Art History Alphabet

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Art History Alphabet

• The Letters of the Alphabet Found in Famous Works
  of Art

A Project By Erica Ludi
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A
Title The Lion Gate Culture Mycenaen c. 1250 BCE
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B
Title Page with Psalm 1 (Beatus Vir) Culture
English Gothic Manuscript c. 1270-80
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C
Title The Great Wave Artist Katsushika Hokusai
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D
Title Page with Hellmouth from Winchester Psalter
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E
Title East Torana of the Great Stupa at
Sanchi From India
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Title Las Meninas Artist Diego Velazquez
F
F is on the easel of Velazquezs painting.
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Gg
Title Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie
de Medici Artist Peter Paul Rubens
This one is kinda hard to see. All the figures
make a lower case g.
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Title Man and Centaur From Olympia
Hh
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Title Column of Trajan Early Roman Imperial
I
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Title Cubi XIX Artist David Smith
J
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K
Title View of Toledo Artist El Greco
Use the dark lines from the river towards the
middle to find the K.
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L
Title Dying Gaul Trumpeter Artist Epigonos (?)
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M
Title Pont du Gard Early Roman Imperial
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Title Arch of Titus Early Roman Empire
Nn
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O
Title Oculus of the Pantheon Early Roman Empire
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Title Chi Rho Iota From the Book of Kells
P
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Q
Mandorla with Jesus foot as the tail on the Q
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Title Nike of Samothrace Hellenistic
Rr
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S
S-curve of Late Classical Sculpture Praxiteles
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
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Tt
Title Gero Crucifix Ottonian
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U
Title Saltcellar of Francis I Artist Benvenuto
Cellini
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V
Title Battle of the Ten Nudes Artist Antonio
del Pollaiuolo
V of two foreground figures
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W
Title Death of Sarpedon Painter
Euphronios Potter Euxitheos
Again, have to look at figures to see the W
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X
Title Vitruvius Man Artist Leonardo da Vinci
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Y
Title Akhenaten and His Family From the Amarna
Period
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Z
Building Centre National dArt de Culture
Georges Pompidou Architects Renzo Piano and
Richard Rogers
Work with me on this one the Z is formed by the
stairs across the diagonal and the top and bottom
of the building