Medium
This medium is made out of egg yolk and water to create a fast drying medium
Tempera
Focuses on religious narrative and amplified chiaroscuro to create tenebrism.
Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio
Italian
Oil on canvas
1597-1601
Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francescei, Rome, Italy
Southern (Italian) Baroque.
This artist is known for etching self portrait's
Rembrandt
The religious heart of the Aztec Empire in Tenochtitlan, featuring two temples dedicated to the gods of rain and war.
Templo Mayor
Approximate the Year for the Artwork: Alexander Mosaic, Battle of Issus, from the House of Faun,
2nd C. BCE
A printmaking technique where lines are incised into a metal plate to create sunken areas that hold ink, which is then transferred to paper via a printing press
Example: Self-portrait with Saskia
Etching
Highlights the problem with aristocratic marriage.
The Tête à Tête from Marriage à la Mode
William Hogarth
English
Oil on canvas
18th century
Enlightenment
This artist is credited with the first stable photographic image.
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre.
This building is an example of the International Style, highlighting the use of industrial materials - particularly glass and steel.
The Seagram Building
Approximate the Year for the Artwork: Self Portrait by Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun
1790
Late 18th C.
An ancient painting technique using heated beeswax, damar resin, and pigments, which are applied molten to surfaces like wood
Example: Theotokos and Child
Encaustic
Merges Buddhist Themes with futuristic anime aesthetics to explore spirituality
Pure Land
Mariko Mori
Japanese
Color photograph on glass
1998
Post-Modernism
This post-impressionist influenced the Fauves through his intense color palette and Cubists through his primitivism, painting images of French Polynesia.
Paul Gauguin
This artwork is “Little mountain” in Italian; house sits atop a hill outside of Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello
Approximate the Year for the Artwork: Angel with Arquebus
1728
Early 18th C.
A versatile printmaking technique that forces ink through a stenciled mesh screen onto surfaces like paper, fabric, or wood
Example: Marilyn Diptych
Silk Screen
Folding screen that features a battle on one side and hunting scene on the other.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade
González Family
New Spain
Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay
1697-1701
New Spanish Baroque
This artist is credited with establishing the genre of the reclining female nude
Titian
This building was constructed to serve as a museum of modern and contemporary art and challenged traditions of museum design
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Approximate the year of the Artwork: Röttgen Pietà
1300-1325
Early 14th C.
An early motion-picture projector invented by British photographer Eadweard Muybridge in 1879, which displayed animated images by rotating hand-painted glass discs
Related work: Horse in Motion
Zoopraxiscope
Depicts the battle between a Persian king and a demon
Bahram Gur Fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
Islamic
Persian, Il’Khanid
Ink and opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
1330-1340 CE
Central Asian
This artist based his work on Neo-Confucianism and believed that nature was the best teacher
Fan Kuan
This artwork was was named for its owners, two successful freedmen (Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutus)
House of Vetti
Approximate the year of the Artwork:Lying with the Wolf.
2001
within 10 years