Contents

  1. Art History II

  2. I. Introduction to Art History, Concepts, and Terminology

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. What is Art? Form and Content

    3. The Skill of Describing

    4. Art as Concept

    5. Art & Context

    6. Representation & Abstraction

    7. Why Is That Important?

    8. Why Is This Art?

    9. Interpreting Contemporary Art

    10. Iconographic Analysis: Understanding Iconography

    11. Formal Analysis: Understanding Visual Form

    12. Art History Terms

  3. II. Chapter 1: The Origins of Renaissance Art

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. From Medievalism to the Renaissance

    3. Proto Renaissance Art: Overview

    4. Cimabue

    5. Giotto’s Arena Chapel

    6. Ognissanti Madonna

    7. Duccio, Maesta

    8. Lorenzetti’s Palazzo Pubblico Frescos

    9. Simone Martini’s Annunciation

  4. III. Chapter 2: Early Italian Renaissance Art

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Florence in the Early Renaissance

    3. Orsanmichele

    4. Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac

    5. Linear Perspective

    6. Early Applications of Linear Perspective

    7. Contrapposto

    8. Donatello’s Works

    9. Masaccio’s Tribute Money

    10. Masaccio’s Holy Trinity

    11. Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation

    12. Fra Filippo Lippi

    13. Piero della Francesca’s Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino

    14. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

    15. Alberti

    16. Venice in the Early Renaissance

    17. Bellini’s St. Francis

    18. Mantegna’s Works

  5. IV. Chapter 3: Early Renaissance Art in Northern Europe

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to the Renaissance in Northern Europe

    3. Sluter’s Well of Moses

    4. Holy Thorn Reliquary

    5. Introduction to Flanders

    6. Campin’s Merode Altarpiece

    7. Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece

    8. Arnolfini Portrait

    9. Hugo van der Goes

    10. Van der Weyden’s Deposition

    11. The Unicorn in Captivity

  6. V. Chapter 4: The Three Masters of High Renaissance Italian Art

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Toward the High Renaissance

    3. Art and Science in the Renaissance

    4. Leonardo da Vinci Introduced

    5. Virgin and Child with St. Anne & Virgin of the Rocks

    6. The Last Supper

    7. Mona Lisa

    8. Michelangelo Introduced

    9. Pietà

    10. David

    11. Moses

    12. Sistine Chapel Ceiling

    13. Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment

    14. Raphael Introduced

    15. Marriage of the Virgin

    16. Madonna of the Goldfinch

    17. School of Athens

    18. Alba Madonna

  7. VI. Chapter 5: Italian High Renaissance Art, Mannerism, and Architecture

    1. Introduction to Venetian Painting

    2. Giorgione, The Tempest

    3. Titan Introduced

    4. Titian, Assunta

    5. Bellini & Titian, Feast of the Gods

    6. Titian, Bacchus & Ariadne

    7. Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family

    8. Titian, Venus of Urbino

    9. Veronese, The Wedding at Cana

    10. Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi

    11. Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way

    12. Introduction to Mannerism

    13. Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck

    14. Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait

    15. Italian Renaissance Architecture

  8. VII. Chapter 6: Renaissance Art in the Age of Reformation

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. The Reformation and Its Influence on Art in Northern Europe

    3. The Reformation and Counter Reformation: Videos

    4. Dürer’s Four Apostles

    5. Self-Portrait 1498

    6. Self-Portrait 1500

    7. What Is a Print?

    8. Dürer’s Prints

    9. Bosch’s Last Judgment

    10. Altdorfer’s Battle of Issus

    11. Cranach’s Adam and Eve

    12. Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece

    13. Holbein’s The Ambassadors

    14. Portrait of Henry the VIII

    15. Bruegel’s The Dutch Proverbs

  9. VIII. Chapter 7: Baroque Art in Italy

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to the Baroque

    3. Baroque Art in Italy

    4. Bernini’s David

    5. Bernini’s St. Peter’s Square

    6. Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa

    7. Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

    8. Caravaggio’s Deposition

    9. Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew

    10. Caravaggio and His Followers

    11. Il Gesu, Rome

    12. Gentileschi

    13. Carracci’s Ceiling of the Farnese Palace

  10. IX. Chapter 8: Baroque Art Beyond Italy

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Baroque Beyond Italy

    3. Rubens, Elevation of the Cross

    4. Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici

    5. Rubens, The Consequences of War

    6. Dutch Genre Painting Explained

    7. Vanitas Painting Explained

    8. Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

    9. Vermeer, The Glass of Wine

    10. Vermeer and the Camera Obscura

    11. Rembrandt, Bathsheba at her Bath

    12. Rembrandt, The Three Crosses

    13. Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits

    14. Hal’s Singing Boy with Flute

    15. Hal’s Malle Babbe

    16. van Huysum, Vase with Flowers

    17. Las Meninas

    18. Los Borrachos

    19. Louis XIV & Versailles

    20. Poussin, Landscape with St. John

    21. Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior

  11. X. Chapter 9: The Age of Enlightenment

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Age of Enlightenment

    3. Introduction to Enlightenment Art

    4. Introduction to Rococo

    5. Fragonard’s The Swing

    6. Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour

    7. Vigee Le Brun’s Madame Perregaux

    8. Rococo Architecture and Solons

    9. Introduction to Neoclassicism

    10. David’s Oath of the Horatii

    11. David’s Death of Marat

    12. David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps

    13. Antonio Canova

    14. Benjamin West

    15. Sir Joshua Reynolds

    16. William Hogarth

    17. John Singleton Copley

    18. Copley’s Watson and the Shark

    19. Charles Wilson Peale

    20. Gilbert Stuart

  12. XI. Chapter 10: Romanticism and Art

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to Romanticism

    3. Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa

    4. Raft of the Medusa

    5. Understanding Delacroix’s Painterly Techniques

    6. Scene of the Massacre at Chios

    7. Portraits of the Insane

    8. Death of Sardanapalus

    9. Liberty Leading the People

    10. Apotheosis of Homer

    11. Madame Riviere

    12. Grand Odalisque

    13. Princesse de Broglie

    14. Third of May, 1808

    15. Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

    16. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons

    17. Constable, The Haywain

    18. Turner, Slave Ship

    19. Hudson River School

    20. The Oxbow

    21. Portrait of a Young Woman

    22. Architecture and Sculpture in the Romantic Era

  13. XII. Chapter 11: Early Modern(ist) Art

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Homer, The Life Line

    3. The Emergence of Modern(ist) Culture

    4. Introduction to Early Photography

    5. Louis Daguerre

    6. Timothy O’Sullivan

    7. Introduction to Parisian Realism

    8. Courbet, The Stone Breakers

    9. Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais

    10. Millet, The Gleaners

    11. Degas, The Dance Class

    12. Degas, At the Races in the Countryside

    13. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe)

    14. Manet, Olympia

    15. Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

    16. Garnier, Paris Opera

    17. Introduction to American Realism

    18. Eakins, The Gross Clinic

    19. John Singer Sargent, Madame X

    20. James Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold

    21. Introduction to Impressionism

    22. Monet, Gare St. Lazare

    23. Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series

    24. Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day

    25. Cassatt, In the Loge

    26. Cassatt, The Child’s Bath

    27. Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist

    28. Renoir, Moulin de la Galette

    29. Introduction to Post-Impressionism

    30. Seurat, La Grande Jatte

    31. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin

    32. Van Gogh, The Bedroom

    33. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

    34. Cezanne, Basket of Apples

    35. Cezanne, The Large Bathers

    36. Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon

    37. Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching

    38. Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge

    39. Gaudi, Sagrada Familia

    40. Introduction to Fin-de-siecle

    41. Klimt, The Kiss

    42. Munch, The Storm

    43. Rodin, Gates of Hell

  14. XIII. Chapter 12: 20th Century Modernisms in Art, Part II

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to Fauvism

    3. Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre

    4. Matisse, The Red Studio

    5. Matisse, The Piano Lesson

    6. Introduction to Expressionism

    7. Kirchner, Street, Dresden

    8. Kandinsky, Composition VII

    9. Schiele, Seated Male Nude

    10. Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden

    11. Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning

    12. Picasso’s Early Works

    13. Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein

    14. Introduction to Cubism

    15. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

    16. Picasso, The Reservoir

    17. Picasso, Guitar

    18. Picasso, Guernica

    19. Braque, The Portuguese

    20. Braque, The Viaduct at L’Estaque

    21. Introduction to Dadaism

    22. Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm

    23. Duchamp, Fountain

    24. Duchamp, The Red Box

    25. Arp, Untitled

    26. Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife

    27. Klee, Twittering Machine

    28. Feininger, Cathedral

    29. An Introduction to Futurism

    30. Three Futurists

    31. Mondrian, Composition No. II

    32. Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt

    33. Maholy-Nagy

  15. XIV. Chapter 13: 20th Century Modernisms in Art, Part II

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to Surrealism

    3. Man Ray, The Gift

    4. Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.

    5. Giacometti, Piazza

    6. Magritte, The Treachery of Images

    7. Dali, The Persistence of Memory

    8. Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus

    9. House of Art

    10. Introduction to Modernism in America

    11. American Realism

    12. George Bellows, Pennsylvania Station Excavation

    13. Grant Wood, American Gothic

    14. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks

    15. O'Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree

    16. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

    17. Introduction to Abstract Expressionism

    18. Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950

    19. Rothko, No. 3/No. 13

    20. Newman, Onement 1

    21. de Kooning, Woman I

    22. Robert Motherwell

    23. Photography in the 20th Century

    24. Cartier-Bresson

    25. Brancusi, Bird in Space

    26. Modern Architecture

    27. Gilbert, Woolworth Building

    28. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum

    29. Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building

  16. XV. Chapter 14: 20th Century Contemporary Art, Part I

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to Contemporary Art

    3. Jasper Johns

    4. Rauschenberg

    5. Reinhardt

    6. Pop and Minimalist Art

    7. Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans

    8. Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V

    9. Oldenburg, Floor Cake

    10. Cindy Sherman

    11. Sherrie Levine

    12. Francis Bacon

    13. Lucian Freud

    14. Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I,

    15. Ed and Nancy Kienholz

    16. Richter, Uncle Rudi

    17. Richter, The Cage Paintings

    18. Donald Judd

    19. Dan Flavin

    20. Robert Morris

    21. Eva Hesse, Untitled

    22. Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)

    23. Chicago and Benglis

    24. Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair

    25. Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator

  17. XVI. Chapter 15: 20th Century Contemporary Art, Part II

    1. Key Learning Items

    2. Introduction to Performance Art

    3. Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0

    4. Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free/Still)

    5. Understanding Installation Art

    6. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party

    7. Ai Weiwei

    8. 1. Introduction to Conceptual Art

    9. Vito Acconci, Following Piece

    10. John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

    11. Hans Haacke, Les Poseuses

    12. Mary Kelly, Post Partum Document

    13. Robert Smithson

    14. Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths

    15. Robert Colescott

    16. Damien Hirst

    17. Art in the Twenty-First Century

    18. 2. Digital Art