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ARTH 1441 Topic 3 & 4
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
02/21/2011

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[image]
Definition

Name: Church of San Lorenzo

 

Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi

 

Time: Began 1421

 

Place: Florence, Italy

 

Misc: Emulated arches of Roman buildings

Term

Vertical elements - ?

Horizontal elements - ?

Definition

Vertical elements - posts, later columns

Horizontal elements - lintels, later entablature

Term
[image]
Definition

Classical orders:

Doric - simplest, oldest

Ionic - scroll-like features

Corinthian - leaves of a plant (Pantheon in Rome uses this)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Palazzo Vecchio

 

Artist: Arnolfo de Cambio

 

Place: Florence, Italy

 

Misc: Very rusticated (blocks of stone separated by deep joints)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Palazzo Medici

 

Artist: Michelozzo

 

Time: 1444

 

Place: Florence, Italy

 

Notes: 3 distinct sections, lower one is heavily rusticated and as you go up, it becomes less rusticated; huge cornice that surrounds and mounts entire building

Term
Parts of a column
Definition
Base, shaft, and capital (capital of classic orders is what tells them apart)
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[image]
Definition

Name: Palazzo Rucellai

 

Artist: Leonbattista Alberti

 

Time: 1446 - 1451

 

Place: Florence

Term
Iconography
Definition
The study of those aspects of a work of art that pertain exclusively to its subject and the way it's represented, irrespective of the style of work
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Chiaroscuro
Definition
Italian for "light-dark"; refers to contrast of paintings especially in 3-D form
Term
Pope Sixtus IV
Definition
Renaissance pope who build the Sistine Chapel; it was named after him
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Lorenzo de' Medici
Definition
AKA "the Magnificent"; grandson of Cosimo de' Medici and ruler of Florence in the late 15th century
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