Art History Survey 2

Andrea Pisano, Baptism of Christ, 1330-1336

Andrea Pisano, Baptism of Christ, DATE

first half of the fourteenth century

Andrea Pisano, Baptism of Christ FACTS

↳ took 6 years
↳ relief
↳ Each door was cast in bronze in a mold
↳ Figures have gold leaf on them
↳ John seen baptizing normal people and baptisms Jesus
↳ Jesus has halo
↳ Each scene is in a Quatrefoils
↳ shows depth with
↳ overlapping
↳ foreshortening
↳ Dove of the Holy spirit; speaking

Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi), Virgin and Child Enthroned, c. second half of the 13th century

Virgin and Child Enthroned creator

Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi)

Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi), Virgin and Child Enthroned MATERIAL

Tempera and gold on wood

Cimabue (Cenni di Pepi), Virgin and Child Enthroned, DATE

c. second half of the 13th century

Virgin and Child Enthroned FACTS

↳ tempera \= pigment & egg whites & water
↳ Fresco \= Pantry done directly on wet or dry plaster (typically, a wall or ceiling)
↳ Byzantine elements
↳ flat
↳ not naturalistic
↳ gold
↳ Altar piece \= center or church; massive piece
↳ old testament prophets at bottom
↳ can see both marry's ears
↳ meant to look supernatural
↳ Cimabue is extremely important painter
↳ some say father of western painter

Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned, c. first half of the fourteenth century

Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned DATE

first half of the fourteenth century

Giotto, Virgin and Child Enthroned FACTS

↳ Byzantine Influence
↳ Gold
↳ natural aspects
↳ perspective
↳ Drapery falls on body rather than in the shape of the body
↳ throne is marble like 1st style of Roman Painting

Giotto, Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy, first half of the fourteenth century. Frescos

Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel CREATOR

Giotto

Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel LOCATION

Padua, Italy

Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel DATE

First half of the fourteenth century

Giotto, Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy MATERIAL

Frescos

Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Lamentation, and Resurrection/Noli me Tangere, Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel FACTS

↳ Very good at experssionism.

Lots of blue paint; expensive
↳ Enrico scroregni: was a usury (lending money at high Interest rate
↳ Giotto painted win a team of apprentices
↳ Grisaille-monochrome pantry
↳ made to look like marble
↳ Resisters = Horizontal divisions of a work of art
↳ Has Mary's parents
↳ life of Christ
↳ Noli me Tang ere
↳ marriage at Cana
↳ Jesus' first miracle
↳ Jesus, marry, & Joseph shown with halos
↳ raising of Lazarus
↳ Jesus, lazarus
↳ women on right have cloth over face because the body of lazarus stank
↳ Natural emotions
↳ Jesus, robe, blue is not fresco, painted over
↳ Lamentation
↳ lots of emotion
↳ very animated
↳ Figures painted from the back
↳ landscape that does not distract
↳ Dead tree because curet dead
↳ Top: Figures up
↳ Bottom: Figures collapsing
↳ the Last Judgment
↳ Heaven & Hell
↳ Has monk in hell
↳ Has Enrico handing of the church to marry

Duccio, Virgin and Child Enthroned (the Rucellai Madonna), commissioned in the second half of the 13th century. Tempera and gold on wood

Virgin and Child Enthroned (the Rucellai Madonna) CREATOR

Duccio

Duccio, Virgin and Child Enthroned (the Rucellai Madonna), commissioned DATE

the second half of the 13th century

Duccio, Virgin and Child Enthroned (the Rucellai Madonna) MATERIAL

Tempera and gold on wood

Virgin and Child Enthroned (the Rucellai Madonna) FACTS

↳ Byzantine Influence
↳ Gold
↳ natural aspects
↳ perspective
↳ drappery falls on body rather than in the shape of the body
↳ throne is marble like 1st style of Roman Painting

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Effects of Good Government in the City, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, first half of the 14th century. Fresco

The Effects of Good Government in the City, Palazzo Pubblico LOCATION

Siena

The Effects of Good Government in the City, Palazzo Pubblico CREATOR

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

The Effects of Good Government in the City, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena MATERIAL

Fresco

The Effects of Good Government in the City, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena DATE

first half of the 14th century.

The Effects of Good Government in the City FACTS

↳ would have been obviously Sienna
↳ perspective is off
↳ Buying shoes
↳ people are building
↳ men cross dressing and dancing
↳ school
↳ Flows into the country
↳ Gov. has control of country so safe to travel
↳ Merchants traveling
↳ Falconry
↳ personification of security
↳ First true landscape painting since Roman antiquity

Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux, France, first half of the 14th century.. Grisaille and color on vellum

The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux CREATOR

Jean Pucelle

Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux LOCATION

France

Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux, France MATERIAL

Grisaille and color on vellum

Jean Pucelle, The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux, France DATE

first half of the 14th century.

The Hours of Jeanne d'Évreux FACTS

↳ small
↳ Has lots of Mary
↳ on vellum
↳ used Grisaille
↳ the annunciation \= gabrial coming to tell she is hav, christ
↳ may be based on Duccio's annunciation of marry's death
↳ the arrest of Jesus
↳ peter cutting off ear
↳ Light means at night
↳ Roman solders
↳ Bottom
↳ playing tag
↳ Jesters riding yours rousting into a bernal of wine
↳ goats: scapegoat
↳ Jeanne is in the letter D praying and having vision of Mary
↳ Jeanne was Queen at the time and was 14
↳ her job was to have babies

Unknown artist, Vesperbild (Pietà)(or Roettgen Pietà), c. second half of the 15th century.

Vesperbild (Pietà)(or Roettgen Pietà) CREATOR

Unknown artist

Vesperbild (Pietà)(or Roettgen Pietà) DATE

second half of the 15th century.

Vesperbild (Pietà)(or Roettgen Pietà) FACTS

L\> Vesperbild-"Vesper obtect"
↳ Vespers-evening prayers
↳ Distorted
↳ Heads s bodies not proportionate
↳ Hands, Feet, s side bleeds
↳ Influenced by blade plague
↳ Women with dead husbands and children can relate
↳ people wanted to relate to the saints they were proxy

Jan van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban, first half of the 15th century.

Man in a Red Turban CREATOR

Jan van Eyck

Man in a Red Turban DATE

first half of the 15th century.

Man in a Red Turban MATERIAL

Oil on panel

Man in a Red Turban FACTS

↳ believed to be portraite of Eyck
↳ wrinkles under eyes
↳ looks very concentrated
↳ weary a chaperon \= a hood with a long tail
↳ writing on painting Frame is painted
↳ written on top says "all I can"
↳ probably used for marketing

Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait"), first half of the 15th century. Oil on panel.

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait") MATERIAL

Oil on panel

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait") DATE

first half of the 15th century.

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait") CREATOR

Jan van Eyck

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife ("Arnolfini Wedding Portrait") FACTS

↳ commissioned by Giovanni Arnolfini
↳ Face of Arnolfini
↳ pale
↳ Hand up like taking vows
↳ The face is not Idealized
↳ The wife's face is Idealized
↳ know rich because
↳ Purple clothing
↳ us less Dog
↳ over-use of fabric
↳ mirrors
↳ Lots of red in the bedroom
↳ was understood to be a visual marriage contract
↳ Van van Exke sighed above the mirror
\> 4 people in the mirror
↳ 2 other people are probably Van van Eyck s assistant or father
↳ symbolic elements
↳ shoes off
↳ Holy ground?
↳ Dog
↳ marital Fidelity
↳ oranges
↳ sign of wealth
↳ Illusion to the garden of Eden?
↳ Is wife pregnant?
↳ unsure
↳ may have died in childbirth
↳ The post on the chair has St. Margaret over a dragon
↳ Margaret Patten Saint of childbirth

Workshop of the Master of Flémalle (or Robert Campin?), Mérode Altarpiece, c. first half of the 15th century..

Mérode Altarpiece DATE

c. first half of the 15th century.

Mérode Altarpiece CREATORS

Workshop of the Master of Flémalle (or Robert Campin?)

Mérode Altarpiece FACTS

↳ Tryptic
↳ middle
↳ the Annunciation
↳ pages turning like wind from Gabriel
↳ Gabriel not done moving
↳ Left
↳ patrons who commissioned wore
↳ right
↳ Joseph
↳ the light is passing through the glass like Mary got pregnant without brewery here Virgin at
↳ baby Jesus holding cross on light
↳ lilies represent purity
↳ candle is out because the worldly light is no longer needed because the light of the world is here
↳ pot in bare reps. cleans
↳ Towel connects to dens
↳ Joseph may be matey mouse trap
↳ may be for many wine
↳ may be many a stumbling block

Rogier van der Weyden, *Deposition*, c. first half of the 15th century.

*Deposition* DATE

c. first half of the 15th century.

*Deposition* CREATOR

Rogier van der Weyden

*Deposition* FACTS

↳ many fainting and being held by John the evangelist
↳ Mary's pose is similar to Jesus'
↳ Joseph of Arimathea on right holding to his feet
↳ turban tally down that emphasizes here head being hung down
↳ Skull references Gaulgatha
↳ Altarpiece ice cross-shaped
↳ commissioned by the archers guild
↳ "figures so real realistic that they seemed to breath"

The Limbourg Brothers, January and February pages from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), first half of the 15th century. LEFT

The Limbourg Brothers, January and February pages from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), first half of the 15th century. RIGHT

anuary and February pages from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) CREATOR

The Limbourg Brothers

January and February pages from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) DATE

first half of the 15th century.

January and February pages from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry FACTS

↳ contained prayers for the aux and had calendar with page for each month
↳ January page
↳ puree of berry
↳ Fuzzy hat
↳ has end of halo behind him
↳ rich cardinal
↳ has chamber i am with text:" approach. Approach"
↳ Duke is rich:
↳ Hunting hound
↳ clothing
↳ useless dogs
↳ Gold dishes
↳ lots of salt
↳ men are wearing purses s dagger
↳ Ballock dagger
↳ Tapestry in the back
↳ February page
↳ normal people
↳ people are cold
↳ peasants
↳ being made fun of
↳ women in blue is upper-class
↳ liftingy dress would be moppropriate

Jean Fouquet, Étienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child (The Melun Diptych), c. second half of the 15th century..

Étienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child (The Melun Diptych) DATE

c. second half of the 15th century.

Étienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child (The Melun Diptych) CREATOR

Jean Fouquet

Étienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child (The Melun Diptych) FACTS

↳ Figures
↳ Etienne Chevalier (far left)
↳ St. Stephen (Right of Chevalier)
↳ Virgin Marx
↳ Jesus
↳ St Steven
↳ Holding Stone cause got stoned
↳ Bloody head
↳ Tonsure - the Shaved area on priest's head
↳ chevalier
↳ hair is typical for the day
↳ Mary and Jesus
↳ supernatural vision
↳ Mary
↳ sexualized
↳ Face based on a real person
↳ Agnes Sorel, the mistress of toy Charles Vii
↳ she was very popular and loved by the people
↳ poisoned while pregnant
↳ contemporary cloths
↳ Made up of Geometric shapes
↳ Body: two upside triangles
↳ Breast: spherical
↳ Cold, unapproachable, inhuman, supernatural
↳ Cherubs
↳ holding up thrown

Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac first half of the 15th century. Bronze with gilding

Sacrifice of Isaac CREATOR

Filippo Brunelleschi

Sacrifice of Isaac MATERIAL

Bronze with gilding

Sacrifice of Isaac DATE

first half of the 15th century.

Sacrifice of Isaac FACTS

Didn't win

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac first half of the 15th century., Bronze with gilding

Sacrifice of Isaac MATERIAL

Bronze with gilding

Sacrifice of Isaac DATE

first half of the 15th century.

Sacrifice of Isaac CREATOR

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Sacrifice of Isaac FACTS

↳ won the competition naturalistic, nude male figure in sculpture since Roman antiquity
↳ Issac First
↳ more drama s emotion
↳ used space more effective,
↳ Design was cheaper to mare
↳ spent 21 years
↳ didn't use original piece

Filippo Brunelleschi, Ospedale degli Innocenti ("Hospital of the Innocents"). Designed and built in the first half of the 15th century.

Ospedale degli Innocenti ("Hospital of the Innocents") CREATOR

Filippo Brunelleschi

Ospedale degli Innocenti ("Hospital of the Innocents") DATE DESIGNED

first half of the 15th century.

Ospedale degli Innocenti ("Hospital of the Innocents") DATE BUILT

first half of the 15th century.

Ospedale degli Innocenti ("Hospital of the Innocents") FACTS

↳ has loggia: open-air walkway
↳ very thin columns, Archways
↳ Developed From Roman models
↳ First renaissance building, for which we know the architects made a measured scare drowns rather than a women model
↳ proportions: Based on a square; perfect mathematical divisions
↳ the height of pillars the same distance between pillars as well as wall
↳ Impost: Flat brace between column and what it's holding up
↳ material: bray pietra serena on white
↳ Gray used to outline mathematical shapes
↳ was looking Back on Pythagoras, witty s to understand visual harm one,
↳ Andrea della Robbia, Infants n swaddling clothes
↳ blue is trademark
↳ Became a symbol of Florence
↳ showed that all people had value
↳ the Grated Window
↳ to drop off babies

Michelozzo, Palazzo Medici. Begun first half of the 15th century..

Palazzo Medici DATE

first half of the 15th century.

Palazzo Medici CREATOR

Michelozzo

Palazzo Medici FACTS

↳ Brunelle see may have designed first version
↳ this version designed by Michelozzo
↳ Palazzo \= large building
↳ slight fortress Feel
↳ doesn't look like cut off from world
↳ first flower had shops originally
↳ 3 layers
↳ rough Stone (rusticated)
↳ exact cut stone
↳ smooth stone
↳ Makes Look taller
↳ looks similar to a cent Roman buildings
↳ has interior courtyard

Donatello, David, c. first half of the 15th century. Bronze

first half of the 15th century David CREATOR

Donatello

Donatello, David DATE

c. first half of the 15th century.

Donatello, David MATERIAL

Bronze

Donatello, David FACTS

↳ David was a symbol of florence
↳ First life-size freestanding male nude in the round since Roman times
↳ nudity describe hero
↳ Delicate, effeminate
↳ Feet playing with Galiath's head
↳ contrapposto pose
↳ Why holding stone?
↳ wearing hats boots but nothing?
↳ Feather on the inside thigh
↳ sexual elements
↳ Not all work like this
↳ Least expected piece of the time

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Jacob & Esau, Panel from the "Gates of Paradise", c. first half of the 15th century. Gilded bronze

Jacob & Esau, Panel from the "Gates of Paradise" CREATOR

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Jacob & Esau, Panel from the "Gates of Paradise" DATE

c. first half of the 15th century.

Jacob & Esau, Panel from the "Gates of Paradise" MATERIAL

Gilded bronze

Jacob & Esau, Panel from the "Gates of Paradise" FACTS

↳ linear perspective elements
↳ orthogonal lines converge
↳ Diminution

Masaccio, Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, c. first half of the 15th century. Church of Santa Maria Novella. Fresco

Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, MATERIAL

Fresco

Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, CREATOR

Masaccio

Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, LOCATION

Church of Santa Maria Novella

Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, DATE

c. first half of the 15th century.

Trinity with the Virgin,St. John the Evangelist, and Donors, FACTS

↳ Masaccio died young
↳ Made look like looking into a 8 foot chapel