Art History

Mid term Exam

Name, Artist, and Medium

Battle of Lapiths & Centaurs, Michelango, Marble

Name, Artist, medium, where was the statue located?

Bacchus, Michelangelo, free standing marble, a garden

Name and Artist

“Vitruvian Man” Leonardo Da Vinci

Name, Artist, Medium

“Procession in St.Marks Square” Gentille Bellini , oil on canvas

Concept(s) shown in the “Procession in St.Marks square”

• The far within the near

• Women with carpets hanging out the window

Name, Artist, and Medium

“The Virgin of the Rocks”, Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on panel

Name, artist, medium, important. concepts within the painting

“Ginevra de’ Benci”, Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on panel

• sfumato (soft shading)

• the symbolism of the juniper bush behind her, it surrounds her head like a halo. But it juniper bush because her name means juniper. This put together symbolizes virtue and chastity.

• Also rather than showing wealth or status like a marriage portrait she is not on display in that way.

Contrapposto

Counter Posture, Weight on one knee

Name, Artist, Medium, importance

“Pieta” Michelangelo, Marble

• its free standing

• shows anatomical realism

• shows Mary’s purity and emotion towards her Jesus. this is showing humanism.

Name, Artist, medium, important facts to know

“The Last Supper”, Leonardo da Vinci

• tempera on gesso, pitch, and dry wall

• uses linear perspective, draws your vision to Jesus

Medio Evo

the middle age

Rinascita

“rebirth”

Sfumato

a shading technique

Name, Artist, Medium

Mona Lisa, Leonardo, oil on panel

Significance of Mona Lisa, by Leonardo

• looking toward you

• dark hair

• chest is covered

• she is a already married women, this is not to show off to potential

Types of Statues

• free standing

• relief

Type of staute

Free Standing

Type of Statue

Relief

Canon

law, rule, standard

Guilds

Group/union

Name and Importance

• Bramante, Tempietto

• The “perfect”shapes

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Spolia

your spoils from battle

Three Empires

Mongols, Mamluks, Ottomans

Ogee Arch

The Feast of the Gods, Giovanni Bellini and Titian, oil on canvas

Enigmatic Definition

Poesia

• “visual poetry”

• a mode of painting whose meaning is deliberately open or ambiguous rather than telling one fixed story

Name, Title, Importance, artist

• The tempest, by giorgione, oil with traces of tempera

• The true meaning is unknown, the name was givin after the fact

• Example of Poesia, it has an open meaning.

• it was a cabinet picture which means it was small and meant for a studiolo/private setting

What did de rossi start with

Fruit pits

San Zeno alterpiece

Andrea Mantegna, tempera on panel

Title, medium, artist

The Alms of Saint Anthony, oil on panel, lorenzo lotto

Spolvero

• used in school of athens, by raphael

• A method of transferring a drawing using powder

Name, Artist, Medium, importance

• The Feast of the Gods

• Giovanni Bellini and Titian

• Oil on Canvas

• Shows far within the near with the porcelain dishes

• Also shows poesia, which is “visual poetry”. Which is saying the meaning of the painting is left open or ambiguous rather than telling one fixed story. This is the same as in the tempest.

Name, Artist, medium

Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II, oil on canvas

Name, title, medium, what is being shown

Vittore Carpaccio, Vision of Saint Augustine, Tempera on canvas, studiolo

Name, artist, what is being shown

Armorial Plate, Nicola da Urbino, a contious narrative

Name, title, meaning

Joseph and Potiphars wife, Properzia de’ rossi,

man with the blue sleeve, titian, oil on canvas, invention of compostion

Sofonisba Anguissola, the child bitten by a cray fish, black chalk, shows realism and

Maddalena Doni, Raphael, oil on panel