Painting Artists
Study Guide 1st Qt.
(20) Multiple Choice Questions
(Artist Fun Facts/Bio) 2.5 points
each
(20) Multiple Choice Questions
with Slides (Artist Last Name and
Title of Artwork) 2.5 points each
#1: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
• Mostly religious (Christianity)
• Rebirth (Greek Classical style)
• Poses are usually very ridged with little movement
implied.
Fun Facts:
• Painter, Sculptor, draftsman, architect, engineer,
inventor, and botanist.
• His painting, The Mona Lisa, is the most famous
artwork in history.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, 1495-1498
Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna of the Rocks, 1491
Painting Artists:
#2: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
Fun Facts:
• Considered himself foremost a sculptor; however,
the Pope convinced him to paint the Sistine
Chapel.
• Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer.
• In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino
("the divine one")
Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Creation of
Adam, 1511 (Sistine
Chapel)
Painting Artists:
#3: Jan Van Eyck (Dutch)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
Fun Facts:
Created extremely detailed egg tempera paintings on
wooden panels.
Jan van Eyck produced paintings for private clients in
addition to his work at the court
Van Eyck is often thought to be the anonymous artist
known as Hand G of the Turin-Milan Hours. If this is correct,
the Turin illustrations are the only known works from his early
period. Most of these miniatures were destroyed by fire in
1904 and survive only in photographs and copies.
The Arnolfini Wedding,1434
Jean Van Eyck
Painting Artists:
#4: Sandro Botticelli (Italian)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
Fun Facts:• Birth name: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni
Filipepi• In 1481, Pope Sixtus IV summoned Botticelli and
other prominent Florentine and Umbrian artists to fresco the walls of the Sistine Chapel.
The Birth of Venus
1486
Sandro Botticelli
#5: Albrecht Durer (German)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational)
Fun Facts:
His watercolours made him one of the first European landscape artists.
painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master prints") established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties
Self-Portrait (1493)
Albrecht Dürer
Painting Artists
#6: El Greco (Spanish)
Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)
Style: (Representational / Expressionistic)
Fun Facts:
Painted with an exaggerated chiseled style that
precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism.
El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect
of the Spanish Renaissance
El Greco is regarded as a
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz 1586–1588
El Greco
Baroque Painting#7: Michelangelo Caravaggio (Italian)
Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)
Style: Representational
Dramatic use of light, strong colors, theatrical, and movement.
Fun Facts:
His subject matter seems to project out of the picture plane towards the viewer.
His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.
Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical,
use of chiaroscuro.
Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601
Michelangelo Caravaggio
David with the Head of Goliath, 1609–1610
Michelangelo Caravaggio
#8: Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch)
Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)
Style: Representational
Fun Facts:
At fourteen he began his artistic apprenticeship with Tobias Verhaeght.
Rubens completed his education in 1598, at which time he entered the Guild of St. Luke as an independent master.
The Elevation of the Cross, 1610–11
Peter Paul Rubens
Baroque Painting#9: Rembrandt Van Rijn
(Dutch)Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)
Fun Facts:
• Lived (1606-1669)
• Painted over 100 self-portraits during his lifetime.
• His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and
cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age
when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was
extremely prolific and innovative.
Self-portrait, 1669
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Rococo Painting
#11: Antoine Watteau (French) Time period: Rococo (1700- 1800 AD)
Rococo style: Use of pastel colors, playful and light-hearted subject matter, and usually romantic.
Lived (1684-1721)
Fun Facts:
Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with an air of theatricality. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.
The Game Of Love
1717
Antoine Watteau
Rococo Painting
#12: Jean Honore
Fragonard (French) Time period: Rococo (1700- 1800 AD)
Lived (1732-1806)
Fun Facts:
Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not
counting drawings and etchings), of which only five
are dated.
The Swing
1767
American Painting
#14: John Singleton Copley
(American) Time period: (1700- 1800 AD)
Style: Representational
Lived (1738-1815)
Fun Facts:
He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New
England
Watson and the Shark
1778
John Singleton Copley
Romanicism Painting
#15: Eugene Delacroix (French) Style: Romanticism (1800s AD)
Romanticism: intense colors, emotional, and heroic subject matter.
Lived (1738-1815)
Fun Facts:
He was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career
as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Liberty Leading the People
1830
Eugene Delacroix
Romanticism Painting
#16: Theodore Gericault (French) Romanticism: (1800s AD)
Lived (1791-1824)
Fun Facts:
Was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer,
known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings.
The Raft of the Medusa
1819
Theodore Gericault
American Painting
#17: Thomas Cole (American) Time period:(1830- 1910 AD)
Style: Representational
Lived (1801-1848)
Fun Facts:
Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its
realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness,
which feature themes of romanticism.
The Course of Empire: Consummation
1835–1836
Thomas Cole
Painting
#17: Gustave Courbet (French) Style: Representational (1700- 1800 AD)
Lived (1819-1877)
Fun Facts:
He was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century
French painting.
He unintentionally influenced the Impressionists.
The Artist's Studio
1855
Gustave Courbet
Impressionism Painting
#19 Edouard Manet (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Impressionism: A style of painting in which artists tried to capture in
paint, the fleeting effects or impression of light, shade, and color on
natural forms.
Lived (1832-1883)
Fun Facts:
He was one of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and
postmodern-life subjects.
The Luncheon on the Grass
1863
Edouard Manet
Impressionism Painting
#20: Edgar Degas (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Impressionism
Lived (1834-1917)
Fun Facts:
He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he
rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.
The Dance Class
1873–1876
Edgar Degas
Impressionism Painting
#21: Claude Monet (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Impressionism
Lived (1840-1929)
Fun Facts:
The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression,
Sunrise.
Impression, Sunrise
1872
Claude Monet
Nympheas
1916
Claude Monet
Impressionism Painting
#22: Mary Cassatt (American) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Impressionism
Lived (1844-1926)
Fun Facts:
Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women,
with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and
children.
Summertime
1894
Mary Cassatt
Post-Impressionism Painting
#23: Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Post Impressionists
Lived (1583-1890)
Fun Facts:
In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100
artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more
than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and
prints.
Suffered from mental illness throughout his life.
Committed suicide at age 37.
The Starry Night
1889
Vincent Van Gogh
Self-portrait
1889
Vincent Van Gogh
Post-Impressionism Painting
#24: Paul Gauguin (French)Born: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
7 June 1848, Paris, France
Died: 8 May 1903 (aged 54)
Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Fun Facts: Known for painting, sculpture, ceramics, engraving
• Friends with Van Gogh and shared a studio space
for a time.
• Eventually moves to the island of Tahiti and paints
the native people.
Jacob Wrestling the Angle
1888
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism Painting
#25: Paul Cezanne (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Post Impressionists
Lived (1839-1906)
Fun Facts:
Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century
Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry,
Cubism.
The Great Bathers
1898
Paul Cezanne
Post-Impressionism Painting
#26: Georges Seurat (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)
Style: Post Impressionists
Lived (1859-1891)
Fun Facts:
He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the
technique of painting known as pointillism.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
Grande Jatte, 1884–1886
Georges Seurat
American Painting
#27: John Singer Sargent
(American) Time period:(1830- 1910 AD)
Style: Representational/Impressionism
Lived (1856-1925)
Fun Facts:
During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more
than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and
charcoal drawings.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
1882
John Singer Sargent
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