Artworks for Exam 1

 

Session

Artwork

Date

Artist

Comments

Humanism in Art

1. Virgin of the Rocks

2. Last Supper

3. School of Athens

4. David

1486

1498

1510

1504

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Raphael

Michelangelo

Divine figures take worldly form

The human drama of the Last Supper

Humanist admiration of ancient learning

Divine perfection in human perfection

Reformation

5. Four Apostles

6. Burial of the Count of Orgaz

1526

1586

Albrecht D�rer

El Greco

Protestant ideal of salvation through scriptures

It takes a church to save the soul

Confessional States

7. Christ Cleansing the Temple

1600

El Greco

Christ's anger is a model for Catholics

Absolutism and

Constitutionalism

8. Louis XIV

9. Officers of Haarlem Militia

1701

1633

Hyacinth Rigaud

Franz Hals

Balance and grace is the image of royal power

One for all, and all for one

Scientific Revolution

10. The Geographer

1669

Jan Vermeer

Observing and calculating

Enlightenment

11. Monticello

1772

Thomas Jefferson

Geometric order