Exam I Flashcards

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Guilds

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  • Rivalry between artist, merchants, cities and craftsmen
  • Emergence of guils (qualitiy control)
  • Supervised education of young artist
  • Provided competition for young artist
  • Entrance into a guild reuired the creation of a MASTERPIECE
  • Paintors belong to the Guild of Doctors because they mixed their own paints
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Fourteenth Century Europe Eco

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  • Population growth, but not enough food
  • Bad harvest so Europe was in famine
  • There was also conflict between France and England (Hundred Years War)
  • Black Death- Bubonic plague, lost about 40% of european population
  • Basic societal structures fell
  • Despite the famine, Black Death, and the Hundred Years War, there was economic growth
  • Wealth promoted art patronage
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Usury

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  • To charge interest on loaned money (a sin)
  • In the Scrovegni situation he had inherited this wealth from his father’s sinful moneymaking ways
  • Scrovegni commisioned Giotto’s to paint frescos in the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel as a way to show God he was sorry
  • Facial features of angels are generic, prophets are individualized, likely to be portraits
  • Grisaille
  • Human emotion and symbolism
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Florentine vs. Sienese Painting

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  • Rivals
  • Sienese-Emphasis on DECORATION
    • Duccio di Buoninsegna
    • Jewel-like colors
    • Elegant posed figures
  • Florentino- Emphasis on EMOTION
    • Maesta Altarpiece-Mary and Child are focal point (larger and on center)
    • Maniera greca- Greek style
    • Giotto v
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Illuminated Manuscripts

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  • Book of Hours, used for private prayer
  • Worn like jewelry by the wealthy
  • Book of Hours of Jeanne D’Everoux
    • Prays for a boy
    • Contrapasto- curved relaxed posture
  • Architectural frames around scenes
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English Embroidery

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  • (Opus Aglicanum)
  • English were wellknown for needle work
  • Lots of detail
  • Life of the Virgin
    • Red velvet with silk (expensive materials)
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Decorated Style of Architecture

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  • Exeter Cathedral (England)
  • Decorative Syle- derived from gothic
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Andachtsbilder and Vesperbild

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  • Vesper- evening prayer
  • Vesperbild - Pieta - Mary holding Christ
  • Andachtsbilder- German religious works, depict harsh reality
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Renaissance and Jules Michelet

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  • Rebirth
  • Began in Italy (possibly in Florence) but developed in other parts of Europe as well
  • Wasn’t known as the Renaissance until Michelet called it that in 1855
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Characteristic of the Nothernern Renaisance

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  • Observe and record natural world
    • Birds and animals, lots of detail
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International Gothic Style and ‘Realism of Particulars’

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  • International Gothic Style is known as Realism of Particulars
  • Excesive detail
  • Shows debth
  • Bright colors and gold leaf
  • Mini architecture
  • Unicorn Found at the Fountain, from the Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry Series
    • Lots of floral
    • Used as insulation, portable
    • Expensive, expression of owners wealth
    • Dificult and complex to make (curves and shadows)
    • Crowded and busy compositions
    • Symbolism- unicorn can only be caught by virgin
      • Unicorn- love
      • Lion- Faith, mercy, courage
      • Stag- Ressurection, shags fall off and regrow
      • Rabbit- Fertility
      • Dogs- Loyalty, fidelity
      • Plant and Fruit- Fertility
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12
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Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt

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Flemish Tapestries

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pricy

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The Flemish School

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  • Oil was preffered medium, slow to dry transparent when applied in thin layers
  • Flemish panels are meant to be looked as windows into a scene
  • Evidence of ‘Realism of Particulars’
  • Attention to detail, architecture, symbolism, and drapery
  • Rise of the middle class, becoming patrons
  • Merode Altarpiece
    • Typical Flemish home
    • Symbolism- ceramic vessel with lilies-purity, virginity
    • Waterpot in back- vessel carrying Christ
    • Candle- God’s divinity
    • Small floating Christ
    • Sitting on footrest- obidience to God
  • Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
    • Her face is idealized, his isn’t
    • May have been pregnant? Just married? Memorial to his first wife?
    • Highly espensive fabrics and carpets, wealthy
    • Mirror- all seeing eye of God
    • Dog- fidelity
    • Fruit tree- fertility
    • Shoes- Shes a homemaker, hes a bread winner
  • Ghent Altarpiece (Second Generation Artist)
    • Scene of ANNUNCIATION
    • Mary’s words are upsidedown
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15
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‘Flamboyant’ Architecture

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goth

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16
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Printmaking in Northern Europe

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  • Larger quantities
  • Less expensive
  • Paper was more accesible
  • Made out of woodblocks, by woodworkers
  • Could be made in parchment or paper
  • German or latin
  • In color or black and white
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Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and HIs Wife

Van Eyke

1434

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Annunciaton, Visitation, Presentation in the temple, Flight into Egypt

Melchior Broederlam

1400

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Well of Moses

Claus Slutter

1400

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February: LIfe in the Country, Tres Riches Heures

Paul Herman and Jean Limbourg

1400

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January duke of berry at Table, Tres Riches Heurx

Paul Herman, Jean Limbourg

1400

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Unicorn is Found at the Fountain: From the Hunt of the Unicorn

Tapestry Series

1500

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Merode Altarpiece

Triptych of the Annuciation

Robert Campin

1400

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Man in a Red Turban

Van Eyck

1400

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Ghent Altarpiece (Closed)

Annunciation with Donars

Jean and Hubbert Van Eyck

1400

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Ghent Altarpiece (Open)

Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

Jean and Hubbert Van Eyck

1400

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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child

Roger Van Der Weyden

1400

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Portinari Altarpiece

Hugo Van der Goes

1500

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Etienne Chevalier St Stephen and Virgin and Child

Jean Foquet

1450

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Church of St Maclau

Pierre Robin

1500

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St Wolfgang Altarpiece

Michael Pacher

1500

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Temptations of St Anthony

Martin Shongauer

1500

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City of Nouremberg, from the Nouremberg Chronicles

Michael Wolgemut and Weilhelm Pleydenwurff

1500