4.601 | Fall 2018 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Art History

Lists of Works

Part II (Weeks 6–10)

Please note: You may be asked specifically about bolded works on exams.

Week 6

  1. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–c. 1652), Judith and Holofernes, c. 1620
  2. Pieter Saenredam (1597–1665), Interior of the Church of Saint Bavo at Haarlem, 1638
  3. Purging of the Temple (detail), woodcut, 1563, and relief sculptures, Church of St. Steven, Nijmegen, damaged by iconoclasts, 1566
  4. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), Last Judgment, Altar Wall of the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, 1534–41
  5. Marcello Venusti (1512/15–1579), Last Judgment, after Michelangelo, 1549
  6. Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527–1596), Adoration of the Shepherds, 1549
  7. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (1571–1610), Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, c. 1597–1601: St. Matthew and the Angel, 2nd version, Calling of St. MatthewSt. Matthew and the Angel, 1st version
  8. Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645–52: Ecstasy of St. Teresa
  9. Andrea del Pozzo (1642–1709), Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits, San Ignazio, Rome, 1694 (also called Glorification of St. Ignatius of Loyola), 1691–1694
  10. Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1591–1666), Triumph of the Name of Jesus, Il Gesù, Rome, 1676–1679
  11. David Teniers II (1610–1690), Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Picture Gallery in Brussels, c. 1647
  12. Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622–24
  13. Gentileschi, Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, c. 1625
  14. Gentileschi, Sleeping Venus, 1625–30

Week 7

  1. Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), Pluto and Proserpina (Persephone), 1621–22
  2. Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652), Leo Hollandicus, 1648
  3. Map of 17th-century Dutch trade routes
  4. Visscher “Huis ter Kleef,” from Pleasant Places, etching, 1611
  5. Jacob van Ruisdael (c.1628–1682), View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, c. 1670
  6. Dutch view of New Amsterdam (now New York City), 1664; Dutch trading post in Bandar Abbas, Persia (now Iran), 1704; Dutch elevation drawing of Nagasaki coastline, Japan, 1661
  7. Frans Hals (c. 1581–1666), Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, c. 1622
  8. Hals, Pieter van den Broecke, c. 1633
  9. Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), The Company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642
  10. Hals, Malle Babbe, c. 1630–33
  11. Judith Leyster (c. 1609–1660), Children with a Cat and an Eel, c. 1635
  12. Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630
  13. Leyster, Merry Company, 1630
  14. Jan Steen (c. 1625–1679), In Luxury, Look Out, 1663
  15. Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), Mother Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle, c. 1661–1663
  16. Willem Claesz Heda (1593/4–1680), Breakfast Still Life, 1635
  17. Willem Kalf (1619–1693), Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Jar, 1669
  18. Kalf, Still Life with Ewer and Basin, Fruit, Nautilus Cup and Other Objects, c. 1660
  19. Kalf, Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl, 1660
  20. Kalf, Still Life with a Chinese Bowl, a Nautilus Cup and other Objects, 1662
  21. Jurriaen van Streeck (1632–1687), Moor with Porcelain and Fruit, c. 1660s

Week 8

  1. Adrien van der Spelt (1630–1673) and Frans van Mieris (1635–1681), Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658
  2. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirty-Four, 1640
  3. Titian (c. 1490–1576), A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, c. 1510
  4. Raphael (1483–1520), Baldassare Castiglione, c. 1514
  5. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, c. 1660–65
  6. Johannes (Jan) Vermeer (1632–1675), The Milkmaid, c. 1658–60
  7. Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670–75
  8. Frontispiece, Dutch translation of Cesare Ripa, Iconologia, 1644 and plate showing the Muses from French translation of Cesare Ripa, Iconologia, 1643
  9. Map of Europe in 1648
  10. Jusepe de Ribera (c. 1588–1652), St. Jerome and the Angel of Judgment, 1626
  11. Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), Crucifixion, 1627
  12. Zurbarán, Saint Serapion, 1628
  13. Francisco Ribalta (1565–1628), Vision of St. Bernard, c. 1625–27
  14. Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Philip IV in Brown and Silver, 1634–1635
  15. Velázquez, Philip IV (Fraga Philip), 1644
  16. Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656
  17. Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743), Louis XIV, 1701
  18. Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), Louis XIV on Horseback, 1683–85
  19. Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles
  20. Charles Le Brun (1619–90), Franche-Comté Conquered for the Second Time in 1674, 1679–86
  21. Le Brun, Crossing of the Rhine, 1679–86
  22. Pierfrancesco Alberti (1594–1638), Painter’s Academy in Rome, c. 1600
  23. Le Brun, Family of Darius before Alexander, 1660–61
  24. Le Brun, Surprise mixed with Admiration, c. 1660

Week 9

  1. François Lemoyne (1688–1737), Hercules and Omphale, 1724
  2. Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), Hercules and Omphale, c. 1585
  3. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717
  4. François Boucher (1703–1770), Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan; Judgment of Paris; Venus and Vulcan, 1754
  5. Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), View of the Salon of 1753, etching, AND G. de Saint-Aubin, View of the Salon of 1765, drawing with watercolor
  6. (cover of) La Font de Saint Yenne, Reflections on Some Causes of the Current State of Painting in France, 1747 (review of Salon of 1746); Painting Mocked by Envy, Stupidity and Drunkenness, etching after Boucher, 1747; Caricature of La Font de Saint Yenne
  7. Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766), Duc de Chaulnes as Hercules, 1746 AND Madame de Caumartin as Hebe, 1753
  8. Boucher, The Gallant Shepherd, c. 1737–8 and Boucher, Les confidences pastorales, c. 1745
  9. Boucher, Rising of the Sun, 1753 and Setting of the Sun, 1753
  10. Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), Death of Germanicus, 1627
  11. Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains, 1859
  12. Claude Michel, called Clodion, The Intoxication of Wine, c. 1780–90.
  13. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Jean-Antoine Houdon’s Studio, c. 1803.
  14. Etienne Maurice Falconet, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1763.
  15. Jules Dalou, Tomb of Victor Noir, 1891
  16. Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827.
  17. Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus (reduced replica), 1844.
  18. Eugène Delacroix, The Massacre at Chios, 1824.
  19. Eugène Delacroix, Massacre of Chios (watercolor study), 1824.

Week 10

  1. Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771–1772
  2. Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), Queen Marie-Antoinette and her Children, 1787
  3. Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait with Julie, 1786
  4. Pietro Martini, Salon of 1787, 1787
  5. Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1764
  6. Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), Death of Lucretia (Oath of Brutus), 1763–67
  7. Domenico Cunego (1727–1779), Oath of Brutus, engraving, 1768
  8. Kauffman, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, c. 1785
  9. Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), Oath of the Horatii, 1784
  10. David, Preparatory drawings for Oath of the Horatii, c. 1784
  11. John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779), Chit Qua, the Chinese Modeller, 1770–71
  12. Tan Che Qua (c. 1728–1796), David Garrick (?), 1770
  13. François Boucher, Chinese Dance, 1742
  14. Boucher, Chinese Fair, 1742
  15. Beauvais Tapestry Factory, The Chinese Fair, after Boucher (in production from 1740s)
  16. Ilantai (active 1749–1786), Yuanyingguan zhengmian (Observatory of Distant Oceans), Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Clarity), 1781–83
  17. Qing court painters, Battle of Qurman, 1760 (version of this painting sent to France in late 1760s)
  18. David, Marie Antoinette on Her Way to the Scaffold, 1793
  19. Hubert Robert (1733–1808), V__iew of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, 1796, and Revolutionary timepiece
  20. David, Death of Marat, 1793
  21. Caravaggio (1573–1610), Deposition, c. 1602–1604
  22. Michelangelo (1475–1564), Pietà, c. 1498–1500
  23. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps at Saint Bernard Pass, 1800–1
  24. Frontispiece to vol. 1, Description de l’Egypte, 1809–1828
  25. Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), Napoleon Visiting the Pesthouse at Jaffa, 1804
  26. Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), Raft of the Medusa, 1819
  27. Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), Count Ugolino and his Sons, 1809 (print after Fuseli’s painting of 1806)

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