Quiz 1 Art History

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The Book of Hours - Limbourg Bros - 1410
International Gothic - removal of front wall, uptilted perspective
Calender, alternates each month between upper and lower class.
one brother started then died, then other brother finished

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The Merode Altarpiece - Campin - 1420
Triptych - three paneled piece
Iconography - potted lily, purity of virgin mary - walled garden, mary's virginity - roman statue tumbling, paganism over


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Arnolfini Wedding Portrait - Van eyck - 1430
iconography - women on more domestic side of room, mirror - seeing eye of god, dog represents fidelity

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Ghent Altarpiece - Jan Van Eyck - 1400
International Gothic - more realism
Atmopheric Perspective - objects in distance are distorted
First Monumental nudes since antiquity, Adam and Eve

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The Portinari Altarpeice - Hugo Van Der Goes - 1475
influenced by eyck and weyden
painted unrealistic subject matter, angles, realistic. unrealistic painted smaller
peasents of equal importance to upper class

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the Dome - Brunelleschi - 1420
first work of post medevel architecture
circle - no beginning and no end
oculus - eye, opening to allow light in
lantern - covers oculus

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Sacriscty of St. Lorenzo - Brunelleschi - 1420
Commisioned and burial site of Medici's
Ratios
12 windows and 12 shces represent apostles
oculus - gods eye

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Palazzo Medici-Ricardi - Bartolmeo - 1450
Built for the Medicis
rusticated - stone is unrefined
cornice - projecting element on top of building

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The Four Martrys - Banco - 1410
Member of the Stone Guild
They were sculptors who refused to build a pagan god in roman times
trompe l'oeil - appears if figures just jumped right in, foot overhanging the niche

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The Gates of Paradise - Ghiberti - 1430
Gilded bronze exterior, linear perspective in each indivdual story from the old testament
contre pasto - all weight on one foot, shows movement

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David - Donatello - 1450
First life sized nude sculpture since antiquity
lost wax method - wax mold, bronze poured in and wax melts
david and goliath
contre pasto

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The Holy Trinity - Masaccio - 1410
Dove - holy ghost
first painting able to be measured as an archtectual piece
trompe l'oeil - columns in church are of the same style as the ones in painting
only 21 years old

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Brancacci Chapel - Massacio - 1410
Tribute Money
Contiuous narration
first painting where everything is realistic
foreshortening - human figure is compressed in space

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The Annunciation - Fra Angellico - 1440
Fra Angelico painted each monks room
painted same color as monestary
trompe - looks like extension of monestary
slightly still medievel

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The Last Supper - Andrea del Castagno - 1450
trompe l'oeil - continuation of dining room
lightning bolt above judas head
linear perspective

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Saint' Andrea - Alberti - 1470
Treatise on archtecture
collousol order - pilaster or column extending length of building
engaged column - purely decorative column, offers no support


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Camera Picta - Mantegna - 1470
First illusionistic ceiling fresco
putti - winged cherub
foreshortening of putti

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Duke and Duchess of Urbino - Francessca 1470

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La Primavera - Botticelli - 1480
Symobol of fertility in Medici home
first time greek or roman gods portrayed realisticly
contre pasto of the three graces

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the last supper - DaVinci - 1500
First artists of High Renaissance
Window forms halo around jesus head
judas is reaching for bread
3 windows by 4 panels equals 12 for apostles

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Mona Lisa - DaVinci - 1500
Sfumato - smoky, hazy quality of painting
uncommon for a woman to be painted in frontal view
unfinished
might be preggo

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Madonna Seated with Child - Rapheal - 1500
2nd generation artisit
influenced by DaVinci
brought back halo's

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The School of Athens - Rapheal - 1510
Influenced by Michelangelo, watched him paint sistine
Trompe l'oeil - greek key and linear perspective
Represents all things greek
man in middle sitting is michelangelo

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Pieta - Michelangelo - 1500
Pieta is mary holding christs body after crucifiction
only work signed, signed on marys sash
only 23 y/o when done

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David - Michelangelo - 1500
Not yet killed goliath, rock in hand
tension - veins protruding
17ft tall, influenced by the Deripherus - polyclytis
marble was a hunk no one wanted to us

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sistine chapel - michelangelo - 1510
9 scenes from genesis
forshortening of god in creation of man
bulky figures, all based on male models
influences by massacio

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Pesaro Madonna - Titian - 1520
altarpiece
putti holding cross on cloud, foreshadowing of crucifixition

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Venus of Urbino - Titian - 1540
Sensual hint with fruit
dog - faithfuk
cassano in back was things women had before married
detailed velvet drapery

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Last Judgement - Michelangelo - 1540
One busy scene, precursor to mannerism
some togas were painted after michelangelo finished

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MAdonna with long head - Parmigianino - 1540
elongeted body parts
alot doesnt make sense
mannerism

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Self Portrait - Anguissol - 1560
Personal painter to king of spain
uncommon for a female painter

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Noli me Tangere - Fontana - 1580
Don't Touch Me
In Uffizi - gallery in florence
Mary magdellen comes to jesus tomb, but empty. jesus is man in foreground in disguise

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Last Supper - Tintoretto - 1590
Diagnol perspective
contemporary version of last supper
exagerated body parts

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Villa Rotanda - Palladio - 1560
based on pantheon
all 4 sides identical