CIV Unit 3: Stylisitic Period Organizer

Stylistic Period

Main Themes

Works

Basic Information

Description

Proto-Renaissance

or

Early Renaissance

  • Figures have mass and volume
  • Halo’s depicted above
  • Emotion in figures
  • Figures from many different points of view
  • Interest in anatomy and human body
  • Landscape

Arena Chapel

Artist: Giotto

Date: 1306

Medium: Proto-Renaissance Architecture

Location: Padua, Italy

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Lamentation fresco in the Arena Chapel

Artist: Giotto

Date: 1306

Medium: Fresco

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Last Judgment fresco in the Arena Chapel

Artist: Giotto

Date: 1306

Medium: Fresco

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Northern Renaissance

  • Domestic interiors/portraits/religious scenes
  • Mainly oil paintings, engravings or woodcuts
  • Attention to detail, individualism

The Ghent Altarpiece

Artist: Van Eyck

Date: 1432

Medium: Polyptych oil painting

Location: Ghent, Belgium

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Arnolfini Portrait

Artist: Van Eyck

Date: 1434

Medium: Oil paint on oak panel

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Italian Renaissance

  • Less usage of Halos
  • Illusion of background
  • Extreme understanding of the anatomy of the human body
    • Going back to the Greeks
  • Graceful movement of the human body
  • Grouping of figures in complex ways
  • Focuses on Classical Mythology/Religious scenes
  • Mainly frescos or marble/bronze statues
  • Geometrical, linear perspective

David

Artist: Donatello

Date: 1408

Medium: Bronze sculpture

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The Last Supper

Artist: Leonardo daVinci

Date: 1495

Medium: Oil paint and tempera

Location: Santa Maria della Grazie

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School of Athens

Artist: Raphael

Date: 1510

Medium: Fresco

Location: Stanza della Segnatura

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Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

Artist: Michael Angelo

Date: 1538

Medium: Fresco

Location: Sistine Chapel

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Self-Portrait at the Easel

Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola

Date: 1556

Medium: Oil on canvas

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Venus of Urbino

Artist: Titian

Date: 1538

Medium: Oil on canvas

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