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Art History Final
Italian Ren
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/15/2010

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Ghiberti

Sacrafice of Issac

1402, Italian Ren

 

- Figures graceflly posed

-out thrust hip (typical gothic)

-First classical nude since antiquity

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Donatello

Feast of Harod

1427, Italian ren

 

-Invented perspective in relief sclpture

-Nothing in center gives feeling of something missing

-Masterful stagecraft

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Donatello

David

1460, Italian Ren

 

-Classic statuary style

-For display in the courtyard of the Medici's

-Reinvented class nude

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Masaccio

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

1427, IR

 

-Profound expressions

-Adams abs visible (Adam is sobbing)

-1st time seeing lighting sorce

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Masaccio

Holy Trinity

1427, IR

 

-Mathematically planed piece

-Gives the sense of an actal tomb

-Comp on 2 levels of unequal height

 

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Perugino

Christ delivering the keys of the kingdom to St. Peter

1483, IR

 

-Painted for the Vatican

-Converging lines connect foreground and background

-Modeled the arch's after the arch of Constantine


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Piero Della Francesca

Flagelation of Christ

1465, IR

 

-Pontious Pilate's palace in Jerusalem

-3 Men in subject are up for debate

-Meticulous floor patern


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Mantegena

Painted Chamber

1474, IR

 

-Evertything in the room is painted

-Duke of Mantowar's chamber

-Almost 9 years to complete

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Leonardo Da Vinci

The Last Supper

1498, IR

 

-Leo's most important work

-Christ's head is the focal point

-Leo sacraficed traditional iconography to show drama

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa

1505, IR

 

-Worlds most famos portrait

-Idenity is still debatable

-Shows Leo's atmospheric perspective


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Raphael

Marriage of the Virgin

1504, HR

 

-In the chapel dedicated to St. Joesph

-Learned the perspective from Perugino

-Upset suitor breaking his magical rod over knee


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Raphael

Galatea

1513, HR

 

-Pagan joy and exberance

-Arranged sturdy figures

-Raphael conceives character sculpturaly


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Raphael

Baldassare Castiglione

1514, HR

 

-Head and hands reveal the man

-Muted tones befit the mood

-Bald was a poet

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Michelangelo

David

1504, HR

 

-Referred to as the "giant"

-Symbol of liberty for the palace

-Before he killed Goliath

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Michelanglo

Creation of Adam

1512, HR

 

-Painted the moment God gives life to Adam

-God is athletic

-Gods figure compliments Adams concave shape

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Giorgione

Pastoral Symphony

1510, HR

 

-Set in Arcadia

-Very tranquil with light shadows

-Alegory of poetry


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Bronzino

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time

1546, IM

 

-Painter to the first grand dke of Tuscany

-Commisioned gift for king Francis I of France

-Displayed a fondness for allegory's

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Pontormo

Entombment of Christ

1528, Italian Ren

 

-Shows all features of a mannerism's early painting

-Omitted the corss and tomb

-Rotated figures upon a vertical axis


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Tintoretto

The Last Supper

1594, IM

 

-Shimmering halos establish a biblical nature of the scene

-Christ is above the converging perspective lines

-Moved from articheture to dynamic perspectives


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Veronese

Christ in the house of Levi

1573, IM

 

-Originally called the last supper

-Painted during the counter-refermation

-Shimmering colors span the whole spectrum


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Hieronymus Busch

Garden of Earthly Delights

1510, Netherlands high renaissance

 

-Used to commerate a wedding

-Debate as if artist was a satrist, irreligious or a pornographer

-Resided in palace of Henry III

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Pieter Brugel the Elder

Hunters in the snow

1565, NHR

 

-Illustrates the dynamic variety of his work

-One of a series of 6

-Hunters refers back to older traditions from books of hours

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