Final Flashcards
Jan van Eyck, Double Portrait: traditionally identified as Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami
- Renaissance Art
Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annuniaction)
- Renaissance Art
- Religious scene taken place in every day surronding
- Small image of Christ child is shown coming through the window
- Was used as a small altar piece within the home
- 3 panels with hinges holding them together
Paul, Herman, and Jean Limbourg, Page with February, Tres Riches Heures
- Renaissance Art
- Illuminated manuscript
- Calender page that appears in prayer book
- Shows the month of february
Martin Schongauer, Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Renaissance Art
- Engraving- image inscribed with sharp tool into a metal plate
- metal plate coated with ink, and used to make a print
- allows for multiple copies
Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrific of Isaac (Right)
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac (Left)
- Renaissance Art
- Panels created are two finalists in a competition to decorate the doors of the Baptistery in Florence, Italy
- Ghiberti’s design wins: male body looks back to classical art design uses less metal
Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and donors, 1425-1428
- Renaissance Art
- Use of linear perspective to show depth
- fresco painting with wet plaster
Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504
- Renaissance Art
- Larger in size
- more masculine body and pose
- made of marble
- shown in the moments before battle
Donatello, David, 1450s or 60s
- Renaissance Art
- more youthful shown as adolescent
- made of bronze
- smaller in size
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c.1484-84
- Renaissance Art
Raphael, School of Athens, 1510-1511
- Renaissance Art
- Painted for the pope’s library in rome
- shows imaginary gathering of philosophers - Plato, Aristotle at center
- shows influence of Greek and roman sculpture and architecture
Michelangelo, Pieta, c1500
- Renaissance Art
- marble
- michelangelo signed the strap on Virgin Mary’s chest
- create this piece when he was 25
- Pieta - scene of Mary supporting and morning over Christ’s dead body
Interior Sistine Chapel, Built 1475-1481
- Renaissance Art
- ceiling and back wall painted by Michelangelo
- ceiling shows scenes from the old testament - creation of Adam. Temptation and expulsion of Adam and Eve
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
- Renaissance Art
Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623
- Baroque Art
- Shows a moment of action - David launches the slingshot
- Use a dramatic twisting pose
- shows motion and struggle through facial expression
- marble
Caravaggio, The calling of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600
- Baroque Art
- Characteristics of Baroque art:
- Dramatic use of light
- emotional expressions
- theatricality
Diego Velazques, Las Meninas ( The maid of honor) 1656
- Baroque style
- Velazquez painter for the spanish court
- See the artist at work and the princess and her maids
- Queen and King may appear in the mirror reflection at back
- Ambiguity/ unclear- what is the artistis painting? King and Queen or princess and her maids
Rembrandt van Rijn, The night Watch, 1642
- Baroque style
- Designed for a town hall in Amesterdam
- Shows the dutch military preparing for a parade
- Painting was cut down from it’s origional sizes, pieces on sides were lost
- Scene actually takes place during the day, it was thought to be a night scene because the painting had been covered with dust and a dark vanish
Peter Paul Rubens, The raising of the cross 1611-12
- Baroque style
- 3 part canvas (triptych)
- Use of strong diagnals in the competition
- Crowd reactsemotionally to the crucifiction
Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
- Baroque style
- One of the only works Vermeer created
- Small size 16x15
- Painting of the last judgment in the background gives religious meaning to woman holding the scale
- Was restored and gold bands on right side of the frame became visible
- Genre scene - scene from everyday life
Jacques-Louis, Oath of the Horatti, 1784-85
- Neoclassical
- Fetures of the neoclassical style:
- Balanced composition: groups of figures placed within 3 arches
- References to Roman and Greek cultures
- Crisp style with no visible brush marks
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Large Odalisque 1814
Neoclassical: Interest in lines, no visible brush marks
- Fantasy vision of a turkish Harem and near east art.
- Chinese curtain and peacock feather fan
Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the “Medusa”, 1818-1819
- Romantic Style
- Qualities of romantic style:
- Interest in gore, danger, fear and dramatic scene
- Emphasis on emotion and action
- Shows a ship wreck of the medusa, castways on a raft turn to cannibalism to survive.
- Rescue ship has been spotted on the horizon
Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper
- Renaissance Art
- painted with oil on smooth plaster - experimental technique that has not held up well, painting has been restored many times
- shows the moment when Christ announces that someone will betray him
- disciples react individually, arranged in groups of 3
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty leading the people, 1830
- Romantic Style
- enphasis on emotion or action, feelings of fear and disgust
- scene of the revolution/ uprising in France
- pyramid composition
- woman figure, muscular, strong and symbol of liberty
- workers and middle class come together in revolution
Francisco Goya, Third of May, 1808
- Romantic Style
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836
- Romantic Style
- American painter
- theme of the thunderstorm - danger and excitement, power of nature
- Left side of the painting is wild, untamed - the right side is orderly with plowed field and little farms
Great Stupa, India, erected 3rd century enlarged 150-50 bce
- Asian Art
- structure contains sacred relics of buddha
- you do not enter the stupa, but worship by walking around it
- enter through monumental gateways
- gate decorated with the yakshi figure - female spirit symbol of fertility
Fan Kuan, Travelers Among Mountains and Streams, early 11th century
- Asian Art
- chinese painting ink on silk
- uses a scroll format
- pictures the landscape in 3 sections
- does not use linear perpective to show depth
Head, Nok. 14 3/16”
- African Art
- from nigeria
- made of clay (terracotta)
- part of a larger figure that was broken a part by flood waters
- wholes in eyes, nose and mouth - created to allow air to circulate when the head was fired
- feathers attached to small holes at the top of the head
Hip mask representing an lyoba (queen mother)
- African Art
Power Figure (kongo culture 19th cenntury)
- African Art
Ceremonial center of the city of Teotihuacan, Teotihucan culture
- Art of the Americas
Shaman with Drum and Snake, Diquis culture, 4x3
- Art of the Americas
Fang Ding, Shang Dynasty, 12th.c bce, China
- Asian Art
