ARTH 260 * Introduction to Art History * Professor Sarah Benson * Spring 2005
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Cornell Library | Grove Dictionary of Art | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Oxford Dictionary of Art | Oxford Companion to Western Art | Oxford Dictionary of Architecture | History of Art Dept. | Cornell Homepage | Portrait of Jesuit Scholar, Johann Adam Schall von Bell 1667 Published in Athanasius Kircher (1602-80), China monumenti , Amsertdam 1667, plate Bb. |
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| Woven at the Beauvais Manufactory The Astronomers From the Emperor of China Series 1697-1705 Wool and silk W: 10 ft. 5 1/2 in.; L: 13 ft. 9 in. |
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| Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (1684-1721) La Gamme d'amour 1715-18 Oil on canvas 50.8 x 59.7 cm. London: National Gallery |
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Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (1684-1721) |
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| Jean-Antoine WATTEAU (1684-1721) The Signboard of Gersaint c. 1721 Oil on canvas 1.62 x 3.06 m. Schloss Charlottenburg: Stiftung Preussische Schlössen und Gärten Berlin-Brandenberg |
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| William HOGARTH (1697-1764) Analysis of Beauty, Plate I 1753 Etching Ithaca, New York: Herbert F. Johnson Museum |
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| Giuseppe VASI (1710-1782) Palazzi del Campidoglio 1753 etching 20.2 x 32.3 cm. |
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| Giovanni Paolo PANINI (1691-1765) Gallery of Views of Ancient Rome 1758 oil on canvas 231 x 303 cm. Paris: Louvre Patron: Monsignor de Canillac, official at French Embassy in Rome |
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| Giovanni Paolo PANINI (1691-1765) Gallery of Views of Modern Rome 1758 oil on canvas 231 x 303 cm. Paris: Louvre Patron: Monsignor de Canillac, official at French Embassy in Rome |
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| Jean-Baptiste PATER (1695-1736) The Chinese Hunt 1736 Oil on canvas 172 x 127 cm. Amiens: Musée de Picardie. |
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| Jean-Siméon CHARDIN (1699-1779) The Governess 1739 Oil on canvas 46 x 37.5 cm. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada |
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| Jean-Baptise Siméon CHARDIN (1699-1779) Soap Bubbles c. 1739 Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| François BOUCHER (1703-1770) The Leopard Hunt 1736 Oil on canvas 183 x 128.5 cm. Amiens: Musée de Picardie. |
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| After a cartoon by François BOUCHER (1703-1770) La Foire Chinoise (The Chinese Fair) designed 1743; woven 1743-75 at Beauvais, France Wool and silk 3.63 x 5.54 m. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. |
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Charles-Amédée-Philippe VAN LOO ( 1719-1795 ) |
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| Charles-Amédée-Philippe VAN LOO ( 1719-1795 ) The Magic Lantern 1764 Washington, D.C.: National Gallery |
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| Sir Joshua REYNOLDS (1723-1792) Portait of Members of the Society of Dilettanti 1777-79 oil on canvas 196.8 x 142.2 cm. London: Society of Dilettanti |
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| Anton VON MARON (1733-1808) Johan Joachim Winkelmann 1768 oil on canvas138 x 99 cm. Weimar: Kunstsammlungen |
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| Joseph WRIGHT of Derby (1734-1797) An experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump 1768 Oil on canvas 1.82 x 2.43 m. London: National Gallery |
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| Joseph WRIGHT of Derby (1734-1797) Two Boys by Candlelight Blowing a Bladder 1768-81 Oil on canvas with silver leaf under bladder, flame, and candle 89 x 70 cm. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library |
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| Louis DUCROS (1740-1810) and Giovanni VOLPATO (c. 1755-1803)
The Cortile del Belvedere with the Laocoön 1787-92 hand-colored etching 51.5 x 72.2 cm. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbliothek |
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| JHW TISCHBEIN (1751-1829) Goethe in the Compagna 1787 oil on canvas 164 x 206 cm. Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut |
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