Art Final- Renaissance Flashcards
(16 cards)
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Early Italian Renaissance
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- Florence
- Patron: Medici bankers
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Giotto
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- precursor/ initiator to Renaissance Style
- used correct proportion
- abandoned the Byzantine style
- graphic details (bold outlines, sharp details)
- tells a story
- paid attention to detail
- fresco at Arenal Chapel (Northern Italy)
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Donatello
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- David
- first of 3: Michelangelo, Bernini
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Ghiberti
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- bronze reliefs
- Gates of Paradise (Florence Cathedrals)
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Brunelleschi
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- The Dome of the Florence Cathedral
- linear perspective, vanishing point
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Botticelli
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- egg tempera
- pagan/ Christian themes
- Birth of Venus, Rite of Spring
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High Renaissance
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- Patron: Pope
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Leonardo
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- Renaissance Man
- Mona Lisa and Last Supper
- notebooks
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Michelangelo
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- David (classical) and Sistine Chapel
- Pieta
- sculptor
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Raphael
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- Madonnas
- School of Athens
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Northern Renaissance
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- North of Alps (Flanders, Belgium), Germany, Holland
- patrons: wealthy merchants, nobles
- perfections, invention of oil paint (jewel like, luminous color)
- invisible brushstroke, details, realism
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Van Eyck
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Perfected and invented oil paint
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Durer
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- first documented self portrait
- signs his works
- etching and woodcuts
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Breugel
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- genre scenes, peasants
- everyday life
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Hidden Symbolism
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Hidden to us who are unfamiliar of the customs that were common in their era
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Atmospheric Perspective
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A gradual decrease in the intensity of color and value in the contrast of light and dark as objects get farther away
