Barron's: Chapter 14 - Renaissance in Northern Europe Flashcards
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Time Period
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- 1400-1600
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Essential Knowledge
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- Western Europe and the American colonies are at the center of Renaissance and Baroque studies
- Europe and the Americas are brought into closer alignment with this new course of study. one is not considered more important than the other
- Europeans brought goods and culture to the Western hemisphere with their trade and conquest
- Europeans began to collect and organize knowledge from their various expansions around the globe. European influence is on the rise at home and abroad
- there is a greater exploration of the formal elements of painting, like perspective, composition, and color
- artistic training is enhanced by the birth of academies
- the display of artwork often meant a glorification of the patron
- in Northern Europe there was an emphasis on non-religious subjects, like portraits, genre paintings, and still lifes. in southern Europe there was an emphasis on religious subjects with much more active and dynamic compositions
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The Annunciation Triptych
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- Robert Campin (?) or workshop
- 1425-1428
- oil on wood
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Renaissance Art
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Arnolfini Portrait
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- Jan van Eyck
- 1434
- oil on wood
- National Gallery, London
- Renaissance Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Couples in Art
- Menkaura and His Queen
- Veranda post
- Justinian and Attendants and Theodora and Attendants
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Adam and Eve
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- Albrecht Durer
- 1504
- engraving
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Renaissance Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: The Human Figure
- Polykleitos, Spear Bearer
- Boticelli, Birth of Venus
- Braque, Portuguese
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Isenheim Altarpiece
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- Matthias Grunewald
- 1512-1516
- oil on panel
- Musse d’Unterlinden
- Renaissance Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Pathos
- Seated Boxer
- Munch, The Scream
- Kollwitz, Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
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Allegory of Law and Grace
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- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- c. 1530
- woodcut
- Renaissance Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons:
- Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49
- Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe
- Neshat, Rebellious Silence
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Return of the Hunters
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- Pieter Bruegel
- 1565
- oil on wood panel
- Art History Museum, Vienna
- Renaissance Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Hardship
- Turner, The Slave Ship
- Neshat, Rebellious Silence
- Stieglitz, Steerage
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altarpiece
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- a painted or sculpted panel set on an altar of a church
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annunciation
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- in Christianity, an episode in the Book of Luke 1:26-38 in which Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she would be the Virgin Mother of Jesus
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donor
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- a patron of a work of art, who is often seen in that work
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engraving
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- a printmaking process in which a metal plate is covered with a ground made of wax. The artist uses a tool to cut into the wax to leave the plate exposed. The plate is then submerged into an acid bath, which eats away at the exposed portions of the plate. The plate is removed from the acid, cleaned, and ink is filled into the crevices caused by the acid. Paper is applied and an impression is made. Etching produces the finest detail of the three types of early prints
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oil paint
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- a paint in which pigments are suspended in an oil-based medium. oil dries slowly allowing for corrections or additions; also allows for a great range of luster and minute details
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polypytch
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- a many-paneled altarpiece
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triptych
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- a three-paneled painting or sculpture
