ARTS - The Rebirth of Art Flashcards
It is the period of “reawakening” or “rebirth”.
Renaissance
When did the Renaissance period come, which brought about the development of new technologies such as the printing press amidst a politically stable and prosperous Europe?
Middle Ages
What are the three things that flourished around the Middle Ages due to a growing passion to discover and explore new things?
(1) Philosophy
(2) Literature
(3) Art
It played a pivotal role in the emergence of the Renaissance style of visual and decorative art in the last part of the 14th century.
Italy
When did the Renaissance style reach its peak?
15th and early 16th centuries
Who are the three Italian artists who were part of the masterpieces of the Renaissance style?
(1) Leonardo da Vinci
(2) Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(3) Raffaello “Raphael” Sanzio da Urbino
It is also known to reflect the splendor of individual experience and beauty of nature.
Renaissance Art
Who challenged the dominance of the Renaissance style/art?
(1) Pablo Picasso
(2) Cubist Movement
It had less interest in religious and secular dogma, and it celebrated the core values of dignity and individual worth.
Humanism
What are the three Renaissance periods?
(1) Proto-Renaissance Art (c.1200-1400)
(2) Early Renaissance Art (1401-1490s)
(3) High Renaissance Art (c.1530-1600)
It is the early forms of Renaissance art evident in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
Proto-Renaissance Art (c.1200-1400)
During the Proto-Renaissance, who were the Italian writers who celebrated the classical Roman culture, and had high regard for the languages, values, and intellectual traditions that went stagnant long after the Roman empire fell in the sixth century.
(1) Petrarch (1304-1774)
(2) Giovanni Boccaccio
He was a painter from Florence who was the most noteworthy Proto-Renaissance artist, and he became famous for his advanced techniques and realistic representations of the human body.
Giotto di Bondone
What was the painting Giotto di Bondone made?
Ognissanti Madonna
What century did the Proto-Renaissance art slowly diminish?
End of the 14th century
It became the site of a renewed interest for philosophy, religion, and art reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.
Florence
He was a sculptor with his prize-winning set of bronze doors in 1401, who also won a competition on designing a new set of doors for the baptistery of the cathedral of Florence.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
What was the artwork Lorenzo Ghiberti made?
Gates of Paradise
They eventually became masters of early Renaissance sculpture.
(1) Filippo Brunelleschi
(2) Donato di Niccolo “Donatello” di Betto Bardi
He was also a renowned early Renaissance artist who became famous for his frescoes of a church and a chapel in Florence.
Tommaso di Ser Giovanni “Masaccio” di Simone
What was the artwork of Masaccio made?
Holy Trinity
Where was the new center of Renaissance art in Italy?
Rome
Who headed the Renaissance art in Rome, Italy?
Pope Leo X
He was known for his mastery of oil painting.
Leonardo da Vinci
He was a famed sculptor and fresco painter.
Michelangelo
He was probably the finest painter of the High Renaissance art.
Raphael
What was the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci?
Mona Lisa
What was the artwork of Michelangelo?
Ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
What was the artwork of Raphael?
The Madonna of the Pinks
He was a painter during the High Renaissance, who is known for his illusionistic Assumption of the Virgin at the Parma Cathedral.
Antonio da Correggio
He was the leading architect during this period.
Donato Bramante
He made a name for himself for his murals found at some portions of the Sistine Chapel and for his frescoes at the Orvieto Cathedral.
Luca Signorelli
TRUE OR FALSE
Signorelli was a great influence on Michelangelo.
TRUE
It became widespread in the late 1500s, when this artistic style focused on artificiality, as opposed to the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art.
Mannerism
This can be likened to looking through a window and painting what you can see on the window pane exactly how you see it.
Linear Perspective
This may be understood as the line representing the viewer’s eye level.
Horizon Line
This refers to the point at which parallel lines appear to converge far in the distance often on the horizon line.
Vanishing Point
It is tan example of the manipulation of shadows and light without regard to color.
Chiaroscuro
It is the fine shading, which creates soft and almost unnoticeable transitions between tones and colors.
Sfumato
What are the two defining characteristic of a Renaissance painting?
(1) Realism
(2) Naturalism
It was still the major theme of many Renaissance sculptures as observed in churches that have elaborately carved tabernacles, pulpits, tombs, altars, baptismal fonts, and statues.
Religion
It is the concept of balanced proportions and was observable in architectural forms and specific shapes, and styles were used that characterized the period.
Symmetry
It was inspired by the Classical architecture displayed by the ruins of ancient buildings and by the writings of Vitruvius.
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