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Late Renaissance Art Flashcards

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First appeared in Florence / Rome - 1520

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Mannerism

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1520 - 1580 : Italy

1520 - 1600 : Northern Europe

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Mannerism

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Mannerism style

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Anti-classical

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Mannerism arose with what major event during the time period?

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Protestant Reformation

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Style / manner in which an artwork is done

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Mannerism

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Exaggerated poses - unrealistic settings - artificial colors

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Characteristics of mannerism

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Unrealistic proportions - off-beat perspectives - complex compositions

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Characteristics of mannerism

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Elongated figures / limbs - eerie images - bizarre themes

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Characteristics of mannerism

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Emotional appeal - compositional instability - theatrical lighting - precariously balanced

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Characteristics of mannerism

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1527 - 1593 : known for creating imaginative portrait heads

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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Some critics consider his portraits product of deranged mind - other believe he was connected with Renaissance fascnination with riddles / puzzles / the bizarre

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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Most well known portraits of Arcimboldo

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The Seasons

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In addition to painting, Arcimboldo created these

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Stained glass

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Extremely famous during his lifetime - influenced surrealists like Dali - most original of late Renaissance painters - reputation unexplainably fell off after death

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Arcmboldo

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Pictures whose subjects were created from other forms

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Grotesque painting

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1590 - 1591 : head / shoulder portrait of Emporer Rudolph of Vienna - one of two most famous portraits

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Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)

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Ancient roman god of vegetation and transformation

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Vertumnus (Arcimboldo)

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1573 : portrays hypothetical face with most typical elements of seasons to create image

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The Four Seasons (Arcimboldo)

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1573 - comprised of flowers

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Spring (The Four Seasons - Arcimboldo)

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1573 - fruit face - wheat body - artist’s name in collar - date of painting on shoulder

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Summer (The Four Seasons - Arcimboldo)

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1573 - fallen leaves - fruits - mushrooms - other vegetables - torso from wooden planks

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Fall (The Four Seasons - Arcimboldo)

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1573 - bark - branches - fruits - fallen leaves

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Winter (The Four Seasons - Arcimboldo)

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1541 - 1614 : born in Crete - moved to Spain in 1570’s

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Last Manneristic painter - works mainly religious and portraits

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Intensely emotional - form dematerialized - color important - strong sense of movement - elongated distortion - flickering light

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Characteristics of El Greco

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1 of 2 surviving landscapes - applauded for depiction of design - sharp contrast between hills and sky - stormy and calm achieved simultaneously - Mannerist tension

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View of Toledo (El Greco)

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Christ holds white victory banner - guards scatter - no view of tomb / landscape (removes painting from historical accuracy) - elongated figures - dramatic

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Resurrection (El Greco)

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Painted during last years - Revelation 6:9-11 - souls of persecuted martyrs cry out to God for justice upon Earthen persecution - St. John dominated - naked souls write - emotional anticipation of receiving white robes of salvation

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Opening of the 5th Seal (El Greco)

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Greek myth - View of Tolado in the background - figures ghostly white / elongated - writhing in pain / fear - additional bystanders on R side

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Lacoon and Sons

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1494 - 1540 : nickname = Red Florentine - went to France in 1527 and remained there until death - supposedly committed suicide

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Rosso Fiorentino

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Real name of Rosso Fiorentino

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Giovanni di Jacopo

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Real name of El Greco

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Domenikos Theotocopoulos

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Action hurried and complicated - figures simble but forcelful expressions of grief - sky somber - 3 ladders used to remove Christ from cross - balance of men on ladders precarious - Christ’s skin sallow - acid colors - nightmarish qualities - figures crowded into tight compositions - little open space (sometimes said to represent emptiness that Mary feels at loss of her son)

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Descent From Cross (Fiorentino)

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1503 - 1540 : nickname = “Little one from Parma” - work focused on eroticism / unusal perspective / elongation of human figures

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Parmigianino

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Real name of Parmigianino

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Girolamo Francesco Mazzola

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Lost favor with Catholic church after Madonna with the Long Neck - fascinated with magic / magicians - showed signs of insanity priory to death

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Parmigianino

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Begun in 1534 - remained unfinished - Mary portrayed on high pedestal swathed in luxurious robes - baby Jesus and Mary grossly unproportional - person in right corner = St. Jerome announcing birth of Christ

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Madonna with the Long Neck

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1518 - 1594 : real name - Jacapo Comin - nickname - little dyer - rarely left Venice

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Tintoretto

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Nickname of Tintoretto - given because of the energy he put into painting

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Ill Furioso

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1594 - one of 8 versions of his Last Supper’s - smoky / distorted color - human figures joined by angels - servants in foreground - dramatic use of light

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Last Supper (Tintoretto)

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1575 - Powerful composition - Peter at center and not Christ - elongated figures - psychological tension

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Christ at the Sea of Galilea (Tintoretto)

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1529 - 1608 : French man that moved to Italy - best known of the Mannerist sculptors - worked in bronze / marble - known for sense of action / movement - sculptures appear to defy gravity

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Giovanni Bologna

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Real name of Giovanni Bologna

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Jean Boulogne

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1574 - father cowers at bottom while muscular figure carries woman away - figures interwoven into spiral composition - one piece of marble - fluid / anatomical accuracy - meant to be viewed from all angles

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Rape of Sabine Woman (Bologna)

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1503 - 1572 : real name was Agnolo di Cosimo - nicknamed for his dark complexion which suggests that he suffered from Addison’s disease (excessive pigmentation)

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Agnolog Bronzino

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Received Medici patronage - became official court painter for Duke de Medici - formal portraits - minute details - Allegorical works

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1470 - 1578 : German - real name unknown - only 10 paintings and 35 drawings survived - most famous work was Isenheim Alterpiece

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Part of Isenhim Alterpiece

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Crucifixion (Grunewald)

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1500 - 1571 : major artist of Mannerist era - juvenile delinquent - well-known to authorities by 16 - major artistic area was goldsmithing

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Benvenuto Cellini

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Dark / somber imagry and themes

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Subject heavily muscled / powerful body - holds severed Gorgon head - bronze - work suggested by Duke Cosimo 1 de Medici - masterpiece

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Perseus Holding Head of Medusa (Cellini)

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