Key Artworks and Architecture: Renaissance to Art Nouveau

Quiz 4

David by Donatello

Origin: Florence, 1440, Early Italian Renaissance

Reappearance of the nude figure, contrapposto, of a biblical hero.

Madonna of the Rocks

Origin: Milan, 1483, High Italian Renaissance

David by Michelangelo

Origin: Florence, 1501, High Italian Renaissance

Symbolizes civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence.

Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo

Origin: Rome, 1508, High Italian Renaissance

Commissioned by Pope Julius II. Four years work on 300 figures in the Creation of Mankind.

Villa Rotonda by Palladio

Origin: Vicenza, 1550, High Italian Renaissance

Shows Roman aspects like columns and a dome, similar to the Parthenon.

Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin

Origin: Tournai, 1430, Northern Renaissance

Controversial painting triggering scholars to be confused.

David by Bernini

Origin: Rome, 1623, Baroque

Captures movement and shift in weight of an athletic human figure.

Love of the Gods by Annibale Carracci

Origin: Rome, 1597, Baroque

Quadro riportato vault painting giving the illusion of framed paintings on the ceiling.

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

Origin: Madrid, 1656, Baroque

Artist giving himself credit for his work.

The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

By: Rembrandt

Origin: Amsterdam, 1642, Baroque

Effective use of shade and light views in a civic group portrait.

Quiz 5

Oath of the Horatii by Jacques Louis-David

Origin: Paris, 1784, Neoclassicism

Narrative shows the pattern of sacrifice drawn from Roman culture.

Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya

Origin: Madrid, 1814, Romanticism

Encouraged empathy by depicting a massacre.

The Fighting Temeraire by J.M.W Turner

Origin: Trafalgar, 1880, Romanticism

Painted a sunset to honor the Temeraire.

Olympia

Origin: Paris, 1863, Realism

Bold painting of a nude prostitute with her black maid delivering her flowers.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Origin: Chicago, 1884, Post-Impressionism

Painting composed of dots.

Gates of Hell by Augustus Rodin

Origin: Paris, 1800, Symbolism

Ambitious work inspired by Dante's Inferno, featuring 200+ sinners.

Sullivan Center by Louis Henry Sullivan

Origin: Chicago, 1899, Art Nouveau

Department store composed of a minimal steel skeleton and glass.