Art History Italian Stuff

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci Madonna of the Rocks

Giorgione, The Tempest

Titian, Venus of Urbino

Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter

Who would’ve appreciated this?

Appreciated by patrons with the complex iconography and ambiguous meaning

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

What makes this style high renaissance?

What are the themes?

The monumental scale, dynamic and realistic depiction of the human form, and complex narrative structure

Themes are Philosophy and Poetry

Raphael, The School of Athens

Bronzino, Allegory with Venus and Cupid

Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II
What does the crown represent?

What do the panels represent?

Crowns represents Asia, greater Greece, and Trebizond kingdom

Left panel represents ambitions

Right panel represents artist and date

Gentile Bellini, Seated Scribe

What technique was used

What did this influence?

Pen in brown ink with watercolor and gold on paper

Influenced the Turkish court

Sinan, Süleymaniye Complex

What does this avoid?

Avoids figural architecture

Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece

Where is the location of this scene?

Where was this installed?

 Vogue mountains where the healing springs are

Hospital specializing in skin diseases

The Buxheim St. Christopher

What technique was used?

Woodcut

Martin Schongauer, Demons Tormenting St. Anthony

What technique was used?

Engraving with a metal plate

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

When was this made?

What technique was used?

15th century

Woodcut

Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

What technique was used?

What do the animals represent?\

What is this based off of?

Woodcut

The four humors

The apollo belvedere

Albrecht Dürer, Four Apostles

Which religion did this represent?

Where is St. Peter

Lutheranism

In the back

Albrecht Altdorfer, Danube Landscape

What technique was used?

What ideas are in this painting?

Oil on Vellum on wood

Humanist Ideas

Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights

What technique was used?

Where did this end up?

Who was Bosch married to?

Triptych, oil on wood

Ended up in Brussels townhouse of Hendrik II of Nassau

Married to a Pharmacist

Quentin Massys, Moneychanger and His Wife

What is this intended to depict?

Where was this painted?

A snapshot of real life

Belgium

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Return of the Hunters

What is the name for the period of spiritual renewal, from about 1545 to 1648, that was, in part, a reaction to Protestantism?

Counter reformation

What aspects of Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Theresa are quintessentially Baroque?

multi-mediality and drama

What is different about Gianlorenzo Bernini’s David as opposed to Michelangelos 

Theres action and movement

What technique was used

Engraving

What do the animals in this piece represent?

The four humors

What religion is represented in this work? (·      Albrecht Durer Four Apostles)

Lutheranism

What technique was used?

Tempura and oil painting combined

When was this made

15th century

Who was this made for

The Santa Maria Delle Grazie

Who is this a painting of?

24-year-old Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo (maybe)

Why was this never finished?

He took It to France and died

Who was this commissioned by?

the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for its chapel in S. Francesco Grande Milan

Why did Leonardo have to redo this one?

Because the figures are not clear and its supposed to be a religious painting.

What is the smokiness called?

Sfumato

What technique was used

Oil on canvas

When was this made?

Early 16th century

Who was this delivered to?

Duke Guidobaldo

What technique was used?

Oil on canvas

What does the Cassini represent?

A newly married woman

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa