In One Class Period!
Renaissance (1300-1600)
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 Revival of interest in Classical art
 Perspective, three-dimensional sculpture
 Reflects rise of humanism and importance of patrons
Rafael – “School Of Athens”
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Michelangelo – “Creation Of
Adam” (Sistine Chapel)
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Mannerism (1520-1600)
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 Either the end of the Renaissance or the beginning of
Baroque
 Should artists follow the “manner” of what came
before or try new things?
 Exaggerates or fantasizes the human form
Parmigianino –
“Madonna with the
Long Neck” (1534)
Note the elongated
proportions, stylized poses
and lack of clear
perspective.
Baroque (1600-1750)
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 Art characterized by ornamentation and curves, not
straight lines
 Drama, rich color, bright light, dark shadows
 Art serves the Counter-Reformation and Absolutism
 Art centralized to serve the state as center of art
moves from Rome to Paris
Bernini – “Ecstasy
of Saint Theresa”
(1647)
Rembrandt – “The Night Watch”
(1642)
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Versailles (1682)
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Rococo (Baroque Gone Wild!)
(1720-1789)
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 Art is lighter and less formal reaction against
Baroque
 Often portrays a fantasy world
Fragonard – “The
Swing” (1767)
Sanssouci (1745) (Frederick The
Great’s Summer Palace)
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Neoclassicism (1770-1820)
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 Looks to Greece and Rome for inspiration
 Strips away Rococo frivolity and Baroque ornament
(but what goes in its place?)
David – Oath of the Horatii
(1784)
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David – Coronation Of
Napoleon (1808)
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Romanticism (1800-1850)
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 Glorification of nature, patriotism and the Medieval
past
 Emphasize feeling not reason
 Often linked with nationalism
Delacroix – Liberty Leading
The People (1830)
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Friedrich –
“Wanderer Above
the Sea of Fog”
(1818)
Realism (1850-1880)
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 Grittier and with more attention to social problems
and context
 Portrays real peasants, workers and events
 Based on fact not emotion, goes with Realpolitik
Millet – “The Gleaners” (1857)
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Courbet – “The
Stonebreakers” (1849)
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Impressionism (1870-1905)
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 Focus on accurate depiction of light and inclusion of
movement or change over time
 Ordinary subject matter including life of the middle
class
 Partly an attempt to capture impressions that
photography could not
Monet – “The Cliff at Etretat”
(1885)
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Caillebotte – “Paris Street,
Rainy Day” (1877)
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Modern
th
(20

Century)
 Art influenced by Freud, Einstein and Age of
Anxiety
 Too fractured to make general statements
Picasso – “Guernica” (1937)
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