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Buildings, Paintings, Sculptures you gotta know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Parthenon | - Ictinus and Callicrates - 447 BC - Athens - Greek |
| Mona Lisa | - 1500 - painting - Leonardo da Vinci |
| Statue of Liberty | - 1886 - Frederic Auguste Bartholdi - Gustav Eiffel |
| Guernica | - 1937 - painting - Pablo PIcasso - Title refers to civilian city bombed by Nazis in Spanish Civil War |
| Mount Rushmore | - 1927-1941 - Borglum - South Dakota - sculpture |
| Sistine Chapel | - 1473 - Giovanni Delgoci - Patron: Pop Sixtus IV - Michelangelo - architecture |
| St. Paul's Cathedral | - 1708 - London - Architecture - Christopher Wren |
| The Thinker | - 1900 - Sculpture - Auguste Rodin - Used to symbolize philosophy |
| The Persistance of Memory | - 1931 - painting - salvador dali: pet anteater - surrealism - melting clock |
| Nighthawks | - 1942 - Edward Hopper - Painting - inside of a diner |
| The Scream | - 1893 - Edward Munch - Painting |
| Kasemir Malevich | - Plain paintings; white on white series - suprematism - artist |
| Francisco de Goya | - artist - romanticism - painted Spanish royal portraits - "Saturn Devouring His Son" |
| American Gothic | - 1930 - Grant Wood - Modernism - painting - Portrays a solemn couple representing the architecture of the house in the background of the painting |
| Liberty Leading the people | - 1830 - Eugene Delacroix - painting - represents democracy - depicts July Revolution which removed King Charles the X from power |
| School of Athens | - 1510 - Raphael - Painting; Fresco - Depicts the education of legendary mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists |
| The Gates of Hell | - 1880 - 1917 - bronze sculpture - depicts a scene from Dante's Inferno - Auguste Roden |
| Caravaggio | - Italian, developed a style of painting involving chiaroscuro, tenebrism. - The Calling of Saint Matthew; Christ points at a group of men sitting at a table - Amor Vincit Omnia shows a naked Cupid trampling musical instrument and a set of armor. |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | - Italian painter whose work includes numerous biblical and mythical scenes, as well as many self-portraits - Judith Slaying Holofernes, in which the painter is portrayed as the biblical slayer of an Assyrian general - heavily inspired by Caravaggio |
| Frans Hals | - Dutch - tronies - The Laughing Cavalier, a man in a wide-brimmed hat and extravagant clothes with an upturned moustache and a bemused expression - Malle Babbe, folk character holding a stein as an owl sits on her shoulder - Gypsy Girl, painting |
| Judith Leyster | - Dutch Golden Age - The Proposition, woman pointedly ignores a man offering her gold coins in exchange for sex while she focuses on sewing by candlelight - Self-Portrait shows her in fine dress, working on a canvas of a man playing the violin |
| Rembrandt van Rijn | - Dutch - Night Watch; a militia led by Frans Banninck Cocq, who appears at the painting's center; behind Cocq is a woman with a chicken hanging from her belt - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp;holds up the muscles of an arm for physicians |
| Anthony van Dyck | - Dutch - Girl With a Pearl Earring; a young woman in a turban looking over her shoulder, title piece of jewelry; inspired namesake novel by tracy chevalier - The Music Lesson; young girl, her back to the viewer, man standing next to her sings |
| Louvre | - an art museum located on the right bank of the Seine River in Paris - holds ancient Greek sculptures such as the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People |
| Igor Stravinsky | - 20th century composer - studied under Nikolai Korsakov and completed grand ballets for Diaghilev: The Firebird and Petrushka - The Rite of Spring (1913); A pagan story shocked the audience so much that riots ensued - Agon - The Rake's Progress |
| Aaron Copland | - American 20th century composer - studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, for whom he wrote the solo keyboard part in his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra - "El Salón México" - "Billy the Kid" - "rodeo" |
| Stephen Sondheim | - 20th century american composer - West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park With George, Company - Known widely for contributions to groundbreaking musicals |
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