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Photo Renaissance to Nothern
From Giotto to Durer
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
10/25/2012

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Term
Photo- Renaissance
Definition
Photo - greek for light
This is the awakening of Art as popular way of art as becoming famous.

13th to 14th century
Giotto and Lorenzi
Term
Orthogonal
Definition
Lines create by man made architecture, and work at an angle.
Term
Linear Perspective
Definition
A mathematical function used to make art appear more structural.
Term
The Vantage point was created by whom?
Definition
Romelleski
Term
Grisaille
Definition
The process of using low color tones. Perfect ex. Masaccio, Holy Trinity. c. 1425
Term
Neo-platonic
Definition
Plato mixed with Christianity. Things becoming much more symbolic and less realistic.Visions of beauty (Venus, Botticelli)
Term
Putti
Definition
Small winged cherub like angles
Term
Triptic
Definition
A visual "book" that has 2 side panels and a larger center. (Merode Altarpiece, 1425-1428. Robert Campin)
Term
Print Making
Definition
Wood block in relief.
Carved wood, then the uncarved area become the picture.
Term
Engraving
Definition
Like print making but using cut steel, copper, ect.
Term
Early Italian Renaissance
Definition
15th Century

Ghiberti, Donatello, Masaccio, Mantegna, Brunelleschi, Alberti
Term
Northern Renaissance
Definition
15th - early 16th century
Liumnourg Bros., Campin, Jan van Eyck, Bosch, Durer
Term
[image]
Definition

The Garden of Earthly Delights 1505-10

[Right before the Protestant Reformation]

(interior)

 

Created By Hieronymus Bosch

Left depicts images of the paradise of adam and eve

Right show the images of hell and the last days (where EVERYONE goes to hell.)

The Middle is Earth. Lust highlighted as sin.

Term
[image]
Definition

Garden of Earthly Delights 1505-10

[Right before the Protestant reformation, 1517]

(Exterior)

 

Image of God Creating a flat world from a place amist the clouds.

Term
[image]
Definition

Gates of Paradise, E. doors c. 1424-5

[Lorenzo Ghiberti - early Renaissance]

 

10 gold Panels with narratives from Genesis. very low relief (bah relief)  with a slight sense of bronze to it. 

Term
[image]
Definition

Madonna Enthroned c. 1310

[Giotto, Photo-Renaissance, 14th century ]

 

Madonna is very full and has transitioned from the Byzentine ideal of Madonna and child.

Used Cieroscuro (form of modeling) to show knees.

Focus Drawn to the Virgin.

 

Term
Incarnation Theology
Definition
The theology of Jesus becoming God after dying and living a fully human life.
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