Module 5.2 Flashcards
- Began after the Bubonic plague in the 14th and 15th centuries and was fueled by soldiers returning from the Crusades.
- There was a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art.
- Human beings were included in artwork.
- Artwork was no longer just depictions in holy topics.
Renaissance Period
- This was a time of rebirth, revival of learning, and renewed cultural awareness mostly in Europe.
- The focus of study shifted from Theology (symbolic) to Humanities(emotion-filled)
Renaissance
- This family helped with the rebirth of
Europe.
Medici Family
- Invented by Filippo Brunelleschi, it is a mathematical system used to create the illusion of space and distance on a flat surface.
- Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi demonstrated its principles.
Linear Perspective
- Created the first free-standing statues of the Renaissance, independent of architecture or decoration.
Donatello
- In the mid 15th century, the Renaissance movement had spread throughout Europe.
- However, Italy was still at the heart of this cultural rebirth and it continued to produce ingenious artists like Mantegna, Antonella da Messina, and Botticelli
NOTE
- Is one of the champions when it comes to perspectives
Paintings:
- St. James Led to His Execution
- San Sebastian
- Lamentation Over the Dead Christ
Andrea Mantegna
- Made his portraits so perfect that they give the illusion of life.
- Particularly careful of perspective, His painting is characterized by strong colors and precision of architectural forms
Paintings:
Portrait of a Man
Antonella da Messina
- Had a sophisticated understanding of perspective, anatomy and humanism.
- His Birth of Venus (circa 1485) and Primavera (1477-78) are often said to epitomize for modern viewers the spirit of the Renaissance.
Sandro Boticelli
- The essential feature of this period of art was its unity
- Paintings invoked increasing dramatic force with human forms becoming so life-like
High Renaissance
- He is known as a sculptor and his two greatest works are the Pieta and David.
- Things changed for the sculptor when he was asked by Pope Julian II to do fresco on the ceiling of the
Sistine chapel.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
- He epitomized the renaissance humanistic ideal
- He wanted to know the working of everything he saw in nature and filled more than 4,000 pages of notebooks with detailed diagrams and observations
Leonardo da Vinci
- A method of using hue, value, and intensity to show distant objects in landscape painting
- To make it look three dimensional, objects farther back in space overlap each other.
- They also appear bluer, lighter, and duller than the objects close at hand
Atmospheric Perspective
Famous paintings During Renaissance
Da Vinci’s Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, Wife of Francesco del Giocondo is considered the prototype of the Renaissance portrait.
Mona Lisa
Famous paintings During Renaissance
A painting (1505) that is truly “classical” in the sense that it has served countless generations as a standard of perfection.
Madonna del Granduca
- She is best known for her Portraiture
- Typical to her work are the natural pose, expressive eyes and the fine details
- Her paintings were said to be so lifelike that the only thing lacking is speech.
Sofonisba Anguissola
- He was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges
- He is one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting
- He is one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.
Jan van Eyck
- It was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era.
- It all started when Martin Luther created the 95 theses, which contained all the propositions against the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
- An artist who also stirred far from theological themes.
Peter Paul Rubens
- His paintings focuses on emotionally-charged subjects, and made more exciting by the use of dramatic lightning.
- His technique of painting is called Chiaroscuro
Rembrandt van Rijn
As the Renaissance began, they were able to establish the three
forms of drama:
Tragedy
Comedy
Pastoral
When the protagonist does not achieve his goal.
Tragedy
When the protagonist is able to achieve his goal
Comedy
Stories about love affairs of shepherds, nymphs, satyr, and the like in a rural setting
Pastoral
-Tried to recreate Greek tragedies, through the form of a chorus and solo singing, dancing, and deriving plots from mythology.
Florentine Camerata
- believed that the chants of the gods were sung
Camerata Academy
new form of Art
Opera
- During this period, artists were asked to create works that would bring about a renewal of religious spirit.
- They responded with a new style of art that featured action and drama
- It is an art style that emphasized movement, contrast and variety
Baroque Art
- Is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church
Baroque Architecture
- These painting became a trend during the seventeenth century. Most of them manifest contemporary scenes such as the buildings, river craft, modern means of land transportation, etc.
Landscape paintings
- one of the most gifted painters of still life during this period
- His sense of composition was no less sure that his illusionistic skill, enabling him to create sumptuous, restful harmonies of shapes, colors, textures, reflections and transparencies.
Willem Kalf
