FALL 2024: Art of the Western World 2 Midterm Images

Title: Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets
Artist: Giovanni Cimabue
Medium: Tempera on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Late Medieval Italy
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Title: The Lamentation, Arena/Scrovegni Chapel
Artist: Giotto
Medium: Fresco
Location: Padua, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Arena/Scrovegni Chapel
Artist: Giotto
Medium: Fresco
Location: Padua, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Annunciation
Artist: Simone Martini and Lippo MemmiMedium: Tempera and gold leaf on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Peaceful Country
Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Medium: Fresco
Location: Sala della Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Peaceful City
Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Medium: Fresco
Location: Sala della Pace, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Mérode Altarpiece
Artist: Robert Campin
Medium: oil on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Early Northern Renaissance
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Title: The Arnolfini Portrait
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Medium: oil on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Early Northern Renaissance
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Title: Annunciation
Artist: Fra Angelico
Medium: Fresco
Location: San Marco, Florence, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: David
Artist: Donatello
Medium: Bronze
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: David
Artist: Andrea del Verrocchio
Medium: Bronze
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Holy Trinity
Artist: Masaccio
Medium: Fresco
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: The Tribute Money
Artist: Masaccio
Medium: Fresco
Location: Brancacci Chapel, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Birth of Venus
Artist: Botticelli
Medium: Tempera on panel
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Adoration of the Magi
Artist: Gentile da Fabriano
Medium: Tempera on panel
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Madonna and Child with Angels
Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
Medium: Tempera on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Vitruvian Man
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Pen and ink drawing
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Fresco
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Madonna of the Rocks
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Oil on panel
Location: n/a
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Pietà
Artist: Michelangelo
Medium: Marble
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: David
Artist: Michelangelo
Medium: Marble
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Madonna of the Meadow
Artist: Raphael
Medium: Oil on panel
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: La Belle Jardinière
Artist: Raphael
Medium: Oil on panel
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: School of Athens
Artist: Raphael
Medium: Fresco
Location: Stanza della Segnatura, Italy
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: The Tempest
Artist: Giorgione
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Title: Venus of Urbino
Artist: Titian
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: N/A
Period: Southern Renaissance
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Guild

An association of merchants, craftspersons, or scholars in medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Humanism

In the Renaissance, an emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge (especially of classical antiquity), the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty.

Cartoon

In painting, a full-size preliminary drawing from which a painting is made.

chiaroscuro

In drawing or painting, the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce

International Gothic

A style of 14th- and 15th-century painting begun by Simone Martini, who fused the French Gothic manner with Sienese art. This style appealed to the aristocracy because of its brilliant color, lavish costumes, intricate ornamentation, and themes involving splendid processions of knights and ladies.

trompe l'oeil

French, "fools the eye." A form of illusionistic painting that aims to deceive viewers into believing that they are seeing real objects rather than a representation of those objects.

Neo-Platonism

An ancient school of philosophy based on the ideas of Plato, revived during the Renaissance and modified by the teachings

poesia

A term describing "poetic" art, notably Venetian Renaissance painting, which emphasizes the lyrical and sensual.

Mannerism

A style of later Renaissance art that emphasized "artifice," often involving contrived imagery not derived directly from nature. Such artworks showed a self-conscious stylization involving complexity, caprice, fantasy, and polish. Mannerist architecture tended to flout the classical rules of order, stability, and symmetry, sometimes to the point of parody.

Sfumato

The subtle and minute gradation of tone and color used to blur or veil the contours of a form in painting.