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Artist: Workshop of the Master of Flemalle
Title: Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of The Annunciation)
Date: 1425
Period: Flemish School
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Artist: Jan van Eyck
Title: Man in a Red Turban
Date: 1433
Period: Northern Renaissance
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Artist: Jan Van Eyck
Title: Double Portrait of Giovanni Adolfini and His Wife
Date: 1434
Period: Nothern Renaissance
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Artist: Jan and Hubert Van Eyck
Title: Ghent Altarpiece, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Date: 1432
Period: Northern Renaissance
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Artist: Rogier Van Der Weyden
Title: Deposition
Date: 1435
Period: Northern Renaissance
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Artist: Rogier Van Der Weyden
Title: Last Judgement Altarpiece (Open)
Date: 1445
Period: Northern Renaissance
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Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi
Title: Dome of Florence Cathedral (Santa Maria Del Fiore)
Date: 1420- 1436, Lantern Completed 1471
Period: Renaissance
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Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi
Title: The Foundling Hospital
Date: Designed in 1419
Period: Florence, Renaissance
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- Heavy usage of geometry in design
- Entirely designed by Filippo Brunelleschi
- Using the laws of the Franciscan Order (modesty), Brunelleschi used crisp lines instead of heavy decoration.
- Mimics Roman architecture- open roof in courtyard bringing light in
- The little occuli ("roundlets") were commissioned to Andrea della Robbia -they're little babies signifying the children who were killed by the ruthless King Herod- ceramic pieces glazed/ fired
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Artist: Michelozzo di Bartolemo (attributed)
Title: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Date: Begun 1446
Period: Florence, Renaissance
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- The most wealthy of the olegarchy ruling Florence, the Medici, who commissioned the building, wanted a grandiose architectural piece that still obeyed Franciscan grandiosity laws.
- Arches were appropriated from Roman architecture.
- Continuity, pattern, and clarity are emphasized.
- The use of 2 different colors of stone was a subtle decoration.
- In the interior courtyard- columns plced around the opening of the courtyard, including corners created an optical illusion.
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Artist: Donatello
Title: David
Date: C. 1446-60
Period: Florence, Renaissance
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- First bronze statue seen since the Greek period, except it expresses human emotion/ the human condition
- "The victor is whoever defends the fatherland. All powerful God crushes the angry enemy. Behold, a boy overcomes the great tyrant. Conquer, o citizens!" -inscripted on David
- Inspired by the struggle of David against Goliath -wits/intelligence vs. strength -meant to represent Florence in a war against Milan, which they eventually won.
- The first free standing male nude sculpture since the Classical period
- Smooth texture vs. the detailed head at the bottom shows contrast b/w the characters depicted.
- Youth, disturbed innocence, cockiness, homo-eroticism.
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Artist: Masaccio
Title: The Tribute Money
Date: C. 1427
Period: Branacci Chapel, Renaissance
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- Massacio used narrative, space- created 1 whole narrative in 1 frame.
- The narrative highlights the simplicity of the lives of Jesus and his Apostles
- The composition helps the viewer read the narrative in order- left-to-right
- The one-point perspective is highlighted by the addition of the building to the right- foreshortening of the figures is also used.
- In Italy, tempera was used in addition to frescoes vs. oil in Northern areas of Europe during the Renaissance.
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Artist: Stuidolo of Frederico da Montelforo
Title: Ducal Palace, Urbino (Interior)
Date: C.
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Artist: Piero della Francesca
Title: Battista Sforza and Frederico da Montefeltro
Date: C.
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Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Title: Primavera
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Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
Title: The Last Supper
Date: C.
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Artist: Raphael
Title: School of Athens
Date: C.
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Artist: Michelangelo
Title: David
Date: C.
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Artist: Michelangelo
Title: The Sistine Chapel
Date: C.
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Artist: ???
Title: St. Peter's Basilica and Piazza, Vatican, Rome
Date: C.
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Artist: Titian
Title: Venus of Urbino
Date: C.
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Artist: Parmigianino
Title: Madonna with the Long Neck
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Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola
Title: Self-Portrait
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Artist: Benevenuto Cellini
Title: Saltcellar of King Francis I of France
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Artist: ???
Title: Palladio Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
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Artist: ???
Title: Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesci; Caravaggio: The Calling of St. Matthew
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Artist: Diego Velaquez
Title: Las Meninas
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Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Title: Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de' Medici
Date: C.
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Artist: Judith Leyster
Title: Self-Portrait
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Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Title: The Anatomy Lesson
Date: C.
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Artist: Jan Vermeer
Title: Woman Holding a Balance
Date: C.
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Artist: Maria Sibylla Merian
Title: Plate 9 from Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam
Date: C.
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Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud
Title: Louis XIV
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Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Title: Palace de Versailles
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Artist: Nicholas Poussin
Title: Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
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Artist: Christopher Wren
Title: St. Paul's Cathedral, London
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Artist: Inigo Jones
Title: Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Palace
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