Northern Renaissance - Dürer, Van Eyck
Early Italian Renaissance - Florence
High Renaissance - Leonardo, Raphael
High Renaissance - Michelangelo
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Give the title, artist, and date for this painting: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/3c/2a/09/3c2a09da76dcd308f1ec0ba66a74a46b.jpg
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding, 1434
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The word for the Renaissance technique relating to the movement of light and shadow over objects.
What is chiaroscuro?
100
Transition between light and shadow creating a smokey, hazy effect.
What is sfumato
100
Chubby male child figures. Often nude and winged. Appears frequently in Renaissance and Baroque art.
What are putti (sing. putto)?
200
Identify the tempera painting and the oil painting, and how you are able to tell them apart. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Raffael_006.jpg/1920px-Raffael_006.jpg https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/self/self-22.jpg
The first work is tempera and the second is oil. The oil gives the painting a subtle glow and more three-dimensional appearance than the flatter colors of the tempera.
200
Donatello’s David (ca. 1430) has an important distinction as the first... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/07/e7/d7/07e7d794343ad520ac2495c925b84a39.jpg
What is 'the first freestanding nude since antiquity'?
200
This artist was interested in the wonders of nature, the human body, math, and science. He is known for his paintings and multitude of sketches.
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
Name the title and location of this fresco: http://s3.thingpic.com/images/A6/SDpBWpyNnUauLr8YSVX14xsi.jpeg
What is What is the Creation of Adam? Where is the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican?
300
Identify the title, artist and date of the following painting and describe its connection to the Reformation. http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/cl/original/DP273206.jpg
Robert Campin, The Merode Altarpiece, c. 1428. It shows the Biblical figures in a domestic interior and was made for use in the private home. It reflects the dissent towards the Catholic church that led toward the Reformation.
300
Name & explain the two types of perspective visible in this painting by the artist… https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/917/flashcards/1702917/jpg/21181346808522555.jpg
Who is Masaccio; what are linear and atmospheric perspective. (The Tribute Money, ca. 1427)
300
Leonardo's placed the Vitruvian Man in shapes.
What is geometry/math of the human body?
300
A debate where art forms (e.g. painting, sculpture, architecture, drawing) are compared, and one is judged to be superior over the others.
What is paragone?
400
Identify the title, artist, and date of the following painting. How does this painting embody the ideals of the Northern Renaissance? http://faculty.etsu.edu/kortumr/HUMT2320/northernrenaissance/adobejpgimages/06turflarge.jpg
Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Durer, 1503. It shows the attention to observation and the greatness that can be found in the mundane.
400
Explain the structural problem of the dome at the Florentine Cathedral, how it was solved, and name the architect who invented the solution.
The drum was left open to the elements, with no dome. The drum was too high up, too wide across for easy addition of a dome. Couldn’t use centering like normal arches, would likely collapse. Filippo Brunelleschi invented a double-shell dome that supported itself and took a more cone-like shape, which distributed the weight rather than letting it collapse the dome in on itself.
400
The composition used in Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks and Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow.
What is triangle?
400
Name three features of Michelangelo’s David. What is the interpretation of this sculpture?
What is youthful, idealized male, contrapposto pose, carved out of marble. Head and right hand too large (compensating for perspective of looking at the sculpture from below). Treatment of the subject matter symbolizes fear and bravery in the face of difficult struggle.
500
Give the title, artist and date of the work that the following painting comes from. What is the scene being depicted and how do you know? https://ka-perseus-images.s3.amazonaws.com/7ba5c4cf85eab0a534d91fac6240a7247b16c686.jpg
Ghent Altarpiece, Jan Van Eyck, 1432. The scene is the Annunciation, which can be identified by the presence of the angel, the Virgin Mary, the white lilies symbolizing purity, the words by Mary's ear, and the white dove over her head that symbolizes the holy spirit.
500
Highlight three primary differences between Giotto and Cimabue’s respective Madonna Enthroned panels and how they represent previous Medieval ideals vs. the new Renaissance ideals. Indicate which artist completed which panel. https://s3.amazonaws.com/classconnection/968/flashcards/3929968/jpg/untitled-75-14B8F29BD666B24D98E.jpg
Answers include: Faces (line vs. sense of space), bodies (lines vs. shadow), angels (placed in flat space vs. three dimensional space), throne (flat vs. receding backwards). Giotto looks at how the world actually looks, rather than an imagined version.
500
Significance of Raphael’s Philosophy (School of Athens)
What is Self portrait of the artist, depiction of Michelangelo as a philosopher, located in a church (even though it is a secular image), depiction of forms of ancient architecture
500
Give the title of this sculpture. What is the scene depicted? Give three features of Michelangelo's rendition of this scene: https://100swallows.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/painting1.jpg
What is the Pieta? What is the Virgin Mary and the deposed Christ? Why is the scene idealized? Why is the scene sad but not anguished? Why is there a sense of potential life left in Christ?
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