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Art History from High Ren-Baroque
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Term
Giorgione
Definition
  • Venice
  • High Renaissance
Term
Sleeping Venus
Definition
  • Giorgione
  • Venus in extreme foreground
  • Body creates open arch to frame the background
  • atmospheric perspective
  • painted straight on, not drawn, very textured
Term
High Renaissance in Venice
Definition
  • Super saturated colour
  • Exotic elements and pigments, pure pigments
  • LANDSCAPE
  • Contrast btwn humans and nature
  • ALWAYS naked ppl in front of a big ol' landscape
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Giorgione
  • Sleeping Venus
  • Venice
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Giorgione
  • The Tempest
  • Venice
Term
Giorgione, The Tempest
Definition
  • A woman is breast-feeding
  • No context or reason for a nude woman
  • Just a naked lady chillin in the grass
Term
Baroque
Definition
  • 1600-1760
  • Extreme high contrast
  • Some artists in Venice did this style as early as 1500s
  • Tennebrism
  • Reds & Golds
  • Dramatic & theatrical
Term
Impasto
Definition
Thick build up of paint on the surface of a painting
Term
Titian
Definition
  • Venice
  • High Renaissance
Term
Pastoral Symphony, Titian
Definition
  • Red really pops
  • High contrast
  • Nude just for nudeness, ppl are there just for landscape
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Pastoral Symphony
  • Titian
  • Venice
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Venus of Orbino
  • Titian
  • Venice
Term
Venus of Orbino, Titian
Definition
  • Venus returns the gaze of the viewer
  • Dog is a symbol of fidelity, commissioned for married couple
  • Lady in bg is putting wedding dress in chest
  • Venus has jewelry to show she is not nude in purity but in sexuality
  • Holding red roses; traditional wedding flower, soft but has thorn bc pain during sex, one of the blossoms fell bc she's deflowered, the flower falls onto red bc blood
Term
Glazing
Definition
using tinted varnish w/ bits of colour added to build up the flesh in layers; used by many Venetian artists
Term
Linen Canvas
Definition
Used instead of wood paneling, introduced by Venetians who got it from Eastern trade
Term
Sacred and Profane Love, Titian
Definition
  • Wedding picture commissioned for a woman's second wedding
  • Shows her in a dress with all of her stuff then shows her nude holding flame of eternal love
  • 2 different versions of herself
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sacred and Profane Love
  • Titian
  • Venice
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Rape of Europa
  • Titian
  • Venice
Term
Rape of Europa, Titian
Definition
  • Zues disguises himself as a bull to lure Europa to him and then carries her away
  • Unstable diagonal composition
  • Sharp contrast, concentrated blue and red
  • Loose brush strokes, thick texture
Term
Penitent Mary Magdalene, Titian
Definition
  • Not nude but close
  • Long hair, bottle of perfume
  • Skull to represent a meditiation on death
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Penitent Mary Magdalene
  • Titian
  • Venice
Term
Mannerism
Definition
  • Starts earlier in the Renaissance
  • No central focus
  • Flat figures don't have weight/occupy space
  • Inditerminent space
  • No logic or context
  • Pastel/etheral pallet
  • Standardized faces and sometimes distortion
Term
Genres
Definition
  • Religious
  • Mythological
  • Jistory
  • Portraits
  • Sill Life
  • Landscape
  • Genre (Slice of life)
Term
Pontormo
Definition
  • Mennerist
  • Florentine
Term
The Entombment, Pontormo
Definition
  • Was called Desposition, but there's nothing in the bg to tell what's going on, sense of uncertainty
  • Circular composition
  • Everything is floating , not taking up space, illogical
  • Pastel pallet, no rich tones
  • Cookie cutter faces
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Entombment
  • Pontormo
  • Florence
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Madonna with the Long Neck
  • Parmigianino
Term
Madonna with the Long Neck, Parmigianino
Definition
  • Her body gets huge as you move down
  • Crazy long, skinny hands
  • Baby has weird little feet
  • Combo Maesta/Pieta
Term
Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, Bronzino
Definition
  • Large commission for King of France
  • Cupid is portrayed as an older boy with baby head kissing and boob grabbing his mom
  • Time is above, pulling the drape away
  • The surroundings are super ambiguous
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time
  • Bronzino
  • Florence
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Portrait of a Young Man
  • Bronzino
  • Florence
Term
Portrait of a Young Man, Bronzino
Definition
  • Background looks like a stage set
  • Clothes look like paper doll clothes, flat
Term
A Young Woman and Her Little Boy, Bronzino
Definition
  • Flat clothes
  • No real background
  • Emotionless faces
Term
[image]
Definition
  • A Young Woman and Her Little Boy
  • Bronzino 
  • Florence
Term
Sofia Anguissola
Definition
  • Woman
  • Northern Italy
  • Mannerist
Term
Self-Portraits, Anguissola
Definition
  • Did a million of them
  • One on a medallion, one holding a book, one with an old lady, one playing the piano, one where she's painting
  • Would proudly put her name on them
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait on a Medallion
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait Holding Book
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait Playing Piano
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Fun Family Portait
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Formal Family Portrait
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Portrait of Physician
  • Anguissola
  • N. Italy
Term
Other Portraits, Anguissola
Definition
  • Did portraits of family and family acquaintances
  • Expanding her circle
Term
The Last Supper, Tintoretto
Definition
  • Jesus is diagonal
  • Light sources; oil lamp, Jesus' head, apostles' auras; Jesus is light of the world
  • Judas is on other side of table with no aura
  • Dark like they're in a tavern
  • Humanizes the characters
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Last Supper
  • Tintoretto
  • Venice
Term
Tenebrism
Definition
high contrast chiuroscuro, like stage lighting
Term
Susana and the Elders, Tintoretto
Definition
  • gettin peeked on by oldies while she bathin outside
  • Naked w/ ornaments & drying herself w/ silk
  • Has perfume thing, pearls, she's vain
  • "She brought the accusations of infidelity upon herself"
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Susana and the Elders
  • Tintoretto
  • Venice
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Marriage at Cana
  • Veronese
  • Venice
Term
The Wedding at Cana, Veronese
Definition
  • Huge painting of a big feast
  • This painting is super big
  • Very large
Term
Isenheim Alterpiece, Grünewald Alterpiece
Definition
  • Panels that open and close; St. Seb on left, St. Francis on right
  • Crucifixtion center panel, Lamentation bottom panel
  • Piece was in a hospital so the physical anguish of Jesus is exaggerated to show his sacrifice; painted so you could pull parts away (ie cover his legs and Jesus is an amputee bc ppl in the hospital were amputees)
  • Lots of important figures are there
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Isenheim Alterpiece
  • Grünewald
  • Germany
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-portrait
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
Term
Self-Portraits, Albrecht Dürer
Definition
  • Obsessed with his own face
  • Looks richer over time, also gets chubbier, curls his hair
  • Looks like Jesse Sebok
  • Would draw himself w/ gloves bc gentlman; drawn same position you'd see Jesus
Term
Drawing of his mother, Albrecht Dürer
Definition
  • Very detailed realism
  • Makes it VERY clear that she is OLD
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Drawing of His Mother
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
Term
Ecce Homo
Definition
Behold the Man type painting that depicts Jesus crowned with thorns after his torture
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sketch of Praying Hands
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Great Piece of Turf
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
  • Watercolour
Term
Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Dürer
Definition
  • Most amazing watercolour ever
  • Fucking awesome, but it's just grass and leaves
Term
Fall of Man, Albrecht Dürer
Definition
  • print
  • super detailed
  • created after he came back from italy
  • looks statuesque
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Fall of Man
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
  • Print
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Four Apostles
  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Germany
Term
Four Apostles, Albrecht Dürer
Definition
  • Combination of Northern and Italian traditions
  • Italian drapery
  • Northern faces
Term
Portraits, Caterina Van Hemessen
Definition
  • Portraits that prove her worth
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait
  • Caterina Van Hemessen
  • Flanders
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Portrait of Lady with Dog
  • Caterina Van Hemessen
  • Flanders
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Hunters in the Snow
  • Pieter Bruegel
  • Netherlands
Term
Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel
Definition
  • Genre/Landscape
  • People skating and playing hockey
  • Lots of little 'slices of life' throughout
Term
iconoclasm
Definition
destroying Catholic imagery in Protestant churches
Term
counter-reformation
Definition
Catholic backlash to Protestant reform by making WAY MORE Catholic imagery and VERY extravegant
Term
Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel
Definition
  • Big banquet after a wedding
  • Genre
  • Lots of like pie
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Peasant Wedding
  • Pieter Bruegel
  • Netherlands
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Genre
  • See people doing stuff all over the place
  • Looks like a landscape too kinda
  • Can't have religious imagery, but if you look hella close you see Icarus drowning in the middle
Term
El Greco
Definition
  • Was Greek but worked in Spain
  • Used a style that was indigenous to Spain for hella long
Term
Burial of Count Orgaz, El Greco
Definition
  • Composition split half horizontally
  • Upper half; heaven w/ Jesus, Mary, & J Baptist, floating on clouds w/ people around
  • People are more detailed in the bottom half
  • Crazy detail on the priests and Count; detail used to commemorate the Count
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Burial of Count Orgaz
  • El Greco
  • Spain
Term
[image]
Definition
  • View of Toledo
  • El Greco
  • Spain
Term
View of Toledo, El Greco
Definition
  • Landscape
  • Influenced Starry Night
  • THESE SKIES THO
  • They're hecka weird and INTENSE remember them
  • Town by hills
Term
John the Baptist, El Greco
Definition
  • standing there all lanky
  • THE SKY
  • elongated form
Term
[image]
Definition
  • John the Baptist
  • El Greco
  • Spain
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Laocoon
  • El Greco
  • Spain
Term
Laocoon, El Greco
Definition
  • Elogated pale figures
  • City in the background
  • THE SKY
Term
Classical Baroque
Definition
Continuation of Italian High Renaissance style
Term
Santa Susana, Carlo Maderno
Definition
  • shows influence from earlier architects
  • symmetry & repetition BUT
  • changes pattern from right to left
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Santa Susana
  • Maderno
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Facade of St. Peter's
  • Maderno
  • Rome
Term
Facade of St. Peter's, Maderno
Definition
  • Symmetry but rhythm of vertical elements changes left>right
  • Bunch of statues on top
  • Moves from flat to 3D back and forth across the facade
Term
Bernini
Definition
Important Italian Baroque sculptor
Term
St. Peter's Columnade, Bernini
Definition
  • Concept is the arms of the church reaching out to bring you in
Term
St. Peter's Bronze Thing, Bernini
Definition
  • A canopy
  • A thing in the wall
  • BUMBLBEES=Barberini
Term
[image]
Definition
  • St. Peter's Colonnade
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • St. Peter's Baldacchino
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • David
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
David, Bernini
Definition
  • Tight space at some angles, void space at others
  • Keeps a sense of movement
  • See different shapes at different angles
Term
Apollo and Daphne, Bernini
Definition
  • Apollo chases Daphne so she turns into a tree
  • Lots of diagonal lines
  • At one angle they're basically touching, but at another there's a bunch of space between them
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Apollo and Daphne
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane (exterior)
  • Borromini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
  • Borromini
  • Rome
Term
San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, Borromini
Definition
  • Lots of statues, columns, bilateral symmetry, ovals!
  • It's wavy to show motion
  • Bell tower is like a curved square
  • Creates a high contrast of light and dark
  • Inside; oval ceiling; honey comb coffering w/ crazy shapes
Term
Sant'ivo, Bernini
Definition
  • Outside; columns w/ things bulging out of the dome
  • Inside; triangle/flower looking ceiling
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sant'Ivo Ceiling
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sant'Ivo Dome
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Conversion of St. Paul
  • Caravaggio
  • Naples/Rome
Term
Conversion of St. Paul, Caravaggio
Definition
  • Dramatic
  • High contrast
  • St. Paul thrown off of big horse because he was blinded by the light of God
Term
Calling of St. Matthew, Caravaggio
Definition
  • Jesus' head is poppin out of the shadow & he points at Matthew
  • Matthew has his head down
  • Reference to Adam and Eve expulsion thing
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Calling of St. Matthew
  • Caravaggio
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Crucifixtion of St. Peter
  • Caravaggio
  • Rome
Term
Crucifixtion of St. Peter, Caravaggio
Definition
  • We see only St. Peter's face
  • Very black background
  • Diagonal line
Term
Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio
Definition
  • Drama! Violence!
  • Isaac is screaming
  • Abraham tightly holds knife while holding Isaac down
  • The angel struggles to hold Abraham's arm back
  • Diagonal lines!
  • Lamb
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Sacrifice of Isaac
  • Caravaggio
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Judith Beheading Holofernes
  • Caravaggio
  • Rome
Term
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Caravaggio
Definition
  • Action and drama!
  • Detailed faces
  • Subtle diagonal
  • Reds and golds
  • She looks grossed out, he looks surprised
  • Blood look hella fake
Term
Judith Slaying Holofernes, Gentileschi
Definition
  • Female artist
  • Women seem more powerful, Judith looks more determined
  • More realistic blood
  • Higher contrast
  • Judith & Holofernes look more physically equal
  • Judith has more muscle
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Judith Slaying Holofernes
  • Gentileschi
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • La Pittura
  • Gentileschi
  • Rome
Term
La Pittura, Gentileschi
Definition
  • Self-portrait while painting
  • She is her own muse
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Mary Magdalene (with skull)
  • Gentileschi
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Mary Magdalene (Full Body)
  • Gentileschi
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Susana and the Elders
  • Gentileschi
  • Rome
Term
Susana and the Elders, Gentileschi
Definition
  • The men are all up on her
  • She's aware and pushing them away
  • Not out in the open but sitting up against a stone wall on the side of the bath
  • No frivilous stuff, she's basic, her hair is wet
Term
Noli Me Tangere, Lavinia Fontana
Definition
  • (in background) The Maries go to the tomb and find an angel instead
  • (in foreground) Mary Magdalene sees Jesus dressed as a farmer w/ a lady killer hat
  • Jesus says 'bitch don't touch me'
  • Misery & confusion of Mary Magdalene
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Noli Me Tangere
  • Lavinia Fontana
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Triumph di Barnerini
  • Pietro da Cortona
  • Rome
  • Counter-reformation
Term
Triumph of Barberini, Pietro da Cortona
Definition
  • Actual architecture w/ parts that are painted to look like architecture
  • Figures are not contained so they look like they're chillin around the ceiling
  • Barberini bees in the center
Term
Triumph in the Name of Jesus, Gaulli
Definition
  • Actual gold architecture
  • Wood & canvas pieces that contain the painting are added on top
  • Plaster sculptures hang from the ceiling
Term
Gesamtkunstwerk
Definition
Combination of media to create an illusion
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Triumph in the Name of Jesus
  • Gaulli
  • Rome
  • Counter-Reformation
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Glorification of St. Ignatius
  • Pozzo
  • Rome
Term
Glorification of St. Ignatius, Pozzo
Definition
  • actual architecture 'extended' by painting to look like it goes up forever
  • paintings of figures flying through the air
  • Painting of a dome bc they couldn't afford one (ratchet)
Term
Fictive Dome
Definition
Painting of a dome but no dome, fake dome
Term
Las Meninas, Diego Valesquez
Definition
  • Daughter of the king surrounded by little ladies in waiting
  • Valesquez is shown in front of huge canvas
  • Lots of contrast, plays w/ spacial relations
  • King & Queen are shown in mirror on back wall, implying little girl is getting ready to be in family portrait, but they could be a painting
  • Very painterly, loose application of paint
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Las Meninas
  • Diego Vasquez
  • Spain
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
  • Rubens
  • Flanders
Term
The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Rubens
Definition
  • Castor and Pollux carry the sisters away
  • Very dramatic
  • The Gods are very tan and muscular 
  • The girls are voluptious and rosy
  • The men don't look brutish and evil
  • Diamond shape compsition
Term
Self-Portraits, Rembrandt
Definition
  • Start off young bc he got famous early
  • Get more confident and rich throughout the years
  • Get old, fat, and broke
  • Starts having to paint himself painting to like gain more ppl buying his stuff
Term
Susana and the Elders, Rembrandt
Definition
  • Susana is younger
  • Out in nature again, her clothes are fancy and red
  • She's not running away
  • One of the elders is actually touching her, holding her towel
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Susana and the Elders
  • Rembrandt
  • Holand
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait (Young)
  • Rembrandt
  • Holand
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait (old)
  • Rembrandt
  • Holand
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-Portrait (painting Genre scene)
  • Judith Leyster
  • Holand
Term
[image]
Definition
  • The Proposition
  • Leyster
  • Holand
Term
The Proposition, Leyster
Definition
  • Woman doing needle work
  • Man standing behind her w/ money, pulling at her shoulder as she pulls away
  • This guy is harrassing her; he looks animalistic while she looks innocent
  • Leyster uses a common genre to make a statement
Term
Self-Portrait, Clara Peeters
Definition
  • She had like a still-life warehouse
  • Self-portrait w/ huge head
  • Still-life in front of her
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Self-portrait
  • Clara Peeters
  • Holand
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Tomb of Urban VIII
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
Tomb of Pope Urban VII, Bernini
Definition
  • In the crossing square of St. Peter's
  • Only clear view is from one single point
  • Pope has the clearest view
  • Michaelangelo's design, covered by Bernini's thing
Term
Cathedra Petri, Bernini
Definition
  • At the apse end
  • Combines stained glass, sculpture, architecture
  • Carved relief sculpture overlaps over the architecture
  • Bursting out da wall
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Cathedra Petri
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Ecstasy of St. Theresa
  • Bernini
  • Rome
Term
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Bernini
Definition
  • Dynamic compositional diagonal lines
  • Pain, pleasure, SEXUAL
  • Dramatic subjects are enhanced by the style
  • Dramatic drapery flows
  • Set up like a theatre box and it's not St. Teresa but an actress playing her
  • Creates separation btwn saint and sculpture
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