Virtual Museum II: Museum of Historical Art

Jamiee Marshall
Dean Feldman
Humanities 60398
The Museum of
Historical Art
Doge’s Palace

Exhibit Directory
• Wing 1 Renaissance
• Wing 2 The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque
• Wing 3 The Age of Revolution
• Wing 4 The Age of Encounter
• Wing 5 The Modern Age

The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque began in the seventeenth century as a way to
reform itself as the Catholic Church was struggling to win back those who had been
drawn away by the Protestant Reformation. The church wanted to attract people to their
arts and made a sensual turn by displaying a range of human emotion and feelings
which came to be known as the Baroque. Its focal point was the Vatican City in Rome.
The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque

Louis XIV as the sun, Ballet
de la Nuit. 1653.
Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris.
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ
Preaching (the “Hundred-
Guilder Print”). ca. 1648-50.
Etching.

The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque Sculptures
Gianlorenzo Bernini,
The Ecstasy of St.
Teresa. 1645-52.
Marble.
Gianlorenzo Bernini. David,
1623. Marble.

Andre Le Notre, Versailles. ca.
1669-85. North flowerbed
formal French gardens.
Veronese, Feast in the
House of Levi. ca. 1573.
Oil on canvas.

The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque Oil Paintings
Caravaggio, Conversion of
St. Paul. ca. 1601. Oil on
canvas.
El Greco,
Resurrection. ca.
1597-1604. Oil on
canvas.

The Counter-Reformation and the Baroque Paintings
Michelangelo, Last Judgment,
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.
1534-41. Fresco.
Fra Andrea Pozzo, Triumph of
St. Ignatius of Loyola,
Sant’lgnazio, Rome. 1691-94.
Ceiling fresco.

Caravaggio, The Calling off St. Matthew. ca. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas, 11’1” x 11’5. Contarelli
Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) was the master of light and dark was
the most influential painter of his days. Caravaggio’s first major commission was The Calling of
St. Matthew in Rome which displays light as a dramatic element in this painting. Tax collector
Levi (St. Matthew) and his four assistances are dressed of a style not of Jesus’s times, but of
Caravaggios are centered where light beams in from an unseen window in the upper right corner
of the painting. Jesus enters from the right with a halo and his index finger pointed towards St.
Matthew as his head is hung low unto the table.
Highlighted Work of Art

Human freedom was fundamental to the Enlightenment, finding political expression the
American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of
Man and Citizen. The Age of Revolution (American Revolution) was essentially the
revolt of an upper class that felt disenfranchised by its distant king, while the French
Revolution was a revolt against an absolute monarch whose abuse of power had
disenfranchised his own people.
The Age of Revolution

The Age of Revolution Paintings
J. M. W. Turner, Interior of
Tintern Abbey. ca. 1794.
Watercolor.
J. M. W. Turner, The Upper
Falls of the Reichenbach. ca.
1810-15. Watercolor.

The Age of Revolution Oil Paintings
Francisco Goya, The Third
of May. ca. 1814-15. Oil
on canvas.
Jacques-Louis David,
The Lictors Returning
to Brutus the Bodies of
His Sons. ca. 1789. Oil
on canvas.

The Age of Revolution Oil Paintings
Jacques-Louis David,
Napoleon Crossing the
Saint-Bernard. ca. 1800-
01. Oil on canvas.
Theodore Gericault,
The Raft of the
“Medusa”. ca. 1818.
First oil sketch. Oil on
canvas.

William Hackwood, for
Josiah Wedgwood, “Am I Not
a Man and a Brother?”
1787. Black-and-white
jasperware, 1 3/8” x 1 3/8”.
Leonardo da Vinci, To
Versailles, To Versailles,
October 5, 1789. Engraving.
Musee de a Ville de Paris,
Musee Carnavalet, Paris.

Pierre-Alexandre Vignon, La
Madeine. ca. 1806-42. Paris,
Italy.
Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court
Oath. ca. 1789-91. Pen and brown ink
and brown wash on paper.

Paul Reverse. After Henry Pelham,, The Bloody Massacre. ca. 1770. Hand-colored engraving,
8 15/16” x 10 3/16”.
Paul Revere a silversmith and engraver produced a print called, The Bloody Massacre in 1770.
This hand-colored engraving details the attack on March 5, 1770 as an angry mob of Bostonians
attacked a small band of British troops stationed at the Boston Custom House as they were
protecting the custom agents and tax collectors. British troops opened fire killing five.

The Age of Encounter explores how Portugal and Spain were active in seeking trading
opportunities but focused on African and the Eastern cultures. Their focus on the
African and Eastern cultures displays how their rulers created lifelike images of their
ancestors by producing naturalistic portraits out of clay and stone.
The Age of Encounter

The Age of Encounter Architecture
Palace and Temple of
Inscriptions. Palenque, Mexico.
Maya culture. 600-900 CE.
The Pyramid of the Moon,
looking north up the
Avenue of the Dead.
Mesoamerica culture. 500
CE.

The Age of Encounter Drawings
Cheng Sixiao, Ink Orchids.
ca. 1306. Ink on paper.
Shen Zhou, Poet on a
Mountain Top. ca. 1496. Ink
and color on paper.

The Age of Encounter Sculptures
Head of an Oni (King).
Ife culture, Nigeria. ca.
thirteenth century.
Brass.
Head of an Oba. Nigeria;
Court of Benin. ca. 1550.

The Age of Encounter Sculptures
Mask of an iyoba
(queen mother),
probably Idia, Court of
Benin, Nigeria. ca.
1550. Ivory, iron, and
cooper, height 9 3/8”.
Portuguese Warrior
Surrounded by Manillas,
Court of Benin, Nigeria.
Sixteenth century. Bronze.

The Age of Encounter
Pair of Vases, Chinese, mark
of Xuande reign (1426-1435),
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Porcelain with underglaze
blue decoration.
Kinkakuji (Temple of the
Golden Pavilion), Rokionji,
Kyoto. Rebuilt in 1964 after
the original of the 1390s.

Colossal head, La Venta, Mexico, Olmec culture. ca. 900-500 BCE. Basalt, height 7’ 5’. La
Venta Park, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.
At the La Venta three colossal stone heads stood guard over the ceremonial center on the
south end of the platform and a fourth guarded the north end by itself. The colossal heads
are carved of basalt and weighs between 11 and 24 tons each bearing an unique headgear
similar to old-style American leather football helmets. The stone heads are generally
believed to be portraits of Olmec rulers which they share the same facial features,
including wide, flat noses and thick lips.

The Modern Age was the way the physical universe radically changed. Still
photography suddenly became animated into a moving picture. A motion-picture
theatre was open, automobiles were created, science and physics were discovered
which all changed how the physical universe became transformed into the Modern
Age.
The Modern Age

The Modern Age Oil Paintings
Paul Cezanne, Still Life
with Plaster Cast. ca.
1894. Oil on paper on
board.
Georges Seurat, A
Sunday on La Grande
Jatte. ca. 1884. Oil on
canvas.

Paul Gauguin, Mahana no
atua (Day of the God). ca.
1894. Oil (possibly mixed
with wax)on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Les
Demoiselles
d’Avignon. ca. June-
July 1907. Oil on
canvas.

Henri Matisse, Dance. Oil
on canvas.
Salvador Dali, The
Persistence of
Memory. ca. 1931. Oil
on canvas.

Paul Cezanne, Mount
Sainte-Victoire. ca. 1902-
04. Oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Horta
de Ebro – Houses on a
Hill. ca. 1909. Oil on
canvas.

The Modern Age
Umberto Boccioni, Unique
Forms of Continuity in
Space. ca. 1913. Bronze.
Marcel Duchamp,
Fountain. ca. 1917;
replica 1964.
Porcelain.

Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror. Boisgeloup. March 1932. Oil on canvas, 64 x 5 ¼’.
Pablo Picasso’s double portrait of Marie-Therese expresses her as a moon, sun, night, and
light as her facial expressions appears in both profiles of the painting. Her protruding
belly on the left suggests her fertility. Picasso paints Marie-Therese psyche both literally
and figuratively, which the long oval mirror supported by both sides is her psyche.

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Works Cited
Ballet de la Nuit. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper
Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
Colossal Head. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle
River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
Doge’s Palace. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle
Head of an Oba. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle
Head of an Oni (King). In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper
Kinkakuji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion). In Discovering the Humanities by Henry
M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
"Map of San Juan." Map of San Juan. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2013.
<http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/caribbean/puerto-rico/san-juan/>
Mask of an iyoba (queen mother). In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
"San Juan Puerto Rico." - San Juan Vacations. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2013.
< http://www.destination360.com/caribbean/puerto-rico/san-juan>

Palace. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River,
N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
Pair of Vases. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle
Portuguese Warrior Surrounded by Manillas. In Discovering the Humanities by
Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
The Pyramid and the Moon. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
Pyramid of the Moon (looking south down the Avenue of the Dead). In Discovering the
Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010.
Resources.
To Versailles, To Versailles. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Bernini Gianlorenzo. The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. In Discovering the Humanities by
Bernini Gianlorenzo. David. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Boccioni Umberto. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. In Discovering the
Resources.

Bramante Donato. Tempietto. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Brunelleschi. Florence Cathedral. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Caravaggio. Conversion of St. Paul. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
Caravaggio. The Calling of St. Matthew. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Caravaggio. Conversion of St. Paul. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Cezanne Paul. Still Life with Plaster Cast. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Cezanne Paul. Mont Sainte-Victoire. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Dali Salvador. The Persistence of Memory. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry
da Vinci Leonardo. Embryo in the Womb. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
da Vinci Leonardo. Last Supper. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,

David Jacques-Louis. Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard. In Discovering the
Resources.
David Jacques-Louis. The Oath of the Horati. In Discovering the Humanities by
David Jacques-Louis. The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons. In
Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.;
Pearson, 2010. Resources.
David Jacques-Louis. The Tennis Court Oath. In Discovering the Humanities by
della Robbia Luca. Drummers. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Duchamp Marcel. Fountain. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
El Greco. Resurrection. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper
Gericault Theodore. The Raft of the “Medusa”. In Discovering the Humanities by
Goya Francisco. The Third of May. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,

Hackwood William. Am I Not a Man and a Brother. In Discovering the Humanities by
Le Notre Andre. North flowerbed. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Matisse Henri. Dance. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper
Michelangelo. Creation of Adam. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Michelangelo. David. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper
Michelangelo. Last Judgment. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Michelangelo. Libyan Sibyl. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Michelangelo. Studies for the Libyan Sibyl. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry
Picasso Pablo. Girl Before a Mirror. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Picasso Pablo. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry

Picasso Pablo. Horta de Ebro-Houses on a Hill. In Discovering the Humanities by
Pozzo Fra Andrea. Triumph of St. Ignatius. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry
Raphael. School of Athens. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Revere Paul. The Bloody Massacre. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Seurat Georges. A Sunday on La Grande Jette. In Discovering the Humanities by
Sixiao Cheng. Ink Orchids. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed.
Steen Jan. The Dancing Couple. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Titian. Reclining Nude (Venus of Urbino). In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Titian. Sacred and Profane Love. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre,
Turner J. M. W. Interior of Tintern Abbey. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry

Turner J. M. W. The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach. In Discovering the Humanities
by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010. Resources.
van Rijn Rembrandt. Christ Preaching (the “Hundred-Guilder Print”). In Discovering
the Humanities by Henry M. Sayre, Ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.; Pearson, 2010.
Resources.
van Gogh Vincent. Portrait of Patience Escalier. In Discovering the Humanities by
Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Vignon Pierre-Alexandre. La Madeline. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.
Zhou Shen. Poet on a Mountain Top. In Discovering the Humanities by Henry M.

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