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41 Cards in this Set
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Giorgio Vasari
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Itialian painter, architect, and critic. immortalized hundredsof Renaissance artists in his monumental biography TheLives of the Most Excellent Painters, Architects, and Sculptors |
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iconography of the sculptures |
Donnatellos david- revival of classical nude and first free standing statue since rome Hercules and Antaeus- Renaissance use of Classical mythology to glorifyhuman action, rather than as an exemplum of Christianmorality. |
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Venus |
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), the central imageis an idealized portrayal of womankind based on anantique model (Figure 17.5). Born of sea foam (accordingto the Greek poet Hesiod), Venus floats on a pearlescentscallop shell to the shore of the island of Cythera
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Florence Cathedral |
Brunelleschi’s dome became a legend in its time. It remains an architectural landmark, the defining feature of the Florentine skyline
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dome construction, Pazzi chapel
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interior that Brunelleschi’s breakwith the medieval past is fully realized (Figure17.9). Here, the repetition of geometric shapesFigure 17.7 Axonometric section of the dome of FlorenceCathedral.
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Alberti |
In his Ten Books on Architecture , Alberti argued that architecturaldesign should proceed from the square and the circle,the two most perfect geometric shapes.
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Jan Van Eyck |
Realism painter. Oneof the earliest efforts at realistic representationalong these lines came from the Netherlandishartist Jan van Eyck |
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virtu |
knowledge or expertise of fine arts |
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Masaccio
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The first artist to master Brunelleschi’s new spatialdevice was the Florentine painter TommasoGuidi, called Masaccio
Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, andDonors |
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Brancacci Chapel, The Tribute Money
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to entrap Jesus, a group of Pharisees asked himwhether taxes should be paid to Rome. To avoid offending the divergent authorities, Jewish and Roman, Jesus replied, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and onto God the things that are God's"
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Ghiberti’s doors
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Gates of Paradise |
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trompe l’oeil
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(“fool-the-eye”) illusions such asthose that delighted visitors to the studiolo of Federico daMontefeltro. Italy
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Vitruvian Man
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Leonardo’s famousfigure indicates that man’s proportions are regular, reflecting Vitruvian “divine”geometry: the outstretched arms make the figure a square; at a diagonal they make a circle
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Vasari on Leonardo
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admirer |
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Raphael |
first and foremost a master painter. Hisfashionable portraits were famous for their verisimilitudeand incisiveness
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Pope Juilius II |
the greatest of Renaissancechurch patrons, commissioned Raphael to execute a seriesof frescoes for the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura—thepope’s personal library and the room in which officialchurch papers were signed.
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Bramante and Palladio
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Architects of the ren. Pope JuliusII commissioned Donato Bramante (1444–1514) to rebuildSaint Peter’s Cathedral, the architect designed a monumentallyproportioned, centrally planned church to becapped by an immense dome Four Books onArchitecture, published in Venice in 1570, Palladio defendedsymmetry and centrality as the controlling elements ofarchitectural design. |
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St Peter’s Dome
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MICHELANGELO, plan for the new Saint Peter’s, Vatican, Rome,ca. 1537–1550. Michelangelo revived the Greek cross plan originally projected byBramante. He brought drama to the façade by adding a portico with two sets ofcolumns and a massive flight of steps.
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Venetian High Renaissance
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Venice, the Jewel ofthe Adriatic and a thriving center of trade, was a cluster ofislands whose main streets consisted of canals lined withrichly ornamented palaces. The pleasure-loving Venetians,governed by a merchant aristocracy, regularly importedcostly tapestries, jewels, and other luxury goods from allparts of Asia
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Pastoral Concert |
by Titian. Some scholars interpret thispainting as an allegory on the creation of poetry. The nude women, who seem to be invisible to the poets, may be viewed as their muses. |
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Venus of Urbino
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Another Titian. Microscopic analysis of Venetian oil painting reveals that artists often mixedpulverized glass into their paints; these small bits of colored glass reflect and disperse light prismatically, giving the paintings their “glowing” appearance. |
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Madrigal
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composition for 3-6 unaccompanied voices |
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Josquin des Prez
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the big ren musician |
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Luca Della Robia
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This marble relief panel is one of eightcommissioned by Lorenzo de’ Medici to adornthe 17-foot-long music gallery of the cathedral ofFlorence. Drummers
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"looking back" |
read summary of ch 17 |
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Durer |
Albrecht Dürer was a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance
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Printing Press
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By1450, in the city of Mainz, the German goldsmith JohannesGutenberg (ca. 1400–ca. 1468) perfected a printing pressthat made it possible to fabricate books more cheaply,more rapidly, and in greater numbers than ever before
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Music in the Reformation
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Luther called for prof and congregational singing. words should be understandable to the whole Church. chorale, a congregationalhymn that served to enhance the spirit ofProtestant worship. Chorales, written in German, drew onLatin hymns and German folk tunes. |
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Hieronymus Bosch’s two paintings
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The Creation of Eve:The Garden of Earthly Delights: Hell
Death and the Miser |
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Albrecht Durer and engraving
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series ofwoodcuts illustrating the last book ofthe New Testament, the RevelationAccording to Saint John (alsocalled the “Apocalypse”), revealsthe extent to which he achievedhis purpose. The Four Horsemen ofthe Apocalypse
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Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
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By MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD. Shows a sickly Jesus on the Cross |
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Among his early workswere crowded panoramas depicting themes of humanpride and religious strife. Bruegel’s Triumph of Death maybe read as an indictment of the brutal wars that plaguedsixteenth-century Europe
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Erasmus’s ‘The Praise of Folly’;the different groups he picks on…
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a satiric orationattacking a wide variety of human foibles, includinggreed, intellectual pomposity, and pride. The Praise of Follywent through more than two dozen editions in Erasmus’lifetime, and influenced other humanists, including hislifelong friend and colleague Thomas More, to whom itwas dedicated
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Don Quixote
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Cervantes’ masterpiece, Don Quixote attacks outwornmedieval values, especially as they reflect sixteenth-centurySpanish society.
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Michel de Montaigne
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educatedaristocrat who believed in the paramount importance ofcultivating good judgment. trained in Latin. Credited with the invention of the essay
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What about cannibalism
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So we may well call these people barbarians, in respectof the rules of reason, but not in respect of ourselves, whosurpass them in every kind of barbarity
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the Sonnets; form and content
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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
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Our lady of the Navigators
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ALEJO FERNANDEZ, Our Lady of the Navigators, 1535. The painting, which celebrates the Spanishconquest of the Americas, was commissioned for a chapel in Seville. Pictured asthe Madonna of Mercy, the Virgin shelters the faithful within her cloak. Whilenone of the figures has been securely identified, the worshiper kneeling at thefar left is probably Christopher Columbus.
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Griot |
a special class of professional poet–historians whopreserved the legends of the past by chanting or singingthem from memory.
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Mali, Sundiata
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In the final passages of the poem,Mali is pictured as a place of peace and prosperity; it iseternal in the memory of those who know its history
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polyrythmic structure
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the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another |
