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Italian Renaissance
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05/12/2013

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Leonardo's most immportant artistic achievements
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Completed before 1504 and pushed towards Cinquecento artist.
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Ahead of his time for...
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Painting, sculpture, and architecture, engineering, military, hydraulics, aerodynamics, and optics.

 

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Leonardo considered the final authority emancted from one sourse
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the eye
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Was brought up by who and how did he write?
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By his father and his wife, not his real mother, and wrote with his left hand from right to left.
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Admired body as work of art
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Yet didn't think it deserved a fine instrument.

 

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Leonardo could capture what of nature and the natural world?
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The vastnessof world and the transitory of nature.
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Why were Leonardo's bird eye views of Italy important and impressive?
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Because they could be used accuratly by military and for irrigation systems.
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Vitruvian Man
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A human body fit into a circle and square.
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Leonardo founded what?
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High renaissance

 

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How did Leonardo feel about building and architecture?
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that it should be centralized and founded on nature.
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What was Leonardo facinated with?

 

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water and basing drawings on mathmatic structures.
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Leonardo was apprenticed to who?
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Andrea del Verrocchio
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Leonardo's Annunciation
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One of his earliest works in his early twenties
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How did Leonardo prepare for shading cloth.
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He'd take strips of cloth and soak them in plaster, then set it the way he wanted it and practiced painting that before moving onto the final.
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First portrait with hands
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Leonardo's "Ginerva" who was the daughter of a Florentine banker.
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Leonardo's "Adoration of the Magi"
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Left unfinished when he left for Milan in late 1481 or early 1482.

 

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Leonardo's "Madonna of the Rocks"
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Painted for Confraternity of the Innmaculate Conception.
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"Last Supper" damaged due to technical experimentation.

 

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Dampness between layers of plaster caused flaking.
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Sfumato
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Smoke-like
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Mona
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shortened term for "my lady"
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"Mona Lisa"
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Portrait of Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini, wife of Florentine Francesco del Giocondo.
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Leonardo was appointed painter and engineer to who?
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The King
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Accepted invitation to France's king, Francis I, in 1517

 

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Passed in 1519.
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Michelangelo Buorarroti (1475-1564)
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Character and style opposite to Leonardo. Was a believer, obessed with guilt, main interest was in the life of the human soul as expressed in the structure and movements of the human body.
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Born in the village of Caprese and returned to Florence when 1.
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Michelangelo.
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Michelangelo desired to be an artist but family opposed before finally yeilding.
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Apprenticed under Ghirlando's at 13. Was able to draw a salary instead of making his father pay.
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At 14-15 Michelangelo was invited to the Medici garden of art to study by who?
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Lorenzo the Magnificent.
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Michelangelo's earliest works.
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"Madonna of the Stars" and "Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs"
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Michelangelo's "Crucifix"
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His only work carved in wood.

 

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Michelangelo's "Pieta"

 

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Mary is on a larger scale than Christ. Was meant to be looked down on.
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Michelangelo's "Doni Madonna"
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Linked to 1503 wedding of Angelo Doni to Maddalena Strozzi.
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Michelangelo's "St. Mathew"
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Only one of a series of twelve apostles commissioned for interior of Duomo.

 

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Raffaello Santi (1483-1520) known as Raphael.
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Praised as perfect High Renaissance painter for his unified movements of figures and spaced he created into integrated, harmonous compositions.
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Raphael was born in Urbino
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Brought up in asmosphere of literary, philosophical and artistic culture.
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Who did Rapheal study under?

 

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Perugino
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Raphael was less interested in anatomy and expression.

 

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Was more interested in poses that had a satisfying relationships.
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Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517)
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Influenced by Lepnardo and searched for simplicity and idealism.
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Pope Julius II, formorly Cardinal Giuliano della Royere, exercised great power during pontificates of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII.
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Left Rome in 1492 before returning in 1503 where he was elected pope where he started artistic revolution.
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Donato Bramante (1444-1514) from Urbino where he started as a painter of great creativity, first appearing as an architect in Milan 1485 when he rebuilt Santa Maria.
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Fall of Sforza dynasty in 1499 left him without work so he moved to Rome. In 1506 he reb uilt most sacred areas of St Peter's.
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Sella gestoria
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Portable papl throne
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Michelangelo was commissioned by Pope Julius II to design an enormous tomb decorated with sculptures. Shortened funds ended up ruining the project until only 3 of the major statues where made.
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Termini
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Death
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Vinculi
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Bands
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Raphael's "Stanza della Segnature" named after highest papal tribunal.
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Themes; Poetry, Justice/Law, Theology, and Philosophy.
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Bramante
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Concerned with geometry and centrally planned, domed archiecture.
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Ben finito
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Finely Finished
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3 of  Cardinal virtues; Fortitude, Prudence, and Temperance. Justiceis on the ceiling.
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Faith, Hope, and Charity are depictied as Putti.
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