Vocabulary
A type of painting with Mary and baby Jesus.
What is a Madonna?
The revisiting of classical culture.
What is the Renaissance?
One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists, he was noted especially for his sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood. Known for his work on David
Who is Donatello?
A bronze casting of a biblical character who famously defeats Goliath.
What is the statue of David?
A wealthy banking family who commissioned many works of art.
What is the Medici Family?
What is a glaze?
A secular movement where man is at the center of the universe.
What is Humanism?
He was one of the most esteemed artists in Italy. His mythological paintings, such as 'Venus and Mars', were immensely popular in his lifetime.
Who is Sandro Botticelli?
Depicts the goddess of love & romance being brought to shore on a seashell.
What is the BIrth of Venus
Depicts Christ as a judge at the end of the world, and a cross splits the saved & the damned.
What is The Last Judgement?
The transition from light to dark in a painting.
What is chiaroscuro?
Allowed the spread of ideas and made books more accessible.
What is the printing press?
An Italian architect, designer, and sculptor, he was considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture. Known for his work on the Pazzi Chapel.
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi
Built to expiate the sin of usury, it is transitional between Late Gothic and Proto-Renaissance.
What is the Arena Chapel?
Of or involving right angles, or to be at right angles.
What is orthogonal?
An architectural element used to give the appearance of a supporting column.
What is a pilaster?
A style of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.
What is naturalism?
Italian painter and architect who often worked on frescos. Known for his work on the Arena Chapel.
Who is Giotto di Bondone?
Created to be a "chapter house", part of the Basilica di Santa Croce.
What is the Pazzi Chapel?
The dwelling of a wealthy merchant family, it was "Humanism applied to domestic and private architecture".
What is the Palazzo Rucellai?
A painting technique to soften the transition between colors, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on.
What is sfumato?
Helped the arts flourish and increased social standing through art.
What is patronage?
An Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer. Known for his work on the Palazzo Rucellai.
Who is Leon Battista Alberti?
Commissioned by the Medici to show their piousness, and it was painted to seem relatable/human.
What is the Madonna & Child with Two Angels
He painted in a religious context but reinvented the representation of biblical figures with his application of colors and naturalism. Painted the Madonna & Child with Two Angels.
Who is Fra Filippo Lippi?