High Renaissance (1490-1525 CE)

Question 1

The Last Supper

Answer 1

Unusual fresco technique (plaster, oil paint, and tempera)
Who is Judas? No one knows!
The moment where Jesus reveals someone will betray him
Christ is in a perfect circle of calm
Triangle formation
Coffered ceiling lines up with Jesus’s head
Symmetry (three windows in back = the holy trinity)
Rational space
Humanizes the divine (no iconography)
Fictional space that expands into a real space through perspective (they are with you)
Eyes are following you (use of light, chiaroscuro)

Question 2

Adam and Eve

Answer 2

Ox (phlegm, lethargy, sloth)
Elk (bile, melanholy, sad) (bile, caloric, grumpy)
Parrot (Satan)
Mouse (being stepped on, Devil, mouse trap)
Tree of knowledge
Scene before fall from garden
Print
4 humors (need to be balanced, became out of balance after the fall)

Question 3

Sistine chapel

Answer 3

Illusional framework
Style changes (experimental)
Simplified bodies
Sculptural l
Masculine
Stories of Genesis (the flood, etc.)
Spandrels (prophets that foretold Jesus)
In the midst of painters vs. sculptors fight (HMS internal struggle) (pushed out better art)

Question 4

School of Athens

Answer 4

Classical Roman architecture
Sculptures of gods
Composition (ellipsis, oval shaped, commentary about where to find the truth, vanishing point between Plato and Aristotle)
Each wall represents a humanist learning (philosophy, poetry, religion, law)
Puts lots of people who existed in separate times together
Philosophers, painters, sculptors

Question 5

Isenheim altarpiece

Answer 5

Compare to rottgen pieta!
Gruesome
Crucifixion
Looks like how the patients with ergotism
feel
Panels show amputation (connects to viewer)
Christ isn’t immune to suffering
Inspires hope through survival
Salvation after suffering
Signs of death (rigor mortis, decomposition, blue lips, ripping of arms)
Wounds
Night time (not like normal daytime depictions, increases emotional impact)
Christ on the cross, Mary being supported by John, Mary magdalene, sacrificial lamb
Saint Anthony (ergotism)
Saint Sebastian (plague)

Question 6

Adam and Eve IDs

Answer 6

Albrecht Durer
1504 CE
High Renaissance
Engraving

Question 7

Sistine chapel IDs

Answer 7

Vatican City, Italy
Michelangelo
1508-1541 CE
High Renaissance
Fresco

Question 8

School of Athens IDs

Answer 8

Raphael
1509-1511 CE
High Renaissance
Fresco

Question 9

Isenheim altarpiece IDs

Answer 9

Matthias Grunewald
1525-1528 CE
High Renaissance
Oil on wood

Question 10

High renaissance style

Answer 10

“Renaissance man” (jack of all trades)
Humanism!
Perfected linear perspective (depth)
Scientifically accurate bodies
Beauty ideals slowly leak back

Question 11

The Last Supper IDs

Answer 11

Leonardo da Vinci
1494-1498 CE
High Renaissance
Oil and tempera