Although the museum is one of the youngest in the United States, it is fairly large and comprehensive museum, a significant representation of European art, ranging from antiquity to the present day. The museum was inaugurated only in 1965. However, a large part of the collection came from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, which was established a century earlier. The museum is also known for its Modern art items as well.

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2. Indigenous
LACMA is very large and its collection is fairly comprehensive. It is one of the larger museum
in the United States.

3. Burial Urn – 800-1000 Panama

4. Condor Ceramic – 200-500 Peru
The Moche culture (also
called Mochica) flourished
along the northern coast and
valleys of ancient Peru,
between 1 AD to 800 AD. It
was very rich in sculptured
figures.
Many scholars believe the
Moche culture was not
politically organized a
monolithic empire or a state.
Rather they were likely a
group of autonomous politics
that share a common culture
and monumental architecture.

5. A traditional Wedding – 17C Mexico
Painted by an unknown artist, depicting a traditional wedding around a flying pole,
surrounded by acrobats and dancers. The flying pole dance still continue today. The
one on the painting had many flyers on the pole.

7. Masked dancers, as the bride entered.
17C Mexico - Detail

8. Early
European

9. 15C Venetian - Jacopo Bellini
Jacopo Bellini (c1396-c1470) was the
founder of an artistic dynasty of Bellini in
Early Renaissance. Jacopo was the father
of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. Giovanni
Bellini was the most well-known of the
family.
Jacopo Bellini was a pupil of Gentile da
Fabriano, who was then in Venice. In 1411-
1412 He was in Foligno, working on the
Palazzo Trinci frescoes. We was in
Florence in 1423.
Many of his famous works were in the
cathedral of Verona have disappeared.

10. 16C Italian - Vasari
Vasari (1511-74) was a pivot in the
history of Italian Renaissance. He
was most famous today for his book,
‘Lives of the Artists’ (published in
1550), in which he recorded all the
well-known artists of the Italian
Renaissance.
Vasari (1511-74) was born in Arezzo
and trained in Florence. He spent his
most productive life, working between
Florence and Rome. He was also a
gifted architect that ranked much
higher than his paintings.

11. 16C Italian - Titian
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio 1478/90-
1576) was the most successful
Renaissance portraitist of his time.
He was also the most important
member of the 16C Venice school.
Titian was the first painter to
acquire a mainly international
Clientele, despite remaining in
Venice for most of his life.
Titian seems to have been a pupil
of Gentile Bellini and then his
brother Giovanni.

12. 16C Veronese
Veronese was known
for his huge historic
paintings of religious
and mythological
subjects. He was
also a colourist. One
of his well-known
huge canvas is hung
in the Louvre (The
Wedding Feast at
Cana).

13. 17th C

14. 17C Guido Reni & Bolognese School
Note the fine garment the cardinal
was wearing – lace and fine satins.
After the death of Caravaggio, a
group of his followers, primarily
connected with Bologna became
an influential movement, known as
Bolognese School. Guido Reni
became a dominant member in the
group under the influence of
Carracci. They were part of the
Baroque movement of the 16C and
17C.
Guido Reni (1575-1642) was an
Italian Baroque portrait painter. He
worked most in Rome, Naples and
Bologna.

15. 17C Guido Reni
The painting by Guido Reni
(1575-1642), depicted the
Challenges Ariadne presented
to Bacchus to solve.

16. 17C Dutch Portraiture
Frans Hals (1581-1666) was a
Dutch Golden Age portrait
painter. He is one of the best
portraitist in history.
Frans Hals painted the sitter in
a rather informal pose, holding
a rose dangling from his hand.
The rose, a traditional reference
to love as well as the brevity of
life, implied a dialogue with the
portrait of the sitter’s wife, Maria
Larp (National Gallery, London).

17. 17C Dutch Portraiture
Rembrandt is one of best admired
Dutch portraitist of the Dutch
Golden Age.
This a formal portrait of Marton
Looton, who was cofounder of a
successful trading company, was
modelled on 16C court portraiture.
His black costume was a typical
dressing code of the Dutch burgher
in the 1630s.
The gesture of his hand on his
heart is a conventional symbol of
fidelity, convey his status and his
role in society.

18. 17C Honthorst
This was an early painting by Honthorst, when he painted religious themes or Biblical stories.

19. 17C Georges de la Tour
This is probably the best known LACMA
painting in its collection. It was painted
by Georges de La Tour, a Baroque
Caravaggisti artist.

20. 17C Clara Peeters
Clara Peeters, one of the few successful Dutch woman painters of the Golden
Age. She specialized in painting cheese still life.

21. 17C Heyden
Heyden is known for his incredible fine detail townscape paintings. It is not unusual to see
every bricks in his buildings.

22. 18th C

23. 18C Canaletto
Canaletto is known for his paintings on Venice. The best of his paintings are in London. Rich
people bought these paintings as memento of their travel to Venice.

24. 18C Lawrence (1769-1830)
During this period the English society
was becoming rich and there were a
high demands for portraits. Thomas
Lawrence was among a top bunch of
portraitist in this period.
He started practicing portrait as a
draughtsman, at the age of 10. He
went to the Royal Academy in 1787
and exhibited at the academy of that
year. On the death of Reynolds, he
was appointed painter to the King.
He was elected as the president of the
Royal Academy in 1820, having been
knighted 5 years earlier. He incomes
were huge but he was often in debts.

25. 18C Chardin

26. 18C Huysum (1682-1749)
It is general accepted that Huysum is
the best floral still life painter of his
era. Jan van Huysum (1682-1749)
was the son of a Dutch painter Justus
van Huysum (1659-1716).
Jan van Huysum’s flower painting are
very highly detailed, rich and crowded
in composition and sometime set
against a lighted background. .
He also painted a few landscape and
a self-portrait. His brother Jacob
(1687-1740), who imitated him,
worked in England and died in
London.

27. 18C John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) is a 18th
Century American painter, one of the finest
during the colonial America era. He is a
portraitist and well-known for his paintings on
historical subjects. One of the first
generation of American painters.
He was a Boston self-taught painter and
earned him a group of rich New England
clientele. In 1774 he left America for good.
He visited Italy and much of Europe before
settling in London, where competition with
Reynolds and West profoundly altered his
style.

28. 18C Benjamin West
Benjamin West, a first generation of American painter of historical scenes around
the time of the American War of Independence.

29. 19th C

30. 19C David (1748-1825)
Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
was the most important neoclassicism
painter. He was the painter of the
French Revolution.
Neoclassicism was born, leading up to
the revolution. It was a revival of the
ancient traditions, inspired by the arts
and sculptures discovered in
Herculaneum and Pompeii, in Italy.
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) with
his pivotal works, Death of Marat and
Oath of the Horatii, embodied the
ideas of basic human rights,
rationalism and moral rectitude.

31. 19C Antoine-Jean Gros
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)
studied under David and he was
decorated by Napoleon. Many of his
paintings were about the Napoleonic
Empire.
He was one of the committee which
selected the looted works of art taken
from Italy to France.
His reputation was largely built on his
large canvas illustrating the Napoleon
Saga. He was also the closest friend of
David and fervent admire.

32. 19C Vernet (1789-1863)
This is really a very surprise portrait by
Horace Vernet, who is more well-
known for his huge Napoleonic battle
scenes and painting of French soldiers.
Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863)
was born into a family of painters, with
his father at the head of the group.

33. 19C Delacroix
Delacroix is a colourist. He was the greatest French painter of the Romantic movement.
He visited Morocco and painted a number of paintings of Orientalism.

34. 19C Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole is the founder of the American Hudson School of landscape painters.

35. 19C Frederic Edwin Church
Frederic Edwin Church was the best known of the Hudson school of painters.

36. 19C Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was
a German-born American painter
best known for his lavish,
romantic sweeping landscapes of
the American West. He was also
part of the Hudson school of
painters.
He was trained at the Dusseldorf
Academy. He returned to
America in 1857 after travelling
in Italy and Germany. He painted
European subjects before turning
to grandiose scene of the
American West.

37. 19C Sargent (1856-1925)
John Singer Sargent was an excellent and
successful American portraitist who spent
much of his working life, painting in Europe.
This virtual and successful American portraitist
settled in London and painted High Society in
Edwardian and Georgian times.
He was born in Italy of American expatriate
parents and was trained in Florence and Paris,
settling in London in 1884/5 and continued the
bravura tradition of Lawrence cross with
Velazquez.
He visited American frequently and painted
some large-scale decoration in Boston Public
Library (1890).

38. 19C Monet

39. 19C Renoir (1841-1919)
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one
of the leading painter in the development of
the Impressionist style. He was a painter of
female beauty and sensuality.
He worked from the age of 13 in a china
factory and his early training as a painter on
porcelain predisposed him toward the light
palette of Impressionism.
In 1861 he spent some time in teaching studio
of the academician Gleyre where he met
Monet, Bazille and Sisley.

40. Mary Cassatt was an American, born in
Pittsburgh in 1844. She was an
American painter and printmaker, who
spent most her professional life in
France. She was one of the painter
within the impressionist circle.
It was Edgar Degas who introduced her
to the circle of Impressionists and later
exhibited her paintings with them. She
did it in 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1886.
Cassatt (1844-1926)
She was partial blind by 1912 and totally
at her death. Her works are well
represented in America, today.

41. 19C Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec was a well-known
impressionist, who painted the colourful
life of Paris at times decadent, with
elegant, enticing and provocative
images.
He had the misfortune to break both his
legs in childhood, as a result of a riding
accidence. He was stunted in growth.
In 1882 he began to study art seriously in
Paris by 1885 he had a studio in
Montmartre.
Toulouse-Lautrec was most well-known
for his association with Paris night life. In
particular his series of posters on the
dance-halls and café of Montmartre.

42. 19C Corot (1796-1875)
Corot is a landscape and portrait painter before the Impressionism. His landscape
paintings evoke the silence of the countryside

43. 19C Sisley (1839-1899)

44. 19C Pissarro (1830-1903)

45. 19C Cezanne (1839-1906)
Paul Cezanne laid the
foundations of the transition
between the 19C artistic style
and the 20C century artistic style
changes.
He was born in Aix-en-Provence,
in the south of France. His father
was a wealthy banker. He was
educated at the College
Bourbon.
In 1861, after abandoning the
study of law, Cezanne went to
Paris, where he met Pissarro. In
1862 he devoted himself to
painting..
He was one of the greatest of
the Post-Impressionist, whose
works and ideas were influential
in the aesthetics development of
many 20th-century artists and
art movements.

46. 19C Gauguin (1848-1903)

47. 19C Kobke (1810-2848)
Kobke is the most renowned Danish artist. He is most famous for his intimate depictions of
landmarks of Copenhagen.

48. 19C Rorbye (1803-1848)
Rorbye was known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the
Golden Age of Danish Painting.

49. Modern

50. Smith – 20C American

51. 20C Mexican Still Life

52. 20C Rivera (1886-1957)
Diego Rivera was one of the best
known artist of Latin America. He
large frescoes helped to establish the
Mural Movement in Mexican art. He
was married to fellow Mexican artist
Frida Kahio. Political active, eccentric
in spirit and controversial outside of
his own country.
An extraordinary man, a political
militant and eccentric spirit of his age.
Rivera played a prime role in an
outstanding period in Mexican history,
which made him a controversial figure
outside of his country and the best
known artist of Latin America.
He was a painter, draughtsman,
graphic artist, a sculptor, book
illustrator, costume- and design-
designer and architect.

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