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Henry Bacon
Architect: Lincoln Memorial
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Sandro Botticelli
- Italian painter
- concentration on line, depth of feeling, delicacy of style
- Birth of Venus(Venus on a Half-Shell)-tempera on canvas
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Constantin Brancusi
- Romanian pioneer of abstract sculpture
- Bird in Space-in marble
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Filippo Brunelleschi
- Renaissance style in architecture
- Pazzi Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence
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Mary Cassatt
- American Impressionist painter
- soft surgace, snapshot vision in paintings, female subjects
- The Bath-oil on canvas
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Paul Cezanne
- French Post-Impressionist painter
- color to construct form, abstract painter, "Father of Modern Art"
- Still Life with Apples and Oranges, Woman with the Coffeepot-oil on canvas
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Salvador Dali
- sexual symbolism, master of draftsmanship and color
- The Persistence of Memory (melting clock pic)-oil on canvas
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Jacques Louis David
(David)
- Rococo painter, revival of classicism
- Oath of the Horatii, Death of Marat-oil on canvas
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Leonardo da Vinci
- High Renaissance Italian painter, sculptor, architectural engineer, inventor
- Last Supper-mural, oil, and tempera on plaster
- Mona Lisa-oil on panel
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Edgar Degas
- French Impressionist painter, but 0 like landscape instead liked dance
- The Rehearsal-oil on canvas
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Bardi di Niccolo Donato
(Donatello)
- sculptor in Italy, founded new Renaissance style
- David(first nude/bronze sculpture)
- Mary Magdalen-gilded wood
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Albrecht Durer
- German High Renaissance, graphic art(woodcuts, copper engravings)
- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-woodcut
- Adam and Eve-engraving
- Saint Jerome-engraving
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Gustave Eiffel
French engineer: Eiffel Tower
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Paul Gauguin
- no formal training, departed from Western tradition, return to archaic/primitive styles
- The Day of the God, Vision After the Sermon-oil on canvas
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Fransisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
(Goya)
- Romantic Spanish painter
- The Third of May, 1808, at Madrid, The Shootings on Principe Pio Mountain-oil on canvas
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Christo Javachef
- Bulgarian Earth artist, packages inert objects in plastic/fabric
- Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Breater Miami Florida-woven synthetic fabric 6million sq. ft.
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Thomas Jefferson
- American architect
- Monticello-neoclassic temple
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Benjamin Latrobe
- English American architect/engineer
- Waterworks of Phiadelphia
- assisted in design/construction of DC Capitol Bldg.
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Louis Le Vau
created basic body of Versailles in France
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Roy Lichtenstein
- American Pop artist
- "comic strip art"
- Wham (two panels)-magna on canvas
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Edouard Manet
- French Impressionist painter, forefather of Impressionism
- Luncheon on the Grass, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere-oil on canvas
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Henri Matisse
- French Expressionist, simple figures/masses with bold areas of pigment
- The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse)-oil and tempera on canvas
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Francesco Mazzola
- Parmifianino, Mannerist Italian painter, known for distortion
- Madonna with the Long Neck-panel painting
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Michelangelo Merisi
- Caravaggio, Baroque Italian painter, naturalism, hard pictorial style
- intense light/dark contrast
- Conversion of St. Paul-oil on canvas
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
(Michelangelo)
- High Renaissance Italian painter, sculptor (marble)
- David-sculpture, ceiling fresco for Sistine Chapel
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Robert Mills
- American architect
- Washington Monument and US Treasury
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Piet Mondrian
- Dutch painter, master of the De Stijl movement, reduced formal elements to flat surfaces bound by straight lines intersected at right angles
- black, white, gray, and primary colors
- Composition-oil on canvas
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Claude Monet
- French Impressionist painter, painted outdoors, Reality->objective perception of color
- Nympheas (Water Lilies), Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight-oil on canvas
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