Art

[tracyclee]

Hopefully it's not too late to gather some commentary


Tracy:

Tossups
Caspar David Friedrich
Sacrifice of Isaac
Annie Leibovitz
Palazzo Medici-Riccardo
Diadumenos
Koons
Benini
Mies
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
d'Orsay
Young British Artists
Bicycle thieves

Bonuses
Hudson River School
Chinese painting
El Greco
Watteau/Rococo
French Realism
Color Field
People who painted with Van Gogh
Triptychs
Cubism
Jeon Leon Gerome / Academicism
Giacometti / Rodin
Richard Serra / Oldenburg
Palladio / Pearce
Kurosawa films
Matriarchal religious sculpture
Baroque architecture
Pyramids
Feminist Art
Stieglitz/Photography
Verrochio



Marshall:

Tossups:
Dance of Death
Mexico
Virgin and Chancellor Rolin
Santa Maria Novella
Alhambra
Tapestry
Cistercian

Bonuses:
Conspiracy of Julius Civilis/The Hundred Guilder Print/Syndics
Fra Angelico
The Passion of Joan of Arc/Dreyer/Einhorn
Vienna Workshop
Capa
Haneke


Douglas:

Tossups:
Massacre of Chios
De Chirico
Cimabue

Bonuses:
Eakins/Bellows/Sheeler


Connie:

Tossups:
Hunters in the Snow
Black Paintings
Bathers
Botticelli


Margo:

Tossups:
Magritte


Sam:

Tossups:
Andrea del Sarto

[grapesmoker]

I liked the idea of the tossup on Santa Maria Novella, but it seemed like the most famous thing about it (the Alberti-designed facade) came pretty early in the question.

[Tees-Exe Line]

Is that more famous than Masaccio's crucifixion? In any case, thanks--I'll move the facade later.

[grapesmoker]

Is that more famous than Masaccio's crucifixion? In any case, thanks--I'll move the facade later.

I can only speak of my personal experience when comparing those two, but when I took art history, we focused on SMN as mostly an architectural work; thus, the facade was the emphasis. In general, I am not sure to what extent people really remember where particular artworks reside. With the exception of some very notable pieces, I think everything tends to get jumbled up after a while. To me, then, the architectural aspects of SMN are much more meaningful and easy to remember than what art is contained therein.