The rebirth of art Flashcards
The renaissance period came after the ___________________.
middle ages
This country played a pivotal role in the emergence of the Renaissance style of visual and decorative art in the last part of the 14th century.
Italy
Also known to reflect the splendor of individual experience and beauty of nature.
Renaissance
Renaissance art became a major inspiration for the Grand tour, and it was a dominant style until ___________________ and the ________________ challenged its dominance.
Pablo Picasso and Cubist movement
The early forms of Renaissance art evident in the late ___ and ___ centuries were called “____________________.”
13th, 14th, proto-renaissance
Both of these writers had high regard for languages, values, and intellectual traditions that went stagnant long after the Roman empire fell in the sixth century.
Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio
A painter from Florence, was the most noteworthy Proto-renaissance artist. He became famous for his advanced techniques and realistic representations of the human body.
Giotto di Bondone
The frescoes in the cathedrals at Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples was claimed to be Giotto’s works. True or False?
False. Giotto having made these frescoes remain to be unverified up to this day.
It became the site of a renewed interest for philosophy, religion, and art reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome.
Florence
He became famous for his frescoes of a church and a chapel in Florence, Holy trinity in the Church of Santa Maria Novella and the Brancacci Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine.
Tommaso di Ser Giovanni “Masaccio” di Simone
In the latter part of the 17th century, Florence was slowly losing its position as the principal center of Renaissance art in Italy. True or False?
False. It was during the latter part of the 15th century.
He was also known for his mastery of oil painting.
Leonardo da Vinci
He was probably the finest painter of the High Renaissance.
Raffaello “Raphael” Sanzio da Urbino
Known for his illusionistic Assumption of the Virgin at the Parma Cathedral.
Antonio da Correggio
The leading architect during the High Renaissance.
Donato Bramante
He made a name for himself for his murals found at some portions of the Sistine Chapel and for his frescoes at the Orvieto Cathedral.
Luca Signorelli
He was believed to be a great influence on Michelangelo.
Luca Signorelli
High Renaissance was “the culmination of all Italian art, a process that began with Giotto in the late 13th century.” Who wrote this and what book was this written in?
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Book: Lives of the most Eminent painters, sculptors, and architects
This artistic style focused on artificiality, as opposed to the idealized naturalism of High Renaissance art.
Mannerism
Mannerist style, as described by Vasari, is merely “a bridge between idealized style of _________________ and the dramatic theatricality of the ________.
Renaissance art, Baroque
The effect that is achieved through ________________ can be likened by looking through a window and painting what you see on the window pane exactly how you see it.
Linear perspective
This refers to the point at which parallel lines appear to converge far in the distance, often on the horizon line.
Vanishing point
This may be understood as the line representing the viewer’s eye level.
Horizon line
_________ was observable in architectural forms and specific shapes, and styles were used that characterized the period.
Symmetry
