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What the painting represent; Judeo-Christian; Classical; Everyday Life
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Definition
Subject Matter
What the painting represent; Judeo-Christian; Classical; Everyday Life
Judeo-Christian
Religious Art; Catholic Church was the greatest sponsor of art in the Middle Ages; Pride of being a part of a religion rather than in power; Madonna; ...
Madonna
Mary and baby Jesus; Judeo-Christian
Pieta
Mary and dead Jesus; Judeo-Christian
Classical
Greek / Roman Gods; Julius Caesar, Zeus, etc; Great revival of Greco-Roman mythology, history, philosophy
Everyday Life
Self - Portraits of ordinary people; Northern Renaissance: Ordinary humans doing ordinary things; Village life
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Subject Matter | What the painting represent; Judeo-Christian; Classical; Everyday Life |
Judeo-Christian | Religious Art; Catholic Church was the greatest sponsor of art in the Middle Ages; Pride of being a part of a religion rather than in power; Madonna; Pieta |
Madonna | Mary and baby Jesus; Judeo-Christian |
Pieta | Mary and dead Jesus; Judeo-Christian |
Classical | Greek / Roman Gods; Julius Caesar, Zeus, etc; Great revival of Greco-Roman mythology, history, philosophy |
Everyday Life | Self - Portraits of ordinary people; Northern Renaissance: Ordinary humans doing ordinary things; Village life |
Style | How the art looks; Realism; Idealism; Mannerism |
Realism | Making things looks real as if they exist in real life |
Idealism | Making things as perfect as it could be; Making things look far superior than it actually looks in real life; Inner beauty / calmness; God as people |
Mannerism | Sense of drama; Doesn’t look like anything; Form, color, and shape are a mess; Exaggerated proportions - Unusual; Artists can demonstrate tension and go rogue |
Technique | What trick artists use to create illusion; Single Point Perspective; Chiaroscuro; Sfumato |
Single point Perspective | Vanishing point - everything goes into 1 point; Size |
Chiaroscuro | Shading; Shading to get illusion of depth (light and dark); Suggest location of the sun |
Sfumato | (Distant) smokiness / haziness; Mastered by Leonardo da Vinci (copied by everyone else); Focus on other parts |
Petrach | Founder of Humanism; Most famous Poet until S; Humanized thought; Civic activist; Wrote love / romantic poems; Inspiration from Greeks and Romans; Pursuit of Knowledge / Rationalism; Thinker of knowledge; Improving societies, education, government, and quality of life; Promoted education for everyone (study of literature and classics) |
Erasmus of Rotterdam | Leading Christian humanist; 1st person to criticize the Catholic Church / religious texts; Freeing people from the tyranny of the dominance in the Church; Wrote “In Praise of Folly” - Questioning the logic of the Catholic Church |
Castiglione | The Courtier; Ideal man of noble birth, serves and brings honor to the prince; Guide / Handbook on Manners on Secularism; How to fit in with the wealthy and well educated; Promotes education and proper behavior; Most famous book of the Renaissance |
Chaucer | Father of English; Individualism; The Canterbury Tales - Group of Pilgrims; Written in Vernacular |
Vernacular | The common language of the people |
Dante | Father of Italy; The Divine Comedy; Starts Vernacular; Afterlife: Hell, Heaven, Purgatory (in-between / Heaven’s waiting room); Individualism - main protag / hero |
Machiavelli | Creator of political science; The Prince; Successful rulers are successful bc they understand human nature and God has nothing to do with it; Leaders need to do whatever they can to ensure the security and happiness of their people; “The end justifies the means”; Leaders need to be feared but not hated |
Lorenzo de Medici | Patron of art; Medici Bank cleared debts of many people and in return people owned them many favors; Uses art to legitimize his influence |
Giotto | Most influential in transitional painting; Humanized paintings; Observed from life forming 3D world with human beings; Deep emotion; Express patrons of religions |
Botticelli | Rejects ideas of being scientific and realistic; Classical + Judeo-Christian; Combination of Christian faith and ancient mythology; Figures are less human or material - Some are symbols; Classical subject of goddesses; Dreamy / Fantasy |
Leonardo da Vinci | Perfect Hands; Groups of figures perfectly balanced in a given space (with architecture); Proportions in drawings; Deep psychological insight of human nature; Mystery of human existence; Last Supper; Mona Lisa |
Michelangelo | Greatest Sculptor of the Renaissance; Depict God (1st time); Physical form isn’t what’s important, it's the spirit of a Christian; Influenced by greek, plato; Glorification of human body (male nude); Sistine Chapel; 1st Pieta; Buff David; Dome |
Raphael | Master of perfect design and balance composition; Absorbed styles of Leo and Mich.; Humanistic - Humans are portrayed closer to God; Madonna; Downward eyes; School of Athens |
Donatello | Free-standing statues based on human anatomy; 1st Bronze nude (boy David) |
Sophonisba Angoissola | Female artist; Painted mostly in homes; Very well-drawn hands; Lots of details in clothing; Actions in paintings |
Artemisia Gentileschi | Female artist; Physically powerful |
Peter Bruegel | Everyday life in ordinary villages |
Brunelleschi | 1st dome(of St.Peters) built since Roman times; 1st time columns used since Ancient Rome |
Massaccio | Fixed / completed perspective; Studied anatomical naturalism of the human flesh and bone; Model figures in light and shade (Chiaroscuro); 1st person to paint nude figures |
Titian | 1st artist to become rich; Women models; Religion - mythology; Portraits of upper class; Classical - Zeus seducing people |
Northern Renaissance | Same ideas as in Italy; Scholars embraced classical literature and values, asked same questions; People turned from being superstitious to scientific; Men gained a new sense of self and ability; Escape from the dissatisfaction and skepticism in religious and political struggles of the Middle Ages; Art: Everyday Life Scenes |