Art History Final Exam

Leonardo da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi, late 15th, Florence, Uffizi

Pietro Perugino’s Adoration of the Magi, late 15th, Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria

Domenic Ghirlandaio’s Adoration of the Magi, late 15th, Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria

Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, late 15th, Florence, Uffizi

Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, late 15th, Florence, Uffizi

Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks, late 15th, Paris, Louvre

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, Refectory of S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Giovanni Donato Montorfano’s Crucifixion, late 15th, Refectory of S. Maria delle Grazie, Milan

Donato Bromante’s S. Maria presso S. Satiro, late 15th, Milan

Taddeo Gaddi’s Last Supper, 

Andreo del Castagno’s Last Supper

Domenico Ghirlaindo’s Last Supper,

Leonardo da Vinci’s Burlington House Cartoon, late 15th, London National Gallery

Masaccio and Masolino’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne, early 15th, Florence, Uffizi

Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne, early 16th, Paris, Louvre

Michelangelo’s Study After

Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo, early 16th,

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, early 16th, Paris, Louvre

• example of SFUMATO (earthy colors used to blend and create a softer visual more appealing to the eye)

Leonardo da Vinci’s Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine), late 15th, Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

• example of CHIAROSCURO (extreme light shining from the extreme dark)

Raphael’s Portrait of Maddalena Doni, early 16th, Florence, Galleria Palatina

Raphael’s Self Portrait, early 16th, Florence, Uffizi

• divinity of raphael

• he was born and died on good friday, further connecting him to catholicism

Raphael’s Portrait of Baldassar Castiglione, early 16th, Paris, Louvre

• example of SPREZZATURA (ease, nonchalant grace in art)

Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin, early 16th, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera

Perugino’s Marriage of the Virgin, early 16th, Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Perugino’s Vatican, Sistine Chapel 

Perugino’s Christ handing the keys to St. Peter, early 15th, Vatican Sistine Chapel

Perugino’s Marriage of the Virgin, early 16th, Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin, early 16th, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera

• put his signature above the priest on the temple

• references Donato Bramante’s S. Pietro in Montorio, early 16th, Rome

Raphael’s Madonna of the goldfinch, early 16th, Florence, Uffizi

Raphael’s Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist (Belle Jardiniere), early 16th, Paris, Louvre

Raphael’’s The Entombment, early 16th, Rome, Galleria Borghese

• altarpiece at the Baglioni Chapel

Death of Meleager

Michelangelo’s Pietà, late 15th, Vatican, Basicila of S. Pietro

Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo, early 16th, Florence, Uffizi

Raphael’s Portrait of Julius II, early 16th, London, The National Galley

• Julius II commissioned this piece

• considered himself a warrior, however his eyes are sunken in and he looks exhausted in his portrait as it was done a year before he passed

• introduces the psychological aspect as it shows the tension between his powerful image and physical decline as he reflects on his life

Raphael’s Portrait of Leo X with cardinals Giulio de’Medici and Luigi de’Rossi, early 16th Florence, Uffizi

• Leo X commissioned this piece

• he has a face of “power” in his portrait, closely backed by the cardinals

• seems more powerful with the two men behind him

Raphael’s Theology, early 16th, Florence, Vatican Museum, Stanza della Segnatura

• monstrance with wafer as focal point

• people are seen arguing over the transubstantiation (body of christ as wafer)

• across from the philosophy wall

Raphael’s Philosophy, early 16th, Florence, Vatican Museum, Stanza della Segnatura

• the basilica is reminiscent of Alberti’s work in Rome

• across from the theology wall

• 2 figures in the center: Plato and Aristotle

• Plato is pointing up (grounded in higher vision) and Aristotle is pointing down (empiricist, based on real life)

• features Raphael, Bramante-Euclid, and Michelangelo-Heractidus

• Michelangelo was a late addition to the work

Michelangelo’s Jeremiah, early 16th, Vatican

• COMPARE RAPHAEL TO MICHELANGELO + THEIR RIVALRY

• philosophy is walking toward the altar in theology

• Plato’s philosophy is considered the preparation for theology

Raphael’s Stanza di Eliodoro, Vatican

Raphael’s Liberation of St. Peter, early 16th, Stanza di Eliodoro, Vatican

• light of angels represents light of torches

• Peter is imprisoned in the middle and freed on the right

• soldiers are sleeping and slumped over

• third scene on the left side where where soldiers