West and the World Art and Literature artworks

Birth of Venus

• Botticelli

• tempera

• Early Renaissance (not proto)

• shows appreciation for human body and figure

• a revival of classical (Greek and roman)

• a lot of motion, detail, more realism

The School of Athens

• Raphael

• Fresco

• Renaissance

• Aristotle and Plato

• Trompolie

• Chiaroscuro

• Atmospheric Perspective

• Verisimilitude

• depth

• foreshortening

• linear perspective

• horizon line and vanishing point

• elevated status of artist

• individualism and celebration of human achievement

Madonna Enthroned

• Giotto di Bondone

• Tempera on panel

• this is proto renaissance

• Linear perspective

• more body to Madonna

• one place at which the viewer is

The Adoration of the mystic lamb

• Jan Van Eyck

• Northern Renaissance

• people come to see the lamb folds open

• trompolei on front

• vanishing point to sun

• the idea of how light reflects and how we capture it in paintings

• glazing

• repitition, halo on lamb and the sun

• also most stolen piece of art in history

• this is compared from open to closed like Dorothy in black in white to Oz in color

• Humanism with individual poses

• a lot of symbolism with the idea that art could teach

• art is text to be decoded

Delivery of the Keys

• Pietro Perugino

• fresco

• Renaissance

• shows human achievement

• a focus on this world and not the next life

• shows linear perspective and atmospheric perspective

• use of geometry of Islamic Influence

The Arnofili Portriat

• Jan Van Eyck

• Northern Renaissance

• oil (glazing)

• wealthy merchant and his wife with reflective mirror

• Jan also painted himself in it

• very detailed objects

• glazing

• geometric design

• we see wealth is defined by what you consume and own

• she is passive in his hand

The Ambassadors

• Hans Holbein The Younger

• Oil (glazing)

• Northern Reaniassance

• around when King Henry IIX

• Anamorphic Image (the skull)

• the skull shows the Technique Trompelo’oeil

• glazing

• using objects and rhetoric in the painting to tell a sort of story

• this is at a very turbulent time

• the skull may represent the precarity of this political state

• broken string on liar = a lot of tension

• partially hidden crucifix = religious tension

• top shelf: celestial

• bottom shelf: earth

Lamentation

• Giotto Di Bondone in Scrovegni Chapel

• Fresco

• Proto Renaissance

• renaissance elements to it

• balanced composition

• foreshortening (in angels)

• overlapping figures to make depth

• emotionally charged on individual

• also in this Chapel which he painted to save Scrovengi’s father from heck he had a lot of Tromp’olei

View of an Ideal City

• Luciano Laurana

• Oil on Panel

• Renaissance

• geometry

• linear perspective

• atmospheric perspective

Last Supper

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Oil tempera of dry fresco

• Renaissance

• Naturalism

• depth shading

• varied poses shows humanism

• no gold like abstraction

• captures a moment tells a story

• ex. Judas spilled salt which is negative

• atmospheric perspective

Giotto Di Bondone

• made Lamentation and Madonna Enthroned

• introduces humanity into his paintings

• relationship between art and intellectual

• gold represents heavenly

• Madonna:

  • tempera

  • have multiple view points, small idealized features, and abstraction

  • then in his second we see chiaroscuro, modeling, gradations, single point from which viewer is looking

  • Mary takes up more space, so more realism less idealism

• Lamentations:

  • fresco

• Giotto has 1 foot in renaissance one in Medieval

• partly why there was so much progress was because there was a lot of secular patronage

The Birth of the Virgin

• by Ghirlandaio

• Renaissance

• fresco

• commissioned by Medici’s

• Trompolei

• Atmospheric Perspective

Mona Lisa

• Leonardo da Vinci

• oil on panel

• Renaissance

• feels like a moment caught in time

• chiaroscuro

• she isn’t in profile and/or side profile

• her hands are showing so human form

• sfumato

Pieta

• Michelangelo

• stone marble

• Jesus is facing up

• she is depicted as a young woman

• realism, because Mary’s hips are way out of proportion but looks like could be real

• triangle form

The Virgin on the Rocks

• Leonardo Di’vinci

• oil on panel

• natural world

• naturalism

• triangle

• atmospheric perspective

• holy figures in real world not enthroned

• depth through pyramid specifically her dress

The Creation of Adam

• Michaelango

• fresco

• notice how Gd looks like he is in a brain

• *the symmetry between gd and Adam shows humanism b/c humans are made in gds image therefore beautiful and the humanisitc ideal of the human body

• chiaroscuro

• gd is very human like shows Humanism that we think we are so similar humans are so great

• atmospheric perspective with hills

• depth in overlapping angels

• also shows connection between science because he dissected a lot of bodies and gd is in a brain sort of

The Adoration of the Magi

• Botticelli

• Italian Renaissance

• Tempera

• features member of the Medicis in roman ruins with

• secular subject which connects to Humanism

• secular patronage

• atmospheric perspective

• linear perspective

• depth

• reducaed halo

• rhetoric on how Rome is not everything on which Christainty is built on

Portrait of Battista Sforza

• Piero della Francesca

• tempera on Panel

• Renaissance

Creation Scenes

• Michelangelo

• Renasiance

• Fresco

The great Mosque of Cordobia

Icon with the Virgin and Child, Saints, Angels, and the Hand of God

• encaustic on panel

• Medieval

Depictions of Libraries in Islamic Illuminated manuscripts

Medallion Carpet, The Ardabil Carpet

• author unknown

• 25 million knots

Muqarnas

• the honey come looking stuff

• Islamic golden age