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ART 151 Mid-term
Identity: 15th c. Renaissance in Europe
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2008

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[image]
Definition
Robert Campin, Mérode Altarpiece, oil on wood panel, ca. 1425-28, Flemish.
 
  • Depicts the annunciations inside a flemish home.
  • Common household objects as religious symbols
  • Patrons present in left panel
  • Realism of particulars. 
Term
[image]
Definition
Masaccio, Trinity, 1425-27, fresco, Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
 
  • illusion of a stone funerary monument
  • present are: Mary, John the evangelist, kneeling donors.
  • Crypt reminds us that death awaits us all; redemption only through Christ.
  • linear perspective
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[image]
Definition
Artist Unknown, Ideal City with Fountain and Statues of Virtue, c. 1500, oil on wood panel.
 
  • balanced and harmonious plaza
  • precise linear perspective--well ordered civic life
  • Roman Colosseum, Constantine's arch, Florentine Baptistry, fountain. 
Term
[image]
Definition
Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and his wife Giovanna Cenami (?), 1434, oil on wood, Flanders.
 
  • wedding or betrothal
  • symbolism 
Term
[image]
Definition
Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, c. 1474-76, tempera and oil on wood, Flanders.
 
  • Painted in Flanders, then transported to Italy; believed to have influenced Florentine painters, such as Ghirlandaio.
  • Patron and fam are present
  • center: Nativity, Adoration of the new born child
  • atmospheric perspective: distant objects painted w/ more muted colors.
  • heavy symbolism 
Term
Renaissance
Definition
1300-1600 in Europe
  • Continued growth of urban centers and a mercantile economy
  •  Rise in lay intellectual activity
  •  Change in the status of artists from craftsmen to intellectual
  •  Women’s legal rights are greatly restricted, esp. in Italy
  • The philosophy and art of the classical world are studied and emulated
  • Humanism: a new way of thinking! 
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Humanism
Definition
A worldview focused on human beings and their responsibilities and achievements

Education that perfected individuals through the study of past examples of civic and personal virtue
 
Lives directed toward achieving both a common good and individual nobility

In order to achieve this, the study of Greek and Latin was necessary
 
Term
disguised symbolism
Definition
use of household or common objects to represent religious meanings. Ex. vase, flowers in Merode altarpiece.
 
( i just made this up, couldn't find a definition.) 
Term
altarpiece
Definition
A painted or carved panel or winged structure placed at the back of or behind and above an altar.  
 
Contains religious imagery, often specific to the place of worship. 
Term
polyptych
Definition
multi-panel paintings.
 
In most works there is a larger central panel called the "main panel", and the other panels are called "side-panels", and also "wings".
Term
triptych
Definition
3 paneled painting
Term
predella
Definition
the lower zone, or base, of an altarpiece, decorated w/ painting or sculpture related to the main iconographic theme.
Term
tempera painting
Definition
a painting medium made by blending egg yolks w/ water, pigments, and sometimes other materials, such as glue.  yum.
Term
panels/panel painting
Definition
any painting executed on a wood support.  A panel can consist of several boards joined together.
Term
fresco painting
Definition
useing the technique of applying water-based pigments directly onto wet or dry plaster.
Term
buon fresco
Definition
water-based pigments applied directly onto wet plaster.  Color is absorbed by the plaster, becoming a permanent part of the wall.
Term
oil painting
Definition
any painting executed w/ pigments floating in oil.
 
allows for greater ease of work:
  • Developed in Northern Europe
  • slow drying--allows for more corrections
  • great range of relative opaqueness of paint layers
  • permits for high degree of detail and luminescence. 
Term

linear perspective

(scientific or Renaissance perspective)

Definition
mathematical system enabling artists to depict the visible world in a convincingly illusionistic way.
 
  • picture's surface is considered a flat plane, that intersected the viewer's field of visionat a right angle
  • imaginary lines (called orthagonals) meet at a single vanishing point on the horizon
  • extends pictoral space, into real space 
Term
Alberti's treatise On Painting
Definition
1435, Leon Battista Alberti codified mathematical perspective in this treatise.
 
Term
Orthogonals
Definition
Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane. 
 
in LINEAR PERSPECTIVE:
 
all orthogonals converge at a single vanishing point in the picture and are the basis for the grid. 
Term
Horizon Line
Definition
formed by the implied meeting point of earth and sky.  the Vanishing point or points are located on this line.
Term
giornata
Definition
means "a day's work."  Is the section of a fresco plastered and painted in a single day.
Term
arriccio
Definition
earlier layer than the intonaco, layed slightly coarsely to provide a key for the intonaco.
Term
sinopia
Definition
A reddish-brown ocher-like earth color pigment.
 
It is used for the cartoon or underpainting for a fresco.
 
It is composed of iron oxides, from a kind of clay or quartz called sinople.
Term
intonaco
Definition
 the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco wall painting is painted.
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