Art of the Western World Viewing Sheets

Episode 1: Legacy of Greece

What three concepts were embodied by the Greeks and their art?

Should the ancient Greeks be idealized because their culture had so few conflicts or problems?

What “most powerful and resilient idea in human history” was embodied by the kouros?

In what four ways did the kouros illustrate this idea?

How does the female kore compare to the male kouros?

What experience does the video ask you to imagine as a citizen of Athens?

What artwork is identified as the high point in the classical style?

Episode 2: Imperial Stone – the Art of Rome

What was Rome’s practical legacy, to Western culture, one that we see every day?

What two developments were the basis of a new architecture?

What is the only major Roman building that survives intact today?

As shown by date-stamping on its bricks, who built the Pantheon?

What feature in the Pantheon dome ‘communicates with the cosmos beyond’?

What type of sculpture was particularly important to the Romans and is their legacy?

Episode 3: A White Garment of Churches

What two forces shaped Romanesque architecture?

What are some reasons that medieval people went on pilgrimage?

Whose relics were preserved at Vezelay? Whose at Santiago?

Pilgrimage was important to medieval society because it promoted the exchange of

What does “Gislebertus hoc fecit” mean? What is significant about it?

What are characteristics of Romanesque architecture?

How does the design of the Romanesque cathedral relate to its purpose as a pilgrimage
shrine?

Episode 4: The Age of Gothic

What did the cathedral mean to the “people who lived in the streets in the 13 th century”?

Name at least three cathedrals influenced by Saint-Denis.

Who is credited with creating the Gothic style of architecture?

Is the style of the external sculpture at Chartres remarkably consistent from one area/portal to
another?

What innovation made the huge areas of stained glass in the Gothic cathedral possible?

What was the unique English contribution to the Gothic style?

As you move from the West front to the North Transept of Chartres, what changes in style?

What advantage does Gothic have that Romanesque does not?

Episode 5: The Early Renaissance in Italy

What new class was rising in 1300 central Italy that challenged the Old Medieval world view
(the aristocracy on top, the church, and the laboring of the peasantry at the bottom)?

What was the greatest catastrophe in the modern history of the West, wiping out half the
population (but serving as a springboard for this new class)?

“Giotto’s _________ gave a new sense of weight to the human body, a new sense of urgency
to narrative painting – they became an academy for later Italian artists.”
What type of work does Bruni hold on his tomb? What two elements is this tomb a “wordless
combination” of?

The engine driving the arts in Florence at the beginning of the 15 th century was the
competition between what entities and the artists they employed?

The 1417 conference of architects were trying to solve the problem of what feature of the
cathedral in Florence?

What scene was painted by Fra Angelico on Cosimo Medici’s cell and Botticelli 30 years later
for the same patrons?

The central female figure in Botticelli’s Primavera resembles which Christian and mythological
figures?

Episode 6: The Northern Renaissance

The Renaissance art of the north begins where?

Why were so many of the artistic treasures of the Dukes of Burgundy portable?

What did King Louis XI say about Chancellor's Rolin's generosity in endowing a public hospital?

What artwork does the video refer to as "the ultimate painting in Christian art," saying that
never again would an artist feel quite so free to express the mysteries of Christian faith?

According to the video, what ended the spontaneous realism and imagination of Grunevald's
art?

Episode 7: Heroic Ambitions

Which Renaissance artist was buried in the Pantheon?

How had the status of artists changed by the High Renaissance?

What drove Leonardo as he expanded his view of the artist’s role to embrace philosophy and
science?

What was Michelangelo’s last work, and did he complete it?

Which painting by Raphael depicts philosophy in human form?

Episode 8: The Play of Light

Which is the god of commerce or “the real foundation of Venice”?

Tintoretto organized the perspective of his Last Supper so that worshippers could see it during
what activity?

Why does Palladio recommend country houses over city houses?

Why does Andrea Palladio recommend country houses over city houses?

Veronese invented landscapes based on what?

The citizens of Vicenza commissioned Palladio to create what?

What elements did the officers of the Inquisition find offensive in Veronese’s painting of the
Last Supper (which he had to retitle Feast at the House of Levi)?

Episode 9: The Birth of Baroque

Who designed many of the beautiful fountains in Rome at this time?

What were the characteristics of this counter reformation style? And the goals of church
architecture?

MIchael Wood refers to a 'spiritual crisis' in the Baroque era, caused by Copernicus' discovery
that the earth wasn't the center of the cosmos, and the exploration of the world revealing that
Europe was not the center of the world. Artists reacted to this crisis by _______________.

Why were the Baroque artists concerned with order, and the need to integrate the viewer?

How were Caravaggio’s paintings different from what had gone before? As which character
did he portray himself?

Which of his characters has Bernini’s face?

What was Bernini’s self-described “least bad work?” What is happening to St. Teresa in
Bernini’s Ecstasy? How does Bernini heighten the drama in his design of the chapel?
Saint Florian's Abbey is making a political point: it bears witness to the unity of ________ and
________.

Episode 10: Masters of Baroque

Why were Baroque era monarchs depicted on horses? What is this style called?

How did Maria de Medici want people to see her in the paintings she commissioned from
Rubens?

Why did Diego Velasquez paint flattering portraits of the royal family?

How did the Dutch people escape feudalism? How is their town hall in Amsterdam different
from the great Baroque palaces and monasteries?

What made Amsterdam the greatest economic center of its time? What were the Dutch
people of this time like?

Who were the patrons of artists at this place and time? Why were genre paintings popular?

What was the significance of group portraits at this time?

How many self-portraits did Rembrandt paint?

What were the characteristics of art’s “new ways of seeing” at this time?

Episode 11: The Age of Reason

What died along with Louis XIV, the “Sun King,” in 1715?

What is the new attitude toward nature shown in the painting Departure for the Land of
Cythera by Watteau?

Why was a classical building set in a beautiful landscape like Stourhead called “picturesque?”

What style was the Hotel Soubise decorated in, and what were its characteristics?

What is the Palais Royal in Paris?

What building kickstarted the initial idea of using reinforced concrete and is designed by
scientist Perrault?
What did Diderot think of Boucher’s rococo paintings?

What church, a masterpiece of French 18th century architecture, was a nightmare to build?

How did the audience react to seeing David’s painting as a tableaux vivant (“living picture”) at
the end of Voltaire’s play?

Episode 12: The Passionate Eye

What type of art did Napoleon commission? What did he hope Paris would become?

What problem did the critics have with Ingres’ Odalisque?

What purposes did the mirror play in the exhibition of David’s The Sabine Women?

Why are people rejecting Neoclassicism at this time?

What did the new style of Romanticism in the 19th century emphasize?

What change did David make to The Coronation of Napoleon?

How does Liberty Leading the People embody the values of the revolution?

What direction does art take next?

Episode 13: Painting the Modern World

Realist artist Gustave Courbet considered himself, politically, an _______________.

The concept of the "petite sensation" - a sudden realization of the world, combining visual
impression with emotional reaction - is associated with this artist.

The term "impressionism" came from a critic who accused the painters of creating
____________ rather than art.

Episode 14: Distanced Creations

This post-Impressionist artist traveled to the South Pacific and produced several works there.
Van Gogh eventually settled in the south of France, believing that modern art could best be
created away from the ________________ ______________, which symbolized a decadent
and diseased society.

Episode 15: Between Genius and the Abyss

The artist Egon Schiele is most closely associated with the German movement called
____________________. (one word, capitalized)

Diego Rivera's mural-in-progress for the Rockefeller Center, "Man at the Crossroads," was
rejected by Rockefeller because Rivera refused to paint over the figure of _____________.

He was known for his "ready-made" art, consisting of found, everyday objects that he
designated as art.

The Italian ______________ were affiliated with the authoritarian Right and their work
expressed dynamism and movement.(one word, plural, not capitalized)

These early French modernists - the "wild beasts" - were known for their bright colors and
abstraction of real objects.