17-3 Michelangelo, David (1501-1504)

*15 ft tall

* Republic = more republic

* used bad black but still good piece nontthells

* david= florence civid pride as he is small

* pre-battle/ frowning worried

*faces river enemy entry

* hugely indebted to previous classical sculpture

* contrapposto

* uniqe placement

17-19 Creation of man, detail of ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Vatican city, Rome (1511-1512)

* proportaion man and god

* similar postures

* adam awaiting gift of life (gods breath) yet maybe by touch

* mike forced to pain frescoe against will

* billowing robe = brain

* complex chiarroscuro

* indebted to massacio

* Polysemous = multiple layers of meaning, multilayred (this will def be on test)

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17-23 Donato Bramante, plan for new St. Peters Vatican Rome, Italy (1505)

* Greek cross plan (central plan)

* heavily inspired by greek/roman empire

* past is still involved in christian present

* pagan gods for example

* fascination with geometry

tempietto, st.peters

17-36 Titian, Madonna of the Pesaro family,

(1519-1526)

* 16x9 ft

* younger than michelangelo

* influential artist, supreme command of color

* commoration of defeat of turkish navy in 1502

* commisioned by papal fleet commander Jacob Pesaro

* madonna enthroned with christ

* diagonal composition - involves viewer in space, mary seen from the side not middle, located at the end of church naive

* engages viewer

17-38 Titian, Venus of Urbino (1538) Oil on canvas

* where raphael came from

* titte was given to it later (more socially acceptable name)

* "chamber art" = private purpose art

* alludes to aphrodite of kniddos influenced by it

* masturbation?

* interesting background

* dog = fidelity

* nudity highlighted by censorship

* later re-adapted

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper (ca.1495-1498) Oil on tempera on and plaster

* in milan

* frescoe with experimentation

* commissioned by duke

* coiffured ceilings, tapestries

* orthagonals all convene on Jesus's head he is isolated

* halo replaced by back window

* figures in groups of 3

* depicts all diff. human emotions in ppl's faces

* Judas on Christ's right holding money bag

Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (1503-1505) Oil on wood

* mia donna lisa

* oil on wood

* rep. of individual personality rather than wealth

* psychological investigation

* sitting on loggia = balcony

* chiaroscuro and sfumato = haziness

* background

* not mere imitation but wanted to paint intention of soul

17-8 Raphael Madonna in the Meadow (1505-1506) oil on panel

* pyramidal composition

* influenced by leonardo

* 3x2 ft

* dynamic, triangle = trinity

* idealized landscape - leonardo

* tons of softness

* studied with perugino

* largness of figures = psychology

* very human christ and virgin mary

17-9 Raphael, Philosophy (school of athens) stanza della signatura, Vatican plaza, Rome (1509-1511)

* Fresco

* spiritual and secular leaders

* congregation of scientific philosophers

* pagan references

* plato & aristotle = fresco composition split accordingly