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ART WORK /

ARTIST DESCRIPTION (Artwork)


ART FORM
● Jacques-Louis David ● The Death of Marat Shows the portrayal of a
(1748 – 1825) / Painting revolutionary martyr.
- An influential French ● Napoleon Crossing Shows a strongly idealized view of
painter and considered the Alps / Painting the real crossing that Napoleon and
to be the pre-eminent his army made across the Alps
painter of the era through the Great St. Bernard Pass
in May
- His subject of painting 1800.
were more on history. ● Oath of the Horatii Depicts a scene from a Roman legend
/ Painting about the dispute between Rome and
Alba Longa. The three brothers, all of
whom appear willing to sacrifice
their lives for the good of Rome, are
shown saluting their father who
holds their swords out for them.

● Jean-Auguste- ● Portrait of Napoleon Depicts Napoleon in his decadent


Dominique Ingres on the Imperial coronation costume, seated upon
(1780 – 1867) Throne / Painting his golden- encrusted throne, hand
- He was a pupil of resting
Jacques-Louis David, and upon smooth ivory balls.
regarded as one of the ● The Apotheosis of Depicts an image of Homer, receiving
great examplers of Homer / Painting all the brilliant men of Rome, Greece
academic art and one of and contemporary times.
the finest Old Masters of
his era.
- His paintings were
usually nudes,
portraits, and
mythological theme.
● Antonio Canova ● Psyche Awakened A marble sculpture portraying the
(1757 – 1822) by Cupid’s Kiss / relationship of Psyche and
- A prolific Italian artist & Sculpture Cupid
sculptor who became ● Washington / A marble sculpture of Washington
famous for his marble Sculpture currently displayed at North
sculptures that delicately Carolina Museum of History.
rendered nude flesh.

ART WORK /
ARTIST DESCRIPTION (Artwork)
ART FORM
● Bertel Thorvaldsen ● Christ / Sculpture An image of resurrected Christ
(1789 – 1838) currently located at the
- He was the first Thorvaldsen Museum.
internationally ● Lion of Lucerne / It commemorates the Swiss Guards
acclaimed Danish Sculpture who were massacred in 1792 during
artist. the French Revolution.
- He executed
sculptures of
mythological and
religious theme
characters.
● Robert Adam ● White House / A well-known American civic
(1728 – 1792) Architecture buildings, with a balustrade which
- A Palladian architect of the ● United States is a railing with vertical supports
Neoclassic period Capitol / along the edge of the roof.
Architecture
● Henri Labrousete ● Library of Saint-
Gennevieve /
Architecture
● Charles Garnier ● Palais Garnier /
Architecture

ROMANTIC PERIOD 1800s - 1810s


ART WORK /
ARTIST DESCRIPTION (Artwork)
ART FORM
● Jean louis Theodore ● The Raft of the Portrays the victims of a
Gericault (1791 – 1824) Medusa / Painting contemporary shipwreck
France ● Charging Chasseur His first major work revealed the
- He was the first French / Painting influence of the style of Rubens and
master and the leader of an interest in the depiction
the French realistic school. of contemporary subject matter
- His masterpiece were ● Insane Woman / One of several portraits Gericault
energetic, powerful, Painting made of the mentally disabled that
brilliantly colored and has a peculiar hypnotic power.
tightly composed

● Eugene Delacroix ● Liberty Leading the A woman holding the flag of


(1798 – 1863) France People / Painting French Revolution personifies
- He was considered the Liberty and leads the people
greatest and most forward over the bodies of the
influential French fallen
Romantic painter.
ART WORK /
ARTIST DESCRIPTION (Artwork)
ART FORM
● Francisco Goya ● The Third of May / Commemorates Spanish resistance to
(1746 – 1828) Spain Painting Napoleon’s armies during the
- He was a commissioned occupation of 1808 in
Romantic painter by the the Peninsular War.
King of Spain. ● Saturn Devouring Depicts the Greek myth of the Titan
His Son / Painting Cronus (Saturn), who fears that t\he
- He was also a would be overthrown by one of his
printmaker regarded children, so he can
both as the last of the ate each one upon their birth.
“Old Masters” and the ● The Burial of It was Spanish ceremony
first of the “Moderns”. Sardine / Painting celebrated on Ash Wednesday and
was a symbolical burial of the past
to allow society to be reborn,
transformed with new
vigor
● Theodore Rousseau ● Der kleine Fischer A landscape painting depicts the
/ Painting physical world that surrounds us
● Landscape with a and includes features such as
Plowman / Painting mountains, valleys, vegetation and
● Jean-Baptiste-Camille ● The Church of bodies of water.
Corot Marissel, near
Beauvais / Painting
● Le repos sous les
saules / Painting
● Francois Rude ● Departure of the Portrays the goddess liberty urging
(1784 – 1855) France Volunteers / the forces of the French
- He was best known for his Sculpture Revolution onward
social art which aimed to ● JEANNE d’Arc /
inspire and capture the Sculpture
interest of a
broad public.
● Antoine-Louis Barye ● Hercules Sitting on a
(1796 – 1875) France Bull / Sculpture
- He was the most famous ● Theseus Slaying
animal sculptor of all time. the Minotaur /
Sculpture

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