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Gardner Chapter 30
EUROPE & AMERICA,
1800-1870
(revised 8/08)
VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
Aquatint
Positivism
Photography
Camera Obscura
Daguerreotype
Cast Iron
Curtain Wall construction (Skeleton
and Skin)
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NEOCLASSICISM
Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (1780-1867)
Apotheosis of
Homer, 1827 (oil/canvas)
*Large Odalisque,
1814
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/ingres/p-ingres8.htm
Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Pauline Borghese
as Venus, 1808, marble
Pierre Vignon
La
Madeleine, Paris 1807-42
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ROMANTICISM
Painting
Albert Bierstadt
(1830-1902)
*Among the
Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
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REALISM
| Jean-Francois Millet
(1814-75)
Gustave Courbet
(1819-77)
Honore Daumier
(1808-79)
Edouard Manet
(1832-83)
Adolphe-William
Bouguereau
(1825-1905)
Thomas Eakins
(1844-1916)
John Singer Sargent
(1856-1925)
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AGE
OF TECHNOLOGY
Architecture
Charles Garnier
(1825-98)
The Opera,
Paris, 1861-74 |
Photography
Timothy O'Sullivan
(1840-82)
A Harvest
of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
July 1863
Eadweard Mybridge
Horse
Galloping, 1878,
calotype print
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Chapter Review Questions
1. In what ways did
the concept of Romanticism oppose or
challenge the ideals of Neoclassicism?
2. Describe the Romantic characteristics of Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe (fig. 29-18)
and Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa (fig. 30-15).
3. Referring to Thomas Cole's The
Oxbow (fig. 30-24) and Albert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains (Fig.
30-25), discuss
Romantic Naturalism in landscape
painting.
4. Discuss how the new technological developments of cast-iron
construction transformed architecture in the mid-19th century.
5. Discuss the impact of photography on image-making in the 19th
century.
6. In what ways do Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners (fig. 30-29 and Thomas
Eakin's The Gross Clinic
(fig. 30-38) reflect the Realist style?
7. Discuss the Renaissance influence on Eduard Manet's Olympia (fig. 30-34) and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (fig.
30-33). In
what ways did Manet 'modernize' the subjects of
Renaissance artworks?
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