Slide Images for August 26

The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari

1550

 The Last Supper

Tintoretto

c. 1592-1594

 Portrait of an Old Man with Boy

Marietta Robusti

1585

Self Portrait
Marietta Robusti
1580

 Tintoretto Painting His Dead Daughter

Leon Cogniet

1843

The Happy Couple

Judith Leyster

1630

 The Jolly Toper

Judith Leyster

1629

 The Jolly Topper

Frans Hals or Judith Leyster

c. 1628-30

 Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Jacques-Louis David

1801

Young Woman Drawing

Marie-Denise Villers

1803

 Portrait of Dublin-Tornelle

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

c. 1799

Portrait of Antonio Bruni

Césarine Davin-Mirvault

1804

Terms of the Day for August 26

• Attribution – in art history, the explicit or formal acknowledgment of authorship to a singular artist.
• Provenance – the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
• Connoisseur – a person who has a great deal of knowledge about the fine arts or an expert judge in matters of taste.   In the fine arts, a connoisseur is considered an in-depth expert on a particular artist’s life and work, and can therefore make attributions.

Terms of the Day for August 24

• Western Culture – a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe. The term has come to apply to countries whose history is strongly marked by European immigration, colonization, and influence and is not restricted to the continent of Europe.
• Patriarchy – a social system in which males are the primary authority figures central to social organization, occupy roles of political leadership, moral authority and control of property, and where fathers hold authority over women and children. It implies the institutions of male rule and entails female subordination.
• Binary Opposition – the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right.
• Individual Inspired Genius – the model or concept of art being the product of one person’s inspiration rather than a collaborative craft.