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- Renaissance art
- Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical styles
- Nineteenth-century art
- Twentieth-Century art
- Contemporary Art

General History

Art & Architecture, Renaissance: Topic
European art of the 15th–17th centuries, associated with the Renaissance, a revival in learning that began in Florence, Italy, with the rise of a spirit of humanism and a new appreciation of the classical Greek and Roman past.
Counter-Reformation: Topic
16th-century reformation that arose largely in answer to the Protestant Reformation; sometimes called the Catholic Reformation. Although the Roman Catholic reformers shared the Protestants' revulsion at the corrupt conditions in the church, there was present none of the tradition breaking that characterized Protestantism.
Lorenzo de Medici (1449 - 1492): Topic
1449–92, Italian merchant prince, called Lorenzo il Magnifico [the magnificent]. He was a patron of Sandro Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Andrea del Verrocchio, Michelangelo, and other famed artists.
Papacy: Topic
Office of the pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church. He is pope by reason of being bishop of Rome and thus, according to Roman Catholic belief, successor in the see of Rome (the Holy See) to its first bishop, St. Peter.
Patronage in the Renaissance
From Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
Axiomatic as the notion that Renaissance culture flourished in an atmosphere of patronage is, it remains a vague one.
Reformation: Topic
Religious and political movement in 16th-century Europe to reform the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.
Renaissance: Topic
Period in European cultural history that began in Italy around 1400 and lasted there until the end of the 1500s.

High & Late Renaissance Artists

Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572): Topic
The pupil of Pontormo and his lifelong friend, was the principal practitioner of Florentine Mannerism. He is best known for his portraits of Cosimo de' Medici's family and his courtiers, which reveal beneath their glacial exteriors the sitters' anxieties.
Annibale Carracci (1560-1609): Topic
One of a Bolognese family of painters, the oldest of whom, Lodovico (1555–1619), founded a school in Bologna. His cousins Agostino (1557–1602) and Annibale worked in their early years with Lodovico, but left Bologna, working first in north Italy and later in Rome.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652 or 1653): Topic
Tuscan painter, daughter and pupil of Orazio Gentileschi, b. Rome.
Baldassare Peruzzi (1481 - 1536): Topic
Italian architect and painter in the High Renaissance style; designed the Villa Farnesina and the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.
Bartolomeo Ammanati (1511 - 1592): Topic
Born near Florence, the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammanati trained in the workshop of Pisa Cathedral, where his first independent work is found (1536).
Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571): Topic
1500–1571, Italian sculptor, metalsmith, and author. His remarkable autobiography (written 1558–62), which reads like a picaresque novel, is one of the most important documents of the 16th cent.
El Greco (1541 - 1614): Topic
Spanish painter. He painted elegant portraits and intensely emotional religious scenes with increasingly distorted figures and unearthly light.
Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574): Topic
Italian architect, painter, and art historian, noted for his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550; 1568), a principal source for the history of Italian Renaissance art.
Guercino (1591-1666): Topic
Italian baroque painter. He was active chiefly in Rome. In his ceiling painting of Aurora (1621–23; Villa Ludovisi, Rome), the chariot-borne figure of Dawn rides across the heavens; the architectural framework is imitated in the painting, giving the illusion that the ceiling opens into the sky.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519): Topic
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. The versatility and creative power of Leonardo mark him as a supreme example of Renaissance genius.
Michelangelo (1475 - 1564): Topic
Universally recognized as one of the greatest artists in history, perhaps the greatest. He excelled as a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the Italian High Renaissance.
Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571 - 1610): Topic
1571–1610, Italian painter. His strong chiaroscuro technique of partially illuminating figures against a dark background was immediately adopted by his contemporaries.
Raphael Sanzio (1483 - 1520): Topic
Raphael was the common name of the Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio or Santi.
Tintoretto (1518 - 1594): Topic Page
Jacopo Robusti, whose name derived from the profession of his father, a dyer (tintore), was, with Veronese, the chief Venetian painter of the later 16c.
Titian (1490 - 1576): Topic Page
Venetian painter. Of the very first rank among the artists of the Renaissance, Titian had an immense influence on succeeding generations of painters, especially in his use of color.
Veronese (1528-1588): Topic Page
Paolo Caliari, with Tintoretto, succeeded Titian as the chief artist of 16c. Venice. Born in Verona, as his popular name, Veronese, indicates, he was trained there by a local painter, Antonio Badile, before moving to Venice about the age of 23.

Course Description

Surveys painting, sculpture, and architectural styles from the Renaissance to the present. Emphasizes the historical context of art movements as well as analysis of the work of individual artists.

Books at the Library

19th-Century Art by Robert Rosenblum; H. W. Janson
Call Number: 709.034 Ros

ISBN: 9780131895621

Publication Date: 2004

Originally published twenty years ago, Nineteenth Century Art, Second Edition remains true to the original, with its superior survey of Western painting and sculpture presented in four historical parts, beginning in 1776 and ending with the dawn of the new century. This book draws on the historical documentation of the period, tracing the dynamics of the making and viewing of art, and examining the reciprocal influences of art and technology, art and politics, art and literature, art and music. For nineteenth century art enthusiasts.
Cubism by Cynthia J. Mines
Call Number: 709.04032 Min

ISBN: 9781590189610

Publication Date: 2006

Author Cynthia J. Mines examines how Cubist painters turned reality upside down and inside out. Art among other things never looked the same after the invention of Cubism, as readers will learn. Starting with the precursors of Cubism, and introducing Picasso and Braque, this book finishes with a detailed examination into Synthetic Cubism, and summarizes Cubism's lasting influence in today's world.
Impressionism Abroad: Boston and French Painting by Erica Hirshler
Call Number: 709.0344 Imp

ISBN: 9781903973776

Publication Date: 2005

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights.
Michelangelo: sculptor and painter by Barbara A. Somervill
Call Number: 709.2 Mic

ISBN: 9780756508142

Publication Date: 2005

A biography profiling the life of Italian artist Michelangelo, who carved beautiful sculptures including the statue of David, and is also remembered for painting the ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy. Includes source notes and timeline.
Renaissance Art by Stuart A. Kallen
Call Number: 709.024 Kal

ISBN: 9781420500479

Publication Date: 2008

This riveting narrative provides a deep and rich survey of Renaissance Art. Readers will learn about the roots of rebirth in Italy and the artistic geniuses of the Renaissance. The movement's manifestation in Flanders, Germany, and France are thoroughly explained.
Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris
Call Number: 709.032

ISBN: 9780136033721

Publication Date: 2007

Written by a leading scholar, Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/e is the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries;

Electronic Books

Key Buildings from Prehistory to the Present
Call Number: Credo Reference
Leonardo Da Vinci - Artist, Painter of the Renaissance by Eugène Müntz
Call Number: Proquest: eBook Central

ISBN: 9781644618592

Publication Date: 2019
Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
Call Number: Credo Reference

17th - 19th Century Movements

Art nouveau: Topic
Decorative style in the visual arts, interior design, and architecture that flourished from 1890 to 1910.
Arts and crafts: Topic
Term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent.
Baroque: Topic
A style characterized by expressive, flamboyant, and dynamic design. It flourished in Europe between 1600 and 1750.
Biedermeier: Topic
Name applied, at first in a joking spirit, to a period of European culture and a style of furniture, decoration, and art originating in Germany early in the 19th cent.
Classicism: Topic
A term that, when applied generally, means clearness, elegance, symmetry, and repose produced by attention to traditional forms.
Hudson River School: Topic
Group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.
Iconoclasm: Topic
Opposition to the religious use of images. Veneration of pictures and statues symbolizing sacred figures, Christian doctrine.
Mannerism: Topic
Used with reference to Italian painting in the 16th century and represents a distinct phase between the art of the High Renaissance and the rise of baroque.
Realism in Art: Topic
In the arts and literature generally, a ‘true-to-life’ approach to subject matter; also described as naturalism. Taken to its extreme, trompe l'oeil paintings trick the eye into believing objects are real
Neoclassicism: Topic
Movement in art, architecture, and design in Europe and North America about 1750-1850, characterized by a revival of classical Greek and Roman styles.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Topic
Group of British painters (1848-53); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Holman Hunt - at this time young students at the Royal Academy - were the leading figures among the seven founders.
Reformation: Topic
Religious and political movement in 16th-century Europe to reform the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.
Rococo Art: Topic
Movement in the arts and architecture in 18th-century Europe, particularly in France, that tended towards lightness, elegance, delicacy, and decorative charm.
Romanticism: Topic
Term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent.
Still life: Topic Page
A pictorial representation of inanimate objects. The term derives from the 17th-century Dutch still-leven, meaning a motionless natural object or objects.

Modern & Contemporary Movements

Abstract expressionism: Topic
Movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade.
Ashcan school
From The Reader's Companion to American History
The Ashcan school of art evolved during the early years of the twentieth century in New York City. The core of the movement was formed by “the Eight”—Robert Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, and George Luks.
CoBrA: Topic
An international Expressionist movement founded in Paris in 1948. The name is an acronym of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, the native cities of the artists involved, which included the Dane Asgar Jorn, the Dutchmen Karel Appel, Corneille and George Constant, and the Belgian Pierre Alecinsky.
Constructivism: Topic
Abstract art movement that originated in Russia in about 1914 and subsequently had great influence on Western art.
Cubism: Topic
Revolutionary style of painting created by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in Paris between 1907 and 1914.
Dada: Topic
International nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922.
Expressionism: Topic
Term used to describe works of art and literature in which the representation of reality is distorted to communicate an inner vision.
Fauvism: Topic
Movement in modern French painting characterized by the use of very bold, vivid, pure colours.
Futurism: Topic
Avant-garde art movement founded in 1909 that celebrated the dynamism of the modern world.
Hudson River School: Topic
group of American landscape painters, working from 1825 to 1875. The 19th-century romantic movements of England, Germany, and France were introduced to the United States by such writers as Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.
Impressionism: Topic
Movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860s and had enormous influence in European and North American painting in the late 19th century.
Minimalism: Topic
Movement in abstract art and music towards extremely simplified composition.
Modernism: Topic
In the arts, a general term used to describe the 20th century's conscious attempt to break with the artistic traditions of the 19th century.
Pop Art: Topic
Movement in modern art that took its imagery from the glossy world of advertising and from popular culture such as comic strips, films, and television.
Post-impressionism: Topic
Broad term covering various developments in French painting that developed out of Impressionism in the period from about 1880 to about 1905.
Postmodernism: Topic
Term used to designate a multitude of trends that come after and deviate from the many 20th-cent. movements that constituted modernism.
Surrealism: Topic Page
Movement in art, literature, and film that developed out of Dada around 1922. Led by André Breton, who produced the Surrealist Manifesto (1924), the surrealists were inspired by the thoughts and visions of the subconscious mind.

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