CONTEMPORARY

PERIOD -
CLASSICISM

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 The Oath of the Horatii (1785)
Description

Name: The Oath of the Horatii (1785) (Le Serment des Horaces)
Artist: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Mythological painting
Movement: Neoclassical art
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris

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Death of Marat (1793)
Description

Name: Death of Marat (1793) (Marat Assassiné)

Artist: Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: History painting
Style: Neoclassical art
Location: Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels

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 Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)
Description

Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

Medium: Oil painting
Genre: Fete galante
Movement: Rococo Art
Location: Louvre, Paris; and Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin.

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 The Valpincon Bather (1808)
Description

Name: The Valpincon Bather (1808) (La Grande Baigneuse)

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Female Nude
Movement: Neoclassical art
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
(1768)
Description

Name: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)

Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Type: Genre painting (but see below)
Movement: Classical realism
Location: National Gallery, London

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La Grande Odalisque (1814)
Description

Name: La Grande Odalisque (1814)

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Orientalist painting
Movement: Neoclassical painting
Location: Louvre Museum, Paris

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 Large Bathers (1894-1906)
Description

Name: Large Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses) (1894–1905)

Artist: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Female Nudes in a landscape
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Location: Three versions: (1) National Gallery, London. (2) Philadelphia Museum of
Art. (3) Barnes Foundation, PA.
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Young Italian Woman Leaning on her Elbow
(1900)
Description

Name: Young Italian Woman Leaning on her Elbow (1900)

Artist: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Portrait art
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Location: J. Paul Getty Museum

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The Uncertainty of the Poet (1913)
Description

Name: The Uncertainty of the Poet (1913)

Artist: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Urban landscape with still life
Movement: Metaphysical painting
Location: Tate Collection, London

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The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)
Description

Name: The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914)

Artist: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Medium: Oil painting on canvas
Genre: Modernist urban landscape
Movement: Metaphysical painting
Location: Private Collection

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