Renaissance Flashcards
Important sponsors of art at this time.
Medici Family
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
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
Early Netherlandish school of painting
Jan van Eyck and van der Weyden
Leuven town hall
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
Detail from Ghent altarpiece
Jan van Eyck
Glazes of oil paint make for translucency, glowing photorealistic quality
St Bavo Cathedral
Ghent
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
Ghent altarpiece
Polyptych (more than three scenes)
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
Vasari
Giorgio Vasari, “Le Vite” (Lives of the Artists)
Biographic accounts.
Pushes forward concept of artist as a genius.
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.
Studies of shoulders and muscles 1510
Leonardo DaVinci
Observation of how muscles work. Studied from corpses.
Studies of Embryo
Leonardo DaVinci
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.
Lady holding a unicorn
Raphael 1505
Inspired by Mona Lisa
Maddalena Strozzi Doni
Raphael 1506
Inspired by Mona Lisa
Sfumato
Italian,“smoky.”A smokelike haziness that
subtly softens outlines in painting; particularly applied to the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio.
Virgin of the Rocks
Leonardo DaVinci
Cavern with Ducks
Leonardo DaVinci
Comparison of scalp skin and onion
Leonardo DaVinci
Deluge
Leonardo DaVinci
Carried over into hair of portraits
Raphael
Balanced compositions
Calm people
Composed people
Rational compositions
Gentle, sweet, unintimidating portraits of women and children
Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael
Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Leonardo DaVinci
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
Michaelangelo’s last judgement
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.
Cangiante
Changing
Utilizing color to color changing
Ignudo / ignudi
The Ignudo is the phrase coined by Michelangelo to describe the twenty seated male nudes he incorporated into the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes.
Sculptural
Michelangelo, The Flood
Too crowded, difficult to understand from below. Michelangelo started making compositions simpler
Libian Sibyl
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Based on male study
Impossible twist and balance
