Italian Art
Italian art and sculpture specifically saw a revival of what specific stance?
What is Contrapposto?
In Northern Europe, the traditions of what period remained popular throughout most of the fifteenth century?
What is Late Medieval?
Italian art was influenced by what period of art and ideas?
What is Greek and Roman?
This artist created the Merode Altarpiece.
Who is Robert Campin?
This type of paint was developed in Northern Europe and helped aid artists in creating vibrant works with lush colors and translucent layers of paint.
What is oil paint?
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel features nine scenes from what book in the Bible?
What is Genesis?
Northern artists developed a style which emphasized detail known by what name?
What is the International style?
The Artist Hugo van der Goes was influenced by which other Northern European artists?
Who is Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden?
This artist painted two famous frescos (The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament and The School of Athens) opposite each other in a room named after him. Who is he?
Who is Raphael?
Italian art is known for this development in perspective?
What is linear perspective?
This marble sculpture by Michelangelo between 1513 and 1515 appears to have horns (which are really supposed to be rays of light) on the top of the person's head.
Who is Moses?
The removal of shoes in a Northern Renaissance painting symbolizes what?
What is an event on holy ground?
Italian artists were influenced by what Philosophical movement?
Double jeopardy if you can describe what that movement entailed.
What is Humanism?
Humanists embraced the Greco-Roman belief that each individual has dignity and worth.
This artist took the international style and used it as a starting point to introduce a new painting tradition that included detailed paintings.
The word Renaissance means what?
What is "Rebirth"?
Leonardo da Vinci broke with tradition when in the Last Supper he painted who in a different way?
Double Jeopardy: How was he depicted?
Who is Judas?
He depicted him included with the rest of the apostles but separated spiritually by darkening his silhouette.
Which artist's contribution was to alter nature and the proportions of people or objects when those changes added to the emotional impact of his picture?
Who is Hugo van der Goes?
Just as Greco-Roman ideas were making a comeback in painting and sculpture, so to were these ideas returning in architecture.
What is balance and symmetry?
In 1555 Sofonisba Anguissola painted "A Game of Chess" featuring the painter's three sisters and a servant. It was unusual for a woman to become an artist during this time due to what reason?
What is the new importance attached to artists made it even more difficult for women to pursue a career in art?
Artists at that time were required to spend longer periods in apprenticeship. During this time, they studied mathematics, the laws of perspective, and anatomy.
This word describes figures or objects in perspective that appear to recede or protrude into three dimensional space.
Like Giotto, this artist ignored unnecessary details and focused his attention on mass and depth. He also wanted his figures to look solid and real so he modeled them in light and shadow and used linear perspective. One of his most famous paintings in The Holy Trinity.
Who is Masaccio?
The symbolism in this painting by Jan van Eyck conveys the belief that eternal salvation is possible for all because Christ sacrificed his life on the cross, and that his death made possible the water of salvation received by the faithful at baptism.
What is The Adoration of the Lamb?
The room containing the School of Athens and The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament also contains two other paintings (for a total of 4) to comment on which 4 classical ideas?
What is Philosophy, Theology, Liberal Arts and Justice?
This artist is credited with discovering linear perspective but after losing the contest for the baptistry doors in Florence he abandoned sculpture for a career in architecture. The dome on the cathedral in Florence is one of his greatest achievements.
Filippo Brunelleschi
In order to make up for the distortion in perspective, renaissance artists would do what when creating their sculptures?
(Hint, this can be seen in Donotello's sculpture of St. Mark).
What is, they would make the bottom half of the figure (including the hands) larger to make up for the foreshortened perspective?