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jean auguste dominique ingres painted the grand odalisque in 1814. this romantic peice showed exotic orientalisim. Her feathered fan, elaberated headdress and braslette all referencethe east, or south, all of which were seen as so far away, culture wise from french society. This is a very finished peice of work, there are no visual brushstrokes, in that it looks more like a photograph then a painting (even though it is obviously a painting).

john constable, an english romansisist painted the haywain in 1821. This oin painting is of a trainquil lanscape, made with muted greens and golds. The sky is settling after a storm, adding to the peacefulness. This highly naturalistic work, unidealized, unbalance, more as real nature would exist, is all about man vs nature. The wagon is dwarfed by nature, nature wins.


Joseph m.w. turner, another english romantisist also showed man vs man, and the larger, man vs nature in his painting, the slave ship. More about the behavior, and cruelty.

edouard manet painted lunechon on the grass in 1863. This early inpressionalisim, branching out from realisim, is of four figures in a french park. Depicted are a prosititue, manets brother and a sculpture. the men are dressed in their dandy attier, while the women are naked. What branches out into impressionalisim here, is that the people are too large to fit in their enviornement. The landscape and still life are rendered perfectly, while the people appear flat, like stickers pasted on the image. The light is also off, in some places you see light on the ground, but it does not effect the people. There are classical elemenets of this painting, a landscape, a still life, nude figures, and they refence all to giorgiones pastural symphony of rennisance times, where he dipicted two well dressed men and two naked women, but what sets these two apart, aside from natural progression, Manet has painted this outside, in the real setting.

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francesco goya, the sleep of reason prodcues monsters, from los caprichos, etching and aquatint, spanish romantisiim, 1798

edouard manet, luncheon on the grass, 1863, realisim, early impressionalisim, french, reference to giorgeones pastural symphony

honore Daumier, the third class carriage, french realisim, modern life, he was a print maker by trade, 1862, oil.

john constable, the haywain, english romansitim, 1821, oil.

Joseph M. W. Turner, the slave ship, english romantisim, 1840

bernini, the ecstasy of st teresa, cornaro chapel, santa maria della vittoria, italian baroque, 1645, marbel, cardinal fredrico cornaro

bernini, david, marbel, 1623, st peters, italian baroque

antoine watteau, return from cythera, 1717, french roccoco, fete grante, outside entertainment and/or ammusement of the upper class

rembrant, shooting company of captin frans banning, 1642, dutch baroque

jan vermeer, allegory of the art of painting, 1670, dutch baroque, camera obsurea, clio muse of history

peter paul rubens, the elevation of the cross, 1610, flemish baroque

thomas jefferson, montichello, neoclassisim, 1770

carravaggio, conversion of st paul, 1601, itlaian baroque, cerasi chappel, santa maria del popolo

caravaggio, calling of st mathew, 1597, tenebrisim, italian baroque

bernini, baldanchio, itlian baroque, st peters, 1627, pope urban, barberini, original shrine, pantheon.

jean-honore fragnard, the swing, 1766, french roccoco

velazquez, spanish baroque, las meninas, 1656

rembrant, christ witht he sick around him, dutch baroque, etching, 1649

rubens, arrival of marie de medichi, 1622, flemish baroque

william hogarth, the breakfast scene, english roccoco, 1745