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94 Cards in this Set
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Phidias - Athena Parthenos (Virgin)
- model of the lost chryselephantine (gold & ivory) statue * approximately 38’ tall |
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The Golden Section (ratio)
– first written about by Euclid in The Elements (300 BCE) * sides of squares in Fibonacci sequence |
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Reconstruction Drawing of the Acropolis
- Athens, Greece * from west |
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Iktinos & Kallikrates - Floor Plan of the Parthenon, Temple of Athena Parthenos
447-432 BCE * columns: N x (2N+1) |
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Exaggeration of the swelling of the stylobate on the Parthenon
447-432 BCE * theories of refinements: compensation, exaggeration, tension * columns (doric) meet some 4500 m above |
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Erectheion, Acropolis
* ionic columns |
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Metope: Lapiths versus the Centaurs
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Parthenon Frieze: Horsemen marshal procession (West) and in procession (North)
* horses - good notion of anatomy, motion |
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Parthenon Frieze: Sacrificial animals and Unmounted Horsemen (North)
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Parthenon Frieze: Maidens with incense and sacrificial vessels (North)
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Maidens bringing peplos (worn by gods) to chief priest: seated deities (Athena and Hephasitos) (East)
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Reconstructions of Eastern and Western Pediment
* originally painted |
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West pediment: Ilissos, river God of Athens
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East Pediment: Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite
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Kallikrates - Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
* ionic columns |
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Nike Adjusting her Sandal, from south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis
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Polykleitos - Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
- Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy after a bronze original |
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Kouros
- marble * 6’1/2” high |
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Praxiteles - Hermes and Infant Dionysos
- marble |
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Lysippos - Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)
- marble, original bronze * enhanced engagement with the viewer |
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Pantheon
* spherical dome w/ opening (occulus) in the center - connection to the gods (houses ALL the gods) * concrete |
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Chartres, Cathedral
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Essential Architectural Developments of the Gothic Style:
> Pointed Arch > Ribbed Groin Vaulting > Supporting Columns > Flying Buttress * bigger windows * thinner walls * no conceiling - truth, true beauty * "God, the divine architect" * "anti-classical": static, not physical - just spiritual |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Exterior and aerial Views * tallest cathedral in France |
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Manuscript Illumination: Celestial City from The Trinity Apocalypse
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Giotto - Lamentation
- fresco * renaissance - Christ as human, emotions |
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Masaccio - Tribute Money
- fresco * vanishing point - Christ's head * contrapposto movement * engagement with light (corresponding to the real source of light) |
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Masaccio - Trinity
- Fresco * the space can be worked out backwards from the depiction * dove holy spirit |
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Leonardo - Virgin of the Rocks
- oil on panel |
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Leonardo - The Last Supper
- Fresco (not true - on dry wall) * vanishing point - Christ's head * references to number 3 (trinity) * Judas reaching for bread at the same time as Jesus; holding a bag (silver?); tips over salt shaker |
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Raphael - Marriage of the Virgin
- oil on panel |
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Raphael - Madonna of the Meadow
- oil on panel |
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Leonardo - Virgin and Saint Anne
- cartoon |
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Raphael - Madonna of the Goldfinch
- oil on panel |
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Raphael - Sistine Madonna
- oil on canvas * no sense of earthly space, no landscape, no procession into depth; the Virgin is separated from the material world * Pope Sixtus II and St. Barbara * altarpiece (not for private collection) * interaction with viewer, Raphael - "choreographer" |
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Raphael - Maddalena Strozzi Doni
- oil on panel |
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Leonardo - Mona Lisa
- oil on panel |
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Piero della Francesca - Duke and Duchess of Urbino (Battista Sforza and Federigo da Montefeltro)
- oil on panel |
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Raphael - Baldassare Castiglione
- oil on canvas |
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Raphael - Pope Leo X with Cardinals Guilio de’ Medici and Luigi de’Rossi
- oil on panel |
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Raphael - Stanza della Segnatura
- 1508-11 * circles / squares - divine knowledge * segnatura = seal (octagon in the center) |
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Apollo Belvedere
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Michelangelo - Pieta
- Marble * Mary is big * light / shadow * Michelangelo signed over drapery |
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Michelangelo - David
- Marble (Carrare) * tradition of Davids in Florence * concetto of subtraction * head / hands disproportional * inspired by Belvedere torso & Spear Bearer |
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Belvedere Torso
- Marble |
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Donatello - David
- Bronze |
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Verrocchio - David
- Bronze |
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Michelangelo - Tomb of Pope Julius II
> reconstruction of the first plan 1505 > reconstruction of the second plan 1513 > completed tomb in S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome |
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Laocoon and his Sons
- Marble |
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Michelangelo - Captives
> The Dying Slave > Rebellious Slave - Marble * inspired by Laocoon and his sons |
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Michelangelo - The Sistine Ceiling
- 1508-12 - fresco * neoplatonism * architecture (niches, structure etc.) painted! * contrast of light and shade * theme: Genesis |
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Michelangelo - Libyan Sybil (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Cumean Sybil (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Zechariah (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Jonah (Sistine)
- 1508-12 * guides us in * legs compensate for the curvature of the ceiling - interaction * struggle (neoplatonism) |
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Michelangelo - Ezekiel (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Jeremiah (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Ignudi (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - The Flood (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - The Temptation (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - The creation of Eve (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Creation of Adam (Sistine)
- 1508-12 * God in movement * tension |
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Michelangelo - Separation of Land and Water (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Creation of the Sun, Moon and Plants (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Separation of Light and Dark (Sistine)
- 1508-12 |
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Michelangelo - Moses
- Marble |
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Michelangelo - The Medici Tombs
- 1519-34 Medici Chapel * unfinished * neoplatonism |
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Michelangelo - Last Judgement (Sistine)
- fresco * counter-reformation * hieratic scale again |
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Bernini - David
- marble * Baroque * psychology * Goliath is behind (discobulos) * engagement w/ space * equating w/ painting, not classical |
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Bernini - The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
- marble * context of oppression |
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Bernini - Portrait Bust of Cardinal Scipione Borghese
- marble * tight buttons * about to speak |
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Bernini - Apollo and Daphne
- marble * transformation |
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Bernini - Pluto and Persephone
- marble |
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Bernini - Cornaro Chapel, Ecstasy of St. Theresa
* total work of art * passion * metafictional |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Cathedral Plan * geometry > perfection > closeness to the god |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Interior View of the Nave |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Triforium, Clerestory, and Arcade along with Elevation Drawing |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Ceiling Vaults |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - High Altar with (7) Radiating Chapels |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Labyrinth * in the center of the floor plan |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Unfolding Plan * golden section-based * see religious symbols and numbers (3, 7, 12, ...) represented |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Western Façade, Central Portal: > Beau Dieu (stamping on a beast) > Christ as Judge between the Virgin and St. John with Instruments of the Passion held by angels (top) > Resurrection of the Dead (bottom) > The Saved Received into Heaven (middle) > The Damned sent to Hell (middle) * figures twice the life size; * hieratic scale (JC - biggest) * realistic, traditional, static |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Western Façade, Left Portal: > St. Firmin > The Invention and Procession of the Relics of St. Firmin |
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Amiens Cathedral, Robert de Luzarches, Thomas de Corment, Renaud de Corment
- 1220-1269 - Western Façade, Right Portal: > Virgin Mary (standing on Adam & Eve) > The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin (middle) > Coronation of the Virgin (top) |
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Raphael Stanza della Segnatura
- 1508-11 - Ceiling – Personifications: > Theology > Philosophy |
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Raphael Stanza della Segnatura
- 1508-11 - The Disputa * below Theology * wafer / communion - vanishing point * personified God - holding a globe * 4 books - 4 gospels * circles X squares |
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Raphael Stanza della Segnatura
- 1508-11 - The School of Athens * below Philosophy * representation of St. Peter's basilica * Plato ~ Leonardo? * sculptures of Athena (wisdom) and Apollo (light) * cartoon missing Heraclitus ~ permanence |
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Raphael Stanza della Segnatura
- 1508-11 - Parnassus * poetry, arts * Apollo |
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Michelangelo, Tomb of Pope Julius II
> reconstruction of the first plan > reconstruction of the second plan > completed tomb in S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome * "Tragedy of the Tomb" * counter-reformation |
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Michelangelo, Late Slaves
- Marble > The Young Slave > The Awakening Slave > Atlas (Prisoner) * escaping from the rock |
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Michelangelo - The Medici Tombs
- 1519-34 > Tomb of Guiliano de Medici with figures of Night and Day * active |
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Michelangelo, The Medici Tombs
- 1519-34 > Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici with figures of Dusk and Dawn * contemplative |
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Michelangelo - Last Judgement (Sistine)
- fresco > Christ and Virgin Mary |
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Michelangelo - Last Judgement (Sistine)
- fresco > The Damned Rowed by Charon |