Art History "High Renaissance" Flashcards
Putto
The classical Cupid with added wings
Genre
The depiction of everyday life in art
Pieta
The virgin grieving over the dead Christ
Sfumato
The transition from one form or color to another softly
Renaissance
Marked the end of the MIDDLE AGES
Rebirth
The word “Renaissance” means this
1495-1527
The Renaissance period
What this period gave us
Modern banking
Diplomatic practices
Modern science inquiry
Liberal education
Geniuses
People thought of artists as craftsman, but now they thought of them as this
Humanism
Promoted individual and human values
Papal States
At this time, the pope ruled these
Leonardo
Painter Sculptor Engineer Architect Inventor Scientist
Leonardo
Father of Modern Medical Illustration
Wax
Leonardo painted the Last Supper using this new technique
Sfumato
Leonardo is responsible for developing this
Michelangelo
Painter Sculptor Architect Poet Florence, Italy
Michelangelo
learned art at Lorenzo de Medici’s School For Sculptors
Pieta
Michelangelo’s earliest masterpiece
Pope Julius II
Commissioned Michelangelo to do work for his tomb and Michelangelo made “Moses”
Interruption
Michelangelo thought that painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was just an _____________ from his sculpting
Raphael
Did portraits for the merchants instead of the royal and important people
Giorgione
Changed the way LIGHT was used in paintings
Landscapes
Giorgione loved to paint this type of painting
Mood
Giorgione mastered this in his paintings
