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Annunciation Triptych
Date: 1430
Location: Belgium
Artist: Robert Campin
Material: Oil on wood
Content: Depicts angel announcing to Mary that she will give birth to Christ in a modern setting/ meant to be used for private worshipping for elites / 3 paneled alterpiece can be folded
Arnolfini Portrait
Date: 1430
Location: Belgium
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Material: Oil on wood
Content: a bedroom scene of a man and woman / symbolism displays wealth and gender roles / artist signed the piece
Adam and Eve
Date: 1500
Location: Germany
Material: Engraving
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Content: Adam amd Eve inspired by Greek Mythologies perfect view of Venus and Apollo (contropposto) / printmaking = mass production
Isenheim Alterpiece
Date: 1510
Location: Germany
Material: oil on carved wood
Artist: Matthias Grünewald
Content: Placed in a hospital and demonstrates healing through salvation / one side depicts agony and christs crucification, other side depicts hope and resurrection
Hunters in the snow
Date: 1565
Location: Netherlands
Artist: Peter Bruegel
Material: oil on wood
Content: genre painting depicting Peasant life with an idyllic quality/ strong diagonals and heavily detailed / hunting was most commonly done by elites
Pazzi Chapel
Date: 1430-1460
Location: Italy
Material: masonry
Artist: Filipo Brunechelli
Content: patroned by the Pazzi family / served as a meeting place for monks / Roman and Greek revival during renaissance ( pendentives, perfect geometry, central planned)
Palazzo Rucellai
Date: 1450
Location: Florence, Italy
Material: Masonry
Artist: Alberti
Content: patroned by the Rucellai family, used for business meetings and private dwelling/ revival of Roman architecture (inspired by the colosseum)/ contains columns, friezes with decoration, rounded arches.
Madonna and child with Two angels
Date: 1460
Location: Florence, Italy
Material: tempera on wood
Artist: Filipo lippi
Content: Lippi depicts Mary and child as more human like and playful / differs from Byzantine Christian art (thinned halo and fluid and natural body)/ fake frame (tromploill)
Birth of Venus
Date: 1480
Location: Florence, Italy
Material: Tempera on Canvas
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Content: connecting Classical Greek Mythology to Christian Ideas / weightless and flowy characters, nude female covers body with modesty
David Statue
Date: 1460
Location: Florence, Italy
Material: bronze
Artist: Donatello
Content: Donatello revives the Greek love of the human body / freedom was cherished by the Florence people, found in Medici palace in Florence / Artist explores Greek techniques (contrapposto, bronze sculpture, Goliath helmet)
The last supper
Date: 1490
Location: France
Material: Tempera and fresco
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Content: Depicts the final meal of Jesus with his disciples / groups of 3 symbolism, linear perspective, perfect lines.
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Date: 1508
Location: Vatican City
Material: Fresco
Artist: Michelangelo
Content: Depicts scenes from Genesis and creation of Adam / Pagan symbolism (perfect proportions, sybils, basilica plan, tromploill)
School of Athens
Date: 1510
Location: Vatican City
Artist: Raphael
Material: Fresco
Content: Greek revival and scientific thinking, represents 4 branches of learning / all characters modeled after real people( Plato, Aristotle)Raphael inserts himself into the painting
Last Judgement
Date: 1530
Location: Vatican City
Material: Fresco
Artist: Michaelangelo
Content: Catholic Church was under attack during Protestant reformation/ brutal and unsettling, optimism is lost
Venus of Urbino
Date: 1530
Location: Venice
Material: oil on canvas
Artist: Titian
Content: Female nude as a genre painting / celebrates sensuality, Venus makes nudity acceptable
Entombment of Christ
Date: 1520
Location: Florence
Material: oil on wood
Artist: Jacopo da pontormo
Content: Example of Mannerism rebelling against Renaissance ideals (distorted figures, bright colors, movement)
Gesu Facade
Date: 1570
Location: Rome
Material: brick and marble
Artist: Giacomo della Porta
Content: church of the Jesuit order (counter refirmation), column groupings, tympanum
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