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Art History II
Key Learning Items
What is Art? Form and Content
The Skill of Describing
Art as Concept
Art & Context
Representation & Abstraction
Why Is That Important?
Why Is This Art?
Interpreting Contemporary Art
Iconographic Analysis: Understanding Iconography
Formal Analysis: Understanding Visual Form
Art History Terms
From Medievalism to the Renaissance
Proto Renaissance Art: Overview
Cimabue
Giotto’s Arena Chapel
Ognissanti Madonna
Duccio, Maesta
Lorenzetti’s Palazzo Pubblico Frescos
Simone Martini’s Annunciation
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Orsanmichele
Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Linear Perspective
Early Applications of Linear Perspective
Contrapposto
Donatello’s Works
Masaccio’s Tribute Money
Masaccio’s Holy Trinity
Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation
Fra Filippo Lippi
Piero della Francesca’s Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
Alberti
Venice in the Early Renaissance
Bellini’s St. Francis
Mantegna’s Works
Introduction to the Renaissance in Northern Europe
Sluter’s Well of Moses
Holy Thorn Reliquary
Introduction to Flanders
Campin’s Merode Altarpiece
Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece
Arnolfini Portrait
Hugo van der Goes
Van der Weyden’s Deposition
The Unicorn in Captivity
Toward the High Renaissance
Art and Science in the Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci Introduced
Virgin and Child with St. Anne & Virgin of the Rocks
The Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Michelangelo Introduced
Pietà
David
Moses
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment
Raphael Introduced
Marriage of the Virgin
Madonna of the Goldfinch
School of Athens
Alba Madonna
Introduction to Venetian Painting
Giorgione, The Tempest
Titan Introduced
Titian, Assunta
Bellini & Titian, Feast of the Gods
Titian, Bacchus & Ariadne
Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
Titian, Venus of Urbino
Veronese, The Wedding at Cana
Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi
Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way
Introduction to Mannerism
Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck
Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
Italian Renaissance Architecture
The Reformation and Its Influence on Art in Northern Europe
The Reformation and Counter Reformation: Videos
Dürer’s Four Apostles
Self-Portrait 1498
Self-Portrait 1500
What Is a Print?
Dürer’s Prints
Bosch’s Last Judgment
Altdorfer’s Battle of Issus
Cranach’s Adam and Eve
Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece
Holbein’s The Ambassadors
Portrait of Henry the VIII
Bruegel’s The Dutch Proverbs
Introduction to the Baroque
Baroque Art in Italy
Bernini’s David
Bernini’s St. Peter’s Square
Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Caravaggio’s Deposition
Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio and His Followers
Il Gesu, Rome
Gentileschi
Carracci’s Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
Baroque Beyond Italy
Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici
Rubens, The Consequences of War
Dutch Genre Painting Explained
Vanitas Painting Explained
Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Vermeer, The Glass of Wine
Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
Rembrandt, Bathsheba at her Bath
Rembrandt, The Three Crosses
Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits
Hal’s Singing Boy with Flute
Hal’s Malle Babbe
van Huysum, Vase with Flowers
Las Meninas
Los Borrachos
Louis XIV & Versailles
Poussin, Landscape with St. John
Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior
Age of Enlightenment
Introduction to Enlightenment Art
Introduction to Rococo
Fragonard’s The Swing
Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour
Vigee Le Brun’s Madame Perregaux
Rococo Architecture and Solons
Introduction to Neoclassicism
David’s Oath of the Horatii
David’s Death of Marat
David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Antonio Canova
Benjamin West
Sir Joshua Reynolds
William Hogarth
John Singleton Copley
Copley’s Watson and the Shark
Charles Wilson Peale
Gilbert Stuart
Introduction to Romanticism
Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
Raft of the Medusa
Understanding Delacroix’s Painterly Techniques
Scene of the Massacre at Chios
Portraits of the Insane
Death of Sardanapalus
Liberty Leading the People
Apotheosis of Homer
Madame Riviere
Grand Odalisque
Princesse de Broglie
Third of May, 1808
Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
Constable, The Haywain
Turner, Slave Ship
Hudson River School
The Oxbow
Portrait of a Young Woman
Architecture and Sculpture in the Romantic Era
Homer, The Life Line
The Emergence of Modern(ist) Culture
Introduction to Early Photography
Louis Daguerre
Timothy O’Sullivan
Introduction to Parisian Realism
Courbet, The Stone Breakers
Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais
Millet, The Gleaners
Degas, The Dance Class
Degas, At the Races in the Countryside
Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe)
Manet, Olympia
Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Garnier, Paris Opera
Introduction to American Realism
Eakins, The Gross Clinic
John Singer Sargent, Madame X
James Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold
Introduction to Impressionism
Monet, Gare St. Lazare
Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day
Cassatt, In the Loge
Cassatt, The Child’s Bath
Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist
Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
Introduction to Post-Impressionism
Seurat, La Grande Jatte
Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
Van Gogh, The Bedroom
Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Cezanne, Basket of Apples
Cezanne, The Large Bathers
Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching
Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
Gaudi, Sagrada Familia
Introduction to Fin-de-siecle
Klimt, The Kiss
Munch, The Storm
Rodin, Gates of Hell
Introduction to Fauvism
Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre
Matisse, The Red Studio
Matisse, The Piano Lesson
Introduction to Expressionism
Kirchner, Street, Dresden
Kandinsky, Composition VII
Schiele, Seated Male Nude
Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden
Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning
Picasso’s Early Works
Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Introduction to Cubism
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Picasso, The Reservoir
Picasso, Guitar
Picasso, Guernica
Braque, The Portuguese
Braque, The Viaduct at L’Estaque
Introduction to Dadaism
Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm
Duchamp, Fountain
Duchamp, The Red Box
Arp, Untitled
Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Klee, Twittering Machine
Feininger, Cathedral
An Introduction to Futurism
Three Futurists
Mondrian, Composition No. II
Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt
Maholy-Nagy
Introduction to Surrealism
Man Ray, The Gift
Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
Giacometti, Piazza
Magritte, The Treachery of Images
Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
House of Art
Introduction to Modernism in America
American Realism
George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
O'Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Introduction to Abstract Expressionism
Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950
Rothko, No. 3/No. 13
Newman, Onement 1
de Kooning, Woman I
Robert Motherwell
Photography in the 20th Century
Cartier-Bresson
Brancusi, Bird in Space
Modern Architecture
Gilbert, Woolworth Building
Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum
Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
Introduction to Contemporary Art
Jasper Johns
Rauschenberg
Reinhardt
Pop and Minimalist Art
Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans
Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
Oldenburg, Floor Cake
Cindy Sherman
Sherrie Levine
Francis Bacon
Lucian Freud
Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I,
Ed and Nancy Kienholz
Richter, Uncle Rudi
Richter, The Cage Paintings
Donald Judd
Dan Flavin
Robert Morris
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Chicago and Benglis
Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair
Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator
Introduction to Performance Art
Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free/Still)
Understanding Installation Art
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
Ai Weiwei
1. Introduction to Conceptual Art
Vito Acconci, Following Piece
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
Hans Haacke, Les Poseuses
Mary Kelly, Post Partum Document
Robert Smithson
Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
Robert Colescott
Damien Hirst
Art in the Twenty-First Century
2. Digital Art
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