Barron's: Chapter 16 - High Renaissance and Mannerism Flashcards
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Time Period
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- High Renaissance: 1495-1520, Rome, Florence, Venice
- Mannerism: 1520-1600, Italy
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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 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
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The Last Supper
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- 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
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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- Michelangelo
- 1508-1512
- fresco
- Vatican City, Italy
- High Renaissance
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Delphic Sybil
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- 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
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The Flood
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- Michelangelo
- c. 1508-1512
- fresco
- Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Italy
- High Renaissance
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Last Judgment
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- 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
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School of Athens
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- Raphael
- 1509-1511
- fresco
- Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy
- High Renaissance
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Venus of Urbino
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- Titian
- 1538
- oil on canvas
- Uffizi Florence
- Mannerism
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Entombment of Christ
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- 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
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Il Gesu facade
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- Giacomo della Porta
- 1575-1584
- brick and marble
- Rome
- nave by Giacomo da Vignola, sixteenth century
- Mannerism
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arcadian
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- 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
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canvas
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- a heavy woven material used as the surface of a painting; first widely used in Venice
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cassone
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- a trunk intended for storage of clothing for a wife’s trousseau
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chiaroscuro
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- 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
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cinquecento
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- the 1500s, or sixteenth century, in Italian art
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entombment
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- a painting or sculpture depicting Jesus Christ’s burial after his crucifixion
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flood story
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- 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
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genre painting
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- painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted
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glazes
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- thin transparent layers put over a painting to alter color and build up rich sonorous effect
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ignudi
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- nude corner figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling
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last supper
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- a meal shared by Jesus Christ with his apostles the night before his death by Crucifixion
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sfumato
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- a smoke-light or hazy effect that distances the viewer from the subject of a painting
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sibyl
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- a Greco-Roman prophetess whom Christians saw as prefiguring the coming of Jesus Christ
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still life
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- a painting of a grouping of inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit
