Artists
Context
Style
Vocabulary
Artworks
100
A rival of Ingres, this artist of the Romantic period used loose brushstrokes in his paintings that opposed the tight, Neoclassical style.
Who is Eugene Delacroix.
100
This political revolution resulted in overthrowing of the Bourbon monarchy and the installation of King Louis Philippe.
What is the French Revolution of 1830.
100
This style saw a revival in the Palace of Westminister as a result of the interest in nostalgia and exoticism during the Romantic period.
What is the Gothic style.
100
A term meaning disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
What is macabre.
100
Mary-Anne is the personification of Liberty in this large, allegorical, social protest piece in response to the French Revolution of 1830.
Liberty Leading the People. Eugène Delacroix. 1830 C.E. Oil on canvas
200
This group of American artists working in New York during the mid 19th century sought to elevate the landscape painting to the same level of European large-scale history paintings.
What are the Hudson River School artists.
200
This author's writings included the idea of going "back to nature" and the soul in union with the natural world which greatly influenced the visual art of the Romantic era.
Who is Rousseau.
200
Goya often employed this artistic technique to plunge the subject in the foreground of his painting out toward the viewer and to bring the viewer right in to the action of his painting.
What is foreshortening.
200
This term was coined and developed by Edmund Burke in the mid eighteenth century, referring to a greatness in art beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
What is sublime.
200
There was a competition held to rebuild this structure after the great London fire of 1834
Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament). London, England. Charles Barry and Augustus W. N. Pugin (architects). 1840–1870 C.E. Limestone masonry and glass.
300
This artist of social protest has been hailed as the first modern painter who began his career as a court painter for the King of Spain and ended his career deaf and isolated from society, painting dark and disturbing works on the walls in his studio.
Who is Francisco Goya.
300
This revolution resulted in the overthrowing of the government of King Louis Philippe.
What is the French Revolution of 1848.
300
A Western, European view of the "East" represented in many paintings of the 19th century that often resulted in a racialized, feminized, and often sexualized perception of these cultures from distant lands.
What is Orientalism.
300
A printing process that traditionally uses strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal.
What is etching.
300
This pastoral landscape painting depicts the sublime-untouched wilderness in contrast to America as eden. The storm has passed and God's plan is revealed.
The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm).
Thomas Cole. 1836 C.E. Oil on canvas
400
An English painter working in water color and oil paint, known for his atmospheric paintings of land and sea that inspired the future impressionistic style.
Who is Joseph Mallord William Turner.
400
This purchase in 1804 essentially doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
400
Two Romantic stylistic characteristics that are direct opposites of the following Neoclassical characteristics: "orderly" and "rigid (vertical/horizontal)".
What is "disorderly" and "dynamic (diagonals)".
400
A widely held belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny.
400
This painting is based on a poem by the artist and depicts the horrors of the slave trade during the 19th century.
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). Joseph Mallord W
500
A member of the Hudson River School, this artist's required work suggests the power of nature and the untamed wilderness of the American landscape during the mid 19th century.
Who is Thomas Cole.
500
Napoleon invaded this country and usurped the throne in 1807. He crowned his brother king which resulted in bloody and violent uprisings.
What is Spain.
500
Neoclassical subjects tend to be based on Classical or mythological themes while Romantic paintings were typically based on __________________.
What are current events.
500
This etching was published after the death of the artist and is a part of a series of prints dealing with the atrocities of Napolean's invasion of Spain and the violent protests that followed.
Y no hai remedio (And There’s Nothing to Be Done), from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 15. Francisco de Goya. 1810–1823 C.E. (published 1863). Drypoint etching.