Art History Unit 11

Ghent altarpiece closed

Ghent altarpiece open

Painters that used Oil

Van der Weyden / Van Eyck

Renaissance Man

a person skilled in many things

Mosaccio

A painter (1401-28) that focused on perspective, depth, and architecture

Andrea Mantegne

A painter (1431-1506) that used foreshortening and tempera paint

Jan Van der Eyck

An oil painter (1390-1441) creator of ghent altarpiece

Filippo Brunecelleschi

A painter/architect/inventor (1377-1446) invented perspective

David

Symbol of the florentine people that people were invested in

Leon Battista Alberti

Renaissance man (1404-72) published brunelleschi’s idea of perspective

Renaissance

Rebirth

Secularism

Non religious thinking

Old humanism

philanthropy

Philanthropy

being friendly

Real Humanism

Studying the liberal arts

Renaissance architecture

focus on symmetry

Intaglio

A style of printing on steel engravings that allows for greater detail

Albrecht Durer

15th-16th century - intaglio printer - painter

Aldus Manutius

1452-1515 - his manuscripts were the origin for italics and the bimbo font -

Italics

invented by Manutius, involved in one of the first precedents of copyright

Nicolas jensen

1420-1480 - legal author who is the origin of the jensen font / used renaissance style

Petrarch

A medieval renaissance writer and architect

Johannes Gutenberg

1400-1468- inventor of reusable “moveable” printing

Botticelli

The artist who made art for people