Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who was featured in the School of Athens as Heraclitus.
Who is Michelangelo?
Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. Was arrested along with several male companions on charges of sodomy.
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. Depicted himself among a group of scholars in a painting from Pope Julius II's library.
Who is Raphael?
Italian painter and lady's man who depicted one of his lovers, a nun, as Mother Mary in the "Madonna and Child with Two Angels."
Who is Fa Filipo Lippi?
Florentine sculptor of the Renaissance period who worked with bronze. Sculpted the first nude since the classical period.
Who is Donatello?
Art during the Early and High Renaissance periods influenced and informed by the prevalent humanistic ideals of the time. Expressive facial features, relatability, and realistic details.
What is Humanism?
An aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
What is classicism?
Term used to describe a moral, political, or social outlook that stresses human independence and the importance of individual self-reliance and liberty.
What is Individualism?
Late Renaissance. Slender, elongated limbs, splayed, twisting and turning bodies, contradicting all the traditional laws of proportion.
What is Mannerism?
Art that has no religious reference points and is, in fact, oblivious to organized religion. Having an aesthetic appeal in a non-religious context, it neither denies or affirms the existence of God, but focuses on human agency.
What is Secularism?
The ideal that developed in Renaissance Italy from the notion expressed by one of its most accomplished representatives, Leonardo Da Vinci, that “a man can do all things if he will.”
What is a Renaissance Man?
Selfie King of the Northern Renaissance who depicted himself as Jesus and is Mrs. Bunn's boyfriend.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, in Vatican City, and the official residence of the pope. This chapel contains artwork from Michelangelo and Rafael and is the place where popes are elected.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
Chapel commissioned by a banker to atone for his sins of usury. Contains artwork from Giotto.
What is the Arena Chapel?
Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael.
Who are the Ninja Turtles?
Altarpiece created by Matthias Grünewald that was placed inside a hospital for people dying of skin disease.
What is the Isenheim Altarpiece?
Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicted the everyday lives and struggles of peasants.
What is the Hunters in the Snow?
Titian’s oil painting on canvas that domesticated the Goddess of love.
What is the Venus of Urbino?
Mannerist artwork by Pontormo that depicts the movement of Christ to his resting place.
What is The Entombment of Christ?
Botticelli artwork with v-shaped waves and roses with thorns.
What is the Birth of Venus?
A religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity whose name collectively refers to the many religious groups that separated from the Roman Catholic Church due to differences in doctrine.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Chapel with a cruciform floorplan that served as the main original church for the Jesuits. Made of brick and marble with Corinthian-style columns.
What is the Il Gesu Chapel?
Artwork by Cranach that was commissioned to express Luther's ideals against the Catholic church.
What is the Allegory of Law and Grace?
Loyalty in marriage; often depicted as a dog (i.e. Arnolfini Portrait)
What is fidelity?
Method of drawing where the artist uses their 'eye' and observational skills to create a sense of perspective in an artwork. As seen in Campin's Merode Altarpiece.
What is the intuitive perspective?