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CSET Visual Art History
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1. The Birth of Venus

2. Stone cathedrals - stained glass window - floor plan in shape of a cross - gargoyles - flying buttresses

3. Greek and Roman -- focus on balance - harmony - symmetry

4. A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. Northeaster 1895

5. Renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Depicted African - Americans with dignity/sympathy (e.g. Eel Spearing at Setauket 1845)

6. Sculptor - Robert Gould Shaw adn 54th MA Regiment Memorial

7. St. George - poised for action - unique face

8. Has some aspects of Baroque style in self portraits; Self - Portrait - 1659 when Rembrandt is 53

9. An American realist artist - whose paintings depicted life on the frontier (Fur Traders Descending the Missouri)

10. Dramatic use of light and shade (chiaroscuro) - turbulent compositions - vivid emotional expressions

11. Late 18th and early 19th century; revived classical forms and subjects and emphasized balance; viewed art as having a high moral purpose

12. School of Athens (fresco depicting ancient Greek philosophers and Renaissance painters) - The Marriage of the Virgin (good example of linear perspective) - Cowper Madonna (gentle style)

13. The first coherent school of American art

14. After Italy - borrowed linear perspective from Italian - discovered oil paints to make light

15. Was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers - best known for his portraits of celebrities and the documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.

16. Rococo artist - The Swing

17. Rococo artist - The Pleasures of Life

18. David - Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)

19. Member of Hudson River School - painted The Oxbow

20. Depicted FRENCH NOBILITY - and was PASTEL AND PLAYFUL. Post - Baroque (about 1720 to 1760)

21. German artist - proud - Self - portrait (N. Renaissance)

22. Baroque painter - The Calling of St. Matthew

23. Vitruvian Man - the Mona Lisa - the last Supper (dry fresco did not work well)

24. A technique which made it possible to represent three dimensional objects on a flat surface in a systematic way - so that all the lines receding at right angles on the picture plane converge at a vanishing point on the horizon (Filippo Brunelleschi 1

25. Works in Spain - but shows Italian (mannerist) influence in distortion and choice of colors. Lots of motion - dynamism in later paintings. View of Toledo. Baroque - like style