quiz 4 Flashcards
Michelangelo was
extremely broody and had exceptional talent. He was different from most artist because he was dictated by wealthy patrons
Who was one of the biggest patrons of the time
The Catholic Church headed by the roman pope
What was the body to Michelangelo
Beautiful in its natural, Spiritual, and philosophical form. The body was the character of the soul
During the High renaissance
Main artist: Leonardo (Florence e Milan)
Michelangelo (Florence and Rome)
Raffaello (Florence and Rome)
Tiziano (Venice)
also Rome acquired a predominate role during this time but Florence remained the Capital City
Leonardo Da Vinchi
He was born in Venice 1452 and died in 1519
He was a man of many trades including : Mathematician, scientist, engineer, painter, sculptor… ext (Renaissance Man)
Leonardo first introduced what
Movement and Breath
Leonardo key traits
-he entered Verrocchio’s workshop at 11
- Inspired to bring innovation to both art and science
- He worked independently
- He believed science was an investigation of nature and art was an expression of beauty
Leonardo believed what
That the eye was the superior organ and painting was a superior art form
Leonardos first work was
The baptism of Christ and had intense detail in the face and human figure: Verrocchio and Leonardo, Uffizi, Florence
Leonardos Annunciation
His first completed work (1473)
He had immense detail
figures looked more relaxed, human like and divine
used sfumato
Sfumato
- without lines or boarders
- very subtle gradation of shadow generation an element of the image
- The movement of light the rests on the bodies
Leonardo had what in his Annunciation work
A supposed perspective error was that Marys arm was too long and unnatural, put its because the right view is to the right and up
Leonardo used what technique
The golden ratio which leads to a sense of balance and harmony: two equal golden rectangles that intersect
Where is the VA in Leonardo’s Annunciation
The mountains right above the village; God is the mountains and human world is the sea, meaning God dominates over the world
What is anamorphosis
a distortion of an image that can only be fully perceived from a certain vantage point
Leonardos Last supper
- 1495-1497
- He tried an experimental technique that ruined his work (Giorgio Vasari) ( A shadow)
- Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie
-tried to recreate an oil painting in a fresco (oil an water don’t mix used oil and tempera which did not do well in the heat and began to flake
The comparisons of Leos and Castagnos last supper
- Judas was easily depicted because he was on the opposite side (C)
- Used the actual scene from the Bible to represent characters (L)
this scene comes out of Lukes chapter “one of his 12 disciples will betray him”
The history of the Last supper
started to deteriorate in 1517
- restored twice in the 18th century
- Napoleons troops used it as a dormitory with no care
- Monks put a door in the middle
- It was bombed
- Last restoration 1999 by a lady took her 20 years
Leos Last supper mathematic and artistic aspects
- The disciples are in groups of three
- The pose and emotions represent psychology
- No light in Judas face because he knows its him
- Body of christ is a triangle and his head(right eye) is the vanishing point
- 4 sets of tapestries and 3 windows
- second window because he’s the second in the trinity
symbolic meaning of numbers
3- holy trinity, sacred and perfect number
4- matter of elements: earth, air, water, fire; humanity
3+4=7 the gift of the Holy Spirit
3x4=12 the # of disciples, hours of day and night, months
Lady with an ermine
1485/90
- The ermine means purity
- innovative Pose was unusual breaking iconography again
- started the rise of portraits
- Beauty came from darkness
- The ermine is Lodivico il Moro ( also the emblems of his)
- Cecilia is depicted in the picture which is his one pure love also ermine in greek is her name
Krakow, Czartorysky Muzeum
The Mona Lisa
1503-1505
- much is unknown about the portrait
- the sitter is thought to be a merchants wife Lisa Gherardini and made for a wedding or birth
- He kept it till his death
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Leos last work in Florence
The Battle of Anghiari was commissioned for Sala del Gran Consiglio with his work on one side and his rival Michelangelo on the other
- He painted the men during battle
- he describes the war as chaos and the men like animals
Louvre Paris
Michelangelo
The divine one “a spirit sent to earth to show the perfection of art”
- believed in the art of renewal
- sculpture is made by the force of removal
- what already in the block of stone
