Annotated Mona Lisa (Renaissance and Baroque) Flashcards
Top Four breakthroughs of Renaissance
- Oil on stretched canvas
- Perspective
- Use of light and shadow
- Pyramid Configuration
3 famous artists in Early Renaissance
- Masaccio (painter)
- Donatello (sculptor reintroduces naturalism to art)
- Botticelli (painter)
Showed mastery of perspective and used a single, constant source of light that cast accurate shadow. Nicknamed “Sloppy Tom”
Masaccio
His “Mary Magdalen” captured brutal naturalism. Recaptured classical sculpture style contrapposto. His “David” was the first life-sized, freestanding nude sculpture since the Classical period
Donatello
Used decorative linear style resembling Byzantine art. His nudes epitomize the Renaissance and his “Birth of Venus” marks the rebirth of Classical mythology
Botticelli
3 famous artists in Italian High Renaissance
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- Raphael
4 Italian Renaissance Architects
- Alberti
- Brunelleschi
- Bramante
- Palladio
The earliest known painting in which the sitter looked at the spectator
“Man in a Red Turban” by Eyck
3 artists of the German High Renaissance
- Griinewald
- Durer
- Holbein
Court painter for Henry VIII
Holbein
Used dense lines to render differences in texture and tone. First to use printmaking as a major medium for art
Durer
Time period when artists abandoned realism. Figures twist in unnecessary contrapposto. lurid colors, high tension movement and unreal lighting.
Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
5 Mannerists
- Pontormo
- Rosso
- Bronzino
- Parmigiano
- Benvenuto Cellini