Overview
Click on the links and read the articles, paying close attention to the images.
Baroque: this overview here is also super useful!
Italy:
- Bernini’s Saint Teresa
- Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
- Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe
- Artemesia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes
- Rubens’s Elevation of the Cross
- Dutch Genre Paintings (a specific type is the vanitas)
- Las Meninas, by Velasquez (and check out this contemporary answer to Velasquez’s work here!)
- David’s Oath of the Horatii: the perfect example of Neoclassical painting (but almost everything by David is)
- Benjamin West:
- If I have to know this exists, so do you
- Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People: this is the Les Misérables revolution, if that helps
- Géricault, Raft of the Medusa: explicitly abolitionist
- Goya, Third of May, 1808: compositional choices to make maximum emotional impact
- Joseph Mallord William Turner: like a proto-Impressionist
- Caspar Friedrich, Monk By the Sea
- Thomas Cole, The Oxbow: paintings like this of the American landscape were part of the mythologizing of the West (and an invitation to “tame” the land by white settlers)
- Courbet, The Stonebreakers
- Millet, The Gleaners
- If you feel like getting in the weeds about it, the Realists were influenced by Marx and Engels, and you can read the whole Communist Manifesto here (though part I, on the bourgeoisie and proletariat is the most useful parts for our purposes
- Read the reading above to help with the assignment and the assignment is attached below in the Dropbox!!!!! Don’t make it sound to smart either…..