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History of Visual Arts 2
Exam 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/12/2011

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  • Bellini, San Zaccaria Alterpiece
  • 16th century Venice
  • 1505
  • oil on wood to canvas
  • left to right: St.Peter(hold key&book), St.Catherine(wheel), St.Lucy(eyes in dish), St.Jerome(hold trans. of bible in latin), Mary & Jesus in middle
  •  color balance- same amount of colors, complimentary and contrasting
  •  symetrical, two on each side and line down middle
  • feeling of serenity and spiritual calm
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  • Boticelli, Birth of Venus
  • Early Italian Renissance
  • 1484-1486
  • tempra on canvas
  • roses- flower of venus
  • Zypherus carry Chloris, blow Venus, to island Cyprus (Pomona)
  • born of the waves from the sea
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  • Bouts, Last Supper
  • 15th Century Northern Europe
  • 1464- 1468
  • oil on wood
  • position of characters- judas, grouchy, impatient
  • left side of jesus- john, other side is peter
  • eucharist, communion
  • gesture of holding water- what Christ is doing- Catholic church- foreshadow
  • room is tall, more in scale, porportion
  • patrons- confraternity- men of church
  • one point perspective
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  • Campin, Merode Alterpiece
  • 15th Century Northern Europe
  • 1425-1428
  • oil on wood
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