Art History Exam #1

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Renaissance Humanism

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"Man is the measure of all things"

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The Medici

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Dominant Florentine banking family in the fifteenth century. De facto rulers of Florence; leading supporters of humanism.

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paradiso

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The space between a cathedral and its baptistery

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diptych

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two panels

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triptych

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three panels

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polyptych

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more than three panels

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Vasari

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Mannerist architect who gave an account of Renaissance art in his "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

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Julius II

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Humanist Pope; made the most contributions to the Renaissance

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Saint Mark

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Fifteenth Century, Donatello: Flowing Cloth out of marble is revolutionary

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Stigmata

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wounds of Christ

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Savonarola

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Dominican abbot of San Marco, vigorously opposed Medici support of humanism - "Bonfires of the Vanities"

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balustrade

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a series of balusters, or upright pillars, supporting a rail (as along the edge of a balcony or bridge)

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reliquary

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a casket or container for sacred relics

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indulgences

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buying your way into heaven

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Martin Luther

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instigator of the Protestant Revolution...etc

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Broken pediment

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the pediment (triangle thing over door) is BROKEN

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Bargello

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Originally built to house a magistrate, now an art museum

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Palladio (first Italian Guidebook)

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Greatest architect of late sixteenth-century Italy -synthesized elements of Mannerism with High Renaissance ideals

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Council of Trent

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Roman Catholic Church - Counter-Reformation: anti-humanist

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melancholy

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The idea that artistic genius is tied with "melancholy" -a madness/moodiness

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Linear Perspective

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system based on the fact that distant objects appear smaller than close objects

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One-point perspective

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single vanishing point in picture

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Chiaroscuro

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light and shadow creates the effect of three-dimensionality

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sfumato

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definition of form by delicate gradations of light and shadow

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High Renaissance (dates)

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c. 1480-1550

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Figura Serpentinata

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twisting movement in art (Mannerist)

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woodcut

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relief printmaking process

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intaglio

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printmaking process in which lines are incised into the surface of a plate or print form (engraving/etching)

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engraving

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incising an image on a hard material

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editions

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a batch of prints made from a single plate or print form

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Dome for Florence Cathedral

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Brunelleschi, 1410-1436, Florence

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Hospital of the Innocents

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Brunelleschi, 1419, Florence

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Ghent Altarpiece

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Jan van Eyck; 1432; Cathedral of Saint Bavon, Ghent, Belgium

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Man in the Red Turban

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Jan van Eyck, 1433, National Gallery, London

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Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli, c. 1480, Florence

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Plan of the Florence Cathedral

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Brunalleschi? Late 13th century

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The Gates of Paradise

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Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1424-1452, Florence

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Tempietto

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Donato Bramante, c. 1502-1503, Rome

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Dome for Florence Cathedral

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Brunelleschi, 1410-1436, Florence

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Hospital of the Innocents

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Brunelleschi, 1419, Florence

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Ghent Altarpiece

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Jan van Eyck; 1432; Cathedral of Saint Bavon, Ghent, Belgium

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Tempietto

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Donato Bramante, 1502-1503, Rome

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School of Athens

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Raphael, 1500-1511, Vatican, Rome

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Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-1498, Milan

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Rome Pieta, Sistine Ceiling, Moses, and Last Judgement

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Michelangelo, 1508-1541, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome

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Vitruvian Man

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Leonardo da Vinci, 1485-1490, Venice

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Mona Lisa

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Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-1505, Louvre, Paris

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Lives of the Artists

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Giorgio Vasari, 1550

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The Four Books of Architecture

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Palladio, 1570

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Titian

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Assumption of the Virgin, Pesaro Madonna, Venus of Urbino, Rape of Europa

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1510-1515, Madrid

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Albrecht Durer, c. 1497-1498, New York

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Durer

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Self-Portrait (curly hair awesome), Melencolia (sad guy thinking, compass)

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Han Holbein

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Erasmus of Rotterdam, Henry VIII (pg. 622)

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Isenheim Altarpiece

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Matthias, Grunewald, c. 1510-1515, France

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Icarus

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1554-1555, Brussels