Feb 10 Quiz Flashcards
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Medici Family
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- Late 14th-15h century
- Patrons of renaissance Florence
- Wealthy family
- largest art patrons
- spent money on buildings, paintings, and sculptures.
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Importance of Early Renaissance Florence
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- 1385- Masaccio carries Giottos naturalism further in frescoes
- Brunelleschi develops linear perspective & designs Ospedale degli Innocenti
- 1450- Johannes Gutenburg invents movable type and prints first Bibles in letterpress
- 1475- Late Gothic styles stay in Germany in large wood retables of Tilman Riemenscheider
- Alberti publishes treatise in architecture
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Jan van Eyck
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- Invented Oil Painting
- 1390-1441
- Philip the Goods court painter
- Made Ghent Alterpiece
- Placed studio in Bruges
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Arnolfini Wedding
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- Jan Van Eycks oil painting
- Lucca financier & wife in mundane/spiritual setting
- Every object carries meaning
- Dog symbolizes fidelity
- Contained traditional Flemish customs
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Linear Perspective & Atmospheric Perspective
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- Linear Perspective: made by Filippo Brunelleschi
- Enables artists to determine mathematically the relative size of rendered objects to correlate them w/ visual recession into space.
- Creates illusionistic space
- Atmospheric Perspective: relies on optical (p) enomena
- Farther back object is blurry and less detailed
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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- 1377-1446
- Used French Gothic quatrefoil
- Demonstrated biblical narrative in art
- Sacrifice of Issac (1401-1402)
- Created linear perspective
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High Renaissance
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- Quarter century between 1495 &1520
- Classical culture
- Proportion
- Perspective
- Human anatomy
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Mona Lisa
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- World’s famous portrait
- Lisa di Antonio Maria Gherardini
- Translated “My lady Lisa”= Mona Lisa
- She doesn’t show trappings of power.
- 1503-1505
- Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Smokey eyes in the back = Sfumato
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Raphael
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- Real name is Raffaello Santo(Sanzio)
- 1483-1520
- Learned fundamental of art from his father
- Influenced by Perugino and Leonardo
- Ideals of High Renaissance Art
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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- 1452-1519
- Known as “Renaissance Man”
- Used bio, zoology, geology etc to inform art.
- Paintings used to discover laws in underlying processes and fluxes of nature
- Studied human body and mind
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Michelangelo
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- Received most coveted commissions from Julius II
- 1475-1564
- Considered sculpting superior to radiance it shares divine power to make man
- Pieta 1498-1500
- Statue of David 1501-1504
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Madonna in the Meadow
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- 1505-1506
- Made by Raphael
- Adopted Leonardos pyramidal composition
- Pertained Peruginos lighter formalities
- Unify Christian devotion and classical beauty
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Counter Reformation
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- Started by Paul III 1534-1549
- Based in Holy Roman Empire
- Est. Of Protestantism
- Lead by Catholic Church
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Mannerism
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- challenged Renaissance naturalism after Raphael died
- Technical and Aesthetic
- Works of Pontormo, Parmigianino, Bronzino
- Giovanni de Bologna uses Spiral compositions
- Fingertip is leading Venetian Mannerist painter
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Giulio Romano
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- 1499-1546
- Applied mannerist architecture
- Made Palazzo del Te (1530-1540)
- Made art for Duke Federigo Gonzaga
- Only highly sophisticated observers can appreciate his witticism
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Baroque Art
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- 17th century European Art
- Baroque came from Portuguese word Baroco
- Irregularly shaped pearl
- Used to describe distinctive new styles that emerged early 1600
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1732-1836
| - Painter of the Rococo style Watteau
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The Enlightenment
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Early Slide Projector - burning lime to generate light
| - 1900 - becomes a popular means to illustrate songs
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
- 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
- 1830-1904
| - Photo rifle: photography studies of the running male nude
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Eadward Muybridge and Leland Stanford
- 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)
- Painted by Horris Walpole
- 1760s
- Romantic revival style
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Charles Garnier
- 1870s
- Classical style
- Has columns of different sizes
- Neo-Baroque Romantic architecture
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Turkish girl (painting)
- Romantic style
- Painted by Angers
- Neoclassical
- Exoticism of Turkey
- Includes Arabic concepts
- From Pompeii
- 19th century
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Bougarot
- Painted Birth of Venus
| - Paintings were sexy
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Lady of Shallot (painting)
- Pre-Raphaelite
- William Waterhouse
- 1800s
- Goes by the poem "Lady of Shallot"
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Ophelia (painting)
- Based on Shakespeare
- Pre-Raphaelite work
- Sir John Everett Millais
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Thomas Edison
- Claimed he invented the light bulb but didn't
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Pablo Picasso
- Cubism style - distortion painting - shatter glass and put it all back together
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Expressionist Cubism
- Expressionism + Cubism
- Lionel Finiger
- Emotionalism
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Mondrion
- Interested in modular arrangements
- Famous in the era of Metropolis
- Bauhaus
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Burke Williams
- Burke Williams
- First african to use black face
- 1910s
- Partner died of syphilis
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Julian Eltinge
- cross dresser during Vaudeville times
