Test #2 (2.0) Flashcards
Chapters 21 + 22
Florence:
Played the most important role in the development of Renaissance ideas and art forms in the early 15th century.
4th and 15th century painting and sculpture in Italy can be understood as an attempt by artists to capture THIS:
Naturalism.
Naturalism:
Attempt to mimic what you SEE.
*Artists tried to represent on a 2-dimensional surface what is seen by the human eye:
- The EFFECT OF RECEDING SPACE.
- The BULK AND WEIGHT OF FIGURES and objects and THEIR TIE TO GRAVITY.
Tenets of Renaissance Humanism:
- AN EMPHASIS ON EDUCATION and on expanding knowledge (Especially of classical antiquity).
- The EXPLORATION OF INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL and a desire to excel.
- A COMMITMENT TO CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY and moral duty.
The intersection of art with humanist doctrines is evident in the following:
*Popularity of subjects selected from CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY.
*Increased concern with DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE SYSTEMS.
*Concern with depicting ANATOMY accurately.
*Citizens’ extensive commissions of CIVIC AND RELIGIOUS ART.
Sacrifice of Issac:
(THIS IS THE BRONZE ARTWORK WITH THE MULTIPLE FIGURES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODEN WALL)
Created by: LORENZO GHIBERTI
Competition panel for the east doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni
Florence, Italy 1401-1402
Created using Gilded Bronze.
*The nude figure of Issac is the 1st truly ideal Renaissance nude since antiquity.
*Altar on which Isaac kneels emulates antique models.
Saint Mark:
(THIS IS THE WHITE MARBLE STATUE WITH THE WHITE ARCHES AROUND IT)
Created by: DONATELLO
Statue in a niche on the south side of Or San Michele
Florence, Italy 1411-1413
Created using Marble.
*Donatello introduced classical weight shift stance of the ancient Greeks (aka CONTRAPOSTO) into Quattrocento sculpture.
Linear Perspective:
*Created by FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
*Enables artists to determine mathematically the relative size of rendered objects to correlate them with the visual recession into space.
Atmospheric Perspective:
The farther back an object is in space, the blurrier and less detailed it appears.
Donatello’s Bronze David:
Commissioned for the Palazzo Medici courtyard.
David:
(THIS IS THE METAL STATUE WITH ONE OF HIS HANDS ON HIS HIPS, AND A SWORD STABBED IN THE GROUND)
Created by: DONATELLO
Statue in the Palazzo Medici.
Florence, Italy (1440-1460)
Created using Bronze.
*Started the REVIVAL of the FREESTANDING NUDE STATUE:
- 1st Renaissance sculptor to portray the nude male figure in statuary was DONATELLO.
- The invoking of classical poses and formats also appealed to the Medici as HUMANISTS.
REVIVAL of the FREESTANDING NUDE STATUE:
*1st Renaissance sculptor to portray the nude male figure in statuary was DONATELLO.
*The invoking of classical poses and formats also appealed to the Medici as HUMANISTS.
Adoration of the Magi:
(THIS IS THE BIG PAINTING WITH THE GIANT CROWD OF PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT SIDE WALKING TOWARDS MARY AND THE CHRIST CHILD, WITH THE WHOLE PAINTING SURROUNDED BY GOLDEN ARCHES)
Created by: GENTILE DA FABRIANO
Altarpiece from the Strozzi chapel.
Florence, Italy (1423)
Created using Tempera on wood.
*Style is fundamentally International
Gothic BUT Gentile inserted striking NATURALISTIC DETAILS:
- Example: He depicted animals from a variety of angles and foreshortened the forms convincingly.
Tribute Money:
(THIS IS THE PAINTING THE MEN, WITH ROBES, WITH HALOS ON THEIR HEAD, DISCUSSING AND SHAKING HANDS, WITH THE HOUNTAINS IN THE BACK)
Created by: MASACCIO
Mural in the Brancacci chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine.
Florence, Italy (1424-1427)
Created using Fresco technique.
*Masaccio created a sense of bulk in his figures in Tribute Money through modeling with a specific light source that appears to come from OUTSIDE the picture.
REMEMBER DETAILS OF THIS ONE:
Holy Trinity:
(THIS IS THE PAINTING JESUS ON THE CROSS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 4 PEOPLE ACCROSS FROM HIM ON THEIR KNEES, INSIDE OF AN ARCH)
Created by: MASACCIO
Mural inside Santa Maria Novella
Florence, Italy (1424-1427)
Created using Fresco technique.
*Principal Renaissance interests embodied in Masaccio’s Holy Trinity:
1) Naturalism based on observation
2) The application of the new science of PERSPECTIVE
*Coffered barrel-vaulted chapel is reminiscent of a Roman triumphal arch.
Principal Renaissance interests embodied in Masaccio’s Holy Trinity:
1) Naturalism based on observation.
2) The application of the new science of PERSPECTIVE.
*Coffered barrel-vaulted chapel is reminiscent of a Roman triumphal arch.
Dome:
(THIS IS THE DOME LOOKING NORTH OF THE CATHEDRAL OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE)
(DOME WITH RED ROOF ON TOP, WITH A WHITE AND GOLDEN POINT AT THE TOP)
CREATED BY BRUNELLESCHI.
Florence, Italy (1420-1436)
*Brunelleschi solved the problem
of placing a dome over the 140-foot
crossing of Florence’s cathedral by
designing a thin double shell (the first
in history) around a skeleton of
24 ribs.
THE PAINTING WITH THE WOMEN IN THE FOREST PICKING APPLES OFF OF TREES AND TALKING TO EACH OTHER’s Importance:
Botticelli’s work is a testament to the intense interest that Quattrocento humanist scholars and the Medici had in the art, literature, and mythology of the Greco-Roman world.