Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque Period Flashcards

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Generally, what was the Middle Ages art like?

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Flat 2-dimensional

Less emphasis of scholarship and science

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When were the Middle Ages

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500 A.D. - 1400 A.D

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Compared to classical art, how was the quality of visual art?

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Less realistic and refined

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What were the 3 significant “schools” of the Middle Ages

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Byzantine
Romanesque
Gothic

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Eastern Orthodox, believed to hold special powers

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Icon

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Most significant architectural creation of Byzantine style

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Hagia Sophia other known as church of holy wisdom

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Allowed a some to be built on a square building

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Pendentives

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Describe the art of Romanesque period

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A lot of curved arches

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Who was the leading patron of the Romanesque style

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Catholic Church

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What are the common elements of gothic cathedrals

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Ribbed vaults, POINTED arches, stained-glass windows

Groin vaults

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What was the gargoyles actual function and believed purpose

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Actual was to serve as water spouts

Believed keep demons away

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What was the labyrinth meant for?

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Meditation

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Most famous work of the gothic period

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Cathedral of Norte Dame in Paris

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Religious music for worship services

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Gregorian chants

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Chants done by one person with an additional melodic line

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Organum

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Lyric poets who held knightly rank and sang emotional and religious stories

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Troubadours

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What was the opinion of literature in the Middle Ages

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Cared very literature

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Earliest English work

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Beowulf

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Oldest surviving work in french literature

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Song of Roland

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Highlight of English late Middle Ages literature

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The Canterbury tales

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What was the renaissance

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REBIRTH of the classical era

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What was

The location of the renaissance

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Started in Florence then moved to Rome

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During the renaissance what were the 4 breakthroughs in painting

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Oil paint on canvas
Perspective
Chiaroscuro
Pyramid configuration

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Replaced

Tempera paint on wood and fresco on plaster

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Made out of egg yolk

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Illusion of depth on a flat surface - objects fade toward a vanishing point
Perspective
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Use of light and shadow to create depth and realism through shading
Chiaroscuro
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Building the focus of an image to a climax in the center
Pyramid | Configuration
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What were the three significant eras of the renaissance
Early renaissance High renaissance Northern renaissance
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When was the early renaissance
1400 to 1500
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Key patron of the early renaissance
Medici family
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Major theme of renaissance art
Religion
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The father of renaissance painting
Masaccio
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The father of renaissance sculpture
Donatello
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Birth of Venus Used new techniques to tell story of the classical
Botticelli
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What is the period of the high renaissance
1500-1600
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What happens to the renaissance movement during the high renaissance
Shifts to Rome
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Who was the key patron of the high renaissance
Pope Julius II
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When does the high renaissance period begin
Leonardo da Vinci paints his "last supper"
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What is the key sculpture during the high renaissance
Michelangelos pieta
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What is the date of the northern renaissance
1400-1600
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What was the northern renaissance closely linked to
Protestant reformation
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Stories where fictional characters symbolically represent another level of "Truth"
Allegory
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Who found Protestantism
Martin Luther
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What performing art was born in Italy and was an interpretation of fencing
Ballet
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The first opera performed in 1597
Dafne by jacopo peris
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What was Leonardo da Vinci known as
The renaissance man
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What was da vincis one flaw
He had ADD and so it was hard for him to complete his works
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Who painted the arnolfini wedding and where was he from
Jan van eyck Holland
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Who painted the resurrection and where was he from
El Greco Spain
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Who painted the four horseman of the apocalypse
Albrecht durer Germany
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Who painted hunters in the snow and where was he from
Pieter Bruegel Belgium
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Who painted the Sistine chapel ceiling
Michelangelo
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What was the key contribution of architecture during the high renaissance
Donato bramante's Tempietto
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When was the baroque/ rococo period
1600-1800
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What was the baroque/ rococo period noted for
Elaborate presentation and excessive detail
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Who established the council of Trent and why
Catholic Church to support a counter-reformation against Protestantism
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Who helped fund baroque period
Aristocracy
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What was the most important building of the baroque period
Palace of Versailles near Paris
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What is the final phase of the baroque period called
Rococo
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What does the rococo period show
Baroque at it's height and most decorative
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Greatest sculptor of the baroque era
Bernini
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Most noted for full bodied female nudes
Rubens
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Painter from holland who had really detailed and lifelike paintings
Vermeer
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Architect who designed more than 50 stone churches in London
Wren
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Made the worlds greatest painting
Velazquez
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Most significant of Italian baroque painters
Caravaggio
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1st woman in history to make significant contributions to the art of her era
Gentileschi
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What type of novel is popularized in Spain
Picaresque
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What is considered the greatest novel in Spain
Don Quixote by Cervantes
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Links visual arts with performing arts
Ornamentation
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One of greatest musical geniuses of all time who was in the baroque era
Bach
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Other important composers of baroque era
Antonio Vivaldi and G.F. Handel
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Who is considered the best painter ever
Rembrandt
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How many self portraits did Rembrandt create
About 100
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Made the Ecstasy of St. Theresa St. Peter's Cathedral
Bernini From Italy
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the descent from the cross From Flanders
Rubens
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The milkmaid Girl with Peal earing
Vermeer from holland
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St. Paul's Cathedral
England Wren
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Las meninas
Spain Velazquez
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Calling of at Mathew
Caravaggio | Italy
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I doth and the Holofernes, women getting revenge
Italy gentileschi
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Where is the Hagia Sophia located
Istanbul
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Pointed structures in gothic architecture
Flying buttresses
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What was new about the background of the Mona Lisa
Imaginary landscape
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Who owns the Mona Lisa today's
France
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An interpretation of the arnolfini wedding
Woman in painting was dead
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Which country was Pieter Bruegel from
Netherlands
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Machiavelli wrote the prince in 1513. He believed that a person must be what to be a powerful leader
Feared
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Technique when colors are all well blended together
Sfumato
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What does mona mean
Mrs
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Who sculpted bronze version of David
Donatello
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Who sculpted David
Michelangelo
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What is the ignorance of the pieta
Mary looks extremely young and he used one slab Of marble
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Name one invention of da Vinci
Helicopter
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Who created the printing press and what was the first thing it printed
Gutenberg and the bible