Test 1 Flashcards
Michelangelo
Last Judgment
Sistine Chapel
1540
About 45 feet high
The world is ending in the painting
Jesus is in the center with Mary next to him
Council of Trent
1540
Council of church officials of how to reform the church
Say what catholic art should be
Michelangelo
David
1500
looks calm
17 feet tall
looks greek influence
Bernini
David
1620
looks like he is moving
life size
Bernini
Pluto and Persephone
1620
Persephone is pushing on pluto’s face
has a base
persephone was captured from the woods
Stefano Maderno
Santa Cecilia
1600
covered the face to look weak
was strangled and found in a home in rome
Bernini
Piazza and Collonade at St Peter’s
1640
held church in the piazza
columns said to be the arms of the church
Bernini
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
1640
angel holding an arrow
on a cloud
theresa claimed to see god a lot
Borromini
San Carlo alle quattro fantane
1640
pretty small church
built in rome
was the first documented artist to commit suicide
has coffers in the dome shape like crosses and hexagons
Raphael
The Entombment
1500
shows christ right after being taken off the cross
atmospheric perspective in the background
Caravaggio
The Entombment
1600
hung right above an alter
no background
holy figures around him
can still see the cross
Gentileschi
Judith Beheading Holofernes
1620
gruesome realism
a lot of blood
Caravaggio
Judith Beheading Holofernes
1600
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Triumph of the name of Jesus
1680
used shadow to show depth
wants to give the illusion of the cieling falling
Francisco de Zurbaran
Crucifixion
1620
4 nails because of the spanish crucifixions
looks strong
Francisco de Zurbaran
Saint Serapion
1620
was a martyr that was hung between the trees and left to die
simple use of color
violent death
Deigo de Velazquez
The Water Carrier
1620
Pieter de Hooch
The Mother
1660
an everday life painting
textural realism
interior shows signs of realism
