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ART APPRECIATION IN CONTEXT

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Level 1: Image Identification

  • Name of the artwork
  • Name of the artist
  • Period or style

 

Level 2: Conceptual information

  • Historical, cultural, and period styles
  • Artist background
  • Formal analysis of works of art

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Next, select an art museum or collection to explore

Vatican Museum, Rome

British Museum, London

Louvre Museum, Paris

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Prado Museum, Madrid

Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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Oath of the Horatii

Death of Marat

Raft of the Medusa

Death of the Virgin

The Lacemaker

Rebellious Slave

Winged Victory

Odalisque

Venus de Milo

Bathsheba at Her Bath

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Which development most encouraged the Baroque style in Italian art?

Monasticism

Counter-reformation

The Enlightenment

Romanticism

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Idealized figures

Contrapposto

Theatrical light

Bold color

Which characteristic of Caravaggio’s painting most influenced later Baroque painters?

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Because it is sad that Marat is dead

Because the brushwork is sloppy

Because David has bad manners

Because Marat was a fanatic

Why is David’s The Death of Marat not such a “polite thing” as it appears at first?

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Which development most encouraged the Baroque style in Italian art?

Monasticism

Counter-reformation

The Enlightenment

Romanticism

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Which development most encouraged the Baroque style in Italian art?

Monasticism

Counter-reformation

The Enlightenment

Romanticism

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Correct!

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Because it is sad that Marat is dead

Because the brushwork is sloppy

Because David has bad manners

Because Marat was a fanatic

Why is David’s The Death of Marat not such a “polite thing” as it appears at first?

10

Sorry!

The Expert is correct and scores points!

Select different work of art

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Because it is sad that Marat is dead

Because the brushwork is sloppy

Because David has bad manners

Because Marat was a fanatic

Why is David’s The Death of Marat not such a “polite thing” as it appears at first?

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Correct!

You score points and win the work of art!

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Idealized figures

Contrapposto

Theatrical light

Bold color

Which characteristic of Caravaggio’s painting most influenced later Baroque painters?

10

Select different work of art

Sorry!

The Expert is correct and scores points!

Try a new question

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Idealized figures

Contrapposto

Theatrical light

Bold color

Which characteristic of Caravaggio’s painting most influenced later Baroque painters?

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Select different work of art

Correct!

You score points!

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