Lecture 1: Approaches to European Art
Eugène Delacroix:
Liberty Leading the People, 1830, oil on canvas, 8’ 6 ¼” x 10’ 8”
(260 x 325 cm), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Giotto:
Meeting at the Golden Gate, c. 1305, fresco, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel,
Padua, Italy.
Pierre Patel:
Perspective View of Versailles.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881, oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 5’ 8”
(129.5 x 172.7 cm), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA.
Peter Paul Rubens:
Deposition Altarpiece, 1612–14, oil on panel, central panel:
13’ 9 ¼” x 10’ 2” (4.19 x 3.1 m), Antwerp Cathedral,
Antwerp, Belgium.
Titian:
Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1522, oil on canvas, 5’ 9 ½” x 6’ 3 ¾”
(176.5 x 191 cm), National Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Rogier van der Weyden:
Deposition, c. 1435, oil on panel, 7’ 2 ½” x 8’ 7” (220 x 262 cm),
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Rembrandt van Rijn:
The Jewish Bride, 1668–69, oil on canvas, 4’ x 5’ 5 ½”
(121.5 x 166.5 cm), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.