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Art History
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
09/13/2009

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Ars
Definition
latin word that means a skilled process
Term
cultural desert
Definition
a place without aesthetic objecs to react to
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puritanical reaction to art
Definition
art is sinful and corrupts
Term
cultural pill
Definition
art will make you a better person
Term
st. bernard of clairvaux
Definition
christian monk who is anit-art, against cathedrals
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dorism
Definition
nazi myth of superiour creativity
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degenerate art
Definition
nazi myth of inferiority of other cultures, modern art
Term
Who is history's greatest art collector?
Definition
Adolf Hitler, rejected from Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts
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Baedecker bombings
Definition

terrorism against art as a tool for change.

(Uffizi bombing was an example of this)

Term
What did Jasper Johns do first?
Definition

He was the first artist to sell a work for more than a million dollars.

 

He did the flag paintings.

Term
David Geffen
Definition

big art seller

founder of dreamworks

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Linda Nochlin
Definition

a leader in feminist art history

writes articles on "why have there been no great women artists?"

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guerrilla Girls
Definition
feminist artists for equal time
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quality art
Definition

art discrimination word by white males.

Implies that non-quality work is made by females and minorities.

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regionalist artist
Definition
artist not working in New York City
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droit moral
Definition

"rights" of artists and art object

(copyright)

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kitsch
Definition

art of bad taste, made cheaply. The peoples art.

ex. Margaret Keene

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Margaret Keene
Definition

artist of big-eyed for the masses.

"kitsch" art

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Gutzon Borglum
Definition
sculptor of Mount Rushmore
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Sister Wendy Beckett
Definition

She has popularized the study of art for many.

Has a show on PBS.

Term
Thomas Kinkade
Definition

America's most collected living artist.

An example of safe art.

Term
safe art
Definition

art that offends no one.

Frequently found in doctor's offices, hotel rooms, and other public places.

It is not taken seriously by the art world.

Term
Andrew Wyeth
Definition

illustrator turned artist.

Painted 243 paintings of Helga.

Controversial. Who was Helga what relationship did he have with her?

"Painter of the People"

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Helga Tertorf
Definition

Women of mystery.

Wyeth's model

Term
Walt Disney
Definition
not an artist, had other artist draw for him. He used the art to create the Disney empire.
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Disneyism
Definition

safe art.

reflects the disney philosophy of creating a perfected world, where dreams can come true

Term
david hockney
Definition
british artist published a book in which he suggests that artists from the 15th century used a pre-camera machine called the camera obscura to trace the outlines of their subjects in paintings.
Term
camera obscura
Definition
drawing machine using darkened rooms, lens, mirror and light.
Term
[image]
Definition

Giotto

 

Madonna Enthroned c. 1310

 

early 14th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Nicola Pisano 1260

mid 13th century

first sculptor of modern era 

 

Pulpit of the Pisa baptistery

Term
[image]
Definition

Cimabue

Madonna Enthroned c. 1290

late 13th cent.

 

gold bg

striated lines

stylized

Maniera Greca

stiff and formal 

Term
[image]
Definition

Giotto's Grotto/Arena Chapel c. 1305

 

early 14th cent. 

 

Sistine Chapel of the early Renaissance 

 

Beginning of Renaissance

Term
[image]
Definition

Simone Martini 

Annunciation, 1333

 

early 14th cent. 

 

Mary looks like she needs a martini

Term
[image]
Definition

Bernardo Rossellino

Tomb of Leonardo Bruni, 1444

 

Mid 15th cent. 

Term
[image]
Definition

Filippo Brunelleschi

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1402

 

Isaac is physically restrained by angel

thorn-puller in bottom left hand corner

Term
[image]
Definition

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1402

 

won competition of 1401

 

Early 15th

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Donatello

David, c. 1440

 

mid 15th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Filippo Brunelleschi

Dome of Florence Cathedral, 1436

mid 15th cent.

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Piero della Francesca 

Battista Sforza, Duchess of Urbino

 

coursepacket says after 1475

 

internet says 1465-66

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Sandro Botticelli

Birth of Venus, c. 1480

 

Venus has "body-jelly"

               botti-celli

Term
[image]
Definition

Robert Campin

Merode Altarpiece, c. 1425 - 143... 

Early 15th??  

(that's what it says in the course packet)

 

 

Mary is Campin' out on the ground

Term
[image]
Definition

Jan van Eyck

1432

early 15th cent.

 

The Ghent Alterpiece/Sacrifice of the Lamb

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jan van Eyck

 

Man in a Red Turban

1433

 

early 15th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Jan van Eyck

 

Arnolfini Marriage

 

1434

 

mid 15th cent. 

Term
[image]
Definition

Hans Memling 

 

Tommaso Portinari

Maria Baroncelli Portinari

 

1470

Late 15th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Andrea del Castagno

Famous Men and Women, from villa Carducci at Legnaia

 

1450

Mid 15th cent

 

andrea could be a man or woman's name

Term
International Style
Definition
continuation of Byzantine/Gothic. Style represents aristocratic and conservative tastes
Term
Ghirlandaio
Definition
garland maker, goldsmith making garlands for womens' hair
Term
Erwin Panofsky
Definition
famous art historian, assoc with field of iconology
Term
iconology
Definition
branch of art hist. that deals w/ description, analysis, interp of icon and images
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iconography
Definition
set of specified or traditional symbolic forms assoc. w/ subject or theme of stylized work of art
Term
Tommaso Portinari
Definition
Italian banker for Medici Bank in Bruges. Wasn't trusted by Cosimo de Medici, so he did not get promoted until after his death. Made risky loans to Charles the Bold. They were never repaid, he died in poverty
Term
dendrochronology
Definition
dating by use of tree rings
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tempera
Definition
yolk of egg and color paint
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iconodules
Definition
image venerators
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iconoclasts
Definition
image breakers
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luxuria
Definition
sensual pleasure
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venus pudica
Definition
modest venus

Venus PRUDICA
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doctrine of desio
Definition
human desire
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bottega
Definition
artist's studio
Term
trompe l'Oeil
Definition
French: fool the eye

TRUMP the eye
Term
sotto in su
Definition
from beneath upwards

used to describe mantegna's ceiling tondo in coursepack
Term
Lucrezia Buti
Definition
Filippo Lippi's love, was a nun
Term
Filippino Lippi
Definition
son of Filippo Lippi 
Term
patina
Definition
coloration of metal, chemical reaction
Term
condottiere
Definition
Italian: mercenary soldier
Term
apologist school
Definition
those who attribute works of art to a better known name and apologize for lesser works as being by the "School of" or an inferior student
Term
Nicolo Machiavelli
Definition
writer of "The Prince", guide to politics, admirer of the ruthless
proponent of "ends justify the means"
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ponderation
Definition
weight shift
Term
[image]
Definition

Rogier van der Weyden

 

The Descent from the Cross

 

1438, Mid 15th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Rogier van der Weyden

 

Saint Luke Painting the Virgin

 

1440, Mid 15th cent.

Term
[image]
Definition

Donatello

 

Mary Magadalene

 

1455, Mid 15th cent.

 

HAIRY Magdalene

Term
[image]
Definition

Sandro Botticelli

 

Mystical Nativity

 

1501, early 16th cent.

 

 

Term
Dark Ages
Definition
1000 yr period between the fall of the western roman empire in 410 and the revival of classical greek and roman culture embodied in the renaissance.
Term
maniera greca
Definition

byzantine style

-no portraits

-little naturalism

 

Term
maniera tedesca
Definition

gothic style

[in northern europe]

Term
fraticelli
Definition
little brothers
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il poverello
Definition
take vows of: poverty, obedience & chastity
Term
ciompi revolt
Definition
In 1398, woolworkers were defeated in trying to stop salary cuts. Reflects rise in humanism.
Term
neoplationism
Definition
merges christian and pagan
Term

Giorgio Vasari?

title of his book?

 

Definition

first art historian

Le Vite

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista Alberti

 

Rucellai Palace

 

1450

Mid 15th

Term
[image]
Definition

Gentile de Fabriano

 

Procession and Adoration of the Magi

 

1423

 

Early 15th 

Term
[image]
Definition

Leon Battista Alberti

 

Tempio Malatestiano

 

1450 

Mid 15th cent.

 

commissioned by evil prince.

mal is bad,

Malatestiano

Term
[image]
Definition

Andrea Mantegna

Dead Christ

 

1500

 

early 16th

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