Annotated Mona Lisa (Renaissance and Baroque) Flashcards

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Top Four breakthroughs of Renaissance

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  1. Oil on stretched canvas
  2. Perspective
  3. Use of light and shadow
  4. Pyramid Configuration
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3 famous artists in Early Renaissance

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  1. Masaccio (painter)
  2. Donatello (sculptor reintroduces naturalism to art)
  3. Botticelli (painter)
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Showed mastery of perspective and used a single, constant source of light that cast accurate shadow. Nicknamed “Sloppy Tom”

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Masaccio

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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

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Donatello

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Used decorative linear style resembling Byzantine art. His nudes epitomize the Renaissance and his “Birth of Venus” marks the rebirth of Classical mythology

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Botticelli

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3 famous artists in Italian High Renaissance

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  1. Leonardo
  2. Michelangelo
  3. Raphael
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4 Italian Renaissance Architects

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  1. Alberti
  2. Brunelleschi
  3. Bramante
  4. Palladio
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The earliest known painting in which the sitter looked at the spectator

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“Man in a Red Turban” by Eyck

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3 artists of the German High Renaissance

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  1. Griinewald
  2. Durer
  3. Holbein
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Court painter for Henry VIII

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Holbein

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Used dense lines to render differences in texture and tone. First to use printmaking as a major medium for art

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Durer

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Time period when artists abandoned realism. Figures twist in unnecessary contrapposto. lurid colors, high tension movement and unreal lighting.

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Mannerism (Late Renaissance)

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5 Mannerists

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  1. Pontormo
  2. Rosso
  3. Bronzino
  4. Parmigiano
  5. Benvenuto Cellini
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