Chapter 15 (paintings/book) Flashcards
Who competed against each other in the Florence baptistery doors
Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
Describe Brunelleschi’s sacrifice of Isaac
His Abraham is much more dramatic, he is restrained by the angel and is holding Isaac by the throat.
Describe Ghiberti’s sacrifice of Isaac
His Abraham is implicit in his pose, leaning forward and back simultaneously as if he is torn on what to do.
Who won the Florence baptistery competition?
Ghiberti for his more graceful style
How many parts did Brunelleschi cast his panel in
He casted it in multiple parts
How many parts did Ghiberti cast his panel in
He cast it in only two parts
What does Brunelleschi have in his panel in the bottom left
A popular figure called the thorn puller, a boy pulling a thorn from his foot.
What did Brunelleschi do after losing the competition
Became an architect and moved to Rome
What ratios did Brunelleschi like to construct in
Simple ratios, 1:2 or 1:3 mainly
What shapes did he try and go for to stay away from “gothic” architecture
Circles, squares, and round rather than pointed
What dome did Brunelleschi get involved in making
A dome for the Florence cathedral
At what stage of the construction did Brunelleschi die
He died before the lantern he constructed finished
What is the Santo specito’s and how is it’s plan
It is a church designed by Brunelleschi one year before his death, it is a simple Latin cross
Did Brunelleschi like gothic architecture?
He rejected it
What famous picture of Christ uses one point perspective
Mantegna’s dead Christ
What famously uses one point perspective in the Florence baptistery
Ghiberti’s east doors which shows the meeting of Solomon and Sheba
Who developed a new perspective style called Giotto
Masaccio
What does masaccio’s holy trinity depict
God on a ledge behind Jesus, Jesus on a cross, and Mary on the bottom left gesturing to Christ. We also see a memento mori with a skeleton at the base
Who can masaccio be compared to
Gentile Da Fabriano
What did masaccio paint in the brancacci chapel?
The life of saint peter
What is a famous depiction of masaccio’s in the brancacci chapel
Adam and eves expulsion from Eden
Is masaccio’s Adam and Eve being expelled from heaven, where did he get the inspiration for eve?
He got it from the Medici Venus statue
What perspectives did masaccio use in the brancacci chapel frescoes
Linear, and aerial or atmospheric perspective
What is Gentile da Fabriano’s greatest extant work
A large altarpiece that depicts a massive amount of people and all kinds of animals including monkeys lined up going through a fortified hill town just to meet baby Jesus (precession and adoration)
Who was Donatello
He was the most important sculptor of early fifteenth century Florence
What is unique about Donatello’s bronze David
A revolutionary depiction of the nude. David has a slim, feminine, homoerotic look as he stands on goliaths severed head while carrying goliaths sword.
What does David vs Goliath symbolize
Jesus vs Satan
Who was Leon Battista Alberti
He was a writer and an architect
What did Leon Battista Alberti write
A book on art theory. He also summed up the works of Brunelleschi, masaccio, Ghiberti, and Donatello. He wrote other obscure books too.
What did Alberti design
The rucellai palace
How was the rucellai palace designed to look
A symmetrical harmonious surface design and facade with round arch windows on the second and third story.
Which David was painted on a shield
Castagno’s “the youthful David”
What type of painting is Paolo uccello’s “sir John hawkwood” and what does it depict
It is an equestrian painting, and it depicts a man on a horse with two shield symbols at the base
What equestrian sculpture did Donatello make
The gattamelata, which depicts a bronze equestrian sculpture of gattamelata on a horse in front of sant antonio
What were oil paintings usually mixed with
Linseed or walnut
What are state portraits
They are paintings done of state rulers
What are death masks
They are face molds of dead people so that portraits of them can be made
What are Francesca’s Battista and Federico
They are state portraits that depict two rulers. The way he painted them is unique in that their features and clothing match and have similarities to the backgrounds such as Battista’s pearl necklace matching and blending with the village in the background.
What medium is Francesca’s Battista and Federico
They are oil paintings
What inspired Francesca’s oil portraits
Roman portraits
What is special when painting oil paintings (thickness etc)
They can be applied thickly, they dry very slowly, and they have a wide color range.
What is the annunciation
It is a type of painting that focuses on Mary and doesn’t have Jesus, it usually has an angel in it and sometimes god.
What is Francesca’s annunciation
It is a fresco, it depicts god in the upper left corner sending a beam of light down on Mary under an entrance way with an angel speaking to Mary. There is also a wooden beam above her with its shadow going through a ring symbolizing “god entering her”
What is Fra Angelico’s annunciation
It is also a fresco, it depicts Mary bowing down to an angel while she is on a stool. The angel is telling her that she will carry Jesus and she accepts. Behind the angel is a monk.
What does Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and child depict
It depicts Mary holding baby Jesus in her lap, baby Jesus eating from a pomegranate symbolizing and foreshadowing rebirth, and it also depicts Mary’s mothers life as if we are watching everything happen at once.
Who was the leading painter after the middle of the quattrocento
Andrea mantegna
What did Mantegna do to make the camera picta unique
He used illusionism to make it seem as if the figures are coming out of the walls and are truly there
What does Botticelli’s birth of Venus depict
It depicts Venus coming out of a seashell.
What does campin’s merode altar piece depict
A priest kneeling at a door on the left, the Virgin Mary with an angel in the middle, and Joseph making traps on the right that symbolize him trapping the devil.
What was the most popular form of painting in the Netherlands
Oil painting
Who was the most prominent northern Netherlandish painter of the early fifteenth century
Jan van eyck
What is van eycks most elaborate and complex work
The altarpiece of the lamb or the Ghent altar piece which is a polyptch
What does van eyck’s arnolfini portrait depict
It depicts a man and a woman holding hands in their bedroom. The woman appears to be pregnant and it seems the man is swearing something much like wedding vows. The man is wearing what seems to be ceremonial clothes. There is a mirror in the middle of the painting that reflects what seems to be two other individuals (painter and us possibly) with van eyck’s signature above it.
What was the arnolfini portrait painted with and on
Oil on wood
