Abduction of the Say Nine Women Flashcards

1
Q

“30 St. Mary Axe in London”

“The Gherkin”

A

london

Norman Foster

British

Architecture

(nicknamed for looking like a cucumber)

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“A Dutch Courtyard”

A

Pieter de Hooch

Dutch

Golden Age

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2
Q

“Abstract Head series”

A

Alexej von Jawlensky

Russian

Blue Rider

(Influenced by Orthodox icons)

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3
Q

“Abstraktes Bild”

A

Gerhard Richter

German

Postmodern

(Auctioned in 2010 for $21 million)

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3
Q

“Ads for the Containers Corp. of America in NJ”

A

Jacob Lawrence

African-American

Dynamic Cubism

(Farmers pick tomatoes to the left of a lighthouse)

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4
Q

“Agony in the Garden”

A

Andrea Mantegna

Italian

Renaissance

(Christ prays to a group of small angels on a cloud)

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5
Q

“Annunciation of Titian series”

A

Gerhard Richter

German

Postmodern

(Gets more blurry)

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5
Q

“Americana”

A

Charles Sheeler Jr.

American

Precionism

(1931)

(Includes a backgammon table)

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5
Q

“Ascension of Christ”

A

Luca della Robbia

Florentine

Renaissance

(Lunette)

(Vasari described how white, colored tin, and terracotta were used to make it)

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5
Q

“Arrest of a Propagandist”

A

Ilya Repin

Russian

Realism

(two men riffle through the contents of an open suitcase)

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6
Q

“At the Seaside”

A

William Merritt Chase

American

Impressionism

(Set at Southampton)

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7
Q

“Azara Herm”

A

Lysippus

Greek

Sculpture

(of Alexander the Great)

(in the Louvre)

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7
Q

“Autumn in France”

A

Emily Carr

(unofficial member of the Group of Seven)

Canadian

Landscape

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8
Q

“Baader-Meinhof”

A

Gerhard Richter

German

Postmdodern

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9
Q

“Baptism in Kansas”

A

John Steuart Curry

American

Regionalism

(Underneath a windmill)

(A white and black bird are surrounded by rays of light)

(Man in black reads from a book)

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10
Q

“Baptism of Hermogenes”

A

Andrea Mantegna

Italian

Renaissance

(Putti hang from the painted garlands above this early composition)

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10
Q

“Barge Haulers on the Volga”

A

Ilya Repin

Russian

Realism

(member of the Wanderers)

(eleven downtrodden men pulling a barge along the Volga)

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11
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“Bat Spinning at the Speed of Light”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Pop Art

(drawing in an exhibition of plans for never-built sculptures called Colossal Monuments)

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12
Q

“Batcolumn”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Pop Art

(latticework column)

(Madison Street, Chicago)

(divides Cubs / White Sox)

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13
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“Bottle with Apple”

A

Gerhard Richter

German

Postmodern

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13
Q

“Boy Leading Horse”

A

Pablo Picasso

Spanish

Cubism

(during his Rose Period)

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14
Q

“Brandenburg Gate in Berlin”

A

berlin #germany

Carl Gotthard Langhans

Prussia

Architechture

(Topped with a quadriga)

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15
Q

“Bride Mannikin”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Pop Art

(Plaster)

(Sold at the ‘Ray Gun Manufacturing Company’)

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16
Q

“Buddha”

A

Odilon Redon

French

Symbolism

(Dressed in mosaic robes holding a staff and standing to the left of a leafless tree)

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17
Q

“Burney Relief”

A

Some Mesopotamian

Mesopotamian

Relief Sculpture

(British Museum)

(Frontal depiction of a goddess)

(Surrounded by two owls)

(Three talons rest on lions)

(1800-1750 BCE)

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18
Q

“[namesake] Plan of Chicago”

A

Daniel Burnham

American

Architecture / Urban Planning

(created an unbroken stretch of parks along Lake Michigan, through the use of landfill)

(never implemented)

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19
Q

“Butcher’s Stall”

A

Pieter Aertsen

Dutch

Historical painting

(Flight of Egypt found in the background)

(Teacher of Joachim Bueckelaer)

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19
Q

“Can Lis in Mallorca, Spain”

A

Jorn Utzon

Danish

Architecture

(built for his wife)

(built Can Feliz for himself)

“Can Feliz”

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20
Q

“Canal of the Pharaohs”

A

King Necho II

Egyptian

Monarch

(Helped created ‘Necho’s Canal’, which is considered a predecessor of Suez Canal)

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22
Q

“Cantorias”

A

Donatello

Italian

Renaissance

(balcony)

(design for the Florence Cathedral)

(show angels singing)

(Luca della Robbia also did balcony for same cathedral)

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22
Q

“Card Players in an Opulent Interior”

A

Pieter de Hooch

Dutch

Golden Age

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23
Q

“Celestial Pablum”

A

Remedios Varo Uranga

Spanish-Mexican

Surrealism

(Woman grinds up stars to feed a hungry moon)

(1958)

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24
Q

“Chalk Cliffs on Rugen”

A

Caspar David Friedrich

German

Romantic

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25
Q

“Children’s Games”

A

Bruegel the Elder

Flemish

Renaissance

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25
Q

“Chords Bridge in Jerusalem”

A

jerusalem

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish

Architecture

(cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge)

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26
Q

“Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter”

A

Pietro Perugino

Italian

Renaissance

(two triumphal arches in background)

(scenes that depict the stoning of Christ and the tribute money)

(in Sistene Chapel)

(shows Temple of Solmon)

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27
Q

“Classic Landscape”

A

Charles Sheeler, Jr.

American

Precionism

(Railroad spans on right-hand side)

(Ford River Rouge plant)

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28
Q

“Clothespin”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Pop Art

(In Philadelphia)

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29
Q

“Combat of Love and Chastity”

A

Pietro Perugino

Italian

Renaissance

(Daphne turns into a laurel tree in the background)

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30
Q

“Composition (Still Life)”

A

Arshile Gorky

Armenian-American

Abstract Expressionism

(Eyeballs)

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31
Q

“Concert in the Egg”

A

A follower of Hieronymus Bosch

Dutch

Early Netherlandish Renaissance

(legs of a dead bird hang out of a wicker basket)

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31
Q

“Cromwell, Protector of the Vaudois”

A

Ford Madox Brown

British

Pre-Raphaelite

(John Milton in conversation with Cromwell)

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32
Q

“Crucifixion with Saints”

A

Pietro Perugino

Italian

Renaissance

(Both John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene have the EXACT same pose)

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32
Q

“Danaë series”

“Danaë with Eros”

A

Titian

Venetian

High Renaissance

“Danaë Receiving the Golden Rain”

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33
Q

“Danaë”

A

Rembrandt

Dutch

Baroque

(Winged golden statue who clasps its hands above Danae)

(In 1986, a Lithuanian named Maigis poured acid on it at the Hermitage Museum)

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33
Q

“Danaë”

A

Gustav Klimt

Austrian

Symbolism

(1907)

(fetal position wrapped in a purple veil)

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34
Q

“Danish Jewish Museum”

A

denmark

Daniel Libeskind

Polish-American

Architecture

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35
Q

“Der Krieg series”

“Nun”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivty

(the series depicts scenes of WWI)

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36
Q

“Die Skatspieler”

“The Skat Players”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

(horribly deformed veterans playing skat)

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37
Q

“Dying Hercules”

A

Samuel Morse

American

Realism

(title figure grasps his poisoned robe)

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38
Q

“Eight Grey”

A

Gerhard Richter

German

Postmodern

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38
Q

“Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle”

A

Remedios Varo

Spanish-Mexican

Surrealism

(In ‘The Crying of Lot 49’, Oedipa Maas cries with despair of the void because of this painting)

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39
Q

Princeton-based art historian of

  • Studies in Iconology
  • The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer
  • Meaning in Visual Arts
A

Erwin Panofsky

German

(created the idea of habitus)

(Habitus refers to lifestyle, the values, the dispositions and expectation of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.)

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40
Q

“Evening, 9:10, 461 Lenox Avenue”

A

Romare Bearden

African-Amerian

Collage

(Two men and a woman playing cards)

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40
Q

“Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995”

A

Tracy Emin

English

Young British Artists

(Known as ‘The Tent’)

(Billy Childish is one of the names)

(Destroyed in 2004 by a fire)

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42
Q

“Five hundred bronze medallions of French people”

“Giacomo Meyerbeer”

A

David d’Angers

French

Sculptor

(Found in his museum in Angers)

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43
Q

“Flight into Egypt”

A

John Steuart Curry

American

Regionalism

(Mary and Jesus ride in a Conestoga wagon)

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43
Q

“Flaming June”

A

Frederic Leighton

English

Academicism

(a woman in golden robes sleeping)

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44
Q

“Flower Clouds”

A

Odilon Redon

French

Symbolism

(A sailboat holding two reclining people floats on the water in the foreground where the sky seems to bloom into colorful bouquets of flowers)

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45
Q

Art movement whose manifesto stated they wanted to “purge the world of bourgeois sickness … of dead art.”

Consisted of:

  • Gerhard Richter
  • Dick Higgins
  • Joseph Bueys, who made this ‘Table with Accumulator’
A

“Fluxus”

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45
Q

“François I of France”

A

Jean Clouet

French

Renaissance

(Wears a lavish shirt enormous golden sleeves)

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46
Q

“Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupery station”

A

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish

Architecture

(looks like a bird in flight)

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46
Q

“Gallery of the Louvre”

A

Samuel Morse

American

Realism

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47
Q

“George Washington 1962”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

(Leo Castelli provided the frame)

(Riff on Gilbert Stuart’s famous painting)

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48
Q

“George Washington Bush series”

A

Jacob Lawrence

American

Dynamic cubism

(Pioneer holds a musket and rides on a horse in a wintry landscape)

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49
Q

“Grimms Fairy Tales series”

“The Juniper Tree”

A

Philipp Otto Runge

German

Romantic

(Series also includes ‘The Fisherman and His Wife’)

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50
Q

“Hopeless”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

(His divorce from Isabel Wilson inspired a painting where a crying blonde woman lies face down)

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50
Q

“Huaca del Sol near Trujillo, Peru”

A

the Moche

Peruvian

Civilization

(800-1200 AD)

(Lived on coast of Peru)

(Built canals)

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50
Q

“Hogs Killing a Snake”

A

John Steuart Curry

American

Regionalism

(pigs holds snake in mouth)

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51
Q

“Imperial War Museum North in Manchester”

A

Daniel Libeskind

Polish-American

Architcture

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52
Q

“Infant Academy”

A

Joshua Reynolds

English

Portraiture

(An infant in a mob hat is being painted by a child in a red robe)

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53
Q

“Interior series”

“With Bonsais”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

(Late series)

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54
Q

“Jerseys Homesteads Mural”

A

Ben Shahn

Lithuanian-American

Social Realism

(German immigrants)

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54
Q

“Jewish Museum Berlin”

A

berlin #germany

Daniel Libeskind

Polish-American

Architecture

(zigzag design)

(Connected by a series of underground tunnels)

(Features “The Void”)

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56
Q

“Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs”

A

california

Richard Neutra

Austrian-American

Architecture

(Many of the ideas in this house were later expanded in the Rourke House, and its architect mandated that photographer Julius Shulman emphasize its novel mechanized sliding living room panes and temperature controls.)

(commissioned by and named for the man who also commissioned Wright’s Fallingwater.)

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56
Q

“Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces”

A

Joshua Reynolds

English

Portraiture

(She pours an offering into a smoke-emitting tripod)

(Is offered a wreath by one of the Three Graces, which appear to be coming to life)

57
Q

“Landscapes in the Chinse Style series”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

58
Q

“Laocoon and His Sons”

A

Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus

Greek

Scultpure

(attributed to those guys by Pliny the Elder)

(snakes)

59
Q

“Last Judgment Triptych”

A

Hans Memling

German-Flanders

Early Netherlandish

(Jesus sits on a rainbow above an armored angel)

(Red-caped Christ rests feet on golden ball)

(Donor Tommaso Portinari kneels naked in a golden pan)

(once stolen by privateer Paul Benecke)

60
Q

“Letatlin”

A

Vladimir Tatlin

Russian

Architecture

(Spent the last years of his life working on it)

(glider in the form of a giant insect)

61
Q

“Lion of Lucerne”

A

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Danish

Sculpture

(in Lucerne, Switzerland)

(dedicated to Swiss Guards who died during French Revolution)

(“the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world.” by Mark Twain)

(says HELVETORIUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI above it, or “To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss”)

62
Q

“London Aquatics Centre”

A

london

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi-British

Architecture

(won Pritzker Prize in 2004)

(used in the 2012 Olympics)

63
Q

“Lovell Health House in Los Angeles”

A

la

Richard Neutra

Austrian-American

Architecture

(on the side of a ravine in this city in partnership with Rudolph Schindler)

64
Q

“Mademoiselle Lange as Danae”

A

Anne-Louis Girodet

French

Romanticism

(Includes a fat turkey inteded to lampoon Lange’s husband, Michel-Jean Simons)

64
Q

“Maesta”

A

Simone Martini

Italian (Sienese)

International Gothic

(in the Palazzo Pubblico)

(Sala del Mappamondo)

65
Q

“Migration series”

A

Jacob Lawrence

African-American

Dynamic Cubism

(series begins and ends at a train station)

65
Q

Columbian University specialist who wrote “The Parma Ildefonsus”, that did extensive work on illuminated manuscripts like the Joshua Roll

A

Meyer Schapiro

Lithuanian-American

(Specialist in Medieval art history was the leading American Marxist art historian)

67
Q

“Modjesko, Soprano Singer”

A

Kees van Dongen

Dutch

Fauvism

67
Q

“Morning”

A

Philipp Otto Runge

German

Romantic

(Was to be part of a cycle ‘The Times of Day’)

69
Q

“My Egypt”

A

Charles Demuth

American

Precionism

(of the John W. Eshelman and Sons building in Lancaster, PA)

(low vantage point to heighten the monumentality of two white grain elevators next to black smokestack)

70
Q

“Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine”

A

Paolo Veronese

Italian

Renaissance

(Two angels argue over a sheet of music in the bottom left of the painting)

71
Q

“Netherlandish Proverbs”

A

Bruegel the Elder

Flemish

Netherlandish Proverbs

72
Q

“Oath of the Tennis Court”

A

Jacques-Louis David

French

Neoclassicism

(French Revolution)

74
Q

“Ohhh…Alright”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

74
Q

“Olympic with Returned Soldiers”

A

Arthur Lismer

(Group of Seven)

British

Landscape

75
Q

“One World Trade Center”

A

nyc

David M. Childs

American

Architecture

76
Q

“Pantheon”

A

rome #italy

Commissioned by Marcus Agrippa in 126 AD

143 feet to the oculus or “eye”

Rebuilt by Hadrian

Devoted to all of the Roman gods

77
Q

“Parnassus”

A

Anton Raphael Mengs

German

Neoclassical

(at the Villa Albani)

(lauded by Johann Winckelmann)

78
Q

“Pastry Case, I”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Pop Art

(Plaster)

(Sold at the ‘Ray Gun Manufacturing Company’)

79
Q

“Pediment of the French Pantheon”

A

David d’Angers

Sculpture

French

(included the allegorical La Patrie in the center)

80
Q

“Peephole”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

(Sold for $43 million in 2012)

80
Q

“Physical Energy”

A

G. F. Watts

English

Symbolist

82
Q

“Point and Line to Plane”

A

Wassily Kandinsky

Russian

Blue Rider

82
Q

“Pittsburgh”

A

Elsie Driggs

American

Precionism

(At the Whitney Museum)

84
Q

“Portrait of Andrea Odoni”

A

Lorenzo Lotto

Italian

High Renaissance

(grasps statuette of Diana)

86
Q

“Portrait of Francesco delle Opere”

A

Pietro Perugino

Italian

Renaissance

(motto “timete deum” found on book in painting)

87
Q

“Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted”

A

John Singer Sargent

American

Portraiture

(Walking stick)

(Found at the Biltmore House)

88
Q

“Portrait of Guillaume Bude”

A

Jean Clouet

French

Renaissance

90
Q

“Portrait of John D. Rockefeller”

A

John Singer Sargent

American

Portraiture

(seated)

91
Q

“Portrait of Suleika”

A

Otto Dix

German

New Objectivity

(depicts a topless Maud Arizona)

92
Q

“Preaching of the Antichrist”

A

Luca Signorelli

Italian

Renaissance

(part of a series of works for the Chapel of the Madonna di San Brizio)

93
Q

“Prouns”

A

El Lissitzky

Russian

Avant-garde

(Pronounced pro-oons)

94
Q

“Puente del Alamillo in Seville”

A

seville #spain

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish

Architecture

(cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge)

95
Q

“Railroad Station in the Form of a Wristwatch”

A

Claes Oldenburg

American

Sculpture

(drawing in an exhibition of plans for never-built sculptures called Colossal Monuments)

96
Q

“Recanati Annunciation”

A

Lorenzo Lotto

Italian

High Renaissance

(angel busts through the window with giant lily)

98
Q

“Rondanini Portrait of Alexander the Great”

A

Leochares

Greek

Sculpture

(arms missing)

(once drove a chariot)

98
Q

“Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife”

A

John Singer Sargent

American

Portraiture

(The wife is reclining on the right)

99
Q

“Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken”

A

Jacques-Louis David

French

Neoclassicism

(Early work)

(Kneeling St. Roch pleading with Mary)

101
Q

“Saint Zeno Altarpiece”

A

Andrea Mantegna

Italian

Renaissance

(An oil lamp hangs from an egg above the central figure, who is flanked by two gilded wooden columns in the central panel)

102
Q

“Satyr and Nymph”

A

Clodion

French

Sculpture

(Terracotta)

(Nationalmuseum in Stockholm)

(Hoof wrapped around woman’s leg)

102
Q

“Sanctuary of the Santa Maria della Vita”

A

Niccolo dell’Arca

Italian

Early Renaissance

(Niccolo dell’Arca was considered the master of Terracotta)

(Flying drapery)

(Dramatic facial expressions)

104
Q

“School of Pan”

A

Luca Signorelli

Italian

Renaissance

105
Q

“Sculpture in Rotterdam”

A

Naum Gabo

Russian

Constructivism

(Eight-branched sculpture that rises from two blocks of black marble)

106
Q

“Self Portrait with a Palette”

“Myself, Portrait-Landscape”

A

Henri Rosseau

French

Post-Impressionism

(A balloon, a ship, and a newly erected Eiffel Tower)

(black beret and a palette)

107
Q

“Lots of Shakespearean tableuax”

“Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest”

A

Angelica Kauffman

Swiss

Neoclassical

109
Q

“Shrine of St. Urusla”

A

Hans Melmin

German-Flanders

Early Netherlandish

(is a reliquery)

(in Bruges, Belgium)

109
Q

“Sidi Yahya Mosque in Timbuktu”

A

Abu es Haq es Saheli

Al-Andalus

Architecture

(Built in 1440)

(Destroyed in Sept 2012)

111
Q

“Singer with a Glove”

A

Edgar Degas

French

Impressionism

(black glove - green/orange striped wall)

112
Q

“Skeleton of a Horse”

A

George Stubbs

English

Animal Painting

(painted lots of horses, including this one)

“A Lion Attacking a Horse”

114
Q

“Slaughtered Ox”

“Carcass of Beef”

A

Rembrandt

Dutch

Baroque

(title hangs from a frame of 1655)

115
Q

“Spirit of the Forest”

A

Odilon Redon

French

Symbolist

(Tree branches grow out of a bald head attached to a proportionally small skeleton’s body)

117
Q

“St Sebastien Attended by St Irene”

A

Georges de La Tour

French

Baroque

(St Irene holds a large torch)

119
Q

“St. James Led to His Execution”

A

Andrea Mantegna

Italian

Renaissance

(The title figure blesses a kneeling penitent in front of an arch rendered from a very low perspective)

(Destroyed by the Allies during WWII)

120
Q

“St. Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjoy, King of Naples”

A

Simone Martini

Italian (Sienese)

International Gothic

122
Q

“St. Sebastian”

A

El Greco

Spanish

Mannerism

(bound to a tree and has several arrows sticking into him)

123
Q

“Still Life with Dead Fish”

A

William Merritt Chase

American

Impressionism

125
Q

“Strathmore Apartments in Los Angeles”

A

la

Richard Neutra

American

Architecture

126
Q

“Susanna and the Elders”

A

Gianbattista Tiepolo

Italian

Baroque

127
Q

“Taddei Tondo”

A

Michelangelo

Italian

Renaissance

127
Q

“Susanna and the Elders”

A

Artemisia Gentileschi

Italian

Baroque

(man puts finger in his mouth)

129
Q

“Takka Takka”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

(Machine guns discharges ammo)

131
Q

“Tattoos”

A

Norman Rockwell

American

The Man

(Olga is a name crossed out)

132
Q

“Thanksgiving in Camp”

A

Winslow Homer

American

Realism

(For ‘Harper’s Weekly’ during the Civil War)

134
Q

“The Battle Between Carnival and Lent”

A

Bruegel the Elder

Flemish

Renaissance

(potbellied man in a pink coat wears a bucket on head and plays mandolin)

(figures on right have ash marks)

(fat man riding barrel jousting with a starved man being pushed on a blue chair)

135
Q

“The Bean Eater”

A

Annibale Carracci

Italian

Baroque

136
Q

“The Beothic at Bache Post”

A

A. Y. Jackson

(Group of Seven member)

Canadian

Landscape

(Depicts a steaming ship moving through icy waters)

137
Q

“The Birth of Venus”

A

Odilon Redon

French

Symbolism

(Shows her emerging from a conch shell rather than a scallop or oyster)

138
Q

“The Bronze Horseman”

A

Etienne Maurice Falconet

French

Rococo

(in St. Petersburg)

(depicts Peter the Great)

(the stone this statue is on is the ‘Thunder Stone’, and is the largest stone ever to be moved by humans, at 1500 tons. Damn.)

140
Q

“The Card-Sharps with the Ace of Clubs”

A

Georges de La Tour

French

Baroque

141
Q

“The Charterhouse”

A

Thomas Gainsborough

British

Portraiture

(frame made by the grandfather of either Mr. or Mrs. William Hallett)

142
Q

“The Concert Singer”

A

Thomas Eakins

American

Realism

(fern juts out)

(Weda Cook wearing pink dress)

(hand conducting)

143
Q

“The Cyclops”

A

Odilon Redon

French

Symbolism

(The cyclops peering over a hill at a sleeping nude woman)

145
Q

“The Dream of Saint Joseph”

A

Anton Raphael Mengs

German

Neoclassicism

146
Q

“The Dream”

A

Henri Rosseau

French

Post-Impressionism

(Lotus flowers surrounding nude reaching towards a black snake charmer)

148
Q

“The Egg Dance”

A

Pieter Aertsen

Dutch

Historical Painting

(Man trying to cover bowl with foot)

149
Q

“The Epic of American Civilization”

“Panel 7: The Departure of Quetzalcoatl”

A

Jose Orozco

Mexican

Muralist

(found in the Baker Library at Dartmouth College)

(A golden patch of wheat contrasts with pile of golden coins)

(“Eternal flame” burning underneath a figure buired in flower wreaths, next to a tuba player)

(A gray cloaked figure hugs a cross benhind Cortez who is armored and carrying a sword)

(Pile of bodies being devoured at Cortez’s feet by “The Machine”)

(Snakes come out of the sea as the blonde Quetzacoatl points right)

(Skeleton lying on a pile of books gives birth to dead ideas)

(A horde of stern identical-looking blonde children are depicted near a barnhouse)

(Decorated general about to stab Emiliano Zapata)

“Panel 17: Gods of the Modern World”

150
Q

“The Fall of the Rebel Angels”

A

Bruegel the Elder

Flemish

Netherlandish Renaissance

(Skinny-looking Michael wearing a golden suit of armor stands in center)

(Grotesque monsters)

(Bosch-like)

151
Q

“The Finding of Moses”

A

Orazio Gentileschi

Italian

Mannerism

(He was handsomly rewarded by Philip IV of Spain in 1633 for this)

152
Q

“The Horse Fair”

A

Rosa Bonheur

French

Realism

(horses reverse direction across the Boulevard de l’Hopital)

153
Q

“The horses on top of the Brandenburg Gate”

A

Johann Gottfried Schadow

German

Sculpture

(name of the chariot is ‘quadriga’)

155
Q

“The Hulsenbeck Children”

A

Philipp Otto Runge

German

Romantic

(pulling a wagon)

157
Q

“The Hurdy-Gurdy Player”

A

Georges de La Tour

French

Baroque

(man with a vulgarly open mouth)

158
Q

“The Jack Pine”

A

Tom Thomson

(unofficial member of the Group of Seven)

Canadian

Landscape

(in front of Carcajou Bay)

159
Q

“The Manchester Murals”

“Dalton collecting Marsh-Fire Gas”

A

Ford Madox Brown

British

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

(Boy laying face-down on a plank)

(One of twelve murals at the Manchester Town Hall)

“The Romans Building a Fort at Mancenion”

161
Q

“The Morning Walk”

“Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Hallett”

A

Thomas Gainsborough

British

Portraiture

(Young couple on a promenade)

(Mr. tucks his hand into his jacket)

(White Spitz dog looks up at the central figures of the painting)

(Dog is found in ‘Perdita’)

(Three white ostrich feathers stick out of the black hat of Mrs.)

(Mrs. has a black silk band tied around her waist)

(Grandfather of one of the figures helped make the frame of Gainsborough’s “The Charterhouse”)

162
Q

“The Newborn Christ”

A

Georges de La Tour

French

Baroque

(chiaroscuro)

(influenced by Caravaggio)

163
Q

“The original Ferris Wheel”

A

George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.

American

Engineer

(Died of typhoid at 37)

164
Q

“The Painter’s Honeymoon”

A

Frederic Leighton

English

Academicism

166
Q

“The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows”

A

Man Ray

American

Modernism

(colored paper)

168
Q

“The Sleeping Danae”

A

Hendrik Goltzius

Dutch

Golden Age

(old woman holding a gold chalice placed three fingers on Danae’s shoulder)

170
Q

“The White City”

A

Part of the World’s Columbian Exposition (or Chicago World’s Fair of 1893)

Temporary buildings for that fair

Classical style of architecture

Used white stucco

Overseen by Daniel Burnham

171
Q

“The Young Fortune Teller”

A

Joshua Reynolds

English

Portraiture

(A fortune teller points her right forefinger at the palm of a boy)

172
Q

“They Did Not Expect Him”

A

Ilya Repin

Russian

Realism

173
Q

What job did Henri Rousseau once hold?

A

A tollgate operator

Was nicknamed “Le Douanier” or “The Customs Officer” because of it

174
Q

“Tombstones”

A

Jacob Lawrence

African-American

Dynamic Cubism

(1942)

(Depicted a black child throwing a white doll on the ground)

175
Q

“Tornado Over Kansas”

A

John Steuart Curry

American

Regionalism

(wagon in bottom-left corner)

176
Q

“Torpedo…Los!”

A

Roy Lichtenstein

American

Pop Art

177
Q

“Triumph of Mordecai”

A

Paolo Veronese

Italian

Renaissance

(Haman is about to fall off of his black horse)

(Rendered from a below-ground perspective)

(ceiling of the Church of Saint Sebastian)

178
Q

“Triumph of the Virtues”

“Minerva Driving Away Vice from the Garden of Virtue”

A

Andrea Mantegna

Italian

Renaissance

180
Q

“Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden”

A

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish

Architecture

(His own marble sculpture of a twisting human form was the basis)

181
Q

“Variations”

A

Alexej von Jawlensky

Russian

Blue Rider

(painted from his window during WWI)

182
Q

“Vegeta Vampires”

A

Remedios Varo

Spanish-Mexican

Surrealism

(Vegetarian vampires sipping on watermelons and tomatoes with straws)

183
Q

“Virgin among Virgins”

A

Gerard David

Netherlandish

Early Netherlandish

(Jesus is holding grapes)

184
Q

“Virgin and Child Flanked by Two Angelic Musicians”

A

Gerard David

Netherlandish

Early Netherlandish

(Depicted Jean de Sedano and his family on the outer panels)

185
Q

“Turkish Horse, No. 2”

A

Antoine-Louis Barye

French

Sculpture

(commonly did animals)

186
Q

“West 57 Housing Project in New York”

A

nyc

Bjarke Ingels

Danish

Architecture

187
Q

“Winner of the competition to design Freedom Tower or One World Trade Center”

A

Daniel Libeskind

Polish-American

Architecture

(Was to resemble the Statue of Liberty kind of)

(Mostly a scrapped idea, except for the height being at 1776 feet)

188
Q

“Women Singing series”

A

Willem de Kooning

Dutch-American

Abstract Expressionism

(inspired by watching television)

189
Q

“L’Hemisfèric for the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain”

A

Santiago Calatrava

Spanish

Architecture

(Outer ‘eyelid’ of concrete can open to reveal a pool in an IMAX)