Unit 2 Art Notes - Chapter 1 Flashcards
Quiz
- What event caused devastation and decline in Rome? How were artists effected by the event?
The Sack of Rome (1527)
The impact of the Sack of Rome may displaced many artists and humanists working at the papal court, putting the brutal end of the High Renaissance.
- Who was responsible for a religious revolution that affected Europe? How did the Protestant Reformation effect the career of artists?
Martin Luther is responsible for the Reformation that affected across the Europe.
During the Reformation, all artists have been placed in restriction by changing their specialties, stop creating altogether, or move to find work, and since most artist’s patrons came from the Catholic Church, it made them struggle to continue their craft.
- Why was Palladio a different type of architect?
Palladio was a different type of architect than Renaissance predecessors, like Raphael, because he aspired to an architectural style that used symmetry and proportion to emulate the grandeur of classical buildings.
- How was Titian’s career unlike previous artists? Describe the various textures in Titian’s paintings.
Titian’s longtime career was reconcile to be fame by experimenting his work in many different styles of painting.
Titian’s paintings have several textures he used for his expressive handling of oil paint, dynamic compositions, masterful use of color, and highly naturalistic subject matter. The examples:
1) Allegory of Prudence: Titian lets the rough, visible texture of the canvas show in the background, which affects the visual character of the painting from unblended colors.
2) Isabella d’Este: Titian created texture from the rough surface of the canvas, the contrast of fabric and objects, and paint left visible by not blending his brushstrokes.
3) Pastoral Concert: Sfumato creates a hazy texture that Titian loved to use in his paintings which enhances a sense of mystery about the women.
4) Venus of Urbino: Titian’s textures bounce around from her soft skin, to her hair, flowers, sheets, curtain, and dog fur.
- What is the theme of Pastoral Concert?
The Theme of Pastoral Concert celebrates the physical, sensory beauty of the natural world.
- Is the Venus of Urbino a real woman or imaginary? Use details from the painting to explain your answer.
The Venus of Urbino is a real women, but more likely she represents a generic and idealized female beauty.
All details from this painting were made Titian’s nude more realistic and tempting by creating color contrast with chiaroscuro of her skin from light to dark.
- What are some characteristics of the Baroque style in sculpture and painting? How is it different from Renaissance style?
Some characteristics of the Baroque style in sculpture and painting grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and a tendency to blur distinctions between the various arts.
Baroque art is characterized by emotion with elaborate and dramatic details. It multiple vanishing points and diagonal lines move our eyes in different directions. And, the backdrops are often without many details and has dark colors. Baroque artists used chiaroscuro and tenebrism techniques to manipulate light and color contrasts and add drama to their paintings. It is very likely Titian’s style is the source of influence for this change.
- How are subjects used in Baroque different from the Renaissance period?
Subjects, such as contrast, motion, and depth, were used in Baroque period, while the others from Renassiance period focused on order, balance, symmetry, and parallelism.
- How is chiaroscuro and tenebrism similar but different?
Chiaroscuro and tenebrism both focus on the high contrast between light and dark.
The key difference, however, between chiaroscuro and tenebrism is found in the shadows. Where chiaroscuro uses its light and shadow to create depth behind the subject, tenebrism goes full darkness.
