General Art History

Formal analysis vocabulary

• line

• shape

• space

• color

• light and shadow

• texture

• composition

• medium and materials

• style

• content

• symbolism

• iconography

• hue, saturation, value

Style

categorizing objects based off shared characteristics

content, iconography, symbolism

content and its potential meaning is deciphered thru iconography and symbolism

• not everything is a symbol

• iconography and symbolism can originated from the artist or the viewer

name, artist, date/era, material

name - David

Artist - Donatello

Date/Era - 1440s

Material - bronze sculpture

name, artist, date/era, material

name - David

Artist - Michelangelo

Date/Era - 1501-1504

Material - marble sculpture

name, artist, date/era, material

name - David

Artist - Birnini

Date/Era - 1623-24

Material - marble sculpture

name, artist, date/era, material

name - Napoleon crossing the Alps

Artist - Jaques-lous david (French)

Date/Era - 1801

Material - oil paint on canvas

name - Napoleon leading the Army over the Alps

Artist - Kehinde Wiley)

Date/Era - 2005

Material - oil paint on canvas

name - Six Tuscan Poets

Artist -Gorgio Vasari

Date/Era - 1544

Material - oil paint on panel

Vocab: Contrapposto

shifted weight (more naturalistic stance)

vocab: Polykleitos

introduces a canon of proportions for sculpture

name - Equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius

Artist - ???

Date/Era - 173-176 CE

Material - gilded bronze statue

name - Equestrian portrait of Charles the Bald (or Charlemagne)

date/era - 9th century

Material - bronze originally gilt

name -Saint Matthew

Artist - ???

Date/Era - 800-810

Material - book (paper)

seated portrait of the greek menander, detail of a fourth style mural paining in exedra 23 of the house of the menander

Artist - ???

Date/Era - 62-79

Material - the wall (in pompeii)

name - marble statuette of a seated philosopher

Artist - ???

Date/Era - 1st or 2nd cent CE

Material - ???

Romanesque architecture

• heavy and squat

• rounded

• barrel and groin vaulting

• no elevation for clerestory

(St. Sernin, France. 1118 CE - Vault Height: 84ft)

Gothic architecture

• Height and Light

• Buoyant

• Pointed arch and vaulting

• DEMATERIALIZATION

• “LUX NOVA” - “new light”

(Amiens Cathedral France. Vault height: 139ft)

Chartres Cathedral

West Facade Jamb sculptures

c. 1150-70

france

Annunciation and Visitation sculptures from west facade reims cathedral

france

c. 1230-255