Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
Faculty Resource Request Access
1. Chapter 1 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. What is Art? Form and Content
4. The Skill of Describing
5. Art as Concept
6. Art & Context
7. Representation & Abstraction
8. Why Is That Important?
9. Why Is This Art?
10. Interpreting Contemporary Art
11. Iconographic Analysis: Understanding Iconography
12. Formal Analysis: Understanding Visual Form
13. Art History Terms
14. External Resources
15. Chapter 2 Overview
16. Key Learning Items
17. Cimabue
18. Giotto's Arena Chapel
19. Ognissanti Madonna
20. Duccio, Maesta
21. Lorenzetti's Palazzo Pubblico Frescos
22. Simone Martini's Annunciation
23. External Resources
24. Chapter 3 Overview
25. Key Learning Items
26. Introduction to the Renaissance in Italy and the North
27. Sluter's Well of Moses
28. Holy Thorn Reliquary
29. Introduction to Flanders
30. Campin's Merode Altarpiece
31. Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece
32. Arnolfini Portrait
33. Hugo van der Goes
34. Van der Weyden's Deposition
35. The Unicorn in Captivity
36. External Resources
37. Chapter 4 Overview
38. Key Learning Items
39. Florence in the Early Renaissance
40. Orsanmichele
41. Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
42. Linear Perspective
43. Early Applications of Linear Perspective
44. Donatello's Works
45. Contrapposto
46. Masaccio's Tribute Money
47. Masaccio's Holy Trinity
48. Fra Angelico's The Annunciation
49. Fra Filippo Lippi
50. Piero della Francesca's Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino
51. Botticelli's Birth of Venus
52. Alberti
53. Introduction to Venice
54. Bellini's St. Francis
55. Mantegna's Works
56. External Resources
57. Chapter 5 Overview
58. Key Learning Items
59. Art and Science in the Renaissance
60. Toward the High Renaissance
61. Leonardo da Vinci Introduced
62. Virgin of the Rocks
63. The Last Supper
64. Mona Lisa
65. Michelangelo Introduced
66. Pietà
67. David
68. Moses
69. Sistine Chapel Ceiling
70. Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment
71. Marriage of the Virgin
72. Madonna of the Goldfinch
73. School of Athens
74. Alba Madonna
75. Tempietto
76. Saint Peter's Basilica
77. Introduction to Venetian Painting
78. Giorgione, The Tempest
79. Bellini & Titian, Feast of the Gods
80. Titian, Bacchus & Ariadne
81. Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro Family
82. Titian, Venus of Urbino
83. Veronese, Feast in the House of Levi
84. Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way
85. Introduction to Mannerism
86. Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck
87. Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
88. El Greco's Adoration of the Shepherds
89. External Resources
90. Chapter 6 Overview
91. Key Learning Items
92. Introduction to the Protestant Reformation
93. Dürer's Four Apostles
94. Self-Portrait 1498
95. Self-Portrait 1500
96. What Is a Print?
97. Dürer's Prints
98. Bosch's Last Judgment
99. Altdorfer's Battle of Issus
100. Cranach's Adam and Eve
101. ** Cranach's Wittenberg Altarpiece
102. Holbein's The Ambassadors
103. Portrait of Henry the VIII
104. Bruegel's The Dutch Proverbs
105. External Resources
106. Chapter 7 Overview
107. Key Learning Items
108. Introduction to the Baroque
109. Baroque Art in Italy
110. Bernini's David
111. Bernini's St. Peter's Square
112. Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa
113. Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
114. Coffered Dome Explained
115. Caravaggio's Deposition
116. Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew
117. Caravaggio and His Followers
118. Il Gesu, Rome
119. Gentileschi
120. Carracci's Ceiling of the Farnese Palace
121. Quadro Riportato Explained
122. External Resources
123. Chapter 8 Overview
124. Key Learning Items
125. Baroque Terms Explained
126. Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
127. Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici
128. Rubens, The Consequences of War
129. Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
130. Vermeer, The Glass of Wine
131. Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
132. Rembrandt, Bathsheba at her Bath
133. Rembrandt, The Three Crosses
134. Rembrandt's Self-Portraits
135. Hal's Singing Boy with Flute
136. Hal's Malle Babbe
137. van Huysum, Vase with Flowers
138. Vanitas Painting Explained
139. Dutch Genre Painting Explained
140. Las Meninas
141. Los Borrachos
142. Louis XIV & Versailles
143. Poussin, Landscape with St. John
144. Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior
145. External Resources
146. Chapter 9 Overview
147. Key Learning Items
148. Age of Enlightenment
149. **Rococo Explained
150. Fragonard's The Swing
151. Boucher's Madame de Pompadour
152. Vigee Le Brun's Madame Perregaux
153. Introduction to Neo-Classicism
154. David's Oath of the Horatii
155. David's Death of Marat
156. David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps
157. Antonio Canova
158. Benjamin West
159. Sir Joshua Reynolds
160. William Hogarth
161. John Singleton Copley
162. Copley's Watson and the Shark
163. Charles Wilson Peale
164. Gilbert Stuart
165. External Resources
166. Chapter 10 Overview
167. Key Learning Items
168. Introduction to Romanticism
169. Liberty Leading the People
170. Scene of the Massacre at Chios
171. Death of Sardanapalus
172. Understanding Delacroix's Painterly Techniques
173. Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
174. Raft of the Medusa
175. Portraits of the Insane
176. Apotheosis of Homer
177. Madame Riviere
178. Grand Odalisque
179. Princesse de Broglie
180. Third of May, 1808
181. Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
182. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
183. Constable, The Haywain
184. Turner, Slave Ship
185. Hudson River School
186. The Oxbow
187. Portrait of a Young Woman
188. External Resources
189. Chapter 11 Overview
190. Key Learning Items
191. Becoming Modern
192. Introduction to Early Photography
193. Louis Daguerre
194. Timothy O'Sullivan
195. Introduction to Realism
196. Courbet, The Stone Breakers
197. Bonheur, Plowing in the Nivernais
198. Millet, The Gleaners
199. Degas, The Dance Class
200. Degas, At the Races in the Countryside
201. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe)
202. Manet, Olympia
203. Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
204. Garnier, Paris Opera
205. Introduction to Impressionism
206. Monet, Gare St. Lazare
207. Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
208. Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day
209. Cassatt, In the Loge
210. Cassatt, The Child's Bath
211. Morisot, The Mother and Sister of the Artist
212. Renoir, Moulin de la Galette
213. Post-Impressionism Explained
214. Seurat, La Grande Jatte
215. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
216. Van Gogh, The Bedroom
217. Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
218. Cezanne, Basket of Apples
219. Cezanne, The Large Bathers
220. Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon
221. Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching
222. Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge
223. Gaudi, Sagrada Familia
224. Fin-de-siecle Explained
225. Klimt, The Kiss
226. Munch, The Storm
227. Rodin, Gates of Hell
228. Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware
229. Eakins, The Gross Clinic
230. Homer, The Life Line
231. John Singer Sargent, Madame X
232. Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold
233. External Resources
234. Chapter 12 Overview
235. Key Learning Items
236. Introduction to Fauvism
237. Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre
238. Matisse, The Red Studio
239. Matisse, The Piano Lesson
240. Kirchner, Street, Dresden
241. Kandinsky, Composition VII
242. Schiele, Seated Male Nude
243. Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning
244. Picasso's Early Works
245. Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein
246. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
247. Picasso, The Reservoir
248. Picasso, Guitar
249. ** Picasso, Guernica
250. Braque, The Portuguese
251. Braque, The Viaduct at L'Estaque
252. Duchamp and the Ready-Mades
253. Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm
254. Duchamp, Fountain
255. Duchamp, The Red Box
256. Arp, Untitled
257. Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife
258. Klee, Twittering Machine
259. An Introduction to Futurism
260. Three Futurists
261. Malevich
262. Mondrian, Composition No. II
263. Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt
264. Otto Dix
265. Feininger, Cathedral
266. Maholy-Nagy
267. External Resources
268. Chapter 13 Overview
269. Key Learning Items
270. Man Ray, The Gift
271. Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
272. Giacometti, The City Square
273. Magritte, The Treachery of Images
274. Dali, The Persistence of Memory
275. Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
276. ** House of Art
277. George Bellows
278. Grant Wood, American Gothic
279. Georgia O'Keeffe
280. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
281. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
282. Origins of Abstract Expressionism
283. Impact of Abstract Expressionism
284. Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950
285. ** Pollock's Painting Techniques
286. Rothko, No. 3/No. 13
287. ** Rothko's Painting Technique
288. Newman, Onement 1
289. ** Newman's Painting Technique
290. de Kooning, Woman I
291. Robert Motherwell
292. Jasper Johns
293. Rauschenberg
294. Reinhardt
295. Introduction to Photography
296. Cartier-Bresson
297. Brancusi, Bird in Space
298. Gilbert, Woolworth Building
299. Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim Museum
300. Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
301. External Resources
302. Chapter 14 Overview
303. Key Learning Items
304. Introduction to Contemporary Art
305. Diane Arbus
306. Cindy Sherman
307. Sherrie Levine
308. Francis Bacon
309. Lucian Freud
310. Louise Bourgeois
311. Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe
312. Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans
313. Oldenburg, Floor Cake
314. ** Lichtenstein, Girl with Ball
315. Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
316. Ed and Nancy Kienholz
317. Richter, Uncle Rudi
318. Richter, The Cage Paintings
319. Donald Judd
320. Dan Flavin
321. Robert Morris
322. Eva Hesse, Untitled
323. Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
324. Chicago and Benglis
325. Introduction to Performance Art
326. Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair
327. Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator
328. External Resources
329. Chapter 15 Overview
330. Key Learning Items
331. Understanding Installation Art
332. Vito Acconci
333. John Baldessari
334. Hans Haacke
335. Mary Kelly
336. Robert Smithson
337. Bruce Nauman
338. Robert Colescott
339. Damien Hirst
340. Art in the Twenty-First Century
341. Ai Weiwei
342. External Resources
This visual art glossary defines art categories, styles, and terms while giving examples of each term.
Previous/next navigation
Art History II Copyright © by Lumen Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.