Flashcards in People Deck (21)
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Jacob of Voragine
archbishop of Genoa, focus on humanizing saintly figures
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Calimala
major family/guild of wool/textiles
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Camaldolese
mystical Benedictine order
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Vasari
first art historian. Hated "Greek" and "German" (Byzantine and Gothic) art. Basically determined which artists would be important and which wouldn't be.
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Cimabue
(1240-1302) improved on Byzantine art. Focused on nature/naturalism
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Giotto
(1266-1337) EMPATHY
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Duccio
Cimabue of Siena. Embraced international gothic. Mixing pigment
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Simone Martini
heavily influenced by French art
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Lorenzetti Bros.
combines Simone Martini's international Gothic with Giotto's naturalism. They focus on spacial continuity
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Donatello
the science of the eye
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Nicola Pisano
continous narrative. heavily influenced by classical Roman art and scultpture
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Giovanni Pisano
International Gothic
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Lorenzo Monaco
paints Gothic style inspite of naturalistic pressure in Florence
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Gentile da Fabriano
naturalistic effort with depth and space, but uses international gothic influences. Varieta
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Brunelleschi
crowns the Duomo using architectural techniques based heavily on ancient Rome while using similar concepts as Gothic. brings rationality and order back to architecture.
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Alberti
Classical Order. Understands the theory of beauty and harmony. Father of perspective. Defines Istoria
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Ghiberti
extremely important. reintroduces the heroic nude. uses modular space for the first time
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Masaccio
introduces the first cast shadow. natural light. begins using perspective as a story telling tool
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Masolino
lack of continuity in space
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Uccello
let the math of perspective overtake the whole piece
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