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Chapter 15 (paintings/book) Flashcards

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Who competed against each other in the Florence baptistery doors

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Brunelleschi and Ghiberti

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Describe Brunelleschi’s sacrifice of Isaac

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His Abraham is much more dramatic, he is restrained by the angel and is holding Isaac by the throat.

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Describe Ghiberti’s sacrifice of Isaac

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His Abraham is implicit in his pose, leaning forward and back simultaneously as if he is torn on what to do.

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Who won the Florence baptistery competition?

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Ghiberti for his more graceful style

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How many parts did Brunelleschi cast his panel in

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He casted it in multiple parts

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How many parts did Ghiberti cast his panel in

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He cast it in only two parts

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What does Brunelleschi have in his panel in the bottom left

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A popular figure called the thorn puller, a boy pulling a thorn from his foot.

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What did Brunelleschi do after losing the competition

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Became an architect and moved to Rome

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What ratios did Brunelleschi like to construct in

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Simple ratios, 1:2 or 1:3 mainly

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What shapes did he try and go for to stay away from “gothic” architecture

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Circles, squares, and round rather than pointed

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What dome did Brunelleschi get involved in making

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A dome for the Florence cathedral

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At what stage of the construction did Brunelleschi die

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He died before the lantern he constructed finished

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What is the Santo specito’s and how is it’s plan

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It is a church designed by Brunelleschi one year before his death, it is a simple Latin cross

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Did Brunelleschi like gothic architecture?

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He rejected it

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What famous picture of Christ uses one point perspective

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Mantegna’s dead Christ

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What famously uses one point perspective in the Florence baptistery

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Ghiberti’s east doors which shows the meeting of Solomon and Sheba

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Who developed a new perspective style called Giotto

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Masaccio

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What does masaccio’s holy trinity depict

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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

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Who can masaccio be compared to

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Gentile Da Fabriano

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What did masaccio paint in the brancacci chapel?

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The life of saint peter

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What is a famous depiction of masaccio’s in the brancacci chapel

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Adam and eves expulsion from Eden

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Is masaccio’s Adam and Eve being expelled from heaven, where did he get the inspiration for eve?

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He got it from the Medici Venus statue

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What perspectives did masaccio use in the brancacci chapel frescoes

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Linear, and aerial or atmospheric perspective

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What is Gentile da Fabriano’s greatest extant work

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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)

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Who was Donatello

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He was the most important sculptor of early fifteenth century Florence

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What is unique about Donatello’s bronze David

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A revolutionary depiction of the nude. David has a slim, feminine, homoerotic look as he stands on goliaths severed head while carrying goliaths sword.

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What does David vs Goliath symbolize

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Jesus vs Satan

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Who was Leon Battista Alberti

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He was a writer and an architect

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What did Leon Battista Alberti write

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A book on art theory. He also summed up the works of Brunelleschi, masaccio, Ghiberti, and Donatello. He wrote other obscure books too.

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What did Alberti design

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The rucellai palace

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How was the rucellai palace designed to look

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A symmetrical harmonious surface design and facade with round arch windows on the second and third story.

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Which David was painted on a shield

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Castagno’s “the youthful David”

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What type of painting is Paolo uccello’s “sir John hawkwood” and what does it depict

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It is an equestrian painting, and it depicts a man on a horse with two shield symbols at the base

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What equestrian sculpture did Donatello make

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The gattamelata, which depicts a bronze equestrian sculpture of gattamelata on a horse in front of sant antonio

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What were oil paintings usually mixed with

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Linseed or walnut

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What are state portraits

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They are paintings done of state rulers

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What are death masks

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They are face molds of dead people so that portraits of them can be made

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What are Francesca’s Battista and Federico

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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.

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What medium is Francesca’s Battista and Federico

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They are oil paintings

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What inspired Francesca’s oil portraits

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Roman portraits

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What is special when painting oil paintings (thickness etc)

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They can be applied thickly, they dry very slowly, and they have a wide color range.

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What is the annunciation

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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.

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What is Francesca’s annunciation

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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”

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What is Fra Angelico’s annunciation

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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.

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What does Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and child depict

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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.

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Who was the leading painter after the middle of the quattrocento

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Andrea mantegna

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What did Mantegna do to make the camera picta unique

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He used illusionism to make it seem as if the figures are coming out of the walls and are truly there

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What does Botticelli’s birth of Venus depict

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It depicts Venus coming out of a seashell.

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What does campin’s merode altar piece depict

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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.

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What was the most popular form of painting in the Netherlands

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Oil painting

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Who was the most prominent northern Netherlandish painter of the early fifteenth century

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Jan van eyck

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What is van eycks most elaborate and complex work

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The altarpiece of the lamb or the Ghent altar piece which is a polyptch

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What does van eyck’s arnolfini portrait depict

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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.

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What was the arnolfini portrait painted with and on

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Oil on wood

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