Renaissance

Question 1

Important sponsors of art at this time.

Answer 1

Medici Family

Question 2

Answer 2

Feast of Herod

Donatello

Bronze relief panel

Narrative told in slipped narative
Varying level of relief between foreground and background / flattened relief
Orthagonals point to wife of King Herod (Herodias) in background

Question 3

Answer 3

David
Donatello
Hollow-cast Bronze in one peice

First free-standing lifesize nude to be cast in the round since antiquity
contrapposto

Androgynous teen state
Toes intertwined with beard
Sensuous
Wiing from goliath’s helmet reaches up David’s inner leg

Question 4

Early Netherlandish school of painting

Answer 4

Jan van Eyck and van der Weyden

Question 5

Answer 5

Leuven town hall

Question 6

Answer 6

The deposition
Van der Weyden
Above an altar
Oil

Contemporary clothing
Gold background - byzantine influence
Shallow
Figures stand to fit within frame

Used stock figure reference drawings
Androgynous hands to show relation between Mary and Jesus

Anti-classicism - emphasis on clothing rather than bone structure and body
Frozen in a moment of lowering body

John and Mary Magdeline act as parenthetical figures

Question 7

Answer 7

Detail from Ghent altarpiece

Jan van Eyck

Glazes of oil paint make for translucency, glowing photorealistic quality

Question 8

Answer 8

St Bavo Cathedral
Ghent

Question 9

Answer 9

Closed Ghent altarpiece

Annunciation when Angel Gabriel to tell Mary she was pregnant in a westwork of a church

Shows basen and preperatory items for mass.

Not as concerned with proportioning figures to space.

Gabriel holds lilies - symbolic of Mary.

Northern - more concerned with textile drapes than anatomy.

Shows couple that commissioned piece

Question 10

Answer 10

Ghent altarpiece

Polyptych (more than three scenes)

Question 11

Answer 11

Virgin and Child
Masaccio
Early Renaissance

Baby looks like a child - humanism
Volumetric body due to draping of clothing
Baby eating grapes references wind / blood of Christ

Question 12

Vasari

Answer 12

Giorgio Vasari, “Le Vite” (Lives of the Artists)

Biographic accounts.

Pushes forward concept of artist as a genius.

Question 13

Answer 13

Vitruvian Man
Leonardo DaVinci

High Renaissance Rationalism.

Expresses the element of classicism. Geometric proportions.

Vitruvius - had idea of anatomical geometry.

Realism, close attention to detail.

Question 14

Answer 14

Studies of shoulders and muscles 1510
Leonardo DaVinci

Observation of how muscles work. Studied from corpses.

Question 15

Answer 15

Studies of Embryo

Leonardo DaVinci

Question 16

Answer 16

Mona Lisa
Leonardo DaVinci

Commissioned upon birth of 2nd son (?)

Guarnello / Guarnelli - protective tunic for dresses, washable. Esp. for when one has a small baby.

Unusual informality, lack of jewelery.

Discontinuity of background.

Question 17

Answer 17

Lady holding a unicorn
Raphael 1505

Inspired by Mona Lisa

Question 18

Answer 18

Maddalena Strozzi Doni
Raphael 1506

Inspired by Mona Lisa

Question 19

Sfumato

Answer 19

Italian,“smoky.”A smokelike haziness that
subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio.

Question 20

Answer 20

Virgin of the Rocks
Leonardo DaVinci

Question 21

Answer 21

Cavern with Ducks
Leonardo DaVinci

Question 22

Answer 22

Comparison of scalp skin and onion
Leonardo DaVinci

Question 23

Answer 23

Deluge
Leonardo DaVinci

Carried over into hair of portraits

Question 24

Answer 24

Raphael

Balanced compositions

Calm people

Composed people

Rational compositions

Gentle, sweet, unintimidating portraits of women and children

Question 25

Answer 25

Madonna of the Meadow Raphael

Question 26

Answer 26

Virgin and Child with St. Anne Leonardo DaVinci

Question 27

Answer 27

Michaelangelo's David 3x life size One of the first completely nude sculptures since antiquity Contropposto Moment before battle Large hands - possibly because statue was intended to be viewed from far Looks out of composition toward Milan Stood outside of city hall

Question 28

Answer 28

Michaelangelo's last judgement

Answer 29

Sistine Chapel Rome Julius II asked Michaelangelo and Raphael to update Sistine chapel Michaelangelo creates trompe l'oeil architectural details on ceiling so he can organize narritive of story down middle. Stages of Grace. Timeline goes from altar to entrance, however Michaelangelo works from entrance to Altar.

Question 30

Cangiante

Answer 30

Changing Utilizing color to color changing

Question 31

Ignudo / ignudi

Answer 31

The Ignudo is the phrase coined by Michelangelo to describe the twenty seated male nudes he incorporated into the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes. Sculptural

Question 32

Answer 32

Michelangelo, The Flood Too crowded, difficult to understand from below. Michelangelo started making compositions simpler

Question 33

Answer 33

Libian Sibyl Michelangelo Sistine Chapel Based on male study Impossible twist and balance