Final Flashcards by Nicole Cote

St Martin’s Cross

8th C

Grey epidiorite

Iona, Scotland

circle is structural and symbolic (halo, eternity)

made of a single block

lions, serpent, virgin and child. bible stories

intertwined

animal style

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Cross Page, Lindisfarne Gospels

c. 700 AD
Tempera on Vellum

Insular/celtic

animal syle

intertwined

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Chi Rho Page, Book of Kells

c. 800 AD

Vellum

4 gospels in Latin

“Examine it carefully and you will penetrate the very shrine of art” Giraldus de Barri in Honor and Fleming (320).

Insular style

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Animal Head, Oseberg Ship Burial

c. 825 AD

wood

animal style

pagan

intertwined

gravesite

buried boat

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Purse Cover,

Sutton Hoo Burial

7th c.

gold with garnets, mosaic, gold filigree

intertwined animals

knotwork

metalwork

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Bronze doors with scenes from the old and new testaments

c. 1015

St. Michael’s

Hildesheim Germany

(Located in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Hildescheim).

lost wax casting

4.5 m

cast in 1 piece

bold relief

bronze

cain, abel, eve —– mary and jesus

*ADVERTISING

*PROPAGANDA

bible scenes

adam and eve

ascension

fall and redemption when entering church

8 scenes on each door

genesis on l reading top down

gospels on r reading down to top

pairing redemption with fall

nudity not at all like classical - just nude because they had to be not to celebrate it

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Bernward’s column

c. 1015

St. Michael’s Hildesheim

originally topped with silver cross.

relief spiral- 24 scenes

triumph and fulfilment of christ’s life on earth

*trajan’s column

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detail of the Adoration, Magi Reliquary - Nicholas of Verdun

1181

gold and enamel

cologne cathedral

phidian draperies

forerunner of Gothic

hands are covered ala roman

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gislebertus, tympanum, autun cathedral

c. 1130

France

6.5 m across

age of superstition - covered with plaster which preserved it

originally polychrome

bad draperied

narrative

right and left

signed by artist

romanesque portal

H&F p. 370-1

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St. John the Evangelist, Gospel Book of Abbot Wedricus

c. 1147

tempera on vellum

Mosaic-feel

celtic/germanic

book of kells

animal style

interlinked

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Baptistery, Duomo, and Campanile

Pisa, Italy

c. 1063-1272

Lots of columns

remains of a lot of roman structures

baptistry not attached

exterior - brick faced with marble

small windows and thick walls

bronze doors

multicoloured marble

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Crowds Gaze in Awe at a Comet as Harold is told of an Omen, details of the Bayeux Tapestry

c.1073-83

wool embroidery on linen

8 colours

running narrative

propaganda

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Interior, Choir, and Ambulatory,

St. Denis

1140

Paris, France

first use of all elements of gothic architecture

new combinations, but nothing completely new

built under Abbott Suger

long term vision for sustainability

St Augustin: “Christ is the divine light”

choir - only part suger saw completed

apse

apsidial chapels

ambulatory

rose window

triple portal

towers

3 part facade

every subsequent gothic church can be traced back to st. denis

w. portal tympanum - last judgement, wise and foolish virgins (mary and eve) symbolism and iconography

pilgrammage church

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West Facade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame

mostly completed 1145-1170, Chartres,France

pilgrammage church -visible- on a hill

foundation = crypt

1 of earliest (clumsy) uses of flying buttresses

3 portal

rose window

arcade

2 v different towers

tympanum of x surrounded by evangelists symbols

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La Belle Verriere

Chartes Cathedral

Mostly Completed

1194-1220

Chartres, France

lancet shape - prayers to heaven

much of original glass retained

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nave at crossing, Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre-Dame Cathedral, c. 1155-1250, Paris, France

longitudiunal, tall, lancet - prayers up to god

emphasis on virgin in tympanum

“exaulted womanhood”

more delicate buttressing

sexpartite vault

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Interior Nave, Laon Cathedral

Laon Cathedral

1165-1205

Laon, France

4storey

nave arcade, gallery, triforum, clerestory

cows in towers

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Villard de Honnecourt, Leo

Page from notebook

c.1235

ink on vellum

architect sketchbook found @ laon

reflects changing role of artists and architects and master builders

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Exterior West Facade Showing Flying Buttresses Cathedral of of Notre-Dame

begun 1220

Amiens, France

fliers too high

added second, lower, row of fliers for structural spt

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exterior, Beauvais Cathedral

1247, Beauvais, France

tallest gothic church

started falling down

trusses were added inside

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Interior, Ste. Chappelle

1243-8

Paris, France

private chapel for king

rose window

2 st

buttressed

whole building is a reliquary

minimal wall space

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Detail, Corridor in the cloisters, Gloucester Cathedral

1332-57

Gloucester, England

decorative fan vaulting

troll in the dungeon

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Exterior, Cologne Cathedral

1248-1880

Cologne, Germany

built over a very long time

still under constant repair /maintenance

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Interior of Upper Church,

Basillica of San Francesco

Begun 1228

Consecrated 1253

Assisi Italy

Franciscan order - poverty, simplicity, humility

regional gothic differences incl. fresco

quadropartite vaults

28 frescos

light brilliant

lives of x and st francis

didactic

l/r

separation by architecture

god’s disembodied hand

halos

biographer

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Altarpiece of Saint Clare

ca. 1280 tempera on panel Assisi, Italy 1st f disciple of st f wanted to start an order ok but cloistered that misses the point. poor clares

Interior Apse, Sta. Croce

1294-1442, Florence, Italy frescos gothic f. recieving stigmata crucufixion s glass wooden roof so no vaults, less windows to keep out light

*Fortitude* -Nicholas Pisano

Detail of pulpit 1259-60 Marble Baptistry at Pisa protorenaissance based on roman sarcophagi trefoil strength and perserverence nudity ! for the first time in a long time that isn't shaming reconsideration of the nude allegorical allows nude

Façade, baptistry, cathedral and campanile Sta. Maria del Fiore

FLorence brick with marble facing baptistry =- romanesque cathedral = gothic - pointed arches, sculpted polychrome tympanums, multicoloured marble, rose windows marble facing and 4partite vaults. airy and light Baptistry s. doors de Pisano - 28 panels life of S John the Baptist, 8 virtues blessing hand , quatrefoil 2 storey byzantine dome

*St. Matthew Fresco* - Cimabue

1280-83 Upper Church, St. Francis of Assisi badly preserved lead based pigments angel (sym of st m) structures represent jerusalem colours washed out destroyed in an earthquake

Interior Arena Chapel

c.1303-5 Padua, Italy Giotto romanesque ext fully painted (like that room in ancient pompeii) like ste. chapelle sense of space 38 scenes dado zone life, passion, judgement blue in chapel symbolizes wealth shadow, hue, tone, ground, 3d space hands draperies symbolism architecture

*The Lamentation* - Giotto

Arena Chapel 1304-13 fresco padua italy x is dead shadow angels halos draperies controlled mourning symbolism dead tree = dead x gentle, not contorted

*The Virgin and Child Enthroned in Majesty* , Maesta Altarpiece - Duccio

1308-11 Tempera on Panel hierarchy polyptic - 70 panels byzantine siena (snakes) st john gothic architecture in furniture

*The Allegory of Good Government / Good Government in the CIty* Ambrogio Lorenzetti

1337-1339 Hall of Peace Siena, Italy Group of virtues old wise monarch temoerance charity, faith, judiciary - concord and justice marks a shift in patronage implications of actions

'February' - * Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duke of Berry* * -* Limbourg Brothers

1413-1416 calendar pages in a devotional book labours of the months insight into peasant life ex. dovecote, establishing wealth, ladies warming themselves

*Merode Altarpiece* - Robert Campin

1425-30 Oil on panel manuscript tradition sense of depth perspective kinda weird house altar very contemporary mary literate - shown reading rise of middle class - self and world reflected roses, walled garden, symbols of mary

*The Arnolfini Portait* - Jan van Eyck

1434 Oil on panel dog symbol of fidelity not pregnant shoes removed - sacredness marriage oranges - wealth mirror set with st. of cross see witnesses in mirror extending scene and legitimizes scene as well

*The Portinari Altarpiece -* Hugo van der Goes

c.1476 tempera and oil on panel Florence gendered r and l patron saints lg symbolism lifelike shepherds I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER TALKING ABOUT THIS ONE

*The Miraculous Draught of Fishes* - Conrad Witz

1444 oil on panel Shadows Stones Geographical markers and contemporary clotheses scene in own neighbourhood engage with stores peter = portrait of ruler of savoy who wanted to be pope . visual validity because god built his church on peter

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian Anonymous

woodcut c.1410-1420 secret xtian killled by arrows martyred hand painted spared from plague high and low patronage

*Buxheim* St. Christopher

c.1440 woodcut audience learn prayer by rote and look at picture

* View of Nuremburg from the South* * (Nuremburg Chronicle)* Wolgemut and Pleydenwurff

1493 woodcut walled city unique because familiar ulike damascus and naples LOOK SHIT UP

*St. Anthony Tormented by Demons* Schongauer

1480s copper engraving agony depict surfaces founder of monasticism resisting temptation violent overcame

*The Offer of Love* Albrecht Dürer

1495-6 engraving prostitution clothese city signed

*The Rhinoceros* Albrecht Dürer

1515 Woodcut didn't see one before , working from sketches and descriptions disseminate information to the public

*The Sacrifice of Isaac* Ghiberti

1401-2 gilt bronze competition panel emotional gothic draperies (classical) Isaac classical separation by landscape cast in 2 pieces defiance/trust

Cathedral, Sta. Maria del Fiore

Florence Italy 1417 dome int and ext domes spt one anohther lighter exoskeleton brunellesci v ghiberti artist v builder decambrio - designed dome byzantine no buttresses roman heritage

* The Holy Trinity With The Virgin, St. John and Two Donors* * Massacio*

1425 fresco Sta. Maria Novella Florence math realism perspective momento mori - tomb mirrors jesus judgement tympanums first real demonstration of rational space ~~~~~ use of architecture to separate

*David* Donatello

c.1425-30 bronze first freestanding male nude since antiquity cast bronze seen as idolatrous bmodeled like kritios - youth softly sensous not confronting the viewer like v of cnidus promise not whats there

*Equestrian Monument of Gattemelata* Donatello

1445-1450 bronze honours recently deceased leader grandeur couldn't make it balance on 3 pt like marcus aurelius

*David* Andrea del Verrocchio

a. 1465-70 Bronze young and wiry ckothed smirking arrogance of youth with power of god

*Battle of the Ten Nudes* Pollaiuolo

1465 engraving realistic every muscle tensed showing skill parallel hatching poses repeated

*The birth of venus* Sandro Botticelli

c.1480 for lorenzo the magnificent weightless rep of renaissance change in patronage and subject matter

*St. Sebastian* Mantegna

1455-60 tempera on fresco contrasts xtiantity and antiquity - antiuity is crumbling but xtianity lives on space and depth detailing like van Eyck

*The Last Supper* da Vinci

c.1495-1498 fresco Sta Maria delle Grazie Milan structural separation groupings numerology

*Vetruvian Man* da Vinci

notebooks 1485-90 pen and ink call back to vetruvius LOOK SHIT UP

*Pieta* Michaelangelo

c.1500 marble st. peter's In contrast to nativity emotion gentleness finger in fold signed

*David* Michaelangelo

1501-1504 marble pre-killing golliath colossus right over might pervasive image michaelangelo 'liberating' forms from stone

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Vatican Michaelangelo

1508-12 fresco true fresco painted standing up LOOK SHIT UP

*School of Athens* Raphael

1509-11 Fresco Stanza della Segnatura Vatican Rome central pair of aristotle and plato reonciliation of the renaissance nature of affairs each group mood like last supper

*St. Paul Preaching in Athens*, after Raphael Raimondi

role of printmaking prior to photography role of dissemination role of engrave & artist partnership attitudes and ideas of high renaissance

*Venus of Urbino* Titian

1538 Oil on canvas \*\* first regular use of oil on canvas reclining nude courtesan spaniel (fidelity) is sleeping acknowledging viewer (contrast with venus of cnidus)

*Self-Portrait at the Easel* Sofonisba Anguissola

c. late 1500s oil on canvas role of women

*Jupiter and Io* Correggio

c.1532 oil on canvas role of women mythology antiquity

*The Garden of Delights* Hieronymous Bosch

c.1510-15 oil on panel symbolism surrealism- esque LOOK SHIT UP

*The 'Beautiful Virgin' of Regensburg* Albrecht Aldorfer

1519-20 colour woodcut from 6 blocks register role of women

*Witches Sabbath* Hans Baldung Grien

1510 Woodcut role of women propaganda

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