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Iconography

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  • “Writing of images”
  • refers to the content or subject of an piece
  • study of content and symbolism in art
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Scientific/Linear Perspective

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enables artists to mathematically detirmine the relative size of rendered objects to correlate them visually in a piece

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Diminution

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  • occurs in linear perspective

- involves objects becoming smaller and smaller as the space between the viewer and the object increase

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Orthogonal

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-A line imagined to be behind and perpendicular to the picture plane
-orthogonals in a painting appear to recede
toward a vanishing point on the horizon

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Iconology

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-interpretation of art that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical background of themes and subjects in the piece

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Vanishing Point

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-the spot on the horizon line to which the receding parallel lines diminish

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Horizon Line

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  • horizontal line that runs across the paper or canvas to represent the viewer’s eye level
  • where the sky meets the ground
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Contrapposto

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-the standing human figure such that the weight rests on one leg, freeing the other leg, which is bent at the knee

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The Canon

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-a set of rules, principles, or standards accepted as fundamental to artists

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The Great Schism (1053)

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Split Christianity into two divisions:

  • Roman Catholic
  • Eastern Orthodox
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Cimabue

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  • Italian (Florence)
  • Painter
  • 13th/14th century
  • transitional artist (between Medieval and the Renaissance)
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Giotto

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  • Italian
  • Painter
  • 14th century
  • Renaissance style
  • Frescos
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Renaissance Humanism

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  • 14th/15th century Italy
  • focussed on what it is to be human NOT on religion
  • emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge
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Pieta

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  • Pity or Compassion

- Mary sorrowfully contemplating the dead body of her son which she holds on her lap

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Lamentation

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  • depicting the mourning over Christ’s body after it was removed from the cross
  • on the ground
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Buon Fresco

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-wet plaster fresco

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Fresco Secco

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-dry plaster fresco

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The Arena Chapel

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  • Scrovegni Chapel
  • Painted by Giotto
  • Paid for by Enrico Scrovegni
  • Get his father out of purgatory
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Siena Palazzo Pubblico

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  • frescos by Lorenzetti
  • Good and Bad government
  • Siena, Italy
  • Martini
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Patron

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-person who pays for or commissions works of art

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Artists Guilds

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-associations of master craftspeople,

apprentices, and tradespeople

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Artistic Training in Italy

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  • Young boys fathers arrange for them to work under a master for 5-6 years to learn the trade
  • Following their time with the master the boys would join a guild according to what the learned/specialized in
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Duomo

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  • Florence, Italy

- Filippo Brunelleschi

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Campanile

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  • Giotto di Bondone designed

- 1334

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Giorgio Vasari’s “The Lives of the Artists”

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-architect and painter who
trained in Michelangelo’s Florentine workshop
Divided the Renaissance into three ages:
-Cimabue and Giotto
-Quattrocento
-Cinquecento
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Burgundy and Flanders

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  • controlled much of Northern France + Paris
  • Banking
  • Wool
  • Phillip the Bold was a powerful ruler in the 15th century
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Guild of St. Luke

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-guild painters sought to join
-the patron
saint of painters because Luke made a portrait of the VirginMary

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Tempera Painting

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-consists of egg combined with a wet paste of
ground pigment
-have a velvety
sheen
-dry quickly
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Oil Painting

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  • powdered pigments mixed with linseed oil
  • build up deep tones
  • drys slowly
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Master of Flemalle

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  • Robert Campin

- Mérode Altarpiece showing the annunciation

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Altarpiece

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-decorates the space above and behind the altar in a Christian church

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Triptych

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  • work of art that is divided into three sections

- usually a panel painting

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Mérode Altarpiece

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  • Robert Campin

- showing the annunciation

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Jan van Eyck

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  • Netherlandish painter
  • 1395–1441
  • Ghent Altarpiece
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Ghent Altarpiece

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  • oil
  • original sin of Adam and Eve
  • “new realism”
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Giovani Arnolfini

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-Giovanni Arnolfini and
His Wife
-1434
-Oil on wood

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Rogier van der Weyden

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  • known for his portraits
  • shows drama in paintings
  • Deposition
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Deposition

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  • by Rogier van der Weyden
  • triptych
  • agony of loss
  • sorrow
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Martin Schoengauer

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-metal engraver
-Anthony Tormented
by Demons

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Intaglio Printmaking

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artist incises (cuts) the lines on a metal plate

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Sandro Botticelli

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  • 1444–1510
  • mythology
  • painted in the Sistine Chapel
  • The birth of Venus
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The Birth of Venus

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  • Sandro Botticelli

- nude female

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Neoplatonism

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  • distinguishes between spiritual and physical

- made art more realistic

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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-painter
-metal worker
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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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  • painter
  • metal worker
  • Sacrifice of Issac
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Donatello

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  • movement

- contraposto

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The Gates of Paradise

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10 panels showing reliefs depicting an episode from the Old Testament
-Ghiberti

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Mary Magdalene

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  • Jesus’ closest companion

- symbol of heavenly wisdom

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Massaccio

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  • Florentine Painter
  • perspective and naturalism
  • influenced the renaissance
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Brancacci Chapel

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-Massaccio painted “Tribute Money”

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Holy Trinity

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  • in Santa Maria Novella

- shows perspective

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Andrea del Castagno

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  • The Last Supper in Sant’Apollonia

- linear perspective to make 3d visual

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The Last supper

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-Andrea del Castagno
-3d perspective
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Primavera

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  • Sandro Botticelli

- Shows different paths of love violent/faithful

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Engraving

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The process of incising a design in hard material/metal plate
-print or impression made
from such a plate

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Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

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  • Heavy rustication symbolizes strength

- Michelozzo di Bartolommeo

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Leon Battista Alberti

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-architect
-first Renaissance architect
to understand classical architecture

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Perugino’s Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter

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  • axial center

- both 2D and 3D

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Urbino

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-important center of Renaissance
art and culture
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Duke Federico da Montefeltro

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Duke of Urbino
-one of greatest artistic
patrons of the 15th century
-military expertise

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Andrea Mantegna

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  • Lamentation over the Dead Christ

- mastery of perspective

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Lamentation over the Dead Christ

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-made Christs feet small
-did not follow rules of perspective
-emotional
power

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