Slide List
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
25 September 2008


EARLY CHRISTIAN ART

Christian catacombs, Rome. 2nd and 3rd centuries.

*Old St. Peter’s, Rome. begun c. 320.


JEWISH ART
Wall paintings from the synagogue at Dura Europos, Syria, c. 250. (Damascus, National Museum)


BYZANTINE ART

*San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. c. 530-547.
Emperor Justinian and his Retinue, c. 547.
Empress Theodora and her Retinue, c. 547.

*Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey. 532-37

Terms:

loculi
apse
bays
nave
buttress
Constantinople
Byzantium
centralized plan
piers
ambulatory
mosaic
tesserae
icon
pendentive

Lecture 5 Slide List
Roman Art
23 September 2008

ROMAN ART

Republican, c. 509-27 B.C.

Head of a Roman Patrician, c.75-50 B.C. (Rome, Museo Torlonia)

*Patrician with Ancestral Busts, c. 15 A.D. (Rome, Capitoline Museum)

*House of the Vettii, Pompeii. c. 62-79 A.D.

*Cubiculum from Boscoreale Villa, 50-40 B.C. (New York, Metropolitan Museum)

Early Empire, 27 B.C.-69 A.D.

*Augustus of Primaporta, c. 20 B.C. (Rome, Vatican Museum)

*Ara Pacis, Rome, 13-9 B.C.

High Empire, 69-180 A.D.

*Colosseum, Rome, 70-80 A.D.

*Trajan’s Column, Rome, 106-113 A.D.

*Pantheon, Rome, 118-125 A.D.

Late Empire, 180-395 A.D.

*Colossus of Constantine, c. 315-330 A.D.  (Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori)

*Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), Rome, c. 306-313 A.D.


Terms:
 
patrician
plebian
engaged column
veristic
Mt. Vesuvius
atrium
impluvium
cubiculum
triclinium
peristyle garden
single-point perspective
illusionism
pax romana
amphitheater
barrel vault
arch
Pantheism
oculus
coffer
apse
bays
nave
buttress

Lecture 4 Slide List
Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece   
16 September 2008

Archaic, c. 600-480 B.C.

*Kouros, c.600 B.C. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Peplos Kore, c. 530 B.C. (Acropolis Museum, Athens)

Early Classical, c. 480-450 B.C.

*Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, c. 480 B.C. (Acropolis Museum, Athens)

*Bronze Warrior, from Riace, c. 460-450 B.C. (Archaeological Museum, Reggio Calabria)

High Classical, c. 450-400 B.C.

*Polykleitos, Doryphorus (Spear-bearer).  Roman marble copy after Greek bronze original, c. 450-440 B.C. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)

Kresilas, Bust of Pericles.  Roman marble copy after Greek bronze original, c. 429 B.C. (Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican City)
 
*Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, on the Acropolis of Athens, 447-438 B.C.

*Phidias, Sculptural Decoration on the Parthenon, 447-432 B.C. (Fragments now in The British Museum, London)
    Cult Statue of Athena Parthenos (destroyed; modern model in Nashville, Tennessee)
    Metopes: Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs
    East Pediment: Birth of Athena: Three Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?)
                                                               Dionysus or Heracles?
    Frieze: Pan-Athenaic Procession

Terms:
Athens
Sparta
humanism
kouros
kore
contrapposto
lost-wax technique
canon
cella
Athena Parthenos
chryselephantine
Doric order
entasis
stylobate
entablature
pediment
triglyph
metope
frieze
Mt. Olympus
Macedonia

Lecture 3 Slide List
Art of Ancient Egypt
11 September 2008

Early Dynastic c. 3200-c. 2780 B.C.

*Palette of Narmer, c. 3100-3000 B.C. (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)

Old Kingdom c. 2780-c.2258 B.C.

*Pyramids at Giza, c. 2600-2500 B.C. Built for Pharoahs Khufu, Khafra, and Mycerinus.

The Great Sphinx, Giza, c. 2570 B.C.

Khafre, c. 2570 B.C. (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)

*Mycerinus and Khamerernebty, c. 2600 B.C. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

*Seated Scribe, c.2600 B.C. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

New Kingdom c. 1570-1085 B.C.

*Senmut, Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Dehr el-Bahri, c. 1480 B.C.

*Temple of Amun-Re, Luxor, c.1417-1379 B.C.

Wall Paintings from Tomb of Netamun, Thebes, c.1400 B.C. (British Museum, London)


Terms:
Rosetta Stone
dynasty
pharaoh
hieroglyph
mastaba       
ka       
canopic jar
pylon temple
hypostyle hall   
clerestory
papyrus

Lecture 2 Slide List
Art of the Ancient Near East
9 September 2008


MESOPOTAMIA

Sumerian

Female Head, from Uruk (Warka), c. 3500-3000 B.C. Marble. (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)

*Vase, from Uruk (Warka), c. 3500-3000 B.C. Alabaster. (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)

*Ziggurat at Ur, c. 2100 B.C.

*Statuettes from Temple of Abu, from Tell Asmar, c. 2750-2650 B.C. Alabaster. (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)

Cylinder Seal, from Ur, c. 2700 B.C. (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)


Akkadian

Head of a Ruler, from Nineveh, c. 2300-2200 B.C. Bronze. (Iraq Museum, Baghdad)

*Stele of Naramsin, from Susa, c. 2300-2200 B.C. Pink sandstone. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)


Babylonian

*Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa, Iran, c. 1760 B.C. Basalt. (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

Assyrian

*Sargon II’s Palace, Dur Sharrukin,(Khorsabad), completed c. 700 B.C.

*Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Palace at Nimrud, c. 883-859 B.C. Alabaster.
Human-headed winged bull (Lamassu) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions. (The British Museum, London)
City Under Siege (The British Museum, London)
Fugitives from Suru Swimming (The British Museum, London)

*Reliefs from Ashurbanipal’s Palace at Nineveh, c. 660-650 B.C. Alabaster. (The British Museum, London)
    Ashurbanipal’s Victory over the Elamites
    Ashurbanipal Killing a Released Lion
    Dying Lioness
    Ashurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden

Terms:
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers    
Mesopotamia               
Sumer/Sumerian                   
ziggurat                       
cuneiform
Innana               
stele               
composite view
lamassu           
Shamash    

Lecture I Slide List
Art of Prehistoric Europe
4 September 2008

PALEOLITHIC
* “Venus” of Willendorf, Austria, c. 22,000-19,000 B.C. Limestone. (Vienna, Naturhistorisches Museum)

*Woman holding a bison horn (“Mother Goddess”) from Laussel, France, c. 22,000-19,000 B.C. (Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine)

Woman’s Head from Brassempouy, France, c. 22,000 BC. Ivory. (St-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquités Nationales)

Lion-Human from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, ca. 32,000 B.C. Mammoth ivory (Ulmer Museum, Ulm)

*Chauvet cave, Ardèche Valley, France, c. 25,000-17,000 B.C.
    Lion Panel
    Panel of Horses, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs
   
*Lascaux Caves, Dordogne, France. c.16,000-14,000 B.C.
  Hall of the Bulls
 “Chinese Horse”
“Well Scene”

Altamira Caves, Spain, c. 14,000-10,000 B.C.

NEOLITHIC
Çatal Hüyük, central Turkey, c. 7,000-5,000 B.C.
    Pregnant Goddess. Painted plaster relief.
    *Dancing Hunter. Wall painting.
    *Mother Goddess. Terracotta. (Archaeological Museum, Ankara)
    Seal. Terracotta.

Jericho, Jordan, c. 8,000-6,000 B.C.
*  Human Skull,  c. 7,000-6,000 B.C. (Archaeological Museum, Amman)

Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, near Scotland, c. 3,100-2,600 B.C.

*Newgrange, Ireland, c. 3,000-2,500 B.C.

Menhir alignments at Ménec, Carnac, France, ca. 4,250-3750 B.C.

*Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England. c. 2,100-2,000 B.C.

Terms:

Paleolithic (c. 42,000 BCE- 8,000 BC)            dolmen
Neolithic (8,000 BCE- 1,000 BC)                     menhir   
ochre                                                                      henge                   
megalith                                                                kerbstone
post and lintel                                                       cairn