High Renaissance and Mannerism

The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci

School of Athens, Raphael

David, Michelangelo

Entombment of Christ, Jacopo de Pontormo

Savanarola

Taught that all these new Renaissance ideas were heresy and encouraged people to move away from them and from worldliness (Bonfire of Vanities)

Fin de siecle

End of a century; wrapping up of the Renaissance: art center moves from Florence to Rome, Catholic Church rebuilds, artists become godlike, and eventually the Renaissance turns into Mannerism

Pyramidal composition

Perfected triangle composition that added more depth than previously; inspired by Neoplatonic ideas about math in artwork being a way to access the divine

Sprezzatura

Someone who can do it all and make it look effortless

Disegno

Calculated, thoughtful preparational drawings for artwork

Grazia

Excessive, next level beauty and elegance/grace

Sfumato

Hazy technique that enhanced connectivity and believability - objects belong together and in the same setting

Julius II

Recovery from the Great Schism; commissioned many great works from this time to help strengthen the Catholic Church and build up Rome

Colorito

Rich color over disegno

John Calvin

Condemned religious artwork - didn’t think there should be any depictions of God (Mannerism started to move towards more secular subject matter)

Geocentrism

Everything orbits around the Earth

Heliocentrism

Everything orbits around the Sun