13th to 14th century European Art (Proto-Renaissance Art/Byzantine Influence)
Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece. Tempera on wood. Circa 1235. San Francesco, Pescia, Italy.
Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation. Fresco. Circa 1305. Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
Art in the 1348 at the time of the Great Plague
15th century Northern European Art (Greco-Roman Revival)
Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece. Oil on wood. Circa 1432. Cathedral Ghent Belgium.
Petrus Christus. A Goldsmith in His Shop. Oil on wood. Circa 1449. MetMuseum.
Renaissance in Europe.
18th century: The Baroque and Rococo Art Movements (Elaborate and Gaudy Designs to Neo-Classical Motifs)
Jean Honore Fragonard. The Swing. 1766. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London.
Adelaide Labille-Guiard. Portrait with Two Pupils. 1785.
The Romantic Period in the 1800: The Fear of the Subtle
Theodore Gericault. The Raft of Medusa. 1818-1819. Oil on canvas. Musee du Louvre, Paris.
David Caspar. Wanderer above a Sea of Mist. Oil on canvas. 1817-1818.
Mid to Late 1900s: Modernism in Secularization of Arts
Realism/Humanism
Sculpture/Architecture
Honore Daumier. Third Class Carriage. Oil on canvas. Circa 1862. MetMuseum, New York.
Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Houses of Parliament. London. Circa 1835.
Photography: Daguerreotypes and early black and white prints.
1870-1900: Impressionism/Post-Impressionism in Europe and in the America
Claude Monet. Impression Sunrise. Oil on canvas. Circa 1872. Musee Marmottan, Paris.
Mary Cassatt. The Bath. Oil on canvas. Circa 1892. Art Institute Chicago.
Vincent van Gogh. The Night Café. Oil on canvas. Circa 1888. Yale University of Art.
Modernism from 1900-1945: The Rise of Avant-garde Arts
Fauvism: Henri Matisse. The Red Room. Oil on canvas. Circa 1908-1909.
Pablo Picasso. Guernica. Oil on canvas. Circa 1937. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid.
Sculpture and Paintings had changed their style.
Architecture followed him less flamboyant wedding.
For each week, I would assign my students the artworks based on the list. Instead of quizzes, I would go for oral recitation so that I can verify if they learned something about the lessons I presented.
