Art Appreciation vocab (gothic/ early renaissance)

St. Dennis

Set the Gothic Aesthetic

Gothic

1st international movement since Rome

Flying buttresses

stone support on the outside of a building that allowed builders to construct higher walls

Stone tracery

(Rib vaulting) stone structure

What are the 3 things that make Gothic Gothic

Stone tracery, flying buttresses, pointed arches

Iconography

Picture symbols

Rennaissance

Rebirth of classical ideals (humanism)

Donor portrait

a portrait in a larger painting or other work showing the person who paid for the image

Patron

People who pay for artwork

Annunciation

Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she will have Jesus

Last judgment

Jesus choosing who goes to heaven and hell

Last supper

Jesus's last meal with disciples

Betrayal of Judy's

Judy's kisses Jesus to sell him out to the Roman guards

Nativity

Brith of Jesus

Sacra conversione

Sacred people out of sync historically

Pieta

Mary holding dead Jesus

Madonna enthroned

Painting of Mary holding baby Jesus

Deposition

Jesus either off the cross or in the tomb

Resurrection

Jesus resurrecting

Ascension

Jesus going to heaven

Egg tempera

Painting medium that is water based with egg yolk to bind

Oil paint

Pigment and Lin seed oil

Glaze

Tinned down oil paint with disarray varnish

Impasto

Thick area of textured/unmixed paint

Grisalle

Painting of sculpture in a painting

Secco

Wet paint applied over dry paint: on a wall

Diptych

Picture made of 2 picutres

Triptych

Picture made of 3 pictures

Polyptych

4 or more pictures

The Medici

Florunteen patron to the arts (very wealthy banking family)

Botega

artist workshop

Flanders

Regional area of Belgium, Lexingburg, parts of France, Holand, Netherlands (banking and art center)

Florence

The birthplace of the Italian Renaissance

Dukes of Burgundy

Art patrons (they were princes)

Duomo

Cathedral; Florence

Plato academy

School sponsored by Medichi overseen patriarch

Donor portrait

Person who pays for image and is in one

Illuminated manuscript

Handwritten book (gothic)k

Abbot suger

Made first gothic church

Hubert Van Eyck

Early North REN; early to use oil paint

Thomoso Massaccio

Used Mathmatical perspective; first mathematical painting

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Mathmatical perspective; bronze doors (on Florence Cathedral)

Fillipo Brunellleschi

Mathmatical perspective; engendered dome

Donatello

Created 1st freestanding (fully in the round) sculpture since antiquity

Alessandro Botticelli

1st pegan painting