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Middle Renaissance

Found Compromise between Traditional forms and Classic Forms

"Alberti has merely translated a gothic design into classical forms by smoothing out the 'barbaric' pointed arch and using the elements of the classical order in  a traditional context."

Palazzo Rucellai, Florence + Church of St. Andrea, Mantua

located in Granada, Spain- an Islamic palace

" It is an unforgettable experience to walk through the courtyards and halls of the Alhambra, and to admire the inexhaustible variety of these decorative patterns"

mid 14th c

Also known as Akhnaten

married to nefertiti

mid 1300 bc

mainly wall ornamentation with deformed bodies and long faces.

Amiens Cathedral 

by Robert de Luzarches

located in france

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(Brother Angelico) Painter

1387-1455- Renaissance

Applied new methods of Massaccio mainly to express the traditional ideas of religion

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A part of Mesopotamia 

Art lasted from about 1500- 600 BC

Art is much like egyptian, but more focused on life than death & pharohs

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Capital of art in Ancient Greece

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Charles Barry- Architect

To Credit with Houses of Parliament, London

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located close to normandy in the NW of France

home of the Bayeux Tapestry (1066)

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Aubrey Beardsley 

1872-1898

Rose to fame due to sophosticated black/ white illustrations

was inspired by Whistler and the Japanese 

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Giovanni Bellini

1431-1516

he focuses on the mellowness/ richness of color

from venice- late renaissance

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1598-1680

he was a "consummate portraitist" (sculpter)

Florentine: best known for the ecstasy of St Teresa [image]

Pierre Bonnard (Painter)

1867-1947

"particular skill in suggesting a sense of light and color flickering on the canvas as if it were a tapestry"

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William Blake- painter

1757-1827

deeply religious with a world of his own.

hated academic art and refused to accept its standards

inspired JRR Tolkien

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Francesco Borromini (architect)

1599-1667

"he composed his church through a grouping of different forms- the vast cupola, the flanking towers, and the facade"

his churches are elaborate and symetrical

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Hieronymus Bosch

died 1516

painter

was interested in portraying man's sin in various ways

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Sandro Botticelli (painter)

1446-1510

best known for his "the birth of Venus"

his pictures form perfect, harmonious pattern

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Donato Bramante Architect

1444-1514

he absorbed the ideas and standards of classical architecture without becoming a slavish imitator

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Painter

1525-69

From Antwerp and Brussels

liked peasant comedies- like theis one, peasant wedding, 1568

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Filippo Brunelleschi, Architect

1377-1446 (early renaissance)

Florentinian

devised a new way to hold up domes and such using a specific series of columns 

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Lord Burlington, Architect

1695-1753

The Chiswick House, London

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Jacques Callot, 2-D artist

1592-1635

liked tall gaunt figures

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Michelangelo de Caravaggio, Painter

1573-1610, Milan

hated Carracci's methods

"to be afraid of ugliness seemed to Caravaggio a contemptible weakness. What he wanted was the truth. truth as he saw it. He had no liking for classical models, nor any respect for ideal beauty."

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Annibale Carracci, Painter

1560-1609, Bologna

loved Raphael; aimed at recapturing their(raphael's works) simplicity and beauty instead of deliberately contradicting them. 

"the intention of imitating the best in all the great painters of the past"

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Benvenuto Cellini,Sculptor and Goldsmith

1500-71, Florence

for him, an artist was someone who Princes and cardinals should compete to give favor to

very elaborate

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Paul Cezanne, Painter

1839-1906

Calm mixtures of colors in a blocky, shadowy effect

an impressionist who focused on landscapes and still lifes

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Jean-Batiste- Simeon Chardin, Painter

 1699-1779

resembles vermeer in that they both paint the poetic serenity of household life

his figures, however, look almost unrealistic

also did still lifes

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Charlemagne's court was thrilled to receive the traditions of Roman Craftsman ship

C. himself had a church built circa 800

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Chartres Cathrdral, 1194-ish

located in France

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Claude Lorrain, Landscape Painter

1600-82

dreamy quality in paintings

fairytale lands with greek temples and picturesque views

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John Constable, Lanscape Painter

1776-1837, England

painted what he saw with his own eyes

like warm colors such as brownsa and golds in foregrounds and pale blues in the background

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John Singleton Copley, Portrait Painter

1737-1815, American

Paul Revere:

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Antonio Allegri (called Correggio), Italian

1489-1534, late renaissance

on the forefront of light and shadow.

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Gustave Caurbet, Painter

1819-77, France

"he wanted his pictures to be a protest against the accepted conventions of his day, to 'shock the bourgeois' out of his complacency, and to proclaim the value of uncomrimising artistic sincerity as against the deft handeling of traditional cliches."

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Jacques-Louis David, Painter

1748-1825

neoclassic, was the official artist of the revolutionary government

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