Final Exam Prep Flashcards
Which early modern authors mention Giotto in their writings?
Villani, Dante, Boccaccio
Who was the Competition of 1401 between? What was the subject?
Brunelleschi and Ghiberti
Baptistry eastern doors
The sacrifice of Issac from the old testimate
What were the benefits of Ghiberti’s design?
Made using the lost cast method, it was more cost-effective, durable, and lighter.
What was the final subject of the Baptistry doors?
The new testimate, life, and death of Jesus as John the Baptist foretold. They replaced Pisano’s east doors facing the cathedral. The story told from L to right, from bottom to top.
Petrarch’s Sonnet 77
He establishes a difference between renaissance and pre-renaissance artists. He sees Martini’s portrait as a superior Classical artwork.
he wrote it in the Terza rima, rhyme scheme also used by Virgil and Dante.
Who painted Laura?
Martini
Laura “died” of the Black Death.
What inspired Giovanni Pisan’s knowledge of classical attributes for the pulpit in the Pisa Cathedral
The commemorative columns of Hadrian and Trajan in Rome.
In Giotto’s Lamentation, the boulder-effect and triangular forms of these figures anchor the gravity of the scene while creating a quiet zone.
The two veiled shrouded figures next to the Virgin and Christ.
What did Petrarch argue should emulate examples of classical traditions?
The visual and written arts.
Petrarch believed what about drawings?
Drawings demonstrate the artist’s talent without distractions by opulence and preciosity of materials, and they establish the individuality of the artist.
Who sponsored the competition of 1401 for the baptistery doors?
The guild of cloth merchants.
Giovanni Pisano introduced the first what in the Pisa Cathedral Pulpit?
Female nude
Who was Giotto’s master?
Cimabue
Who was Giovanni Pisano’s master?
Nicola Pisano - his father - who produced the Pisa Baptistry Pulpit in 1260. Giovanni produced the Pisa Cathedral pulpit in 1302.
These are attributes of the middle ages c. 450-1450’s.
Paintings, icons on wood, greek style (Byzantine style), oldest Christian art, Superhuman figures, spaceless area, flat and linear, symmetrical and repetitive pattern, expressionless features, borrowed from established representations. Byzantine icons as sacred relics.
Two mendicant orders
Franciscan Order - Francis of Assisi
Dominican Order - Dominic de Guzman
Instead of living in monasteries, they lived and worked in cities.
Who painted the frescos in the Arena Chapel? What makes them unique?
Giotto
Pictural space renders emotion that involves the spectator
His Last Judgement is part of this work.
Who was the premier subject of paintings in the early 1300s Italy?
the Virgin
What were the panel paintings that stood behind the alters in the 1300’s?
Polyptechs.
He painted devotional imagery in the Siena Cathedral, a contemporary to Giotto
Duccio di Buoninsegna
What is Giotto’s style?
What is Duccio’s style?
Giotto: the value of space and volume. Picture surface as an opening into highly realized space. illustration of space through pattern, bedspread.
Duccio: space conceived through fluid outlines and whirly silhouettes, elongated proportions, movement in hand, wrist, calligraphic line play.
Who wrote Lives of Artists in 1550?
Giorgio Vasari.
He made Florence the center of the R. Defined Italian artistic influences and conventions, source of info on this era, biographical. asserts that every artwork should have a conceptual basis, corresponding to an idea in the artist’s mind.
Ways to understand a work of this time. What are the artists preoccupied with? Who hired them? Why were they hired?
Patrons, workshops, expected formal qualities. What are the concerns of the time? Divine power, supernatural, solicitation of prayers, patron legacy and morality, devotional circumstances, practical concerns, political concerns, worldly concerns.
He approaches art as a window opening up into what lies beyond.
Albteri.
Trends and new tech of the R
Oil painting on canvas and easel painting and portraiture, ink drawings, chalk, and pastel, bronze and marble. They define what being an artist is, a return to antiquity, an escalation of production and variety in art.
