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Chapter 17 Flashcards

1
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What are characteristics of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings?

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Delicate shading, chiaroscuro, tenderness, craggy rocks and water backgrounds, and sfumato (mistiness).

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What is Chiaroscuro?

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The use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

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What is Sfumato?

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Soft transitions. Mistiness.

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What makes the “Virgin of the Rocks” painting a Leonardo?

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Chiaroscuro, tenderness, craggy rocks, water, and sfumato.

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What was wrong with Leonardo’s “Last Supper?”

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He used tempra and oil paints to make it dry faster but the paint flaked off.

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6
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Who painted the “Mona Lisa?”

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Leonardo da Vinci.

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What makes the “Mona Lisa” significant?

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Her ambiguous smile.

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What was the name of the painting that Leonardo dried using coals but left puddles?

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Battle of Anghiari

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What are some aspects of Leonardo da Vinci?

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He preformed autopsies, was very mathematical with inventions, did not finish paintings, only finished 40 paintings, and began the use of chiaroscuro and sfumato.

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Who was Donato Bramanti?

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An architect that built the Tempietto and New St. Peter’s.

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Who began the construction of New St. Peter’s (Vatican)?

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Donato Bramanti

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Who built the Tempietto?

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Donato Bramanti

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Who was Michelangelo?

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A Renaissance scuplture and painter who painted the Sistine Chapel.

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Who scuplted “Pieto?”

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Michelangelo

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15
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Who sculpted the muscular David (remember nude)?

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Michelangelo

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What is significant about the sculpture of David that Michelangelo sculpted?

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Enlarged hands and head, muscular, not boyish.

17
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What is significant about Michelangelo’s “Moses?”

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Example of self-control. Flexing. Has horns.

18
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What are the aspects of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings?

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Refer to the prophecies of Christ

19
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What is the “Creation of Adam” painting?

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A painting depicting a story in Genesis. The figure of God represents the human brain by shape.

20
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Who painted the “Last Judgement Fresco” (remember the writhing figures).

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Michelangelo

21
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Who was Raphael?

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A Renaissance painter who took after Leonardo and Michelangelo, creating beautiful, soft works of art.

22
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What are the characteristics of Raphael?

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Slight use of sfumato and chiaroscuro, uses soft pastel colors, geometric forms, gracious forms.

23
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What are the characteristics of Michelangelo paintings?

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Writhing, muscular figures, bright colors

24
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What does “Tondo” mean?

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Circular

25
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Who painted the “School of Athens?”

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Raphael

26
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Who painted the “Madonna in the Meadow?”

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Raphael

27
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In the Renaissance Era, which artist was the most successful?

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Raphael

28
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What are the characteristics of a Renaissance painting?

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Chiaroscuro, soft, naturalistic, geometric shapes, humanism, 3 quarter profile view

29
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What are the characteristics of a Venetian Renaissance painting?

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Sensuous, colorist style, golden quality of light

30
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Who painted the “San Zaccaria Alterpiece?”

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Bellini

31
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Why was Giovanni Bellini significant?

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He used the sensuous, colorist style of the golden quality of light, secular painter

32
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Who is Georgioni?

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A poetic painter. He pays more attention to landscape.

33
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Who painted the “Sleeping Venus?”

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Georgioni and Titian

34
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Who is Titian?

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Helper of Georgioni. He loves the color red.

35
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What changed in TItian’s artwork overtime?

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His brushstrokes became more visible

36
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What is Mannerism?

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An art style that developed in the late Renaissance era. It consists of ambiguous space, unusual themes, elongated limbs and fingers, unnatural anatomy.

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