Exam 1 Flashcards
(48 cards)
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Formal Analysis
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- does not include the subject matter or content
- purely focused on the composition, colors, line, shape, space and texture etc.
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Iconography
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the symbomlism of a work, what do we know about objects within the work and how can that tell us about their meaning?
- Objects that have historical, cultural, or social meaning
- symbols like arrows for st. sebastien or blue and red for the virgin mary
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Iconology
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The interpretation of a work as a product of cultural and historical origin (using symbols and understanding social context)
context is everything
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David (M)
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- Michelangelo
- 1501-1504
- nude sculpture of the biblical figure david with a stone and sling shot
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Giotto Di Bondone
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Florentine that spearheaded the change from the medevial byzantine style to a more realistic style
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Predella
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A band of smaller images placed below a larger image
like Cimabues painting of Mary and Jesus with the four prophets
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Virgin and Child Enthroned (C)
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- Cimabue
- c. 1280
- Italio-byzantine style
- Comissioned for the church of holy trinity
- example of italio-byzantine style with sharp lines for depth and strange proportions on figures and in perspective
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Virgin and Child Enthroned (G)
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- Giotto
- 1305-1310
- example of the new florentine style headed by Giotto, marks a progression towards realism
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Scrovegni Chapel
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- Giotto
- 1305-1306
- Comissioned by Enrico Scrovegni as an atonement for the sin of charging interest on loans
- ceiling painted with ultramarine blue and fresco painted scenes with the life of the virgin mary and jesus
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Buon fresco
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good or true fresco, paintings done on wet plaster (very durable)
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Fresco Secco
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dry fresco, painting on dry plaster (not as permenant)
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Grisaille
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Painting in grey tones to give the apperance of a stone sculpture
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Maesta Alatarpiece
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- Duccio
- 1308-1311
- Comissioned by Siena Cathedral
- conservative aspects, still traditional italio-byzantine style, very ornate, with a predella
- modern day it has been deconstructed
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Frescoes in the Chamber of the Nine
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- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
- 1338-1339
- comissioned by the Sienese 9
- Depicts the effects of good and bad government to serve as a constant reminder to the 9 when they met
- incredible landscape for the time
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Exeter Cathedral
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- Thomas of Witney and Robert Leysngham
- 1313-1317 and 1389-1390
- combination of gothic styles (decorator and perpendicular), complex vaulting and ribbed ceiling
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Vesperbild (Pieta)
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- c. 1330
- painted wood
- Depicts Mary cradling her dead son, scene not described in the bible but depicts divine figures expericing the human emotion of suffering
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Well of Moses
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- Claus Sluter
- 1395-1406
- Comissioned by Philip the Bold for his family monastery/ tomb
- the figures are very real, with faces that actually resemble someone rather than one generic face
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Triptych
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a work of art in three foldable sections
Merode Altarpiece
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January, the Duke of Barry at Table
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- Paul, Herman, and Jean Limbourg
- 1411-1416
- international gothic style
- comissioned by the Duke of Barry
- part of a book of hours
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International Gothic Style
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- Emerged in french courts late 14th and early 15th century
- rich jewel tone colors still with those elongated graceful figures
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Merode Alatarpiece
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- workshop of Master Flemalle
- c. 1425-1430
- triptych
- intuitive perspective
- flemish oil painting
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Intutive perspective
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estimating how objects close and far away might look, not mathematical accuracy
Merode Altarpiece
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Linear perspective
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- developed in italy by Brunelleschi
- mathematically prescicse system for things to look accurately 3D on a 2D plane
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Man in a Red Turban
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- Jan van Eyck
- 1433
- possible self portrait
- super detailed and realistic
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Trompe L'oeil
to fool or decieve the eye by painting something so realistic one could thing its a photograph of the real thing
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foreshortening
when a object is painted head on, you cannot see all of it but you know it's there ( as if they're floating)
- object appears compressed
- object coming out towards viewer or receeding into scene
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Vanishing point
one of the basic elements of linear perspective, a point on the horizon line where all lines meet
- where orthogonals meet
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Orthogonals
one of the basic elements of linear perspective, the diagonal lines that meet at the vanishing point on the horizon line
- create a structural grid
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David (D)
- Donatello
- 1420s-1460s
- comissioned by the medici family
- hollow bronse and copper
- first free standing nude sculpture since antiquity
- emphasis on sensuality and the youthfulness of David
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Double portrait of a Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
- Jan Van Eyck
- 1434
- Comissioned by Giovanni Arnolfini
- lotsssss of symbolism (dog as loyalty, fruit as fertility, etc.)
- oil painting
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Ghent Altarpiece with Annunciation
- Jan and Hubert Van Eyck
- 1432
- comissioned by a wealthy financier, him and his wife are pictured
- closed scene shows the annunciation, open scene shows god, the virign mary, john the baptist, adam and eve
- oil paint
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Depostion
- Rogier Van der Weyden
- 1443
- comissioned by archer guild
- depicts a scene after the crucifiction, good example of balancing figures in a scene
- oil paint
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Woodcut
- relief kind of print making
- image is carved out of surface/ stands out of surface
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Engraving
- design is cut into the surface/ recessed
- uses carving in metal plate to create design
- usually more detailed than woodcuts (ex: cross hatching)
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Humanism
intellecutual movement in the 15th century that focused on a return to Greco-roman empahsis on education and individual potential
| mankind had power over their own existence
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Sacrifice of Issac competition
- Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
- 1401-1402
- bronze reliefs
- competition for the Baptistry of St. John (Ghiberti wins)
- depicts abrahams almost sacrifice of his only son Issac
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Dome of Florence Cathedral
- Brunelleschi
- 1420-1436
- huge engineering challenge
- double shell of masonry and structural ribbing
- not very representative of his roman style
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Interior of San Lorenzo Florence
- Brunelleschi
- 1421-1428
- two toned interior
- more representative of his roman style
- very logical looking interior (sqaure module)
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Intuitive perspective
Kind of guessing how things look from a certain perspective
- not mathematical like linear perspective
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Gates of Paradise
- Ghiberti (winner of competition)
- 1425-1452
- Baptisty of St. John
- continuous narrative
- linear perspective
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The Holy trinity: the Virgin, St. John, and donors
- Masaccio
- 1425-1428
- Comissioned by Lenzi family
- Fresco
- More contemplative crucifixion scene, not at much grief as we have previously seen
- Memento Mori, death awaits us all
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The Brancacci Chapel, The Tribute Money
- Masaccio
- c. 1427
- continuous narrative
- foreshoreting (halos and feet)
- linear perspetive with vanishing point on christ
- contrapposto
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The Last Supper
- Andrea del Castagno
- c. 1447
- Placed in the nuns refectory
- not a completely consistent use of linear perspective
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Refectory
dining hall for nuns
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Battista Aforza and Federico da Montefeltro
- Piero Della Francesa
- c. 1474
- Double donor portrait, made for donors wife who had recently passed
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View of the Camera Picta Ducal Palace
- Mantegna
- One of the first examples in this time of an illusion space (as the walls of the room are not there)
- Depictions of the first eight emperors of Rome
- Trompe l'oeil
- Di sotto in su
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Di sotto in su
"from below upwards"
- creates the illusion that we are looking up from where we stand
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Birth of Venus
- Sandro Botticelli
- 1484-1486
- Comissioned by the Medici family
- rare depiction of a full nude female figure that is not Eve
- attention to detail but not full commitment
