Art Appreciation Flashcards
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Florence Italy Gothic Style Sculptures. Well-known sculptors
Donatello (Italian Artist)
Italian Designer and a key figure in architecture. First modern engineer, planner and sole construction supervisor.
Filippo Brunelleschi
“Giottus, He was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the “Gothic or photo Renaissance” period
Giotto
Italian painter who combined the life of a devout friar with that of an accomplished painter. He was called Angelico “Angelic” Beato “blessed” because the paintings he did were of calm, religious subjects and because of his extraordinary personal piety.
Fra Angelico
Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer. He epitomized the Renaissance Man
Leon Battista Alberti
Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, An Italian painter and designer of mosaics from Florence. Although heavily influenced by Byzantine models, One of the first great Italian painters to break from the Italo-Byzantine style.
Cimabue
Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, she was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany
Hildegard of Bingen
Artist believe art should not stagnant.
Early Renaissance Art
Dominant art form - perfect harmony and balance.
High Renaissance Art
Mannerism - Focused on style or manner and less substance.
Late Renaissance Art
Renaissance Man
Leonardo Da Vinci
David and Pieta - Sculptor in High renaissance period.
Michaelangelo Buonarroti
Youngest - The School of Athens.
Raphael Sanzio
From medieval scholasticism and renewed interest in Greek and Roman thought.
Humanism
Showed individual people instead of group.
Individualism
