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PBHS Art 2
Art and sculpture
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Also called "The Discus Thrower", original is lost; proportional body parts; sculpted by Myron | Discobolus |
| Located on the Acropolis; tribute to Athena; giant gold statue of Athena by Phidias | Parthenon |
| Located on the north side of the Acropolis; contains the caryatids, 6 female statues that act as columns; built by Mnesicles | Erectheum |
| "Winged Victory", sculptor unknown; commemorates a sea victory; discovered in the 1800s; helenistic style | Nike of Samothrace |
| Discovered in 1800s on Island of Milos. Sculpted by Alexandros of Antioch; located in the Louvre | Venus de Milo |
| Has a Corinthian order of columns; round, with a hole in the top of the dome; commissioned by Marcus Agrippa, reconstructed by Hadrian | Pantheon |
| Sketch of an architect by da Vinci; proportional body | Vitruvian Man |
| One of Durer's three masterworks, the "moral sphere"; alludes to Psalm 23; shows Death holding an hourglass | Knight, Death, and the Devil |
| One of Durer's three masterworks, the "theological sphere"; dog in the foreground; skull underneath a window | St. Jerome in his Study |
| One of Durer's three masterworks, the "intellectual sphere"; contains a magic square, hour glass, and winged figure of a genius | Melencolia I |
| Painted by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1533; contains an anamorphic skull that can be seen at just the right angle | The Ambassadors |
| Painted by Dominikos Theotokapolis in 1586; contains a heavenly and an earthly sphere; contains a self-portrait of the artist and his son | The Burial of the Count of Orgaz |
| Dominikos Theotokapolus's first landscape; shows and ominous sky and a city on a hill where he once lived | View of Toledo |
| Painted by Tintoretto in 1594; shows Jesus and the 12 disciples in a dark room; not symmetrical | The Last Supper |
| Painted by Caravaggio in 1599; tells the story of an Assyrian general killed by a young woman and her maid servant, Abora | Judith Beheading Holofernes |
| Located in the Contarrelli Chapel; shows figures sitting at Levi's table in a Custom House with a man pointing at the titular figure; painted by Caravaggio in 1600 | The Calling of St. Matthew |
| Painted by Caravaggio in 1601; shows Jesus at a table with Luke and other figures; food basket is about to fall off the table | Supper at Emmaus |
| Painted by Hals in 1624; portrait of a Dutch nobleman about 26 years old | The Laughing Cavalier |
| Rococo painting by Watteau in 1717; also called "Pilgrimmage to Cythera" | Embarkation for Cythera |
| Painted by Fragonard in 1767; shows a woman in a pink frock kicking her shoe to her lover | The Swing |
| Tells the story of a 14 year old orphan named Brook Watson being attacked by a shark; first reported shark attack; painted by Copley in 1778 | Watson and the Shark |
| Shows Incubus sitting atop a swooning woman while a horse looks on through a curtain; painted by Fuseli in 1781 | The Nightmare |
| Portrait of an 11 year old daughter of a plantation owner in Jamaica; hangs opposite of The Blue Boy in Huntington Museum; painted by Lawrence in 1794 | Sarah Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie" |
| Series of 80 sketches lampooning contemporary Spanish society; painted by Goya in 1797-98 | Los Caprichos |
| Only surviving wonder of the ancient world | Pyramids of Egypt |
| Terraced gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar | Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| One of the seven ancient wonders; carved by Phidias | Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| Destroyed by the Goths in 262 AD; one of the seven wonders of the ancient world; located in Ephesus | Temple of Artemis |
| Erected by queen Artemisia in honor of her husband King Mausolus | Mausoleum at Halicarnassus |
| Gigantic statue of Apollo; destroyed by an earthquake in 224 BC | Colossus of Rhodes |
| Marble lighthouse and watchtower; destroyed by earthquake in 1375 | Pharos of Alexandria |
| Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. Founding leaders were Mondrian and van Doesburg. Embraced abstract pared down visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colors. In part, a reaction of accesses of Art Deco. | De Stijl (duh shteel') "The style". |
| Worked under Sullivan before founding a Chicago practice. | Wright |
| "Prairie Style" | Wright |
| Founder of the Bauhaus and designer of the Pan American Bldg | Gropius |
| Gropius founded the _____ in 1919 in Weimar in Germany | Bauhaus |
| Directed the Bauhaus 1930-1933 and shut it down before the Nazis could. "Less is more" | van der Rohe |
| Mies van der Rohe espoused that " | "Less is more" |
| Lake Shore Drive Apartments and the Seagram Bldg in NY | van der Rohe |
| Mile High Center in Denver and the John Hancock Bldg | Pei |
| named King's Surveyor of Works in 1669 by Charles II | Wren |
| "Reader, if you seek a monument, look around you" inscription near his tomb | Wren |
| He wrote the "Radiant City" and designed the Villa Savoye in Poissy, France; "A house is a machine for living in" | Le Corbusier |
| Form should follow function; Wainwright Bldg in St. Louis | Sullivan |
| Sullivan said that, " | "Form should follow function" |
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