Art History Notes
Art History Study Guide for Final
Review for final exam, Art 2, Renaissance to Modern
The questions on the test will be taken from the categories below. I have left out some artists entirely and in some cases limited the objects being considered for questions. You will choose ten or twelve questions from 16 or more possibilities.
Art of Venice (two questions) Titian Giorgione Palladio (Villa Rotonda only) El Greco (Laocoon [National Gallery, DC] and View of Toledo [Met], see Met essay on El Greco)
Northern Renaissance (two questions) Albrecht Durer Pieter Bruegel the elder (Return of the Hunters and The Harvesters – at the Met) Hans Holbein the Younger
Baroque (four questions) Rubens (excluding the “Allegory of Sight”) (see Smarthistory and Met essay on Rubens and Van Dyke) Caravaggio. (see Met essay on Caravaggio) Bernini (see Met essays on Bernini and on Baroque Rome) Borromini Velazquez (Las Meninas – see Smarthistory – and Juan de Pareja, at the Met) See also Met essay on Velazquez. Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain (both French, working in Italy) Dutch painting: Hals (Willem Coymans at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.), Rembrandt (self-portraits and The Syndics of the Cloth Guild), Vermeer (especially Young Woman with a Water Pitcher at the Met)
For each of the movements listed below, be prepared to explain the meaning of each term and give specific examples. (8 questions)
Rococo the Enlightenment
Neoclassicism (and neoclassical history paintings)
Romanticism (consider the various expressions of this across Europe) mid-19th century French Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Cubism and Fauvism
Art of Venice (two questions)
Titan or Giorgione, 1510
-Oil on canvas
-Brownish from being very old, we man in center
-Musus=figures, idealize female nude, loose brushstrokes
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
-Oil on canvas
-Similar to Sleeping Venus
-Mark Twain said
Review for final exam, Art 2, Renaissance to Modern
The questions on the test will be taken from the categories below. I have left out some artists entirely and in some cases limited the objects being considered for questions. You will choose ten or twelve questions from 16 or more possibilities.
Art of Venice (two questions) Titian Giorgione Palladio (Villa Rotonda only) El Greco (Laocoon [National Gallery, DC] and View of Toledo [Met], see Met essay on El Greco)
Northern Renaissance (two questions) Albrecht Durer Pieter Bruegel the elder (Return of the Hunters and The Harvesters – at the Met) Hans Holbein the Younger
Baroque (four questions) Rubens (excluding the “Allegory of Sight”) (see Smarthistory and Met essay on Rubens and Van Dyke) Caravaggio. (see Met essay on Caravaggio) Bernini (see Met essays on Bernini and on Baroque Rome) Borromini Velazquez (Las Meninas – see Smarthistory – and Juan de Pareja, at the Met) See also Met essay on Velazquez. Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain (both French, working in Italy) Dutch painting: Hals (Willem Coymans at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.), Rembrandt (self-portraits and The Syndics of the Cloth Guild), Vermeer (especially Young Woman with a Water Pitcher at the Met)
For each of the movements listed below, be prepared to explain the meaning of each term and give specific examples. (8 questions)
Rococo the Enlightenment
Neoclassicism (and neoclassical history paintings)
Romanticism (consider the various expressions of this across Europe) mid-19th century French Realism
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Cubism and Fauvism
Art of Venice (two questions)
Titan or Giorgione, 1510
-Oil on canvas
-Brownish from being very old, we man in center
-Musus=figures, idealize female nude, loose brushstrokes
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
-Oil on canvas
-Similar to Sleeping Venus
-Mark Twain said