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Art of the Middle Ages
Art and identifying characteristics of art from the middle ages to the late baroque period
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
03/16/2014

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Battista and Alberti

-pilasters define each story

-different capitals at each story

-classical style

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Francesca

-painted in profile

-Flemish landscape in background

-Italian soldier

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Battista Alberti

-Sant' Andrea

-medieval columnar arcade

-large vaults

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Mantagna

-in the camera picta

-painted the viewer sees the sky in the ceiling

-first perspective painted to look from below

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Da Vinci

-The last supper

-christ tells his desciples one will betray him

-judas in shadow

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Da Vinci

-less expensive paper available

-done in chalk, ink and charcoal

-study of anatomy

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Raphael

-"philosophy"

-included himself in the painting

-philosophers and scientists

 

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Michaelangelo

-"David"

-colossal scale

-head turned in alarm

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Michaelangelo

-Sistine chapel ceiling

-took 4 years

-over 300 figures

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Bramante

-first architect to revive classical style

-tempietto "little temple"

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Grunewald

-isenheim altar piece

-hospital of St. Anthony

-depicts suffering, but also hope

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Albrecht Durer

-Melencolia I

-"self portrait"

-melencholy is a place of creativity

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Bruegel the Elder

-"hunters in the snow"

-draws the viewer in with depth

-tonal harmony

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Bernini

-baldacchino

-covered in bees to represent Barberini

-unique spiral shape of baroque period

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Bernini

-counter reformation

-welcomed visitors

-uniquely shaped courtyard

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Caravaggio

-chiaroscuro

-dramatic lighting

-conversion of St. Paul

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Gentileschi

-heroic women

-female painter

-influenced by Caravaggio

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Da Cortona

-"Triumph of the Bararini"

-ceiling fresco

-figures move in spiral shape

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Velazquez

-Includes dwarfs

-"Las Meninas"

-includes himself

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Rembrandt

-Attempted paint to "reveal the soul"

-controlled use of light

-heavy brushtrokes

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