1 Chapter 1 Overview
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15 Chapter 2 Overview
18 Giotto’s Arena Chapel
21 Lorenzetti’s Palazzo Pubblico Frescos
27 Sluter’s Well of Moses
28 Holy Thorn Reliquary
29 Introduction to Flanders
30 Campin’s Merode Altarpiece
41 Bruelleschi & Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
43 Early Applications of Linear Perspective
44 Donatello’s Works
45 Contrapposto
46 Masaccio’s Tribute Money
47 Masaccio’s Holy Trinity
52 Alberti
57 Chapter 5 Overview
58 Key Learning Items
60 Toward the High Renaissance
65 Michelangelo Introduced
66 Pietà
67 David
69 Sistine Chapel Ceiling
70 Sistine Chapel: Last Judgment
71 Marriage of the Virgin
74 Alba Madonna
76 Saint Peter’s Basilica
91 Key Learning Items
101 ** Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece
106 Chapter 7 Overview
108 Introduction to the Baroque
112 Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa
116 Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew
124 Key Learning Items
126 Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
127 Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici
142 Louis XIV & Versailles
150 Fragonard’s The Swing
157 Antonio Canova
161 John Singleton Copley
164 Gilbert Stuart
166 Chapter 10 Overview
167 Key Learning Items
169 Liberty Leading the People
172 Understanding Delacroix’s Painterly Techniques
173 Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
175 Portraits of the Insane
176 Apotheosis of Homer
177 Madame Riviere
178 Grand Odalisque
180 Third of May, 1808
183 Constable, The Haywain
186 The Oxbow
189 Chapter 11 Overview
193 Louis Daguerre
194 Timothy O’Sullivan
196 Courbet, The Stone Breakers
202 Manet, Olympia
204 Garnier, Paris Opera
207 Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
215 Van Gogh, Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin
223 Gaudi, Sagrada Familia
229 Eakins, The Gross Clinic
231 John Singer Sargent, Madame X
232 Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold
234 Chapter 12 Overview
235 Key Learning Items
236 Introduction to Fauvism
250 Braque, The Portuguese
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268 Chapter 13 Overview
269 Key Learning Items
270 Man Ray, The Gift
275 Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
291 Robert Motherwell
319 Donald Judd
321 Robert Morris
325 Introduction to Performance Art
326 Joseph Beuys, Fat Chair
329 Chapter 15 Overview
335 Mary Kelly
336 Robert Smithson
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207 Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
207 Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series
Claude Monet painted more than 30 canvases depicting Rouen cathedral between 1892 and 1893. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of four paintings of these paintings in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris:
Works Discussed
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the Portal, gray weather, 1892
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, The Portal Seen from the Front, 1892
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, The Portal and Tower, sunlight, 1893
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral The Portal, morning sun, 1893
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, The Portal and Tower, morning effect, 1893