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Test #2 Survey II (Rote)
Chapters 22-25 (Gardner's Art Through The Ages 14th ed.)
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
02/27/2013

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LEONARDO DA VINCI

Last Supper

1495-1498

High Renaissance Italian

 

  • part bon fresco, part dry fresco
  • first monumental painting of the High Renaissance
  • most iconic Last Supper; moment when Christ says someone will betray him
  • disciples: shocked, stunned, gesturing
  • one point linear perspective; mathematics utilized
  • Christ isolated; figures in groups of 3=trinity

 

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LEONARDO DA VINCI

Mona Lisa

1503-1505

High Renaissance Italian

 

  • her facial experession-ambigious (similar to archaic greek smile)
  • eyes follow you; engages the viewer
  • skill with chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective evident
  • very famous;stolen twice
  • sfumato-hazy appereance of background
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RAPHAEL

School of Athens

1509-1511

High Renaissance Italian

 

  • reconcilied and harmonized humanism and Chritianity
  • focuses attention on rediscovery of philosophy-congregation of great philosphers and scientest of the ancient world
  • beginning of linear one-point perspective
  • eloquent poses and gestures-symbolize thier doctorine
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MICHELANGELO

Pieta

1498-1500

High Renaissance Italian

  • first major commission-25 yrs old
  • excellent rendering, marble luminates, sensitivity to texture, emotion
  • scene where Mary is holding Jesus (her son) after being taken off cross
  • Mary-larger than life scale to accommodate Jesus; ageless beauty represents her purity and virginity
  • Christ- beautiful, wounds barely visible, seems to be in a peaceful sleep instead of having just suffered a martyr's death
  • Pieta- meaning religous, devoted
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MICHELANGELO

David

1501-1504

High Renaissance Italian


  • immense, beautiful, contrapposto, tree trunk(Greco-Roman), classical nude, powerful, large hands, rugged torso, more like Old Testament description
  • poised and ready for action, moment before he fights Goliath, High Renaissance contemplative man
  • portrayed with towering, pent-up emotion
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MICHELANGELO

The Sistine Chapel-ceiling; Creation of Adam

1508-1512;1511-1512

High Renaissance Italian




LEFT:

  • first fresco painting; more than 300 figures; 5800 sq feet
  • the creation, fall and redemption of humanity
  • incorporates his patron's agenda, Church doctrine and his own interest: conflict b/w good and evil, energy of youth and wisdom of age
  • long sequence of narrative panels; superhuman achievement
  • utilized grisaille technique 
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  • religious propoganda
  • moment when God is imparting Adam with life by touching his finger
  • blunt depiction of God in classical way-shows how high ren joined classical and christian traditions
  • reclining positions, heavy musculature, twisting poses-michelangelo's style
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MICHELANGELO 

Last Judgement

1536-1541

High Renaissance Italian


  • commissioned by Pope Paul III; controversial b/c of nudity
  • shows Christ's wrath on judgement day and hope 
  • terrifying and amazing; choirs of Heaven pulse w/ anxiety, violent fate that awaits the sinners
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BRAMANTE

Tiempietto

1502

High Renaissance Italian


  • his most important work; commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella
  • small, classical elements, became model for 16th century architecture and an example of what Renaissance art should be
  • true Renaissance structure-initiated High Ren era in architecture; balance and harmony; rythmical;
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PALLADIO

Villa Rotonda

1550-1570

High Reniassance Venice

 

  • most famous work
  • 4 entrances, central plan, harmony & balance, facades resemble Roman Iconic temple, logically and mathematically functional
  • traditional temple porch-emulates Pantheon


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BELLINI AND TITAN

Feast of the Gods

1529

High Renaissance (Venetian Painting)

  • brighter colors, more emphasis on color
  • re-emphasizes on mythological themes
  • Archadian landscape-painted in later; harmonious quality
  • themes of love-represented by human figures and actions
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TITAN

Venus of Urbino

1536-1538

High Renissance (Venetian Painting)



  • he established oil color on canvas as perferred medium in Western art
  • set the standard of reclining female nude
  • Manet created Olmpyia based on this image
  • girl doesn't care we are looking at her nude; she is coy
  • brilliant/vibrant colors; color used to organize forms and record surface apperance
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PONTORMO

Entombment of Christ

1525-1528

Italian Mannerism

  • artificial style in contrast to naturalism in High Ren.
  • elongated figures, twisted, unusual lighting effects, less emphasis on balance, symmetry and rational composition
  • distorted colors, not much depth or sense of space
  • ambiguity- emptiness, facial expressions, figure rendering
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PARMIGIANINO

Madonna with the Long Neck

1534-1540

Italian Mannerism

  • stylish elegance, elongated figures, less emphasis on balance and symmetry
  • ambiguity-cluster of figures, background has strange man and multiple columns that look like one
  • bright, vibrant colors in clothing
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TINTORETTO

Last Supper

1594

Italian Mannerism

  • dramatic lighting, deep off-center perspective, very dark colors
  • heavenly presence in light, halos created by light
  • lots of people- servants, angels, perople talking and having a good time, a lot of action
  • impression complete opposite of Da Vinci's Last Supper
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GRUNEWALD

Isenheim Altarpiece

1510-1515

High Reniassance and Mannerism (Holy Roman Empire)

  • shows suffering and disease but also healing, hope and salvation
  • made to contemplate while in hospital
  • gruesome portrayal of crucifixion
  • 3 levels; complicated; incorporates Catholic doctrine and beliefs
  • Temptation of St. Anthony depicted
  • brilliant color, some painted some carved
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DURER

Self-Portrait

1500

High Renaissance and Mannerism (Holy Roman Empire)

  • naturalistic, depicted self as a Christlike figure-even hand resembles Christ's gesture of blessing(Byzantine)
  • first artist to synthesize Norther European stylistic features
  • shows humanistic view
  • influenced by Martin Luther
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DURER

Fall of Man

1504

High Renaissance and Mannerism (Holy Roman Empire)

  • influenced by Italian art-contrapposto, elongated
  • idealized figures of Adam and Eve-his concept of "perfect figures"
  • animals symbolic of different aspects: cat and mouse symbolizes the relation b/w Adam and Eve at the cruical moment of the fall of man
  • print 
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HOLBEIN

The French Ambassadors

1533

High Renaissance and Mannerism (Holy Roman Empire)

  • anamorphic image-distorted skull: mortality
  • lute broken string- discord in Europe (reformation)
  • sensitivity to color, technique and portriture are fantastic, perfect perspective
  • a supreme artistic achievement
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BOSCH

Garden of Earthly Delights

1505-1510

High Renaissance and Mannerism (The Netherlands)

  • most enigmatic painting of its time; triptych;questions about true meaning
  • LEFT: garden of eden; adam and eve
  • CENTER: people in diff. positions, masses of ppl (new); black and white people-opposites attract in alchemy and w/ ppl; paradise
  • RIGHT: hell; gruesome imagery, sins represented w/ appropriate punishments; consequences of actions
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