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Renaissance Flashcards

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Important sponsors of art at this time.

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Medici Family

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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

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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

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Early Netherlandish school of painting

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Jan van Eyck and van der Weyden

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Leuven town hall

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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

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Detail from Ghent altarpiece

Jan van Eyck

Glazes of oil paint make for translucency, glowing photorealistic quality

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St Bavo Cathedral
Ghent

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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

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Ghent altarpiece

Polyptych (more than three scenes)

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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

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Vasari

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

Biographic accounts.

Pushes forward concept of artist as a genius.

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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.

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Studies of shoulders and muscles 1510
Leonardo DaVinci

Observation of how muscles work. Studied from corpses.

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Studies of Embryo

Leonardo DaVinci

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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.

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Lady holding a unicorn
Raphael 1505

Inspired by Mona Lisa

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Maddalena Strozzi Doni
Raphael 1506

Inspired by Mona Lisa

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Sfumato

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

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Virgin of the Rocks
Leonardo DaVinci

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Cavern with Ducks
Leonardo DaVinci

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Comparison of scalp skin and onion
Leonardo DaVinci

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Deluge
Leonardo DaVinci

Carried over into hair of portraits

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Raphael

Balanced compositions

Calm people

Composed people

Rational compositions

Gentle, sweet, unintimidating portraits of women and children

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Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael

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Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Leonardo DaVinci

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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

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Michaelangelo’s last judgement

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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.

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Cangiante

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Changing

Utilizing color to color changing

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Ignudo / ignudi

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

Sculptural

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Michelangelo, The Flood

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

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Libian Sibyl

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel

Based on male study

Impossible twist and balance

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