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-Isenheim Altarpiece
Who is Matthias Grunewald
100
-Hieronymus Bosch, 1505-1510, oil -Triptych -Fantasy world -Puzzling with many interpretations -Secular, private patron -Wedding? Alchemy? Last judgment warning? -Left: God presents Adam to Eve, foreshadows evil -Right: horrors of Hell -Center: sexually suggestive – gossipy nude humans, strange animals, eating fruits, and shapes
What is Garden of Earthly Delights
100
Where did the Burial of Count Orgaz originate?
What is Spain
100
A medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold
What is Alchemy?
100
-Hunters in the Snow -Tower of Babel
Who is Pieter Bruegel
200
-Great piece of Turf -Fall of Man -Knight, Death, and the Devil -Four Apostles
Who is Albrecht Durer
200
-El Greco, 1586, oil -Born Greek, studied in Italy, lived in Toledo -Greek = byzantine influence, Italy = Venetian color & Mannerist elongation, Spain = Catholic themes & mysticism -Burial of the great patron for Church Santo Tome -Anachronistic (time doesn’t make sense) -Divided heaven and earth but linked through glances -Clothing references Span & light
What is the Burial of Count Orgaz
200
Where did the Tower of Babel originate?
What is the Netherlands
200
A picture or relief carving on three panels, typically hinged together vertically and used as an altarpiece.
What is a Triptych
200
Money Changer and his Wife
Who is Quinten Massy
300
-Battle of Issus
Who is Albrecht Aldorfer
300
-Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529, Oil -Alexander the Great’s defeat of Darius in Persia in 333 -Made to promote a modern military campaign against the Turks -Parallels emphasized -Modern gear -Landscape -Mediterranean & Nile -Detailed
What is the Battle of Issus
300
Where did the Isenheim Altarpiece originate?
What is the Holy Roman Empire
300
Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, resulting in headache, vomiting, and gangrene of the fingers and toes
What is Ergotism
300
El Escorial
Who is Juan De Herrera and Juan Bautista de Toledo
400
-The French Ambassadors -Henry VIII
Who is Hans Holbein
400
-Durer, 1513, engraving -Amazing texture and detail -Christian knight repealing death -Pig creature = devil -Donatello’s Gattamelata and Leonardo’s sketches
What is Knight, Death, and the Devil
400
Where did the Garden of Earthly Delights originate?
What is the Netherlands
400
A distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner
What is Anamorphic
400
Elizabeth I as a Princess
Who is Levina Teerline
500
Garden of Earthly Delights
Who is Hieronymus Bosch
500
-Durer, 1504 -Detailed engraving -Adam tries to dissuade Eve -Nature -Classical sculpture influence -Contrapposto -Idealized, mathematical ratios -Four humors -Cat (anger), Rabbit (energy), Elk (sadness), Ox (lethargy) -Mouse = Satin, Parrot = cleverness
What is the Fall of Man
500
Where did El Escorial originate?
What is Spain
500
Depicting objects that represent death or the passage of time
What is Vanitas
500
-Butcher's Stall
Who is Pieter Aertsen