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23 Cards in this Set
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Giotto di Bondone, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy, 1305-1306, frescos |
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Jan van Eyck, Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 1434, |
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence Cathedral, 1420-1436
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Donatello, David, c.1446-1460, bronze |
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Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c.1484-1486 |
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, Milan, Italy, 1495-1498, |
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Raphael, The School of Athens, Vatican, Rome, 1510-1511
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Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504, marble |
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Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1511-1512
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Titian, “Venus” of Urbino, c.1538, oil on canvas
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Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Italy, 1560s
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Albrecht Durer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving
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Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Teresa of Ávila in Ecstasy, Rome, 1645-1652
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Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656 |
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Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, Hall of Mirrors,
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foreshortening |
method of rendering a specific object or figure in a picture in depth. |
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The Medici |
* Florence (powerful from 1429-1737)
* Bankers, created models we still use to a certain degree today * Michelangelo worked for Medici * Hired Donatello as one of their first artists |
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linear perspective |
used in architecture, picked up on by artists to create a sense of three dimension space * Begin by defining horizon line, then find vanishing point/focal point)* In order to make art you begin with a scientific, geometric ‘recipe’ * the idea is that art is a scientific process * Important throughout renaissance |
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linseed oil
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paint binder for oil paint, makes paints more transparent, fluid, and glossy |
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atmospheric perspective
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* gives the feeling of objects that are further away are actually further away * change in detail/coloring to denote distance through haze/etc |
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Humanism
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Humanism is the movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries when all branches of learning, literary, scientific and intellectual, were based on the culture and literature of classical Greco-Roman antiquity. |
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The Golden Mean |
The Golden Ratio is a term (with an astounding number of aliases, including Golden Section and Golden Mean) used to describe aesthetically pleasing proportioning within a piece. However, it is not merely a term -- it is an actual ratio |
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chiaroscuro |
(from Italian: chiaro, “light”; scuro, “dark”) technique employed in the arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects |
