Jesse Bryant Wilder - Art History For Dummies

7 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: The Chi-Rho-Iota page of the Book of Kells illustrates the interla...FIGURE 10-2: The scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the feast before the ba...FIGURE 10-3: The cruciform, or cross-form, is the traditional shape of medieval...FIGURE 10-4: The nave or parishioner area of St. Sernin had to be large to acco...FIGURE 10-5: The tympanum over the entrance doors of the Basilica of Ste-Madele...FIGURE 10-6: Flying buttresses or external supports, together with ribbed vault...FIGURE 10-7: Notre Dame in Paris is the most famous Gothic cathedral in the wor...FIGURE 10-8: The jamb statues on the west portal (entrance doors) of the Cathed...FIGURE 10-9: The south portal statues have a much more realistic look than the ...FIGURE 10-10: Cimabue’s serene but damaged Madonna in Majesty adorns the Basili...FIGURE 10-11: In Madonna Enthroned , Duccio seems to have found a perfect balanc...FIGURE 10-12: In The Kiss of Judas (Arena Chapel), Giotto dramatizes Christ’s b...FIGURE 10-13: In the “Sight” tapestry of The Lady and the Unicorn , the Lady app...

8 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: Four panels from Ghiberti’s magnificent “Gates of Paradise” (East ...FIGURE 11-2: In linear perspective an object’s location determines its size.FIGURE 11-3: The floating body parts in Fra Angelico’s The Mocking of Christ ma...FIGURE 11-4: The Madonna and Child with the Birth of the Virgin , by Fra Filippo...FIGURE 11-5: In Botticelli’s Primavera, notice the natural halo around Venus’s ...FIGURE 11-6: The highly polished bronze of Donatello’s David and its graceful l...FIGURE 11-7: Which baby is Jesus in the Louvre version of Leonardo’s The Virgin ...FIGURE 11-8: Among other things, the Mona Lisa is celebrated for its use of sfu...FIGURE 11-9: Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper between 1495 and 1498. FIGURE 11-10: Michelangelo carved David between 1501 and 1504. FIGURE 11-11: Notice that in The Creation of Adam, man is physically almost on ...FIGURE 11-12: Notice how Raphael divided The School of Athens into two balanced...

9 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: The Feast of the Gods , painted by Bellini, was enhanced after the ...FIGURE 12-2: The Adoration of the Shepherds is an early work by Andrea Mantegna...FIGURE 12-3: Albrecht Dürer’s Self-Portrait at Age 26 shows the young artist as...FIGURE 12-4: Venus of Urbino is Titian’s most sensual masterpiece. FIGURE 12-5: In The Feast in the House of Levi, Paolo Veronese turned a Last Su...FIGURE 12-6: Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Wedding (or Portrait of Giovanni Arno ...FIGURE 12-7: The center of Mérode Altarpiece depicts the announcement of t...FIGURE 12-8: Rogier van der Weyden moves the action to the front in his early L...FIGURE 12-9: Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights contrasts a Gard...

10 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: The soft pinks and blues and flowing lines of Pontormo’s Descent f ...FIGURE 13-2: Agnolo Bronzino’s Allegory of the Triumph of Venus is one of the m...FIGURE 13-3: Madonna with the Long Neck (c. 1535) is Parmigianino’s most celebr...FIGURE 13-4: Arcimboldo’s portrait of Summer , along with his other seasonal bus...FIGURE 13-5: Giovanni Battista Caselli, Poet from Cremona by Sofonisba Anguisso...FIGURE 13-6: In El Greco’s Holy Family with Mary Magdalen , while Joseph respond...FIGURE 13-7: Lavinia Fontana gives us a very human Jesus, one capable of fatigu...FIGURE 13-8: “Room of the Giants” in Giulio Romano’s Mannerist masterpiece Pala...

11 Chapter 14FIGURE 14-1: In Caravaggio’s Calling of Saint Matthew , Christ enlists the reluc...FIGURE 14-2: Danaë by Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1623 (on left); Danaë by...FIGURE 14-3: Sirani’s rapid-fire drawing approach can be seen in her Rest on th ...FIGURE 14-4: In Elisabetta Sirani’s Portia Wounding Her Thigh , Portia stabs her...FIGURE 14-5: Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s David looks wound up for action. FIGURE 14-6: Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is in the Cornaro chapel of the...FIGURE 14-7: St. Charles, or Karlskirche, designed by Johann Bernhard Fisher vo...FIGURE 14-8: Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria was painted by the 29-y...FIGURE 14-9: Peter Paul Rubens’s The Raising of the Cross (1610) brims with Bar...FIGURE 14-10: In Rembrandt’s Philosopher in Meditation (1632), the old thinker ...FIGURE 14-11: Frans Hals … oops, I mean Judith Leyster, a bouquet of paint brus...FIGURE 14-12: In The Proposition , Leyster contrasts a man and woman with very d...FIGURE 14-13: Girl with a Pearl Earring has become Vermeer’s most beloved portr...FIGURE 14-14: Geometrical precision and serene beauty characterize Nicolas Pous...FIGURE 14-15: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) is Velázquez’s most intriguing w...

12 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Watteau’s Gilles and Four Other Characters from the Commedia dell’ ...FIGURE 15-2: Fragonard’s The Swing entices with subtle sexuality behind a guise...FIGURE 15-3 In this scene from William Hogarth’s popular The Rake’s Progress ...FIGURE 15-4: Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr. and Mrs. Andrews dominate the well-tamed...FIGURE 15-5 Joshua Reynolds’s Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces.

13 Chapter 16FIGURE 16-1: In Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso , by Angelica Kauffman, the...FIGURE 16-2: Angelica Kauffman’s The Sorrow of Telemachus shows a man expressin...FIGURE 16-3: The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David was painted to insp...FIGURE 16-4: David’s The Death of Marat, painted in 1793, is both a memorial to...FIGURE 16-5: Ingres’ s La Grande Odalisque has Mannerist proportions and Neocla...FIGURE 16-6: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ’s Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress FIGURE 16-7: Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie-Gabrielle Capet and Marguerit ...FIGURE 16-8: In Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, the god of love ...FIGURE 16-9: Jean-Antoine Houdon’s bust of George Washington.

14 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: Blake painted Sir Isaac Newton with pen, ink, and watercolor in 17...FIGURE 17-2: Caspar David Friedrich confronts God or death in The Wanderer abov ...FIGURE 17-3: Raft of the Medusa, one of the most imposing masterpieces of Frenc...FIGURE 17-4: Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is an icon of the French sp...FIGURE 17-5: Goya’s Third of May 1808 confronts viewers with the brutal horrors...

15 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: Courbet’s The Stone Breakers captures on canvas the gritty side of...FIGURE 18-2: Millet’s The Gleaners documents a rural way of life that was begin...FIGURE 18-3: The silvery mistiness of Corot’s Pond at Ville-d’Avray is a ...FIGURE 18-4: Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair dazzled visitors of the 1853 Salon i...FIGURE 18-5: Thomas Cole’s View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts ...FIGURE 18-6: The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak by Albert Bierstadt helpe...FIGURE 18-7: George Catlin’s Osceola, the Black Drink, A Warrior of Great Disti ...FIGURE 18-8: Edmonia Lewis carved Indian Combat in 1868. FIGURE 18-9: Winslow Homer’s The Brierwood Pipe illustrates how some Civil War ...FIGURE 18-10: Love’s Messenger by Marie Spartali Stillman, 1885; Samuel a...FIGURE 18-11: In the Garden by Thomas Dewing, 1892-94; Smithsonian American Art...FIGURE 18-12: The rough life of a miner is etched on the face of George Luks’s