Early Europe Part 2 Flashcards
Adam and Eve
Albrecht Durer
Ideal humans before the fall of man
Sistine chapel
ESSAY
Vatican City, Italy Michelangelo Fresco 1508-1512 Ceiling: first few chp of genesis 330 figures, none in same position Acorns are motifs Pope Julius created as part of scheme to revive Rome
Sistine chapel- Delphic sibyl
Foretold coming of Jesus
Sistine chapel- the flood
Details Noah and his family escaping the flood, told in Genesis 7
School of Athens
ARTIST
Raphael
Fresco
Isenheim altarpiece
DATE
1512-1516
Ergotism- disease caused by eating fungus on Rye flour
Entombment of Christ
Complex
Defy one simple explanation
Intentionally confusing
Allegory of law and grace
Done in consultation w Martin Luther
Venus of urbino
Became standard of reclined nudes
Frontispiece of the codex Mendoza
History of Aztecs for Charles V
Il gesu
Principal church of Jesuit order
Hunters in the snow
ARTIST AND DATE
Bruegel the elder
1565
Mosque of Selim II
PLAN
Baroque art
Relies on movement, facades undulate
Paintings express higher meaning
Calling of saint matthew
ARTIST
Caravaggio
Tenebroso
Henri IV receives portrait
Marie de Medici- queen of France
Self portrait with Saskia
Rembrandt van Rijn
1636
Etching
Baroque
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Facade is higher than rest of building
Cornaro chapel
DATE
Rome, Italy
1647-1652
Ecstasy of saint theresa
Cornaro chapel
Bernini
1647-1652
Marble
Angel with Arquebis
Helped enforce Catholicism
Las meninas
ARTIST
Diego Veláquez
Woman holding a balance
ESSAY
Johannes Vermeer
1664
Oil on canvas
Dutch culture- genre scene, domestic, small scale, delicate lighting, drapery, captures moment
Different from other baroque- not grand, small and concentrated, no religion, seems simple but complex meaning, still drapery
Figures seem unaware of our presence
Light enters from left, highlights textures
Weighing and judgement
Painting in back- last judgement, weighing of souls
Palace of Versailles
Remodeling of hunting lodge
Meant to emphasize Louis importance
Screen with Siege of Belgrade and hunting scene
Japanese art
Virgin of Guadalupe
Enconchado- mother of pearl inlaid into work
Spaniard and Indian produce a mestizo
More “European” you are the more you belong at top of social hierarchy
Fruit and insects
ARTIST AND DATE
Rachel Ruysch
1711
The tete a tete
Each partner in marriage pursues pleasures without each other
Catacomb of Priscilla
Fresco- permanent bond
Vienna genesis
Illuminated manuscript
Arlofini portrait
Van eyck
Sepucharul monument
Burial place for religious objects
Great wave
Hokusai
Apadonna audience hall
“gate of all nations”
Capital line wolf
Founding of Rome
Lost wax
Hollow bronze
Seated boxer
Hellenistic, bronze
Standard of Ur
Hierarchy of scale
Hypostyle hall
Columns and windows
