OCEANIa EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY, PART II

CTXT 122 – VISUAL CULTURE IN CONTEXT: MAKING MODERNITIES

CLASS FOUR

OCEANIA

EARLY RENAISSANCE ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY, PART II

CHAPTERS 21 & CHAPTER 37

Important Points For Oceania:

  • Consists of approximately 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean

  • One of the last locations in the world to be settled by mankind

  • Artwork is for ceremonial purposes (not just aesthetics)

  • Art was created from natural resources on the island(s)

  • Society is very stratified—power was inherited, much like Western cultures

VOCABULARY

Rapa Nui - Also known as Easter Island; Jacob Roggeveen named the island after it was discovered on Easter Sunday; Rapa Nui is the “center of the world”,

Moai - The Standing statues; Some are over 50 feet in height; Thought to be created by volcanic eruptions; Many of them face into the island.

Ahu - Platform the Moai stand on

Federico da Montefeltro (Duke of Urbino) - Federico da Montefeltro (Duke of Urbino) was a powerful condottiere (military leader) and Duke of Urbino in 15th-century Italy. He was a major patron of Renaissance art and culture and was highly renowned for his military expertise. Notably, an injury caused him to lose his right eye, leading to his portrayal in left profile in paintings, such as those by Piero della Francesca

Trompe l’oeil - To fool the eye. The use of perspective to create realistic renderings of depth and space.

Sistine Chapel - Was built in the 15th century by the pope for the pope

Sacra Conversazione - a ‘sacred’ conversation amongst saints and holy figures

Barrel Vaults - When you take an arch and turn it into a hallway

Putti (pl.) or Putto (s.) - fat flying boys up to no good

ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART:

Oceania

Anonymous

Moai

EARLY RENAISSANCE ART PART II

Leon Battista Alberti

  • Sant’ Andrea

Masaccio

  • The Trinity

Andrea Mantegna

  • St. Sebastian

  • False Oculus in the Camera Picta 

Piero della Francesca

  • Resurrection

  • Double Portrait of Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro (The Duke and Duchess of Urbino)

Perugino

  • Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter

Sandro Botticelli

  • Primavera

  • Birth of Venus

Giovanni Bellini

  • St. Francis in the Desert

  • Madonna and Saints