15th-Century Italy: Vocab Flashcards
What is Ariel Perspective? Please provide an example.
Also referred to as an atmospheric perspective; a method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity, whereby things become bluer/grayer and lest distinct further away they are supposed to be.
EX: Massacio, Tribute Money, c. 1424-27, Fresco, Early Renaissance
What is Contrapposto? Please provide an example.
Conversion of representing human figures with opposing alterations of tension and relaxation on either side of a central axis to guide figures a sense of the potential for movement.
EX: Donatello, David, c. 1440-60, Bronze, Early Renaissance
What is Humanism?
An ideology based on the celebration of human achievement and civic virtue.
What is Linear perspective? Please provide an example.
Method of creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface by delineating a horizon line and orthogonal lines that recede to meet at one or more vanishing point
EX: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Issac, Competition Panel for the East Doors of the Florence Bapistry, c. 1401-2, Gilt bronze, Early Renaissance
What is Pietra Serena? Please provide an example.
“Serena stone”; a gray Tuscan sandstone used in Florentine architecture to delineate architectural features
EX: Fillipo Brunelleschi, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence Italy, c. 1442-70, Early Renaissance.
What is Rustication? Please provide an example.
In architecture, the rough, irregular, and unfinished effect deliberately given to the exterior facing of a stone edifice.
EX: Michelozzo Di Brunelleschi, Facade of Palazzo Medici- Riccardi, Florence Italy, c. 1442-70, Early Renaissance.
What is Sacra Conversazione? Please provide an example.
” Sacred conversation”; type of religious painting developed in 15th-century Florence in which the image of the Virgin and Child is flanked by standing saints who stand within the same spatial setting and may acknowledge each other’s presence.
EX: Giovanni Bellini, San Giobbe Altarpiece (Virgin and Child Enthroned with SS. Francis, John the Baptist Job, Dominic, Sebastian, and Louis of Toulouse, c.1478, Early Renaissance.
