Historical Background
Time period in Northern Europe?
1400 - 1600
New material used for its portability and durability?
Canvas.
Who made the "Birth of Venus"?
Sandro Botticelli’s
Name your favorite painting, sculpture or architecture depiction and justify your answer.
Gift answer (personal opinion)
Explain how was the artistic life in Northern Europe Renaissance?
Because of capitalist market system, sells were expansive. Church was a source of employment. And new technologies in printmaking made artists internationally.
Technique the development of soft transitions between light and dark?
Chiaroscuro.
Where is the Sistine Chapel located?
Vatican City State
Name the famous painting of Leonardo Da Vinci?
Mona Lisa.
What did the iconoclasts do?
Literally means “image breaking” and refers to a recurring historical impulse to break or destroy images for religious or political reasons.
Italian technique of blurring contours?
Sfumato
What was the material used in "The pieta"?
Marble
Famous cartoon whose protagonists' names were inspired by renaissance artists?
Ninja Turtle
What was Mannerist art concerned with? What it's art looked like?
Concerned the tension between the ideal, the natural and symmetrical against the real, artificial, and unbalanced.
Characteristics of Northern Renaissance art?
1. Non focused in religious subjects anymore. Portraits, still-life and genre paintings. 2. Use of oil paint (rich colors different from fresco and tempera before used). 3. Invention of print (movable type). 4. Portability. 5. Influenced by Gothic paintings. 6. Use of formal elements such as perspective, composition and color.
Describe one of the two (2) paintings of Caravaggio explained in the presentation?
1. People seated in a tavern whose exterior light illuminates the interior scene.
2. Illuminated man writing on a leaf with a skull next to it.
Name 3 famous artists of Renaissance?
Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio, Titian, Caravaggio.
Name two (2) historical events Renaissance in Europe?
1. Capitalism as a system.
2. Religious changes, some country's were protestant. 3. Calvinist spearheaded the iconoclastic movement.
4. The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg and the ease of transmitting art and information through copies.
Characteristics of Southern Europe Renaissance paintings?
Emphasis in religious subjects but more dynamic compositions.
How many paintings there are in Sistine Chapel?
More than 300 separate figures people the ceiling's
Famous inventions in Renaissance period?