Art Work
This painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder contains a limited color palette and a Northern Renaissance winter landscape.
What is Hunters in the Snow?
This place represented a place of civic pride, communal governance and cultural identity
What is the Athenian Agora?
Delacriox's painting of Lady Liberty shows that freedom comes at a cost by depicting this within the artwork
What are the wounded and dead?
This was a time period influenced by reason, morality, science and deism which is a philosophical belief that God exists as a creator who sets the universe in motion but does not intervene in its affairs, relying on reason and natural laws, not revelation, miracles, or scripture, to understand truth.
What is the Enlightenment?
The Baroque Artist who created Ecstasy of St Teresa
Who is Gian Lorenzo Bernini? Or who is Bernini?
Daumier created this artwork to comment on the rising status of photogrpahy of an art form
What is Nadar Raising Photography to the height of Art?
This Greek time period consisted of art work that was heavily dramatic and dynamic.
What is the Hellenistic period
The society that Joseph Wright of Derby belonged to
What is the lunar society?
light hearted playful subject matter and soft pastels are characteristics of this genre of painting
What is Rococo?
Gold backgrounds, stiff and stylized figures are characteristics of this type of Art
What is Byzantine Art
Boticelli painted this painting and the main figure was inspired by the Classical sculpture owned by the Medici's
What is The Birth of Venus
This early civilization contained The Armana period which consisted of elongated figures and a deified God Aten.
What is Ancient Egypt
Thomas Jefferson was influenced by this classical building to create his Monticello estate.
What is the Pantheon?
Thsi idealistic sculpture of Augusta of Prima Porta has this type of stance
What is contrapposto?
This biblical story was depicted many times in art. It is the biblical story describes Angel Gabriel visiting Mary to inform her she will carry the son of God.
What is the Annunciation?
The title of the painting by Joseph Wright of Derby that contains centrally hidden light source depicting a scientist and contains many different people.
What is the Philosopher Giving a Lecture of the Orerry
The Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), a classical greek sculpture would go on to inspire this statue by Houdon in the neoclassical period.
What is the statue of George Washington?
The portrait of Marie de Medici by Peter Paul Rubens contains drama, granduer and a mixture of realism and mythology which is common in this type of artwork
What is Baroque?
Tenebrism was a charactetristic of this type of art
What is Baroque
Many Northern Renaissance paintings lack perspective but contain a great amount of this throughout the piece using objects.
What is religious symbolism?
Known now as realism, this artwork is a significant painting because it was the first of its kind to be displayed at the Salon. It depicts everyday working class people instead of religious, granduer or mythological images
What are the Stone Breakers?
What is this Ancient Egyptian artistic period that only lasted about 23 years from 1353-1336 BCE?
What is the Armana Period?
Daguerre’s Still Life in Studio (photograph) was influenced by this seventeenth-century Dutch vanita painting.
What is Ruysch’s Fruit and Insects?
The Alexander Mosaic was inspired by a painting by this culture.
What is Greece or Greek
(The Mosaic was created from a description of a Greek painting by Pliny the Elder)
The Hagia Sophia and San Vitale were created by this ruler
Who is Emperor Justinian?