Unit #4 Vocab Flashcards
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Large alarpiece by Duccio, the main painting being Madonna and Child enthroned with saints around them; figures in Gothic style (linear/patterned) and Byzantine style (hand/face); more panels on back in maniera greca style (gold sky)
“The Maestá”
preferred medium for large-scale wall/ceiling paintings ever since ancient times
frescos
Giovanni Pisano
art sculptor, son, sculpted CATHEDRAL pulpit at Pisa, and facade sculpt. on Siena Cathedral
“Hall of Peace”, room in the city hall political building in Siena
Salla della Pace
Nicola Pisano
art sculptor, dad, sculpted BAPTISTERY pulpit at Pisa
glittering inlay work
cosmati work
exterior sculptor for the Florence Cathedral in later 13th century, but not the dome
Arnolfo di Cambio
metal bars in the nave interior that counteracted vault stresses in absence of flying buttresses/gallery
tie rods
earliest and most famous work of Nicola Pisano; located in Baptistery building by Leaning Tower of Pisa.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: lobes arches, boxed-in/ Ancient-Roman-sarcophagus style reliefs
“Pisa Baptistery Pulpit”
sculpture in the round of Mary & baby Jesus, made by Giovanni Pisano
“The Padua Madonna & Child”
work in the Pisa Cathedral that has 14th century characteristics, sculpted with loose figures and space in between them
“Pisa Cathedral Pulpit”
One (of the three) grand doors designed and sculpted in relief by Andrea Pisano in quatrefoil-diamon shape, on an important building
Florence Baptistery Door
when this substance is mixed with pigments to create colors to make frescos with
egg tempura
when dried paint is just added on top of a fresco when a mistake is made; not permanent
fresco secco
style was especially important after 1204 (sack of Constantinople) and every major city (except Venice) had evidence of Ancient Rome art & architecture
Italo-Byzantine
“Greek Style”, which is what the Italians called the (what we know as) Italo-Byzantine
maniera greca
a second artist, aside from Orcagna, who worked for the rich Strozzi family
Gentile da Fabriano (from Fabriano, NE Rome)
the name for the style that the Italians, otherwise, called the ‘Greek style’
Italo-Byzantine
Cimabue’s famous painting of a sitting Mary and the weird/flat sense of space, and painting style in Cimabue’s semi-abstracted style (1280)
“Madonna & Child Enthroned”
master mason and sculptor on Orvieto Cathedral
Lorenzo Maitani
altarpiece by Giotto, where Gothic style is hinted at in architecture but the Virgin figure is Roman/classical in style (1310)
“Madonna & Child Enthroned”
the painted fresco at Assisi, by Cimabue, that is very bad condition but a dramatic example of this type of art in this time
“Crucifixion”
most famous painting by Giotto, shows the lament of Mary and mourners over Christ’s post-crucified body. many important and innovative visual characteristics
“Lamentation”
an alternative to the new-wave of Renaissance approaching in the late 14th century, when the lavish styles of the Gothic appealed to the desire of display that the aristocrats had
The International Gothic style (in Italy)
