Modern Humanities Midterm Terms

Names and Terms:

Renaissance

Medici

Neoplatonism (in the Renaissance)

Marsilio Ficino

Pico della Mirandola

Great Chain of Being

linear perspective

orthogonals

vanishing point

aerial (atmospheric) perspective

relief sculpture

Orsanmichele

contrapposto

foreshortening

trompe l’oeil

terms for church or cathedral architecture: nave, aisle, transept, arcade, clerestory

pietra serena

tondo

pendentives

High Renaissance

civic humanism

Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

Machiavelli, The Prince

chiaroscuro

sfumato

buon (true) fresco

ignudi


Names and Terms added since mini-midterm:

Mannerism

Josquin des Prez

polyphony

motet

imitation (for music)

Adrian Willaert

consort (for music)

triptych

anamorphic image

Erasmus

Martin Luther

John Calvin

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Henry VIII

Protestant Reformation

Counter Reformation

polyptych

Shakespeare, Hamlet

revenge tragedy

engraving

Council of Trent

Baroque

tenebrism

illusionism, illusionistic ceiling painting

camera obscura

vanitas

Baroque music: how is it different from the music of previous eras?

oratorio

fugue

concerto

empiricism

Copernicus

Kepler

Galileo

Newton

Bacon

Descartes

Pascal

Hobbes, The Leviathan

social contract

Locke

tabula rasa



Images from textbook, lectures, and videos (know dates that are indicated here):


Titles of artwork (except architecture) should be italicized or underlined in your writing. For architecture, you should also know the city where the building is located.


If the date listed here is different than what’s in the textbook, please learn the one on this page (these correspond to the slides shown in class). I haven’t included dates for everything listed here; you just need to know the dates that are listed.


For names and titles that are difficult to spell: please try to be as accurate as possible! If the name is phonetically correct, that will be OK (i.e. if you miss an “l” in Brunelleschi, I won’t mark it wrong).


Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for Florence Baptistery doors, 1401-03

Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, competition panel for Florence Baptistery doors, 1401-03

Ghiberti, The Gates of Paradise

Donatello, St. Mark


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Donatello, David (bronze version), c. 1440

Masaccio, Holy Trinity, c. 1428

Masaccio, The Tribute Money, c. 1424-27

Masaccio, Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-86

Botticelli, Primavera, c. 1482

Brunelleschi, dome of Florence cathedral, 1420-1436

Brunelleschi, Santo Spirito, Florence

Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel (interior), Florence

Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin of the Rocks, c. 1483

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-98

Michelangelo, David, 1501-04

Raphael, The School of Athens, 1510-11 (also be able to name four figures seen in this fresco)

Michelangelo, Moses

Michelangelo, Dying Slave (in slides and p. 322 in textbook)

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel frescoes:

overview of ceiling, 1508-12

The Creation of Adam

The Last Judgment, 1536-41

Michelangelo, Pièta, c. 1555 (the later version of this subject! In slides and p. 348 in textbook)


Images added since mini-midterm:

Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, 1534-40

Bramante, Tempietto, Rome, c. 1502

Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, c. 1550

Campin, Mérode Altarpiece, c. 1425-1428
van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding Portrait

Holbein, The Ambassadors

Bruegel, Wedding Dance

Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515 (view showing Crucifixion scene)

El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586

Tintoretto, The Last Supper, 1592-94

Bernini, Piazza and Colonnade, St. Peter’s, 1665-67

Bernini, Baldacchino, 1624-33

Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1645-52 (overall view of the chapel, and detail of main sculpture)

Bernini, David, 1623

Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin, 1606

Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, c. 1611-12


The images below will be covered in class on Monday, March 10 (and some are in the textbook):

Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1665-76

Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in Sant’Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94 (same as fig. 15.10 in textbook [p. 398], even though the title and date are different)

Ruisdael, View of Haarlem, c. 1670

Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664

Ruysch, Flower Still Life, c. 1700

Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642