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Term
[image]
Definition

Last supper by leonardo da vinci

1495

15x30

tempera on gesso

milan

renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Mona lisa by Davinci

1505

2.5x1.5

oil on wood

florence

renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Paolo Uccello

Battle of San Romano

Florence

1440s/50s

Tempera on Panel

6x10

Early Renissance

 

About: battle takes place on a horizontal surface, forshortened soilder on left of painting. small soilders fighting in background shows ucello's passion for perspective. oranges show that medici family was patrons

Term
[image]
Definition

Sandro Botticelli 

Birth of Venus

1480

Tempera on canvas

5x9

Florence

Early renissance

 

about: Reflects interest of classical themes. her pose shows she is just waking up, and her flowing hair has same linear quality as "mars and venus" flowers surrounding her represnt her as goddess of love and fertility

Term
[image]
Definition

Primavera

Botticelli

1482

6x10

Tempera on panel

Florence

renissance

about: venus is main focus, painting reprents fertility

Term
[image]
Definition

Gattamelata

Donatello

1445-1450

11x13 feet

Padua

Bronze

early renissance

about:cannonball is a strata that decreases aesthetic distance and shows the dynamic movement of the horse

Term
[image]
Definition

Night Hunt

By Ucello

1470

Oil painting

Early renissance

5.8ftX2.5 feet

Florence

Term
[image]
Definition

Mary Magdalen 

Donatello

Painted wood

1455

6 feet tall

florence

early renissance

about: very different style for donetello. new sense of spiritual concern. statue devoid of classical allusions. statue lacks same confidence of david, and is shown as ravenged, reflecting the challenges of the time. long hair symbollic for pennance

Term
[image]
Definition

Mystical Nativity

Botticelli

1500 1501 

Oil on canvas

3.5 feet x 2.5 

early renissance

florence

Term
[image]
Definition

Arnolfini Portrait

Van Eyck

1434

Oil on wood

2.75 feet X 2 feet

early renaissance, typical northern style

Bruge Netherlands

Term
[image]
Definition

Ghent Alterpiece 

Jan van Eyck

1432

Oil on panel 

11.5 X 14.5

Ghent, BElgium

Early Norther Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Man in a Red Turban

Jan van Eyck

1433

Tempera and Oil on wood

1X.75 feet

Northern Early renaissance

netherlands

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna and The chancelor Rolin

Jan Van Eyck

1435

Oil on panel

2X2 feet

Early Norther Renaissance

Netherlands

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna With child and Saint Anne

Da Vinci

1503-1506

5.5 ft X 3.75 feet

Oil on wood

High Renaissance

Florence Italy 

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Michelangelo

1501-1504

14ft high

Marble

High Ren

Florence

Term
[image]
Definition

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Michelangelo

1508-1512

Rome 

Fresco

5800 Square feet

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Last Judgement

Michelangelo

Fresco

Rome 

1541

44X40ft

High Ren

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Laurentian Library

Michelangelo

1524-1559

Florence

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Tomb or Lorenzo

Michelangelo

1520-1534

FLorence Italy 

20ftX 13 ft

Marble 

High Renn/ Mannerist

Term
[image]
Definition

Bound Slaves

Michelangelo

1513-1516

Marble

6ft10inch

florence

High Ren / Mannerist 

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna of the Meadow

Raphael

1505

Oil on panel

3.75 X 2.75

Florence

high Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Assumption of the Virgin

Titian

1516

Oil on Panel

7 X 11 ft

Venice

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

The rape of Europa

Titian 

1559-1562

Oil on canvas

6 X 6.75

Venice

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna of the Long neck

Parmigianino

1535

Oil on panel 

7 X 4 ft

Mannerism

Parma 

Term
[image]
Definition

Saltcellar of Saint Francis

Cellini

1543

gold and enamel

10 X 13 inches

France

Mannerism

Term
[image]
Definition

Christ in the house of Levi

Veronese

1573

18X42 feet

venice

Oil on canvas

Mannerism

Term
[image]
Definition

Burial of the count of Orgaz

EL GReco

1587

Oil on canvas

15 X 11 feet 

Toledo 

MAnnerist

Term
[image]
Definition

Baldacchino at St peters

Bernini

1624-1633

gilded bronze

95 feet high

Boroque

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Bernini

1623

6 feet

Marble 

Rome

boroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Extasy of Saint teresea

bernini

1645-1652

11ft high

Marble

Baroque

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

Longinus

Bernini

1630

MArble

Rome

Baroque

15 feet tall

Term
[image]
Definition

Apollo and Daphne

Bernini

1622

MArble

Rome 

8ft tall

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Supper at Emmaus

Caravaggio

1601

Oil on canvas

5X6 feet

Baroque

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

The Entombment of Christ

Caravaggio

1602

Oil on canvas

10X7

Rome 

Baroque

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Conversion of Saint Paul

Caravaggio

1601

7X6 feet

Oil on canvas

Rome

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Judith Slaying her Manservent

Artemisia Gentileschi

1614

Oil on canvas

6X5 feet

Baroque

Florence

Term
[image]
Definition

Susannah and the Elders

Artemisia Gentileschi

1610

Oil on Canvas

5.5 X 4 feet

Rome

Baroque

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Manet 

Olympia

1865

Oil

4X6 feet

Realism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Goya

Executions of the third of may, 1808

1814

Oil

8X11 feet

Romanticism

Madrid Spain

Term
[image]
Definition

Delacroix

Death of Sardanapalus

1827

12X16 feet

Oil

Romanticism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Gericault

Raft of the Medusa

1819

Oil on Canvas

16X23 feet

Romanticism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Watteau

Pilgrimage to/from Cythera

1717

Oil on Canvas

4X6 feet

Paris

Rococo

Term
[image]
Definition

Vermeer

Geographer

1668

Oil on Canvas

3X2 feet

Netherlands

Baraque

Term
[image]
Definition

Gentileschi 

Susanna and the Elders

5.5X4feet

Oil

1610

Baroque

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

1614

Oil on Canvas

6X5

Baroque

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

Caravaggio

Calling of St Matthew

1600

Oil on Canvas

10X11

Rome 

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Carracci

Ceiling of the Faranese Palace

1597

Rome

Fresco

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Pazzi Chapel

Florence Italy

Finished in 1460

-Pazzi Chapel is horizontally dominant,

-not incredibly tall, nor does it appear to extend infinitly into the sky

-very limited windows

-easy to tell how building is supported from the inside, can see corners and supports

-round roman style arches in front

-use of light and dark,geometric shape and relatively plain

-use of modules 

-the circular dome is symbolic of the church and divinity

 -physica church reassures a man that through his own rationa powers he can create concrete objects according to the same principes that god uses in his creaions,not meant to awe or overwhem, meant to demonstrate that "a man can do all things if he will"

Term
Typical Gothic Cathedral Features
Definition

-Made of stone

-Incredibly large and stretch verticaly upward

-scale is to divinity/infinity, appear to go on forever

-very busy on the outside, lots of surfaces and textures

-support system not visable, from the inside the buiding appears to be a miracle supported by god

-many large windows

-pointed arches

Term
[image]
Definition

Brunelleshi orphanage

-florence italy

-1420s

-founded on two simple modules; the cube, and the hemisphere

-everything is measured in relation to everything else

-resembles pazzi chapel is some aspects

-based on religious symbollism

-long  facade that is finned with rounded arches and colums with ceramic babies in blue circles in between

Term
[image]
Definition

Francesco Traini

triumph of death

-1350, pisa italy

-byzantine style

-fresco

-over 24 feet long 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Holy Trinity by Masiccio

-1425, florence italy

-early rennisance

-20 by 10 feet

-fresco

-uses new perspective system,single vanishing point at center below cross

-spatial arangement is pyrimidal which is symbolic for 3 part meaning (father son holy ghost)

-jesus forms riangle which interlocks with triangle formed by god

Term
[image]
Definition

Tribute Money by Masaccio

-1420, Brancacci chapel, Florence

-fresco

-8x20 feet

-early renissance

-use of natural light and shade

-broken into three main parts

-horizontal unity in central (jesus) group

-use of forshortening (halos and st peter) give 3 dimensional effect

Term
Competition of baptistry doors
Definition

-florence italy

-between brunelleschi and Ghiberti, G won

-1401

Term
Why Ghiberti Won Competition (differences between submissions)
Definition

Brunelleshis=  cluttered figures in angular positions that are often in impossible poses. Little perspective or forshortening used, very complex

Ghiberti=isaac figure nude and classical model (graceful/idealized). Perspective and forshortening used, and bronze cast in one piece

Term
Goals of Renissance (based of Ghibert's winning speech)
Definition

-strove to immitate nature

-use perspective

-excellent composition (not random)

-figures seen in the planes

-use correct proportions

-sense of arrogance

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna Enthroned by Giotto

1310

Tempera on Wood

10x6 feet

Florence italy

early renaissance 

Term
[image]
Definition

Lamentation by Giotto

8x8 feet

fresco

arena chapel padua

1305

early renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Kiss of Judas by Giotto

arena chapel padua 

fresco

1305

early renissance 

6x6

Term
[image]
Definition

Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci

1485

1x1

pen and ink drawing

venice italy

high renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

self portrait by lorenzo ghiberti

bronze 

1425

3 feet high

early renissance

florence 

about: portrait highlights signifigance of earthly appearance and individual signifigance

Term
[image]
Definition

sacrifice of isaac by Brunelleschi

1401

bronze

florence 

2x1.5

early renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

sacrifice of isaac Ghiberti

1401

florence

2x1.5

early renissance

bronze

Term
[image]
Definition

Flagellation by Piero della Francesca

1460

Tempera on panel

Urbino italy

2x3

early renissance

about: uses perspective,eyes supposed to be focused on christ in background,black bar behind head base for module, piero heavily used modules

Term
[image]
Definition

madonna and child with saints

by piero della francesca

Milan

1472

oil on panel

early renissance

8x5.5

about: madonna much taller than everyone else, archatecture similar to pazzi chapel and holy trinity

-lots of symbollism=shell is symbol for eternity,egg is a symbol of rebirth and fertility,ostrich also symbol for absent friends (patrons wife dead and absent)

-sleeping christ child symbollic for death, and his awakening symbolic for eventual ressurection

Term
[image]
Definition

Brancacci Chapel

Masaccio

florence

1420s

fresco

early renissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Saint Mark

Donetello

1411-1415

Marble

Florence 

7 feet tall

early renissance

about: the intergration of the civic and the religious in the commision was and important development in the transition from the middle ages to the renaissance. statue is relvolutionary as it shows organic form and drapery that is typical renissance. modeled after classical greek sculpture except saint mark is displayed in such away where he was a personality.

Term
[image]
Definition

David 

Donetello

1430-1440

5 feet tall

Bronze

Early renissance

Florence

about:david is the first large naturalistic nude sculpture that we see since antiquity. statue has strong character and symbollism (underdog symbollic of florence at the time)

-idealized nude

-closed composition

-contra posto position

-shepards hat symbollic of patriatism, and acts as vertical stoppig point

-shoes and hat emphasize nudity

Term
[image]
Definition

David 

Donetello

1430-1440

5 feet tall

Bronze

Early renissance

Florence

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Annunciation (the very rich hours of the duke of berry)

By the limbourg brothers

1413

manuscript illumination

8x5 inches

FRANCE?????

international gothic style

Term
[image]
Definition

January( from very rich hours)

Limbourg brothers

1413

Illumination

8x5 inches

International Gothic style

FRANCE??

Term
Why Did Renaissance start in Italy?
Definition

-prescence of antiquity

-trade, italy was center of trade with lots of new people and ideas passing through

-booming economy and growing city

-rome grwoing back

-fuedelism never dug deep roots in italy,italy ripe for change

Term
How to achieve photo realism
Definition

-have to have correct scale for object and people-natural movements, not just al standing in plain form

-light and shadows, colors

-correct depth

-texture

-atmospheric perspective, blueing and bluring of things seen in the distance

-forshortening

-cant have incredibly defined edges/outlines

Term
Station point
Definition
position of artist in relation to whats being painted, matters to what is going to be shown in painting, tremendous power in painting
Term
Donetello (everything and anything)
Definition

-so typical almost atypical

-deals with all sorts of humans as subjects for art

-worked for everyone, private commisions and secular

-very aesthtic and erotic works

-complete evoltion of sculpture, bringing them off buildings to being freestanding

-worked with all mediums

Term
glyptic vs. celluture
Definition

glyptic-a taking away process (marble)

celluture- and adding process, (clay/bronze)

Term
Beauty according to 15th century italian renaissance
Definition

-"beauty equals a rational intergration of the proportions of all parts of an entity so that every part has its fixed size and shape and nothig can be added or taken away without destroying the harmony of the whole"

-all about order and harmony determined by math and geometry

-beauty is based on god and divinty

-linear perspective controls what you see, puts man at center and focus

Term
[image]
Definition

Portinari Altarpiece

Hugo van der Goes

1470s

Oil on Wood

8ftX10ft

Bruges Netherlands

EArly REnn

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Pieta

Michelangelo

1500

MArble

5ft 8 inches high

ROme 

High REnaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Galatea

Raphael

1512

Rome 

9.75 ft X 7ft

Fresco 

High Ren 

Term
[image]
Definition

School of Athens

Raphael

1509

Fresco

26 X 18 Ft

Rome

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Venus of Urbino 

Titian

1538

Oil on Canvas

4 X 5

Venice

High Ren

Term
[image]
Definition

Jupiter and Lo

Corregio

1532

Oil on canvas

5 X2

Parma

High Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Entombment

Pontormo

1525-28

Oil on Panel

10 X 6

Florence

Mannerism

Term
[image]
Definition

Descent from the Cross

Florentino

1521

Oil on Panel

12 X 6.5 feet

Mannerism

Volterra Italy

Term
[image]
Definition

VEnus Cupic folly and time

Bronzino

1545

5 X 4.75

Oil on wood 

Mannerism

Florence

Term
[image]
Definition

Mercury

Giambologna

1576

Bronze

2 feet tall

Florence

Mannerism

Term
[image]
Definition

Last supper

Tintoretto

1592

Oil on Canvas

12 X 18 feet

MAnnerism

Venice

Term
[image]
Definition

Laocoon 

El Greco

1610

Oil

5 X 6 feet

Mannerism

Toledo spain

Term
[image]
Definition

iL GEsu

Vignola and Della Porta

Rome

1575-1584

Term
[image]
Definition

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Borromini

Rome

1665

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Frescos from the farnese palace 

Carracci

Rome

1597-1601

Fresco

Boroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Jean-Honore Fragonard

The Swing

1766

Oil 

Rococo

3X2.75 feet

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Rigaud

Louis XIV

1701

Oil on Canvas

9X8 feet

Late Baroque/ Rococo

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Daumier

Third Class Carriage

1862

Oil

2X3 feet

Realist

FRANCE??

Term
[image]
Definition

Daumier

Rue Transnonain

1834

Lithography

Realism

11X17 inches

France

Term
[image]
Definition

Courbet

Burial at Ornans

1849

Oil on canvas

10X21 feet

Realism

PAris?

Term
[image]
Definition

Millet 

title=Gleaners

1857

Oil

2X3

Realism

Paris

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Delacroix

Barque of Dante

1822

Oil

6X8

Romanticism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Delacroix 

Massacre at Chios

1822

Oil 

13X11 feet

Romantic

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Gericault

Madwoman with a Mania of Envy

1822

Oil on Canvas

2X2

Romanticism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Gros

Napoleon Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa

1804

Oil

17X23

Romanticism

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Ingres

Grand Odalisque

1814

Oil on Canvas

2X5 feet

Neoclassicism

Rome

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Napoleon at Saint Bernard Pass

1800

Oil on Canvas

8X7

Neoclassical

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Oath of the Horatii

1784

11X14feet

Oil on Canvas

Rome

Neoclassical

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Death of Marat

1793

Oil on Canvas

5X4

Neoclassical

Paris France

Term
[image]
Definition

Boucher

Triumph of Venus

1740

Oil on Canvas

4X5

Rococo

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Boffrand 

Hotel de Soubise

1735

building interior too 

rococo

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Poussin

Madonna of the Steps

1648

Oil on Canvas

Paris Baroque

4X6.5

Paris

Term
[image]
Definition

Vermeer

Lacemaker

1670

Oil on Canvas

9X8 inches

Netherlands

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Hals

Laughing Cavalier

1624

Oil on Canvas

3X2 feet

Haarlem Netherlands

Baroque

Term
[image]
Definition

Rembrandt

Night Watch

1642

Oil on Canvas

12X14 feet

Baroque

Netherlands

Term
[image]
Definition

Rubens

Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

1618

Oil on Canvas

7X7

Netherlands

Baroque

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