Slide 1: A Brief History of Western Art through My Camera
Slide 2: Disclaimer Please be advised that my conduct of photo-snapping in museums is either encouraged nor condoned. Nevertheless no flashes were used, no profit was therefrom made. It’s at most a victimless crime.
Slide 3: A Brief History of Western Art - Renaissance - Baroque & Rococo - Neoclassicism - Romanticism - Realism - Impressionism - Post-Impressionism
Slide 4: Renaissance Significance: revival of Greco-Roman Antiquity; celebration of humanistic spirit Major Artists: - Botticelli - Michelangelo - Raphael - Titian - Leonardo da Vinci
Slide 5: Botticelli The Birth of Venus Uffizi, Florence
Slide 6: Michelangelo The Holy Family Uffizi, Florence
Slide 7: Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Vatican City
Slide 8: Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Vatican City
Slide 9: Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Ceiling Vatican City
Slide 10: Raphael The School of Athens Vatican City
Slide 11: Titian Venus of Urbino Uffizi, Florence
Slide 12: Leonardo da Vinci Annunciation Uffizi, Florence
Slide 13: Leonardo da Vinci Adoration of the Magi Uffizi, Florence
Slide 14: Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Louvre, Paris
Slide 15: Baroque & Rococo Significance: emphasize detail, lighting, movement, drama; anti-reformation; exhibit grandeur & Absolutism Major Artists: - Rembrandt - Peter Paul Rubens - Caravaggio (no photos)
Slide 16: Rembrandt Self-Portrait Uffizi, Florence
Slide 17: Peter Paul Rubens Marie de'Medici Series IV: Presentation of Her Portrait to Henry IV Louvre, Paris
Slide 18: Neoclassicism Significance: revival of simpler art of Renaissance. Artistic component of the Enlightenment Major Artists: - Jacques-Louis David - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrés
Slide 19: Jacques-Louis David Oath of the Horatii Louvre, Paris
Slide 20: Jacques-Louis David The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons Louvre, Paris
Slide 21: Jacques-Louis David Madame Récamier Louvre, Paris
Slide 22: Jacques-Louis David Coronation of Napoleon & The Intervention of Sabine Women Louvre, Paris
Slide 23: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrés La grande odalisque Louvre, Paris
Slide 24: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrés Odalisque with a Slave Fogg Museum, Harvard, Cambridge
Slide 25: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrés The Valpincon Bather Louvre, Paris
Slide 26: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrés Apotheosis of Homer Louvre, Paris
Slide 27: Romanticism Significance: rejects the Enlightenment; use of color and motion to portrait emotion; symbolism; emphasis on nature and its power and beauty.
Slide 28: Romanticism Major Artists: - Théodore Géricault - Eugene Delacroix - Francisco Goya (no photos) - J.M.W. Turner - John Constable - Caspar David Friedrich - William Blake
Slide 29: Théodore Géricault The Raft of the Medusa Louvre, Paris
Slide 30: Eugene Delacroix Death of Sardanapalus Louvre, Paris
Slide 31: Eugene Delacroix Liberty Leading the People Louvre, Paris
Slide 32: Eugene Delacroix The Women of Algiers (in Their Apartment) Louvre, Paris
Slide 33: J. M. W. Turner Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway National Gallery of Art, London
Slide 34: John Constable Haywain Tate Britain, London
Slide 35: Caspar David Friedrich Abtei im Eichenwald Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
Slide 36: Caspar David Friedrich Der Mönch am Meer Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
Slide 37: Caspar David Friedrich Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
Slide 38: William Blake Ancient of Days British Museum, London
Slide 39: William Blake Newton Tate Britain, London
Slide 40: Realism Significance: echoing Industrialization and its aftermath; offers a stark vision of poverty desperation & despair. Major Artists: - Jean-Francois Millet - Edouard Manet - Edgar Degas - Auguste Rodin
Slide 41: Jean-Francois Millet Des Glaneuses Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 42: Edgar Degas Ballet Dances Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 43: Edgar Degas L’etoile Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 44: Edouard Manet Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 45: Auguste Rodin Le Baiser Musée Rodin, Paris
Slide 46: Auguste Rodin L’Age d’airain Musée Rodin, Paris
Slide 47: Auguste Rodin Gates of Hell Stanford, Palo Alto
Slide 48: Auguste Rodin Gates of Hell Musée Rodin, Paris
Slide 49: Auguste Rodin Le Penseur Musée Rodin, Paris
Slide 50: Impressionism Significance: the use of light and its changing qualities, visible brushstrokes, open composition, ordinary subject matter, use movement as a crucial element of human perception & experience
Slide 51: Impressionism Major Artists: - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Paul Cezanne - Claude Monet
Slide 52: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 53: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Nude Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 54: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Slide 55: Paul Cézanne The Large Bathers Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Slide 56: Claude Monet Water Lily Pond Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 57: Claude Monet Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877 Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 58: Gare Saint-Lazare, 2005 Paris
Slide 59: Post-Impressionism Significance: an extension of Impressionism; emphasize geometric forms, distorted forms, unnatural or arbitrary colors; transition to modern art Major Artists: - Paul Gauguin - Georges Seurat - Vincent van Gogh
Slide 60: Paul Gauguin Joyesness Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 61: Paul Gauguin Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Slide 62: George Seurat The Circus Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Slide 63: Vincent van Gogh Starry Night The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Slide 64: Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait Fogg Museum, Harvard, Cambridge