2700356408 | Phidias | Ancient Greek sculptor, used draping | 0 | |
2700357308 | Polykleitos | Ancient Greek author, sculptor--Ivory/gold statue of Hera at Argos | 1 | |
2700360284 | Praxiteles | Ancient Greek sculptor, sculpted first nude | 2 | |
2700370646 | Oil on stretched canvas, perspective, chiaroscuro, pyramid transfiguration | Top 4 Breakthroughs of the Renaissance | 3 | |
2700372962 | Masaccio | Early renaissance painter: "The Tribute Money" "Madonna with Child" | 4 | |
2700373723 | Donatello | Early renaissance sculptor: "David" "St. Mark" and "Mary Magdelene" | 5 | |
2700377819 | Botticelli | Early renaissance painter: "Birth of Venus" "Allegory of Spring La Primavera" | 6 | |
2700378231 | Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance man (incl. painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, anatomist, etc.): "Mona Lisa" "Last Supper" Used sfumato | 7 | |
2700384912 | Michelangelo | Renaissance architect, sculptor, painter, poet, and engineer: "David" "Pieta" "Sistine Chapel" "Capitoline Hill" | 8 | |
2700391156 | Raphael | Renaissance painter: Vatican rooms, including "School of Athens" "Marriage of the Virgin" | 9 | |
2700396460 | Titian | Renaissance painter: "Bacchanal of Adrains" "Venus of Urbino" Used red undercoat to create warm glow | 10 | |
2700398574 | Giovanni Bellini | Venetian Renaissance painter: "Madonna with Saint Giovannino" "Saint Jerome in the Dessert" | 11 | |
2700400102 | Giorgione | Ventian Renaissance painter: "The Tempest" "Portrait of a Young Man" | 12 | |
2700400642 | Tintoretto | Venetian Renaissance painter: "Last Supper" "Miracle of Slave" | 13 | |
2700402250 | Alberti | Renaissance architect: "Basilica of Santa Maria" Wrote guides on architecture | 14 | |
2700403900 | Brunelleschi | Renaissance architect: "Pazzi Chapel" In a contest to design bronze reliefs for doors--lost to Ghiberti, but designed dome on Florentine cathedral | 15 | |
2700415019 | Bramante | Renaissance architect: "Tempietto" | 16 | |
2700418425 | Palladio | Renaissance architect: "Villa Rotonda" | 17 | |
2700421173 | Rome, Rules, Reason, 'Rithmatic | 4 R's of Renassiance | 18 | |
2700421994 | Jan van Eyck | N. Renaissance painter: "Arnolfini wedding" "Ghent altarpiece" (with brother) Used oil on wood for realistic look | 19 | |
2700423742 | Bosch | N. Renaissance painter: "Garden of Earthly Delights" Grotesque fantasy images | 20 | |
2700424680 | Bruegel | N. Renaissance painter: "Hunter's in the Snow" "Tower of Babel" Peasant life, real, satire | 21 | |
2700426980 | Hans Holbein | German Renaissance painter: "French Ambassadors" Painted for Henry VIII and wives; revolutionized portraits | 22 | |
2700430175 | Albrect Dürer | German Renaissance painter, engraver: "St. Jerome" "Four Apostles" Engraving master | 23 | |
2700433651 | Matthias Grünewald | German Renaissance painter: "Isenhiem altarpiece" | 24 | |
2700437081 | El Greco | Spanish Renaissance painter: "The Resurrection" Mystical style, similar to mannerism; harsh lighting, twisted bodies, intense emotion | 25 | |
2703699309 | Caravaggio | Italian baroque painter: "The Conversion of St. Paul" "Calling of St. Matthew" "Crucifixion of St. Peter" | 26 | |
2703701698 | Bernini | Italian baroque sculptor/architect: "Ecstasy of St. Theresa" "St. Peter's Cathedral" | 27 | |
2703709452 | Borromini | Italian baroque architect: "San Carlealle Quattro Fontane" | 28 | |
2703713134 | Rubens | Flemish baroque painter: "Descent From The Cross" 2,000 paintings, well learned | 29 | |
2703715168 | Van Dyck | Flemish baroque painter: "Charles the I at the Hunt" 'humanized' formal portraits | 30 | |
2703716109 | Ruisdael | Dutch baroque painter: "Windmill at Wijk-blj-Duurstede" | 31 | |
2703718211 | Rembrandt | Dutch baroque painter: "The Night Watch" Many self-portraits | 32 | |
2703721548 | Vermeer | Dutch baroque painter: "The Kitchenmaid" "Girl with a Pearl Earring" Used camera obscura | 33 | |
2703725363 | Hogarth | English baroque painter: "Breakfast scene" Satirized aristocracy | 34 | |
2703727004 | Gainsborough | English baroque painter: "Mrs. Richard Bringsley Sheridan" Painted portraits | 35 | |
2703728958 | Reynolds | English baroque painter: "Jane, Countess of Harrington" Painted after classical style | 36 | |
2703730456 | Wren | English baroque architect: "St. Paul's Cathedral" | 37 | |
2703732900 | Velazquez | Spanish baroque painter: "Las Meninas" "Pope Innocent X" | 38 | |
2703736195 | Poussin | French baroque painter: "The Penitent Magdelen" Master of composition | 39 | |
2703741966 | Claude | French baroque painter: "Burial of Phocion" Painted landscapes | 40 | |
2703743338 | Watteau | Rococo painter: "Pilgrimage to Cythera" | 41 | |
2703745416 | Fragonard | Rococo painter: "The Swing" "The Meeting" | 42 | |
2703754207 | Boucher | Rococo painter: "Madame de Pompadour" | 43 | |
2703758852 | David | French Neoclassical painter: "Oath of Horatii" "Death of Marat" Also painted Napoleon Bonaparte | 44 | |
2703761600 | Ingres | French Neoclassical painter: "Portrait of the Princess de Broglie" "Grande Odalisque" Pupil of David | 45 | |
2703766249 | Peale | American Neoclassical painter: "The Peale Family" Created own museum | 46 | |
2703767564 | Copley | American Neoclassical painter: "Portrait of Paul Revere" Many portraits | 47 | |
2703768867 | Stuart | American Neoclassical painter: "Portrait of George Washington" (His portrait of Washington is used on the $1 bill) | 48 | |
2703771128 | Goya | Spanish Romantic painter: "Family of Charles IV" "The Third of May" | 49 | |
2703774750 | Gericault | French Romantic painter: "The Raft of Medusa" Portraits of the Insane | 50 | |
2703774751 | Delacroix | French Romantic painter: "Death of Sandranapalus" "Liberty Leading the People" | 51 | |
2703828160 | Constable | English Romantic painter: "The Hay Wain" "Mill Stream" | 52 | |
2703834821 | Turner | English Romantic painter: "Rain, Steam, and Speed--The Great Western Railroad" "The Fighting 'Temeraire'..." | 53 | |
2703840650 | Cole | American Romantic painter: "The Oxbow" Series "Voyage of Life" Hudson River School Leader | 54 | |
2712018556 | Courbet | French Realist Painter: "Interior of My Studio" "Burial at Ornans" "The Stonebreakers" | 55 | |
2712022776 | Corot | French Realist Painter: "Ville d'Avray" Landscape painter, painted just as he saw it in front of him | 56 | |
2712027460 | Millet | French Realist Painter: "The Sower" "The Gleaners" | 57 | |
2712229026 | Bonheur | French Realist Painter: "Sheep in the Highlands" "Plowing in the Nivernias" "The Horse Fair" | 58 | |
2712033937 | Homer | American Realist Painters: "Snap the Whip" "Sloop, Nasseau" "The Gulf Stream" | 59 | |
2712036093 | Eakins | American Realist Painters: "The Agnew Clinic" Precise anatomy | 60 | |
2712036771 | Whistler | American Realist Painters: "Arrangement in Gray and Black" Sultry artist | 61 | |
2712037991 | Sargent | American Realist Painters: "Mr. and Mrs. L.N. Phelps Stokes" Last literal portrait painter | 62 | |
2712040310 | William Morris | Made wall paper popular | 63 | |
2712041062 | O'Sullivan | Travel photography: "Canyon de Chelly, Arizona" | 64 | |
2712042190 | Brady | War Photography: "Ambulance Wagons & Drivers at Harewood Hospital" | 65 | |
2712043431 | Riis | Documentary Photography: "Street Arabs in area of Mulbury St." | 66 | |
2712045603 | Nadar | Portrait photography: "Sarah Bernhardt" | 67 | |
2712046441 | Cameron | Art Photography: "Call, I Follow; I Follow; Let Me Die." | 68 | |
2712047933 | Beardsley | Art Nouveau: "Salome" | 69 | |
2712051362 | Manet | Impressionist: "Bar at the Foiles-Bergére" "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" "Olympia" | 70 | |
2712057122 | Monet | Impressionist: "Ronen Cathedral" "Haystacks" "Poplars" "Waterlilies" series Fascinated with light | 71 | |
2712059937 | Renior | Impressionist: "Le Moulin de la Gatte" "Two Sisters" "Girls at the Piano" | 72 | |
2712062658 | Degas | Impressionist: "The Dance Studio" "Prima Ballerina" "At the Races in the Countryside" | 73 | |
2712169642 | Cassat | American Impressionist: "In the Loge" "Little Girl in Blue Armchair" "The Child's Bath" | 74 | |
2712174737 | Marisot | Impressionist: "The Cradle" "A Woman At Her Toilette" "At the Ball" | 75 | |
2712181976 | Seurat | Post Impressionist: "A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte" "Bathers at Asnières" "The Circus" | 76 | |
2712186536 | Toulouse-Lautrec | Post Impressionist: "At the Moulin Range" "Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh" | 77 | |
2712221606 | Cézanne | Post Impressionist: "Still life of Apples and Oranges" "Mont Sainte-Victorie" "The Red Rock" | 78 | |
2712224204 | Gaugin | Post Impressionist: "The Red Cow" "Jacob Wrestling with an Angel" "La Orana Maria" | 79 | |
2712227070 | Van Gogh | Post Impressionist: "Starry Night" "The Bedroom" "Self Portraits" | 80 | |
2712227636 | Rodin | Modern sculptor: "The Burghers of Calais" "Balzac" | 81 | |
2712231530 | Munch | Early Expressionism: "The Scream" | 82 | |
2712232086 | Symbolists | Includes members: Rosseau, Redon, Ryder | 83 | |
2712236904 | Die Brüke | Expressionist group, includes members: Kirchner ("Street, Dresden" "The Street, Berlin"), Nolde ("Young Couple"), Kolkwitz ("Infant Mortality"), etc. | 84 | |
2712240325 | Der Blaue Rieter | Expressionist group, includes members: Kandisky ("Improvisation 31" "Composition No. 7"), Klee ("Blue Night"), etc | 85 | |
2712246835 | Fauvism | Includes Members: Matisse ("The Green Stripe" "Les Bêtes de la Mer"), Derain ("Big Ben"), Vlaminck, Dufy, Rouault, etc | 86 | |
2712252850 | Cubism | Includes member: George Braque ("The Viaduct at L'Estaque" "The Portugese" "The Mandolin") and Pablo Picasso ("The Blindman's Meal" "Guernica" "Las Desmoiselles D'Avigon") | 87 | |
2712258899 | Futurism | Includes member: Boccioni ("Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" "Dynamicism of a Soccer Player"), Carrá ("Funeral of the Anarchist Galli"), Balla ("Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash"), Marey | 88 | |
2712263037 | Constructivism | Includes members: Tatlin ("Model for Monument for the 3rd International"), Malevich ("White on White"--founded Suprematism), Popova, Rodcheckno, Lissitzky, Pesvsner, Gabo | 89 | |
2712271066 | Precissionism | Includes members: Sheeler, Demuth ("I Saw a Golden No. 5"), O'Keeffe ("The Lawerence Tree" "City Night") | 90 | |
2715345873 | Dada | Includes members: Duchamp ("In Advance of a Broken Arm" "Fountain" "3 Standard Stoppages"), Arp ("Mountain, Table, Anchors, Navel"), Schwitters, Höch | 91 | |
2715352148 | Advant-Garde | Includes members: Brancusi ("Bird In Space" "Mlle Pogany"), Mondrian ("Composition in Brown and Grey" "Composition No. II in Red and Blue" "Flowering Apple Trees"), Stepanova ("The Results of the First Five Year Plan") | 92 | |
2715357780 | Surrealism | Includes members: May Ray ("The Gift" "Indestructible Object"), Magritte ("The False Mirror" "The Treachery of Images" "The Portrait"), Miró ("Dutch Interior No. 2"), Dali ("The Persistence of Memory" "Metamorphosis of Narcissus"), Giacometti, De Chirico, Ernest | 93 | |
2715365306 | Abstract Expressionism | Includes members: Pollock ("No. 31" "Mural" "Lavender Mist"), Motherwell ("Elegy to Spanish Republic"), Rothko ("No. 3/No. 13"), Newman ("Ornament 1"), Kline ("Mahoning"), Gorky, De Kooning, Still | 94 | |
2715367599 | New York School | Includes members: Jasper Johns ("Flag"), Rausenberg ("Canyon" "Bed"), Frankenhauler ("The Bay"), Albers ("Homage to Square") | 95 | |
2715372566 | Pop Art | Includes members: Warhol ("Campbell Soup Cans" "Gold Marilyn"), Oldenburg ("Floor Cake" "Clothespin" "Soft Toilet), Lichtenstein ("Whaam!" "Rouen Cathedral Set V") | 96 | |
2715376642 | Minimalism | Includes members: Judd ("Untitled"), Morris ("Bodyspacemotionthings" "L-beams"), Serra ("Tilted Arc" "Torqued Ellipse IV") | 97 | |
2715380226 | Earthworks | Includes members: Smithson ("Spiral Jetty"), Maya Lin ("Vietnam Veterans Memorial"), Christo and Jeanne-Claude ("The Gates") | 98 | |
2715385999 | International Architects | Includes members: Gropius ("Bauhaus" design), Mies ("Seagram Building"), Frank Lloyd Wright ("Falling Water" "Guggenheim Museum") | 99 |
Art of the Western World Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!