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MICHELANGELO, MANNERISM AND THE NATURALIST TURN Flashcards

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HIGH RENAISSANCE : key take away point

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  • artists rejuvenate measured, formulaic art with nature and represent the ideal
  • interest in natural movement and psychology of figures in tuscany; landscape and dramatic light effects from venic
  • imagination of the artist foregrounded
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where is the idea of landscape and dramatic light effects derived from

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venic

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where is movement and emphasis of psychological figures derived from

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tuscany

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what is Maniera art?

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  • “stylish” art interested in its own artifice and visual elegance
  • breaking rules of classical high renaissance and rationality
    imaginative departures from the model of nature
  • an emphasis of personal style and invention
    -erudite and mysterious & obscure iconography
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KEY FIGURES

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Ludovico Caracci

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Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

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Discovery of the body of Saint Mark (1562-6)

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what defines a style

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formal characteristics
worldview
social role or use of art

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what did people think of mannerism until the early 20th century

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shit

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Important historical events

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CIRCA 1500 A changing World

1492: western europe encounters the America
1512: copernican Revolution
1517: Protestant Reformation
1527: sack or Rome (devasation of Rome)
1545: council of trent (embodiment of counter-reformation)

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key figures

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michelangelo
Parmigianino
Pontormo 
tintoretto 
el greco 
bronzino 
Giuseppe Arcimnboido
Annibale Caracci (naturalism)
ludovicco Cracci (naturalism)
Caravaggio  (naturalist)
Carlo Saranceni (naturalist)
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michelangelo

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David 1504
tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici 1519-33
Doni Tondo 1507
Sistine Ceiling 1508

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what did David symbolize

what does his sling indicate

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florentine independence and patriotism

sole indication of the indentity of David, anticipation of action, spying his enemy

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what does davids’ oversized hands represent

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anatomical precision but shown unidealization with veins, tensed for action

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“difficultà”

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Self-conscious complexity in order to demonstrate technical mastery:

spatial ambiguity
three dimensionality of a sculpture
ambiguous iconography
theological inteperetation

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what is the sistine chapel represent

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last judgement

emphasis of foreshortening

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what does the nude represent in the sistine chapel

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nude replaces the angel as intermediary between the divine and terrestrian

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Parmigianino

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Madonna of the Long neck 1535-40

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Pontormo

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the deposition 1526-28

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how can u spot mannerist art

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spatial ambiguity 
elongated figures 
visual elegance of color
anatomy isnt as emphasized 
supernatural intensity
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tintoretto

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The last supper 1592-94

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el greco

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the vision of st. john 1609-14

the burial of the count of orgaz (1541-1614)

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Bronzino

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venus, cupid, folly and Time 1545

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Giuseppe Arcimnboido

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Holy Roman Emperor Rodolph II as Vertumnus 1590

The Four seasons

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What does the four seasons represent

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corresponding to the aging of man

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Historical Context: what was the reaction to mannerism?

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Protestant Reformation 1517

Council of Trent 1545

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Ludovico Caracci

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The annuciation (1583-84)
the bean eater (1583-84)
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why was the bean eater by Ludovico Caracci important?

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showed no deep background, the content and figure represent the everyday

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Annibale Caracci

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drawing with setting sun (1590-1605)
River landscape 1590
the butcher shop 1582-83

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Naturalrnist turn

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Rejection of Mannerism
- visual immediacy. deliberate coarseness
mannerists would detest because of the lack of elegance and imagination
-real depictions, bodily empathy

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Caravaggio

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the fortune teller 1595
Deposition 1602-04
the death of the virgin (1602-04)

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Carlo Saranceni

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Dormition of Virgin 1608 (passing of the virgin from earthly life)

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