Art History Midterm Part 2

St. Peter: key St. Jerome: Bible St. Catherine: palm st. Lucy: palm

Bellini San Zaccaria Madonna 1505 oil/wood to canvas High Renaissance, Venice -four saints (attributes) -sacra conversazione (holy conversation): shows saints, angels,sometimes donors in the same pictoral space with enthroned Virgin & child --individuals portrayed in mystical and eternal communion occurring outside of time

In original place or natural site

Titian (&Giorgione) Pastoral Concert (Fete Champetre) c. 1510 oil canvas

Titian Pesaro Madonna 1519-26 oil/canvas High Renaissance, Venice -St. Peter: Key -St. Francis: stigmata (marks resembling Christ's wounds) wearing red cloak -atlar piece -Madonna and Christ surrounded by members of Pesaro family (commissioners) -grandeur of painting, with massive columns and marble staircase shows the power and glory of Pesaros. -intersecting diagonals begin at Mary's head

Titian Venus of Urbino c. 1538 oil/canvas High Renaissance, Venice reclining female nude- became popular with sophisticated court circles where they could look at nude Venus since it was mythological -deliberatly provactive -dog at end of bed symbolizes fidelity -maids in background

Titian Isabella d'Este 1534-6 oil/canvas High Renaissance, Venice -Isabella was a great patron of the arts & dipolamat

Veronese Feast in the House of Levi 1573 oil/canvas counter-reformation, inquistion High REnaissance, VEnice - intended to depict Last Supper, but it offended patrons because it was grandiose and pageant like (didn't represent a seder) - impiety of surroundings of Jesus (man picking teeth, scruffy dogs, foreign soliders) - as a result of this painting, Veronese was called before the Inquisition where Veronese retitled the painting to the Feast in the House of Levi -Levi was a tax collector Jesus knew

Palladio Villa Rotunda Vicenza, begun 1550 High Renaissance -not a villa (working farm), but a party house -ionic order porch -inspired by Roman Pantheon -design has geometic clarity --circle inscribed in a small square inside a larger square --symmetrical rectangular rooms -use of dome on domestic building secularized the dome and started the trend

Pontormo Deposition 1525-27 oil/wood Mannerism, Florence -emphasis on artifice at expense of naturalism -elongated figures -exaggerated poses -altarpiece -ambiguous composition enhaces visual qualities -pink skin of man kneeling in front on a piece of cloth -rocky ground& sky: don't know location of painting - odd poses, drastic shifts in scale -Pontormo's ideal was different: taller and thiner

Sophonisba Anguissola Sisters Playing Chess 1578 High Renaissance, Northern Italy -shows wealth (clothing, tapestry) -modest girls with a chaperone -almost a genre scene (moves away from portrait) -play chess (a man's intellectual game) shows that these women are intellectually accomplished & rational -idealized landscape

Lavinia Fontana Noli Me Tangere c. 1581 High Renaissance, Northern Italy -continusous narration -subject: bibical story of Christ revealing himself to Mary Magdalen following his Resurrection -title is Latin for "do not touch me" because Jesus existed in a new form between physical and spiritual -Mary Magdalen mistook Christ for a gardener, so Fontana painted him with a hat & spade

Destruction of images (after Reformation)

Durer Self-Portrait 1500 oil/wood High Renaissance, Northern -idealized, Christlike -figure in severaly frontal pose, Durer's eyes meet the view like an icon - robe & hair create a monumental equilateral triangle (symbol of trinity)

Durer 4 Apostles 1526 oil/panel High Renaissance, Northern - apostles are reading the Bible to show their faithfulness -Peter (1st pope) is on the left, receding into the background(diminishes importance of papacy) -not idealized faces, Durer left wrinkles and blemishes -may have been painted because Durer admired Luther and Durer wanted to show Protestant imagery was possible -Lutheran Bible verses in German at the base of picture -from left to right: JOHN, Peter, Mark, Paul -Durer presented the painting to the Lutheran city of Nuremberg