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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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How do you read a painting?

A

1) Identify the figures and objects in the picture
2) Identify symbolic meanings behind each figure
3) Combine separate meanings into coherent statements

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2
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Displays the dead and the fight between angels and devils for a soul

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  • Grandes Heures de Ronan
  • “A dead man before God”
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3
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What was Brunolesky known for?

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-Vanishing points in painting
- The study of math and geometry to do art

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4
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Perspective drawing of a chalice

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Poalo Vccello

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5
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Why are biblical events used so often in art?

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It is present in contemporary art to show politics

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6
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What does a cedar represent? (Half man half goat)

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Represents animalistic tendencies, drunkenness’ and lust

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7
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A winged baby (Venus accompanied by cupid)

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A Putto

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8
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Describe a medieval painting vs Renaissance

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They were sectioned with no interactions in altarpieces and ren had interactions and perspectives in one space

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For the Medacci family, Zephyrus blows on Chloris who becomes flora, displays 9 figures of greek gods, three woment dancing, hermes waving a wand, mary in the center, cupid.
-Zephorus
-Chlorus
-Flora
-Primavera
-The three graces
-Murcery
- Cupid

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Primavera

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10
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The first milky way painted in art

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Rest on the flight into Egypt

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11
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The outline of one body over another
- Mucery passing in front of Venus

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Transit

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12
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Ludovivo Cigoli

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  • A friend of Galileo
    -Painted “Immaculata” , which displays moon as cratered
    -Madona on a more realistic moon
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13
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Describe the Baroch period

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Covers every single with decoration and fru fru

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14
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Woman weighing gold, the astronomer, the geographer

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Jan Vermeer

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15
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Renaissance vs Baroque

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Renaissance art: Idealistic, light, nice land scape
Baroque art: Expressional, sinical, drama and tension.
-Exaggerated motion, appeals to pathos
-Should communicate religious themes
- Grandiosity and opulence
-Architecture should express power, triumph and control

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16
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Gian-Lorenzo Bernini

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“Larger than life”
-Sculptures of David
- Ecstacy of st thersa
-Daphne and apollo

17
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Bernard de Fontenelle

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-Wrote “Conversation of the plurality of world”

18
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Deism

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God creates universe but it runs under law

19
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Pantheism

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Gods existence in all things

20
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Satire

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Humor, irony to criticize or attack an idea

21
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Voltaire

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  • defender of religious freedom, social reform, limitations in censorship
  • Influenced french and american revolutions
22
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Micromegas

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  • What is out position in the universe?
    -Look at images in notes
23
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Hentri Matisse

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The Dance

24
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What does Neo-Classical mean?

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New classical

25
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Neoclassicism

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  • Draws inspiration from the classical art and culture
  • Balance, Harmony, formal design, symmetry
  • Not giving way to uncontrolled emotional expression
  • Remind us of things that we are taught
26
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Jaques-Louis David

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-Most popular in neoclassicism
- The death of Socrates
- The oath of Horatii

27
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Angelica Kauffmann

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Look at slides

28
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What important building was made during this time

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The palace of Versalies

29
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Storm clouds, naked mother and a baby sickling, man looking over, division down the center.

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Giorgione, the tempest

30
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A drunk cedar on green grass with storm clouds, A baby with a compass and a shield, a hill leading into heavens

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Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory

31
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Two cedars, a sleeping women on a stump, and a putto pouring powder on the women

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Allegory of vice and virtue

32
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Two women sitting on a well, a putto, one is clothed very nicely, the other is half naked with a candle, landscape in the background

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Sacred and profane love
Wise and foolish virgins
Aphrodite pandemos and urania
laura bargoratto and truth

33
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Mary and other saint talking together and interacting

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The sacred conversation

34
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Displays a realistic moon with craters and shape

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Jan Van Eyck - The crucifixion

35
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Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes

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Caravaggio , Judith and Holofernes

36
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Simplistic paintings and straight lines

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Piet Mondrian

37
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Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza
Claimed to be Leonardo

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La Bella Principessa

38
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Newton is ?

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Alec Jasper Kilton

39
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Einstein is?

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Joseph Eisler of the Eisler effect

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