Gothic: 1250-1400s
This piece shows Christ, drained of all blood, all tissue, and all muscle.
What is Rottgen Pieta? (Germany,
1300- 1325)
This technique, meaning "light-dark" in Italian, involves the gradual transition from light to dark to create a sense of volume and depth in a painting.
What is chiaroscuro?
This term is the movement within Protestants, that rejected the depiction of religious images, saints, and icons, viewing them as against biblical teachings.
What is the iconoclasm?
An key intellectual movement in the Renaissance that emphasizes human experience, reason, and individual potential. Bonus 100pts: Who is the "father" of this movement?
What is Humanism? Who is Petrarch?
Following the High Renaissance, this art movement emerged in the 1520s, characterized by elongated proportions and unrealistic poses.
What is mannerism?
This piece of architecture was constructed in 1134, rebuilt in 1194 after a fire and features jamb statues.
What is Chartres Cathedral, in France?
This term is the practice of charging excessive or unethical interest on loans, and was also the reason the Arena Chapel was built.
What is usury?
This piece features idealized contrapposto figures and various symbolic animals.
Albrecht Durer, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), 1504 C.E.
In The Madonna with Two Angels by Filippo Lippi, Mary is seen with what attribute that differs from Byzantine depictions of her?
What is the subtle halo or soft glow around the Virgin Mary's head?
This is a trunk intended for clothing storage. (From the Venus of Urbino)
What is a cassone?
These architectural features are seen in Gothic Cathedrals. (Name 3)
What are stained glass windows, flying buttresses, and pointed arches?
The depiction of Satan in The Last Judgement by Giotto utilizes this authors depictions of the damned.
What is Dante's Inferno?
This angle often seen in Northern Renaissance art included a looking down shot, high angle, and birds eye view.
What is a high horizon line?
This chapel, located in Florence and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi is part of the larger complex of the Church of Santa Croce.
What is Pazzi Chapel?
This technique, seen in The Last Supper (DaVinci) is used to soften the transitions between colors and create a naturalistic effect. Bonus 100pts: What is the reason why the piece looks so hazy?
What is sfumato? DaVinci used tempera and oil paint on a wall, causing the piece to deteriorate over time.
This illuminated manuscript features detailed scenes of the apocalypse, and inscriptions about the Book of Revelation.
What is the Apocalypse from the Bibles Moralisées (1225-1245 C.E.)?
This Giotto fresco emphasizes the emotionality of the angels and Virgin Mary, and uses foreshortening. Bonus 100pts: This saint, shown in the piece, symbolizes an eagle.
What is the Lamentation? Who is St. John?
This disease, shown to be afflicted on Jesus in the Isenheim Altarpiece, caused many to be admitted to St. Anthony's monastery hospital.
What is ergotism?
Donatello used this technique to create his David sculpture, which allowed him to create realistic texture and fine details.
What is lost-wax casting?
The two philosophers seen in the center of Raphael's School of Athens. Bonus 100pts: What do each of the two figures symbolize?
Who are Plato and Aristotle? The two symbolize the philosophical duality of the Renaissance. Plato (points up) symbolizes idealism, and Aristotle (points forward) symbolizes the observable world.
A scribal statement about a manuscripts creation.
What is a colophon? (see Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, page of a moralized Bible, France, 1225- 1245 C.E.)
In this system, medieval artists worked in association with apprentices, commissions, internships and establishments. Female artists are rare- it remained this way until the Free Market Artistic approach in the 18th century.
What is the Guild System?
This crucial factor of the "Allegory of Law and Grace" (1530 C.E) made it different from other Renaissance paintings.
It is a Lutheran piece. This piece shows that some religious art was acceptable to Lutherans, as long as the right lessons were taught from it.
This place in Florence has three distinct levels and utilizes the technique of rustication.
What is the Palazzo Rucellai?
This event, often seen as the end of the High Renaissance, marked a turning point in the Renaissance's patronage of the arts, significantly affecting the papacy's role in artistic commissions.
What is the Sack of Rome by Charles V?