Ren-modern art history midterm

difficultà

deliberate complexity in a piece so the artist can show off

chrysography

writing or drawing with gold

chiaroscuro

light-dark, strong contrast

antithesis

contrast between two opposing ideas within a parallel structure to create emphasis

classical style

aesthetic and visual traditions from Greek and Roman art: balance, beauty, proportion

humanism

art the focused on human value and the revival of Greek and Roman ideas

fresco

water based pigments on wet plaster

egg tempera

pigment, water, and egg yolk

Enrico Scrovegni - Arena Chapel

chiaroscuro

Giotto - Lamentation

difficultà

Cimabue - Madonna and Child with Angles and Prophets

chrysography - Byzantine empire

contrapposto

asymmetrical standing posture, weight mostly on one leg

orthogonals

diagonal lines that lead back to a vanishing point

transversals

straight lines that run perpendicular to orthogonals

sfumato

technique of blending with no traces of the process

memento mori

remember you must die

patron

someone who commissions

Brunelleschi - Sacrifice of Isaac and Sons of Isaac

Florence Baptistery Doors Competition

Ghiberti - Gates of Paradise . Sacrifice of Isaac

Florence Baptistery Doors Competition winner project

Donatello - St. Mark and David

Fra Filippo Lippi - Madonna and Child with Angels

Fra Angelico - Annunciation

the dual nature of christ

sprezzatura

making difficult work appear effortless, hiding the work behind it

terribilità

awe-inspiring, power in a work of art

colossus

statue or work that is larger than life

vitruvian man - da vinci

nude man in two positions with a square and circle

difference between high renaissance and earlier-mid italian renaissance

artists broke mathametical rules to create better and more powerful works

Baldassare Castiglione

The Book of Courtier, ideal behavior, sprezzatura

Pope Julius ll

commissioned Sistine Chapel, School of Athens, and St. Peter’s

Pope Leo X

supported Raphel and Michelangelo when rebuiliding St. Peter’s

Leonardo da Vinci - Virgin of the Rocks

Michelangelo - The Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo - Church of New St.Peter’s

Raphael - Galatea

Raphael - School of Athens

Raphael - Madonna of the Meadow

Raphael - Sistine ceiling: Libyan Sibyl

Raphael - Sistine ceiling: Paradise

Raphael - Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

an indigenous-authored or collaborative pictorial and textual manuscript created in the Americas—primarily Mesoamerica—during the Spanish colonial period

matrix

object used for transferring ink

burin

tool used to carve metal for print making

The Mass of St. Gregory 1539

Virgin of Christopher Colombus

Cathedral of Santa María la Menor

Pignorini zemi

Diego de Valadés - Friar Preaching to Native Converts

emulation

to study a piece by recreating it but making it original

meraviglia

wonder, marvel

tenebrism

violent contrasts between light and dark to create spotlight effect

quadrature

painting technique using linear perspective to make architecture look real

Latin vs Greek cross plan

Gian Lorenzo Bernini - The Ecstasy of St Theresa

Anibale Caracci - Pietá

Caravaggio - Entombment of Christ

Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Beheading Holofernes

Andrea Pozzo - Glory of St Ignatius and the Jesuit Order

Guido Reni - Aurora

Pietro da Cortona - Triumph of the Barberini

Fragonard - The Swing

Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun - Marie Antoinette and Her Children

Greuze - Village Betrothal

Hogarth - The Countess’s Dressing Room

Hogarth - The Marriage Contract

Gainsborough - The Morning Walk

Boucher - The Toilette of Venus

Johann Zoffany - Library of Sir Charles Townley

casta paintings

showed the hierarchy of mixed race families

Theodor de Bry, engraving of human cannibalism, in America, Part 3

Harman Moll - Map of the West Indies

Joseph Wright of Derby - A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

Jean-Antoine Houdon - Voltaire

José María Velasco - The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range

Wunderkammer

specialized room or piece of furniture used in 16th-century Europe to house and display an encyclopedic collection of extraordinary, rare, and exotic objects

Kunsthalle

public exhibition facility that has temporary shows rather than a permanent collection

encyclopedic museum

institutions that collect, preserve, and display a large range of human culture from different time periods and parts of the world

community museum

exhibition put together by a local group to show their own history and culture

cultural preservation institute

organization dedicated to preserving and protecting cultural heritage

natural history museum

scientific museum that collects and displays natural objects