Bonaventura Berlinghieri

Saint Francis alterpiece- 1235 Tempera on wood

Bonaventura Berlinghieri

Saint Francis Alterpiece

Tempera on wood

Giotto Di Bondone

His use of light to give body mass and spatial depth which was done by shading  you can actually see where the light was coming from his style went away from the italo-byzantine style different from the usual frontality view

Filippo Brunelleschi

Competition panel for the "gates of paradise" East Doors of the baptistry in Florence Cathedral which Lorenzo Ghiberti won

Lorenzo Ghiberti

he used classic greco-roman style and could be said to be first truly classicizing nude since those times. He showed interest in how the muscular and skeletal structure move the human body

Gentile Da Fabriano

international style

fundamentally Late Gothic with insertion of bits of radical naturalism

used forshortening convincingly

Masaccio-21-12

Holy Trinity

Illusionism and perspective 

First step in illusionistic painting

mathmatical calculations to determine dimensions possible due to his exact metrical proportions

Donatello

first freestanding nude since ancient times, contrapposto pose and proportions qualities absent from medieval figures

The Medici family commissioned Donatello to do this for them

Perugino(Pietro Vannucci) 21-40

used 3d and 2d interlocked to emphasize the axial center. Incorporated learning of generations in this one picture with his use of spacial science

Leonardo Di Vinci

Virgin of the Rocks

oil on wood(transferred to canvas)

Atmospheric perspective

Figures in a pyramidical grouping, sharing same area,

groundbreaking acheivement=unified representation of objects in an atmospheric setting with use of light

Leonardo Di Vinci 22-2

Cartoon for Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John

Copies of Greek masterpieces by Roman artists because his acquaintance with classical art was limited to Etruscan and Roman monuments 

Leonardo Di Vinci

Last Supper(uncleaned)

voluminous knowledge about the observable world to a pictoral representation of religious scene, resulting in a psychologically complex and compelling painting

22-3

last supper cleaned

Michelangelo22-9

David in Marble

Pent up energy and emotion as he awaits the foes attack. Symbolic classic style captured the tension of Lysippan athletes and the psychological insight and emotionalism of Hellenistic statuary

Michelangelo

Moses-marble

Julius II ( The Warrior Pope)commissioned Michelangelo to do his tomb did not see it completed commissioned this project to be much larger and in another location

Michelangelo

Creation of Adam

fresco 

Sistine Chapel-ceiling

Raphael

Philosophy(school of Athens)

Fresco on the walls of the popes apartments called the Stanza della Segnatura it is one of four images (philosophy, law, Theology and Poetry)symbolizing the branches of human knowledge and wisdom and pointing out the virtues and learning appropriate for a pope. 

Raphael

Madonna in the Meadow

oil on panel

Pyramidal composition

chiaroscuro(subtle)

peruginesque landscape

preferred clarity to obscurity

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino

Mannerist composition

extremely learned and intricate allegories

shifted from the simple and monumental statements and forms of the High Renaissance

Sofonisba Anguissola

Portrait of the Artists sisters and brother

oil on panel

aloof formality relaxed portraitism

learned from the aged Michelangelo

Limbourg Brothers

October from

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry

Ink on Vellum

 religious book and above each page a calendar with the lunette showing the chariot of the sun as it goes through 12 months and the zodiac signs represented seasonal tasks, captures the relationship between the Duke and his peasants, shows picture of the peasants at work sower, harrower, &washwoman with city dwellers in front of the Louvre(kings residence) showing the Dukes sense of himself as a compassionate master

Jan van Eyck

Ghent Alterpiece

Oil on Wood

Medieval Conception of Huminity's Redemption

Annunciation Theme

it symbolized the events in the Isaiah story in the bible but adds in the Inghelbrechts-devout middle class couple-and refers to their names-Inghelbrecht(angel bringer) for the entire alterpiece and the right panel workshop scene refers to his wife's name Schrinmecher's(shrine maker)

Jan van Eyck

Arnolfini Portrait oil on wood

clogs cast aside= happening on holy ground

little dog =fidelity

oranges=fertility

open curtains and saint margaret=childbirth

whiskbroom=domestic care

candle mirror & chandelier =all seeing eye of God watching

simultaniously mundane and spiritually charged

Heironymus Bosch

this is very similar to the Triptych format

Lucas Cranach The Elder

Allegory of Law and Grace

Wood cut print

Protestants used woodcut prints as useful devoutional aids to "educate the masses"

Matthias Grunewald

Isenheim Alterpiece

wooden shrine in the Monastic Hospital order of Saint Anthony of Isenheim, Germany

Hans Holbein the younger

there is a grayish long shape that slashes across the picture plane-anamorphic image only recognizable when viewed with a special device such as a cylindrical mirror or viewed at an acute angle

anamorphic image=skull(symbolic of death)

Jean Clouet

Francis I

Religious art had dominated the time and this art showed that this was no longer the case

Quintin Massys

money changer and his wife

shows the importance of a moral, righteous and spiritual life.

insight into a developing mercantilist practices and shows symbolic religious items and financial transaction which were increasingly part of a secular lifestyle 

Caterina Van Hemessen

the first known northern european self-portrait by a woman

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

netherlandish proverbs

there are more than a hundred proverbs in this one artwork. this serves as a study of human nature as well as showing the morality and mentality of the netherlanders'

Gianlorenzo Bernini

David-marble

the facial expression, the motion implied by the pose, conveys a bursting forth of energy makes it seem as though he is moving through time and space and demands space around it 

Caravaggio

Conversation of Saint Paul

oil on canvas

perspective and chairoscuro

tenebrism=shadowy

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

oil on canvas

tenebrism and a narrative of a heroic female drama and blood splatters dark subject matter