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Feb 10 Quiz Flashcards

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Medici Family

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  1. Late 14th-15h century
  2. Patrons of renaissance Florence
  3. Wealthy family
  4. largest art patrons
  5. spent money on buildings, paintings, and sculptures.
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Importance of Early Renaissance Florence

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  1. 1385- Masaccio carries Giottos naturalism further in frescoes
  2. Brunelleschi develops linear perspective & designs Ospedale degli Innocenti
  3. 1450- Johannes Gutenburg invents movable type and prints first Bibles in letterpress
  4. 1475- Late Gothic styles stay in Germany in large wood retables of Tilman Riemenscheider
  5. Alberti publishes treatise in architecture
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Jan van Eyck

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  1. Invented Oil Painting
  2. 1390-1441
  3. Philip the Goods court painter
  4. Made Ghent Alterpiece
  5. Placed studio in Bruges
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Arnolfini Wedding

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  1. Jan Van Eycks oil painting
  2. Lucca financier & wife in mundane/spiritual setting
  3. Every object carries meaning
  4. Dog symbolizes fidelity
  5. Contained traditional Flemish customs
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Linear Perspective & Atmospheric Perspective

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  1. Linear Perspective: made by Filippo Brunelleschi
  2. Enables artists to determine mathematically the relative size of rendered objects to correlate them w/ visual recession into space.
  3. Creates illusionistic space
  4. Atmospheric Perspective: relies on optical (p) enomena
  5. Farther back object is blurry and less detailed
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Filippo Brunelleschi

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  1. 1377-1446
  2. Used French Gothic quatrefoil
  3. Demonstrated biblical narrative in art
  4. Sacrifice of Issac (1401-1402)
  5. Created linear perspective
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High Renaissance

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  1. Quarter century between 1495 &1520
  2. Classical culture
  3. Proportion
  4. Perspective
  5. Human anatomy
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Mona Lisa

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  1. World’s famous portrait
  2. Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini
  3. Translated “My lady Lisa”= Mona Lisa
  4. She doesn’t show trappings of power.
  5. 1503-1505
  6. Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci
  7. Smokey eyes in the back = Sfumato
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Raphael

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  1. Real name is Raffaello Santo(Sanzio)
  2. 1483-1520
  3. Learned fundamental of art from his father
  4. Influenced by Perugino and Leonardo
  5. Ideals of High Renaissance Art
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Leonardo Da Vinci

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  1. 1452-1519
  2. Known as “Renaissance Man”
  3. Used bio, zoology, geology etc to inform art.
  4. Paintings used to discover laws in underlying processes and fluxes of nature
  5. Studied human body and mind
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Michelangelo

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  1. Received most coveted commissions from Julius II
  2. 1475-1564
  3. Considered sculpting superior to radiance it shares divine power to make man
  4. Pieta 1498-1500
  5. Statue of David 1501-1504
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Madonna in the Meadow

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  1. 1505-1506
  2. Made by Raphael
  3. Adopted Leonardos pyramidal composition
  4. Pertained Peruginos lighter formalities
  5. Unify Christian devotion and classical beauty
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Counter Reformation

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  1. Started by Paul III 1534-1549
  2. Based in Holy Roman Empire
  3. Est. Of Protestantism
  4. Lead by Catholic Church
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Mannerism

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  1. challenged Renaissance naturalism after Raphael died
  2. Technical and Aesthetic
  3. Works of Pontormo, Parmigianino, Bronzino
  4. Giovanni de Bologna uses Spiral compositions
  5. Fingertip is leading Venetian Mannerist painter
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Giulio Romano

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  1. 1499-1546
  2. Applied mannerist architecture
  3. Made Palazzo del Te (1530-1540)
  4. Made art for Duke Federigo Gonzaga
  5. Only highly sophisticated observers can appreciate his witticism
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Baroque Art

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  1. 17th century European Art
  2. Baroque came from Portuguese word Baroco
  3. Irregularly shaped pearl
  4. Used to describe distinctive new styles that emerged early 1600
  5. Artists embraced dynamism, theatricality and elaborate ornamentation
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Gianlorenzo Bernini

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  • 1598-1680
  • One of the most important and imaginative man of this era
  • Architect, painter, sculptor, playwright, and stage designer
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Francesco Borromini

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  • 1599-1667
  • Changed Italian Baroque to new level
  • Created the San Carlos church
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San Carlo church in Rome

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  • 1638-1641
  • Borromini used concave and convex elements
  • Enhanced 3d effect
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Caravaggio aka Michelangelo Merisi

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  • 1573-1610
  • Criticized brutally as the antichrist of painting
  • The stark contrast of light and dark was key
  • Painted dramatic pictures
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Conversion of St Paul (painting)

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  • 1601
  • Painted by Caravaggio using perspective, chiaroscuro, and dramatic lighting
  • Depicts St Paul’s conversion to Christianity
  • Baroque style
  • Tenembrism = dramatic lighting
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Rembrandt van Rijn

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  • 1606-1669
  • Dutch painter who utilized a method of refining light and shade into finer nuances that would blend into one another
  • Showed how humans perceive light in what is called the psychology of light
  • Dutch Baroque
  • Painted the “Return of the Protocol Son”
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Artemisia Gentilleschi

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  • 1593-1656
  • Female artist following the style of Caravaggio
  • She was raped by her tutor Agostina Tassi and was put on trial where she was tortured
  • Her most famous work is Judith Slaying Holofernes
  • Had a hard time getting into an art school
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Rococo

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  • Early 18th century
  • Light and airy movement
  • About love and joy
  • Well known artist of this style include Germain Boffrand
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Germain Boffrand

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  • 1667-1754
  • French architect who collaborated on the design of the Salon de la Princesse
  • Boffrand softened the strong architectural lines of the previous Baroque style
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Antoine Watteau

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  • 1684-1721
  • Painter most closely associated with the Rococo
  • Well known for his style called Fete Galante or Amorous festival
  • Soft marks and pastel colors can be seen in his paint above Pilgrimmage to Cythera
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Jean-Honore Fragonard

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  • 1732-1836

- Painter of the Rococo style Watteau

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The Enlightenment

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  • Period when logic and thinking of people changed that occurred after the 18th century between the 1650s and the 1780s
  • Change in thinking was influenced by the rise of new philosophies and knowledge based on empirical observation and the scientific process
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The Industrial Revolution

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  • Started with the creation of the steam engine built in the 1740s
  • The new technology revolutionized the way products could be manufactured and transported it minimized the need for hands for labor
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Robert Houdin

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  • Born on 1805 in France
  • Was the owner of the theater Des Soirees Fantastiques in Paris which is a place of magic
  • His tricks and creativity have influenced fantasy films and cinema with the supernatural
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Lumieres family

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  • 1862-1954
  • Created and developed film equipment that actually worked
  • Created a device, the cinematographe lumiere, that functioned both as a camera and projector in one
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George Melies

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  • 1861-1938
  • First real filmmaker, screenwriter, and designer
  • 1888 - bought theatre from Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin’s widow
  • Innovations include double exposure, multiple exposures, stop motion cinematography, fadeouts, sex in the cinema
  • Trip to the Moon - movie
  • Hugo was a movie about him
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Guillaume Bouguereau

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  • Born in 1825
  • His work was very influential to the work of Melies
  • Well known for his work called the birth of Venus
  • Work was generally sweet and smith was a focus on the female goddess form
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Pre-Raphaelites

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  • 1850s-1890s
  • English romantic movement, fascination with medieval rituals and magic
  • Women as mystical and strange
  • Artists include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John William Waterhouse, and Sir John Everett Millais
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Loreena McKennitt

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  • Contemporary Canadian celtic romantic musician
  • Pre-Raphaelite influences: The Bonny Swan, The Lady of Shallot
  • The Mummer’s Dance
  • Long red hair, big red lips, big hands, has a harp = Pre-Raphaelite influence
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Camera Obscura

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  • Optical device where light shines through a hole in a dark room
  • 17th century - Johannes Kepler develops portable camera obscure
  • Camera Lucida - added prism and attaches to a drawing table
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Magic Lantern

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  • Early Slide Projector - burning lime to generate light

- 1900 - becomes a popular means to illustrate songs

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Joseph Nicephore Niepce

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  • 1765-1833
  • First great pioneer of photography
  • Use of silver chloride on the back of the camera obscure
  • Louis Daguerre (1787-1851): Hustler and gallery owner that claims to be the real inventor of photography
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Etienne Jules Marey

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  • 1830-1904

- Photo rifle: photography studies of the running male nude

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Eadward Muybridge and Leland Stanford

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  • Study of whether horse’s feet completely lift off the ground in the 1870s
  • Muybridge: Zoopraxiscope
  • Stanford University
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Strawberry Hill (painting)

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  • Painted by Horris Walpole
  • 1760s
  • Romantic revival style
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Charles Garnier

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  • 1870s
  • Classical style
  • Has columns of different sizes
  • Neo-Baroque Romantic architecture
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Turkish girl (painting)

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  • Romantic style
  • Painted by Angers
  • Neoclassical
  • Exoticism of Turkey
  • Includes Arabic concepts
  • From Pompeii
  • 19th century
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Bougarot

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  • Painted Birth of Venus

- Paintings were sexy

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Lady of Shallot (painting)

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  • Pre-Raphaelite
  • William Waterhouse
  • 1800s
  • Goes by the poem “Lady of Shallot”
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Ophelia (painting)

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  • Based on Shakespeare
  • Pre-Raphaelite work
  • Sir John Everett Millais
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Thomas Edison

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  • Claimed he invented the light bulb but didn’t
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Pablo Picasso

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  • Cubism style - distortion painting - shatter glass and put it all back together
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Expressionist Cubism

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  • Expressionism + Cubism
  • Lionel Finiger
  • Emotionalism
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Mondrion

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  • Interested in modular arrangements
  • Famous in the era of Metropolis
  • Bauhaus
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Burke Williams

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  • Burke Williams
  • First african to use black face
  • 1910s
  • Partner died of syphilis
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Julian Eltinge

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  • cross dresser during Vaudeville times

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