Renaissance Art, Key Figures, and Religious Concepts

Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, & Architects (1550; 1568)

Humanism

An emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge

Giotto

Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. (c.1265-1337)

Annunciation

The announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to Mary

Lamentation/Deposition

The passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Ascension

Fresco

A type of painting on lime plaster

Fresco secco

'dry fresco'; pigment applied to dry fresco

Buon Fresco

true fresco > pigment applied to wet plaster(chemically bonded = more durable!)

Grisaille

A monochrome painting (typically inneutral greys) tosimulate sculpture

Donor portrait

A portrait of the individual/s who commissioned (donated) a religious work as evidence of devotion

Nove

The Nine, a group of nine wealthy merchant leaders who governed Siena from 1285 to 1335.

Great Schism

A crisis in the Catholic Church (1378-1417) when there were rival popes claiming authority

Personification

Black Death

Bubonic Plague (1347-50)

Pastoral care

The Church's system of confession and penance