1. Art History 2: Class 7
Some names and terms from today’s lecture:
Rubens, Antwerp, Italy, Duke of Mantua, portraiture, Isabella Brant, “Rubens-esque,”
Marie de’Medici, Palais du Luxembourg, Henri IV, Louis XIII, Concini, Richelieu,
Helene Fourment (Het Pelskin), Anthony van Dyck, Poussin, LeBrun, French Academy,
Rococo, Watteau (Embarkation from Cythera), Boucher (Venuses), Fragonard, Jacques-Louis
David (Oath of the Horatii, Death of Socrates, Brutus, Napoleon), Romanticism, Gericault (Raft
of the Medusa), Delacroix, Academy/Salon, Goya (Spain), Friedrich (Germany), Realism,
Gustave Courbet, Realism, socialism, Edouard Manet (France), Luncheon on the Grass (Dejeuner
sur l’Herbe)
Possible essay questions:
--Discuss the career of Peter-Paul Rubens. What are some characteristics of his painting
style? Discuss the series he painted for Marie de’Medici—how did he use myth, allegory,
and metaphor to show her as triumphant and virtuous?
--What is “Neoclassicism?” Discuss the career of Jacque-Louis David—how was he influential
beyond the realm of art? How was his Neoclassicism intended as a borrowing not just of classical
form, but also of ethics and morality, and what kinds of messages did his revolutionary-era
paintings deliver?
Images:
Marchesa Brigada Spinola Doria by Rubens, 1606, page 408
The Raising of the Cross by Rubens, 1610-11, page 409
Marie de’Medici Landing in Marseilles by Rubens, 1623-25, page 410
Charles I Hunting by A. van Dyck, 1635, page 411
The Oath of the Horatii by J.L. David, 1783-84, page 476
Massacre at Chios by E. Delacroix, 1824, page 492
Burial at Ornans by G. Courbet, 1849-50, page 502