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Art History 4
Renaissance Art
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Art History
12th Grade
01/21/2010

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Florence Cathedral Dome

Brunelleschi (developed dome design)

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Rucellai Palace

Alberti

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Santa Maria Novella

Alberti

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Sacrifice of Isaac

Brunelleschi

(Loser)

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Sacrifice of Isaac

Ghiberti

(Winner)

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Gates of Paradise

Ghiberti

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St. George

Donatello

Patron saint of the armory or something

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Prophet Zuccone

Donatello

Exaggerated size, but accurate proportions

Looks like Voldemort

 

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Gattamelata Equestrian Monument

Donatello

Celebrating human achievements

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David

Donatello

closed form

Goliath's head at feet

Humanism

Donatello's early style

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Mary Magdalene

Donatello

Donatello's late style

super exaggerated hair

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Herakles & Antaeus

Pollaiuolo

18'' - Created for household display

Non-Christian subject

Figures look "flayed" according to Tank (wtf does that mean, anyway?)

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Battle of 10 Naked Men

Pollaiuolo

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Adoration of the Magi

Gentile da Fabriano

Subject and style are very Gothic, but the piece is considered to be Renaissance because of the use of foreshortening

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Christ and the Tribute Money

Masaccio

Continuous narration (there are 3 Peters)

Linear perspective is correct

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Holy Trinity

Masaccio

TRIANGLE!

Trompe l'oeil: "to fool the eye"

Memento Mori inscription: "I was once what you are, and what I am you will become." -reminder of mortality, very humanistic

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Expulsion

Masaccio

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Duke & Duchess of Urbino

Piero della Francesca

Status portrait

FOREHEAD

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Lady of Sassetti

Ghirlandaio

Body is turned 3/4 - informal portrait

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Old Man & Grandson

Ghirlandaio

Psychological portrait

People in portrait do not acknowledge viewer

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Birth of Venus

Botticelli

Water is flat, not quite 3-D

Medici academy or something

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Dead Christ

Mantegna

Super short legs - incorrect foreshortening

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Camera Degli Sposi

Mantegna

Trompe l'oeil: ceiling looks like it has an oculus

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Self Portrait

Leonardo da Vinci

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Adoration of the Magi

Leonardo da Vinci

Early piece

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Virgin of the Rocks

Leonardo da Vinci

Sfumato: smoky, hazy atmosphere

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Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

Unlike previous artists' interpretations, all figures on same side of table

Identity of apostles signified by subtle details: Judas's bag of silver, head is below line of other figures' heads

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Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci

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School of Athens

Raphael

Raphael align's himself with Aristotle's school of thought by painting himself on his side

Hierarchy in distance from center

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Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo

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Creation of Adam

Michelangelo

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Temptation & Expulsion

Michelangelo

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Last Judgement

Michelangelo

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Pieta

Michelangelo

Renaissance Pyramid

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David

Michelangelo

No Goliath's head at feet, unlike Donatello and others' interpretations

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Durer

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Adam and Eve

Durer

Durer = Leonardo of the North

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Isenheim Altarpiece

Gruenewald

When open- paintings depict Resurrection

When closed- paintings show suffering

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Libyan Sibyl

Michelangelo

Cartoon: preliminary sketch that will become a painting

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