Thursday, May 28, 2009

Vocab for 6/2

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples

Vocab:
the bourgeoisie
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
fin de siecle malaise

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Vocab for 5/28

rocaille
Fete Galante
The Englightenment
"The Other"
The Lonely Crowd
The sublime

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Bernini

In case you didn't get enough Bernini in class - this is a video slide show of some of Bernini's greatest works. Not everything in the slide show was created by him, but a good number are.

Vocab for 5/21

tenebrism
Council of Trent
Counter Reformation
camera obscura

Friday, May 15, 2009

Images and Vocan for 5/19 lecture

Italian Renaissance
Medici Family
humanism
Neoplatonism
Renaissance man
Pyramidal composition
sfumato
painterly
impasto

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Images and Vocab for 5/14 lecture

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors
Abraham and the Three Angels, from the Psalter of St. Louis
Parts of a Gothic cathedral, Chartres
Portal sculpture of Reims Cathedral, Mary and Gabriel to the right
Facade of Notre Dame de Paris
Plan of Notre Dame de Paris
West facade of St. Denis

Vocab
Abbott Suger
pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
clos
nave arcade
gallery
clerestory
realism of particulars

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Bayeux Tapestry Video

Okay, this is a little cheesy, but it helps animate the story in an innovative way.

Vocab for 5/7

cloisonné
animorphic
book art
illumination
reliquary
pilgrimage
mandorla
Battle of Hastings
embroidery

Monday, May 4, 2009

Images not in your Textbook for 5/5 lecture


Augustus of Primaporta, cuirass detail, Roman Art

Column of Trajan detail, Roman Art

Apse Mosaic, Sant Apollinare in Classe, Early Christian art