Art History 176 Study Guide 2 Spring 14
I. Identification of images (30 points)
You will be shown 10 of the following images. You will identify them with name of artist, title, medium, and date of creation; if it is a building, the exterior will probably be masonry, while the interior could be different mediums (please include the building’s location).
19-8/9 Gianlorenzo Bernini, Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy
19-12 Annibale Carraci, Galleria Farnese ceiling
19-17 Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew
19-19 Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
19-23 Mansart and le Brun, Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles
19-38 Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas
19-63 Jan Vermeer, View of Delft
26-2 Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise
26-3 J.B.Neumann, Kaisersaal Residenz
26-9 Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera
26-36 Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
26-38 John Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare
26-48 Jacques Louis David, Oath of the Horatii
26-56 John Trumbull, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill
27-3 Jean-Antoine Gros, Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa
27-4 Ingres, Large Odalisque
27-6 Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
27-17 Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808
27-18 C. D. Friedrich, Wanderer above a Sea of Mist
27-20 William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire
II. Attribution question (10 points)
You will be shown a work not discussed in class. The work will be by an artist, or architect covered in class. You will attribute the work to its author and style period, and give reasons for your attribution.
III. Comparison (30 points)
You will be asked to compare ONE of the pairs below.
Begin by identifying each work’s creator, title, date of creation and medium. Proceed to compare and contrast the two in a short essay, noting differences and similarities in style, subject, medium and scale. Refer to the historical, social, artistic and biographic contexts surrounding the creation of the works. Explain how these contexts influenced the artists and how they may account for both the similarities and the differences. (It is strongly recommended that you read Sylvan Barnett, A Short Guide to Writing about Art).
- The interiors of Germain Boffrand’s Hotel de Soubise, Paris, begun 1732 and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770-84
- Bernini’s David, 1645-52 and Houdon’s George Washington, 1788-92
IV. Essay (30 points)
Gaulli’s The Triumph of the Sacred Name of Jesus in the Church of Il Gesu, Rome and Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew are examples of the Baroque period in art.
J. - L. David’s Oath of the Horatii and Kauffmann’s Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures are examples of the Neoclassic sensibility.
You will be presented with one of the above examples of the Baroque and the Neoclassical periods. Your task will be to write about how each piece exemplifies Baroque or Neoclassic characteristics formally, compositionally, and thematically.