Renaissance art, Italy and Northern Europe

Giotto

Lamentation

Early renaissance

Figure/ ground relationship

Foreshortening

Figure reaching out toward viewer

Robert campin

Merode altarpiece

Early northern renaissance

Jan Van Eyck

Arnolfini and his wife

Early northern renaissance

Schogauer

Temptation of st. Anthony

Early northern renaissance

Masaccio

the holy trinity

Early Italian renaissance

Donatello

David

Early Italian renaissance

Perugino

Christ giving the keys to St. peter

Early Italian renaissance

Leonardo

Vitruvian man

High italian renaissance

Michelangelo

Pieta

High Italian renaissance

Michelangelo

David

High Italian renaissance

Raphael

Madonna of the goldfinch

High Italian renaissance

Raphael

School of Athens

High Italian renaissance

Pontormo

Deposition

Late Italian renaissance

Durer

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

High northern renaissance

Durer

Young hare

High northern renaissance

Hans Holbein’s the younger

The French ambassadors

High northern renaissance

Pieter Bruegel the elder

Hunters in the snow

Late northern renaissance

Allegory

A picture with a hidden meaning

Altarpiece

Peace of art placed above the altar in a church

Anamorphic projection

Distorted images

Annunciation

The announcement to Mary she was going to have a baby

Atmospheric prespective

Objects farther away are lass clear then objects closer

Attribute

To suggest a work of art may be by a particular person

Bronze

Copper and tin melted together

Diptych

A piece of art work with hinges like a book (an altarpiece

Donor portrait

A portage of people who pay for the painting

Engraving

Cutting very fine liners into a plate, then rubbing ink into it and pressing to get a picture

Fresco

Method of putting water color on fresh plaster usually on a wall surface

Freestanding sculpture

A sculpture that stands by its self

Giornata

The edges of where an artist did a fresco at one time

Humanism

Creating more human like depictions of people

Intuitive

How artist depict depth

Intaglio printing

Using a thin needle stylus (drypoint) to scratch lines into a plate

Lamentation

The morning of Christ

Linear prespective

Use of lines to create perspective

Memento Mori

An artwork designed to remind the viewer of. Their mortality

Naturalism

Creating art that looks like the real world

Oil paint

Oil and pigment

Orthogonal

Creates the illusion of depth and 3D on flat surfaces

Pieta

Jesus on his mothers lap

Polyptych

A multi paneled altarpiece

Pyramidal

Composition made up of a triangle

Secular

Painting depicting normal, non-religious life

Tempera

Paint made of egg yolk and powder pigment

Tondo

A circular work of art

Triptych

An artwork formed as a trio

Vitruvian man

The visual differences between medueval, Italian ren, and northern ren art?

What are the visual techniques for creating the illusion of space on a flat surface