Flashcards in First half Deck (106)
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Gattamelata (Erasmo da Narni)
Artist: Donatello
Date: 1443-53
Location: Piazza del Santo, Pagua
Description: Depicts a condottiere. The Statue looks down at the viewers from above
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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Date: c.176 CE
Location: Capitoline Hill, Rome
Description: Statue survived due to being mistaken for a statue Constanople
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monument
a statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a notable person or event
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condottiere
Italian term meaning mercenary military leader; such as Gattamelata
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triumphal arch
a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways
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bronze
a work of art, as a statue, statuette, bust, or medal, composed of bronze
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Florence
Important city for art; 40 painter workshops; 40 goldsmith shops
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Bird's-Eye View of Venice
Artist: Jacopo de' Barbari
Date: 1500
Description: Shows the basic layout and important buildings but not meant to be used as a map
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Procession in Piazza San Marco
Artist: Gentile Bellini
Location: Accademia, Venice
Date: 1496
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Piaziatta comumns:
1. Title: St. Theodore
2. Title: Lion of St. Mark
Date: 12th / early 13th century
1. head: Greek (c. third century BCE); torso and armor: Roman (c. second century BCE); everything else: Venetian (early fourteenthcentury); marble with some bronze (original composite sculpture now moved into Doge’s Palace Courtyard)
2. lion’s body and tip of the tail: Anatolian (from central Turkey), 7th-6th century BCE wings and other parts in white: Venetian, 13th century
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medieval period
lasted from 5th to the 15th century. Merged into the Renaissance.
• Early Christian (3rd-5th centuries)
• Early Byzantine (late 5th century-early 13th century)
• Romanesque period (c. 1000-late 12th century)
• Gothic Period (late 12th century-early 15th century)
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commune (city state)
a community that shares similar beliefs and values
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Piazza San Marco
the principal public square of Venice, Italy, generally known as la Piazza
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icongraphy
the visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation
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piazzetta
a small square in a city or a small extension to a piazza
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Transport of St. Mark's Body into the Church of San Marco
Date: early-mid 13th century
Location: St. Mark Church
Description: Mosiac; Image of church in art
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Four Horses
Date: 2nd century CE
Location: St. Mark Church
Description: brought to Venice after the Fourth Crusade; displayed over the central portal of San Marco; Spoil of War; Sign that the old world is being absorbed into the modern world
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Venecia/Justice
Date: c.1350
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Allegory of Good Government
Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Location: Palazza Pubblico, Siena
Date: 1338-39
Description: Abstract; Shows Virtures
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Virtues
Wisdom, Justice, Concord (Unity), Peace, Fortitude, Prudence (Wise Caution), Common Good, Faith, Charity, Justice, Moderate, etc.
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Effect of Good Government
in the City: Flourishes; city growing; good condition
in the Countryside: Safety, growing crops, freely travel
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relic
a part of a deceased holy person's body or belongings kept as an object of reverence
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doge
Italian word for the elected head of state in Venice and Genoa
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spoil of war (spolia)
re-purposed building stone for new construction, or decorative sculpture reused in new monuments
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patron saint
the protecting or guiding saint of a place or person
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quatrefoil
the elegant French Gothic shape used, for example, for the first two sets of bronze doors created for the Florentine Baptistery
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allegory
a picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
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virtues (definition)
Divided into the three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity and four Cardinal Virtues of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance
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cathedral
(main civic church) one per city, important events here, important people buried here
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