Italian for "dome." Also the main church in a given city.
What is "duomo"?
100
This period represented a shift in thought away from tradition and myth toward science, reason, and knowledge derived from experience and experimentation.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
The most influential art movement we've covered, including artists like DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Rafael, is divided into these three parts.
What is the Early, High, and Late Renaissance?
100
This painting is a quintessential example of Rococo art, and was executed by which of the movement's influential members?
What is The Swing by Fragonard?
100
In printmaking, the first set of prints taken from a plate.
What is the first edition?
200
Means "weight-shift." The device representing the way a human naturally stands, so that the hips and shoulders are on a counter-axis.
What is contrapposto?
200
Ended the Thirty Years war between militant Catholics and militant Protestants, and recognized the fundamental right of religious freedom.
What is the Treaty of Westphalia?
200
This movement is the first of the Modernist period and documented everyday activities, and glorified the lower class.
What is Realism?
200
This painting is a prime example of the Realist movement, and exemplifies the dignity in manual labor and the lower class, as seen by this artist.
What is The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet?
200
This post-impressionist artist adhered to the rule of "whats" and was one of the first artists to move toward abstraction.
Who is Gauguin and the rule of thirds?
300
Italian for "canopy." This structure is in St. Peter's Basilica, is made by Bernini, and is both functional and symbolic.
What is the Baldacchino?
300
This period in the 19th century focused on industrialization, specifically on the production on textiles, steam, and iron.
What is the First Industrial Revolution?
300
This movement focused on the shift from reason to feeling, from calculation to intuition, and exemplified the weird, the strange, and the subconscious. Goya, the "Father of Modern Painting" was a pioneer of this movement.
What is Romanticism?
300
This sculpture by this Neoclassical sculptor portrays the sitter as Venus and is reminiscent of an odalisque.
What is Pauline Borghese as Venus by Canova?
300
This artist is the pioneer of this movement which represented the leisurely activities of the wealthy French upper class.
Who is Watteau and Rococo?
400
Essentially a "town-square." An example can be seen in Siena.
What is "palazzo publico"?
400
This period in the 19th century centered on industrialization, and the production of steel, chemicals, electricity, and oil.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
400
This movement, in favor of the Enlightenment, saw a revival of classical subject matter and style in art and architecture. Jacques-Louis David was key figure in this movement.
What is Neoclassicism?
400
This piece by Monet is a prime example of the painting of light as it falls on objects, which was characteristic of this period.
What is Rouen Cathedral of the Impressionist period?
400
This realist artist of The Third Class Carriage was a social critic of the Industrial Revolution, not dissimilar to a what?
Who is Daumier and a socialist?
500
A thick build up of paint on a surface, generally used with oil paint.
What is impasto?
500
The movement in Western art that developed in the second half of the 19th century and sought to capture the images and the sensibilities of the age. Involved dealing with representing the present as well as the artists' critical examination of art itself. Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impression, Expressionism are part of this larger field.
What is Modernism?
500
An early period that was essentially the shift from the Gothic to the Renaissance periods, and shows Italo-Byzantine stylistic elements used by artists Cimabue and Giotto.
What is International Style?
500
This painting exemplifies the shift from Realism to Impressionism and is a combination of these four painting genres.
What is Luncheon on the Grass by Manet, and it displays portraiture, nudes, pastoral scenes, historical paintings.
500
This Dutch Baroque Master was most representative of this tumultuous period which included the Thirty Years War and ended with the Treaty of Westphalia?
Who is Rubens and what is The Protestant Reformation?