Barron's: Chapter 16 - High Renaissance and Mannerism

Question 1

Time Period

Answer 1

• High Renaissance: 1495-1520, Rome, Florence, Venice

- Mannerism: 1520-1600, Italy

Question 2

Essential Knowledge

Answer 2

• 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 form their various expansions around the globe. European influence is on the rise at home and abroad
• 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

Question 3

The Last Supper

Answer 3

• Leonardo da Vinci
• 1494-1498
• tempera and oil
• Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
• High Renaissance
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Composition
  
  • Justinian and Theodora
  • Basquiat, Horn Players
  • Niobid Krater

Question 4

Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Answer 4

• Michelangelo
• 1508-1512
• fresco
• Vatican City, Italy
• High Renaissance

Question 5

Delphic Sybil

Answer 5

• Michelangelo
• c. 1508-1512
• fresco
• Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
• High Renaissance
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Time and Memory
  
  • Calendar Stone
  • Lukasa Memory Board
  • Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Question 6

The Flood

Answer 6

• Michelangelo
• c. 1508-1512
• fresco
• Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
• High Renaissance

Question 7

Last Judgment

Answer 7

• Michelangelo
• 1536-1541
• fresco
• Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
• Mannerism
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Group Compositions
  
  • Leonardo DaVinci, Last Supper
  • Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon
  • Lam, The Jungle

Question 8

School of Athens

Answer 8

• Raphael
• 1509-1511
• fresco
• Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy
• High Renaissance

Question 9

Venus of Urbino

Answer 9

• Titian
• 1538
• oil on canvas
• Uffizi Florence
• Mannerism

Question 10

Entombment of Christ

Answer 10

• Jacopo da Pontormo
• 1525-1528
• oil on wood
• Santa Felicita, Florence
• Mannerism
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Composition
  
  • Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
  • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings
  • Neshat, Rebellious Silence

Question 11

Il Gesu facade

Answer 11

• Giacomo della Porta
• 1575-1584
• brick and marble
• Rome
• nave by Giacomo da Vignola, sixteenth century
• Mannerism

Question 12

arcadian

Answer 12

• a simple rural and rustic setting used especially in Venetian paintings of the High Renaissance; named after Arcadia, a district in Greece to which poets and painters have attributed a rural simplicity and an idyllically untroubled world

Question 13

canvas

Answer 13

• a heavy woven material used as the surface of a painting; first widely used in Venice

Question 14

cassone

Answer 14

• a trunk intended for storage of clothing for a wife’s trousseau

Question 15

chiaroscuro

Answer 15

• a gradual transition from light to dark in a painting. forms are not determined by sharp outlines, but by the meeting of lighter and darker areas

Question 16

cinquecento

Answer 16

• the 1500s, or sixteenth century, in Italian art

Question 17

entombment

Answer 17

• a painting or sculpture depicting Jesus Christ’s burial after his crucifixion

Question 18

flood story

Answer 18

• as told in Genesis 7 of the Bible, Noah and his family escape rising waters by building an ark and placing two of every animal aboard

Question 19

genre painting

Answer 19

• painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted

Question 20

glazes

Answer 20

• thin transparent layers put over a painting to alter color and build up rich sonorous effect

Question 21

ignudi

Answer 21

• nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Question 22

last supper

Answer 22

• a meal shared by Jesus Christ with his apostles the night before his death by Crucifixion

Question 23

sfumato

Answer 23

• a smoke-light or hazy effect that distances the viewer from the subject of a painting

Question 24

sibyl

Answer 24

• a Greco-Roman prophetess whom Christians saw as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ

Question 25

still life

Answer 25

• a painting of a grouping of inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit