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What were the three periods of Greek Art? |
Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic |
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Name the time period of Greek Archaic art. |
700-480 BCE |
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Name the time period of Classical Greek Art. |
480-323 BCE |
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Name the time period of Hellenistic Greek Art |
327-27 BC |
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What was the main value Greek art strove towards? |
The greeks often strove for the ideals - ideal forms, types, bodies not realistic to achieve |
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What did Archaic Greek art look like? |
It was very rigid, erect, and there were many generic models. See: Kouros |
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What marked the Classical Greek period? |
The acropolis being built with the parthenon. |
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What aesthetic did the Classical Greek period bring? |
Much more realistic figures than Archaic Greece's ideals. |
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What is a synonym for Percilean Athens? |
Classical Greece |
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Name three Classical Greek figures and their common trait. |
Kritos boy, Polykleitos, and Doryphorus the Spearbearer. They are all still static. |
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What trend did Hellenistic Greek art introduce? |
Dynamic action, theatricality, 3Dness. |
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Name the statue most commonly representing Hellenistic Greek art. |
Nike of Samotrace. |
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What is a Kourous? |
Male standing figures from the Archaic period. |
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In 480 BCE, this was found... |
The kritois boy, demonstrating contraposto. |
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Who created the canon of proportion? |
Polykleitos |
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What statue was based on the canon of proportion? |
Doryphorus |
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Who dis? |
Doryphorus, spear bearer, by Polykleitos |
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Who created Doryphorus, spear bearer? |
Polykleitos |
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What does Symmatria mean? |
The harmony of parts |
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Why was the Doryphorous spear bearer so important and so copied? |
It was the treatise (exposing the principles of the subject) of formulas that created beautiful statues. |
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How could you tell a Greek piece from its Roman copy? |
Romans often added props for stability. Think tree trunks, etc. |
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What is Rythmos? |
The development of suggestive motion, using geometry. |
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Who invented Rythmos? |
Myron |
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What does Pathos mean? |
Sympathy with the Enemy |
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WHOOO DIS |
Farnese Herakles |
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Why is the Farnese Herakles notable? |
He's huge! Buff! Deezed! Gods weren't old men until Michelangelo's work in the Sistine chapel. |
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What trend did Hellenism break? |
There were fewer ideal pieces of art - old people, young people, sick people, etc were all included. |
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What are the Elgin Marbles? |
A collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures taken to Britain. |
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What was the staple of Greek Architecture? |
Temples |
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Name the three main orders of Greek architecture. |
Doric Ionic Corinthian |
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Where was the Doric order prevalent? |
Mainland Greece |
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Where was the Ionic order prevalent? |
Outside greece, then returned to the mainland |
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Where was the Corinthian order prevalent? |
Mostly among the Romans |
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WHAT DIS |
Doric Order |
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what diiisss |
Ionic Order |
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Corinthian Order |
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What is a stybolate? |
The platform on which the temple rests. |
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Name the three parts of the Greek column. |
Capital, shaft, base (no base in Doric) |
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What is an entablature? |
The top part of a temple, where the capitals attach |
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What is a pediment? |
The top triangular part of a temple, there is typically a sculpture within it |
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Who was Alexander the Great's sculptor? |
Lysippos |
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Who were the successors to Greek Art? |
The Romans, they absorbed it and made it their own |
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What structural element of architecture was worshiped by the Romans? |
The Arch |
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Define post and lintel. |
The use of horizontal beams or lintels which are borne up by columns or posts. |
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What limited the size of the Parthenon? |
It was built post and lintel, rather than using an arch |
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Why did arches allow larger buildings? |
It dispersed weight more easily. |
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What is a groin vault? |
A groin vault is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. |
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What is a barrel vault? |
A barrel vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve along a given distance. |
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What system was aided by the development of the arch? |
The construction of Roman aqueducts. |
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How did Romans make water resistant concrete? |
They used volcanic ash. |
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Republican Romans took what ideals from Hellenism? |
Wisdom is admirable and realism is the ideal. Many realistic statues were made and many copies of Hellenistic art were made. |
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How did Romans cheaply replicate Greek bronzes? |
By using marble. |
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Octavian later became known as... |
Augustus |
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Post-Republican Rome starting using art for this reason: |
Propaganda |
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Post-Republican Rome focused on what values? |
Authority, divinity, invulnerability, perfection. |
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What is the english equivalent of Pax Romana? |
Roman Peace |
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When did Pax Romana begin and end? |
Pax Romana began from the end of the Republican civil wars, with the accession of Augustus in 27 BC, and ended in 180 AD with the death of Marcus Aurelius |
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What is verism? |
Intense realism |
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What did Early Christian Art attempt to communicate? |
Spirituality |
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In Early Christian Art, Jesus was often depicted as a... |
Shepherd |
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What was Jesus' Shepherd imagery based on in Early Christian art? |
Orpheus, from Roman Mythology |
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Why was Jesus depicted as a shepherd? |
The banning of Early Christianity forced Christians to pass art of Jesus off as a shepherd. |
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What significance did catacombs hold in Early Christian art? |
Early Christians often met in catacombs and decorated them with representations of Christ. |
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What is Ichthys? |
The Early Christian symbol for Jesus |
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WHATS THIS |
Ichthys, the Early Christian symbol for Jesus |
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Who ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire? |
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In what century was the persecution of Christians ended by Constantine the Great? |
4th century AD |
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What is the Early Christian symbol of hope? |
An anchor |
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wat dis tho |
An anchor, an early Christian symbol of hope |
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Whose bust had large, dreamy eyes to suggest hope? |
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WHOS THIS??!?!??!?! |
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What Roman Emperor gave birth to Constantinople? |
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What is an apse? |
The apse is the semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a church. In relation to church architecture it is generally the name given to where the altar is placed or where the clergy are seated. |
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what the thing in grey |
The apse of a basilica |
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What is a mosaic? |
a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass. |
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What is a tesserae? |
Each individual piece of a mosaic |
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Name two influential Early Christian texts |
The book of kells and lindisfarne gospels |
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Define Byzantine Art |
Byzantine Art was the art of the eastern roman empire. |
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In what period did Christian art flourish? |
Byzantine |
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Religious icon paintings were a staple of what kind of art? |
Byzantine |
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Why were icon paintings controversial? |
One of the 10 commandments reads; Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image |
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What year did the iconoclasm take place? |
726 |
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What occurred during the byzantine iconoclasm? |
Icons were banned, burned, and destroyed |
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What was the Hagia Sophia? |
A huge church built by Justinian |
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WHAT DIS |
Hagia Sophia |
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What was often placed in a Byzantine apse? |
Mosaics |
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What did Byzantine mosaics feature? |
Elongated features, incorrect proportions, gold tesserae |
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What was so controversial about Emperor Justinian? |
He married a nude dancer, Theodora |
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What was the Barbarians' style of life? |
They were nomadic people |
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How did Barbarian art reflect their nomadic lifestyle?
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Their art was very small and portable |
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Barbarian art featured a lot of; |
Metal working and jewelry |
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Barbarian art often depicted... |
Animals |
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What isCloisonné? |
An ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects by soldering or adhering silver or gold wires or thin strips placed on their edges. |
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What art is the result of the meeting of Barbarian and Christian art? |
Illuminated manuscripts |
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Define Romanesque |
"in the manner of the romans came about" |
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When was the Romanesque period? |
1000 AD to the 13th century |
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What architectural element dominated the Romanesque period? |
The arch! No surprise there |
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WHAT THIS |
Cluny Abbey, Burgundy |
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What was the Cluniac order? |
A monastic order offshoot that was basically an aristocracy. Their art wasn't based in reality |
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Cluniac art could be described as... |
Stylized relics |
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What is important about Santiago to Christianity? |
Santiago was the destination of many pilgrimages – it housed the remainsof st james, who brought Christianity to the Iberian peninsula. |
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WAHT THIS |
Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France |
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St. Sernin is a good example of what kind of architecture? |
Romanesque |
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How could one describe Romanesque structures? |
Heavy, thick, and weighty |
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From whom did Gothic architecture stem from? |
Abbot Suger of the St. Denis Cathedral |
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When did Gothic architecture first pop up? |
12th century |
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Who said “the dull mind rises to truth throughthat which is material"? |
Abbot Suger of the St. Denis Cathedral, father of Gothic Architecture |
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How did Abbot Suger change the St. Denis Cathedral? |
He changed the ambulatory to let in more light |
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Name three features of Gothic cathedrals |
Pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, and flying buttresses |
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Why did Gothic cathedrals uses features like pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, and flying buttresses? |
It allowed them to stand taller and lighters |
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What did Gothic architecture use to let light into the building? |
Stained glass |
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wat dis |
Chatres Cathedral, Chartres, France |
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Many Gothic cathedrals were constructed in what shape? |
Cruciform |
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What colour was often used in Gothic architecture to symbolize royalty? |
Blue, especially in stained glass windows |
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Name the three levels of the Gothic church |
Arcade, triforium, and celerestory. |
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What is the purpose of the arcade in a Gothic church? |
It's where the attendees walk around |
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What is the purpose of the triforium in the Gothic church? |
It is the walkway for people to look at the glass |
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What was the celerestory? |
The upper part of the church, above the second highest row of arches |
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What is a blind arcade? |
Arches on a wall |
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What is a blind triforium? |
A blind triforium does not contain a passageway |
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What new practice in regards to artists came about with the Early Renaissance? |
Artists became viewed and valued as individuals |
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Who invented linear perspective? |
Fillipo Brunelleschi |
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Where did the early renaissance emerge? |
Florence |
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Name the three most influential early renaissance artists |
Brunelleschi, Donatello, Massacio |
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What famous family started influencing art and veering it towards early renaissance? |
House of Medici |
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What is renaissance humanism? |
The return of study of classical antiquity in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries |
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Early renaissance illuminated manuscripts contained what? |
Gold or silver details, embellishing illustrations |
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Who was Jean Pucelle? |
He made many illuminated manuscripts of birds, religious imagery, etc |
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Who was Cimabue? |
One of the first great Italian painters to break from Byzantine style, veer away from the elongated proportions |
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Who was Giotto di Bondone? |
One of the first early renaissance painters to completely break off from Byzantine, painter of the Arena/Scrovegni chapel |
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What did Giotto di Bondone introduce to figure painting? |
He started adding weightiness to figures |
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What did Giotto di Bondone paint? |
The Scrovegni/Arena chapel frescoes |
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what is this thing |
Kiss of Judas, Giotto, Scrovegni/Arena Chapel |
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Which artists took up Giotto's weightiness in figures? |
Massacio and Michelangelo |
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What interrupted early renaissance and weakened the church's power? |
The black death! |
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Who started the Renaissance? |
Fillippo Brunelleschi |
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Where did the Renaissance start? |
Florence |
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What event triggered the Renaissance's discovery of linear perspective?
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The Cathedral Door Competition of 1401 |
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What was the Cathedral Door Competition of 1401? |
It was a competition to decorate the doors of the Florence Cathedral |
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Who won the Cathedral Door Competition of 1401? |
Lorenzo Ghiberti |
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Who lost the Cathedral Door Competition of 1401? |
Fillipo Brunelleschi
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What did Brunelleschi's loss of the Cathedral Door Competition of 1401 lead to? |
His trip to rome and development of his mathematical view on art |
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What does Renaissance LITERALLY mean? |
The REBIRTH of classical style |
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What painter first put Brunelleschi's ideas into practice? |
Massacio |
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What common trait did Massacio and Giotto have in their figures? |
They had weighty, firmly grounded figures |
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but whats dis |
Tribute Money, Massacio, 1425 |
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What is a vanishing point? |
The point in a painting your eye in drawn towards |
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What is atmospheric perspective? |
A renaissance method of creating the illusion of depth, or recession, in a painting or drawing by modulating colour to simulate changes effected by the atmosphere |
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they sad but who they |
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Massacio, 1425 |
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What's notable about Massacio's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden? |
The severe emotion |
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Who was Donatello? |
A sculptor of the renaissance |
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WHOO? ?>>??????? WHO IS THSI?? ?? |
Donatello's Saint Mark, 1411 |
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What were Donatello's strengths? |
Emotion and realism |
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WHOOOOOOOOOOOO DIIIISSS |
Donatello's David, 1430 |
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Why is Donatello's David special? |
It's erotic! LOOK |
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WHOS SHE?? ? ? ?? |
Mary Magdalene, Donatello, 1453
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Name the 3 most important renaissance artists |
Donatello, Massacio, Brunelleschi |
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what... what is this |
The Virgin of the Annunciation, Fra Angelico, 1395 |
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yooo.... what iS THIS?!?!?!??! |
Paolo Uccelo, Battle of San Romano, 1438 |
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What technique did Paolo Uccelo use in his paintings for linear perspective? |
He used broken lances as a linear perspective grid. Crafty. |
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Who wrote the treatise on linear perspective? |
Pierro Della Francesca |
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what... what is this......... |
The Baptism of Christ, Pierro Della Francesca |
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wh at WHAT WHAT?!!! |
The Resurrection, Pierro Della Francesca, 1463 |
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this is definitely gonna be on the exam so i mean... u should know this |
La Primavera, Botticelli, 1482 |
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Who was La Primavera painted for? |
Medici family |
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ok... u better know this one BUDDY |
Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1486 |
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Who commissioned the Birth of Venus? |
Medici
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What kind of paint did Jan Van Eyck use? |
Oil paints |
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Where is Jan Van Eyck from? |
Flanders |
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what this WHAT THIS |
Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck, 1432 |
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What did Botticelli's painting focus on? |
Mythology |
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Jan Van Eyck painted what to symbolize wealth? |
Oranges |
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Durer created what? |
Etchings |
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Who was the first artist to use the printing press? |
Durer |
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High renaissance reflected what past era? |
Classical Greece, highlighting its static and accurate proportions |
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How is the High Renaissance different from the Early Renaissance? |
It occurred in Rome |
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Where did the High Renaissance occur? |
Rome |
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What realism does the High Renaissance show? |
The ideal realism
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Who was notoriously bad with time management? |
Leonardo Da vinci |
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What era did Leonardo Da vinci belong to? |
High Renaissance |
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What is chiaroscuro? |
The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting. |
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What is sfumato? |
A smoky form of gradiation of light to dark |
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Sfumato was associated with what artist? |
Leonardo Da vinci |
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WHAT A BANGER!!! WHAT THIS
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Leonardo Da vinci's Last Supper, 1495 |
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How did Leonardo Da vinci paint the last supper? |
Oil on dried plaster |
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Why didn't the last supper last? |
Oil on dried plaster |
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Who painted the Mona Lisa? |
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Michelangelo was a painter in what movement? |
High renaissance |
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Was Michelangelo a painter or a sculptor? |
he was both |
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Why did Michelangelo's paintings stand out? |
They shower emotion |
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WH O THIS?? ?? ??????? |
David, Michelangelo, 1504 |
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What was special about Michelangelo's David? |
It was before the battle, and is a huge scale |
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What was Michelangelo's biggest work? |
The Sistine Chapel ceilings |
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Who made the Sistine Chapel ceilings? |
Michelangelo |
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What was portrayed on the Sistine Chapel ceilings? |
Greek mythology and Hebrew prophets |
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WHAT......... WHAT THIS......... |
Sistine Chapel Ceilings |
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What important piece of art lies in the Sistine Chapels? |
The Creation of Adam |
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“Nowhere else in the entire sphere of art is themetaphysical so brilliantly expressed in a physical moment of such utterclarity…” What is this quote about? |
Michelangelo's Creation of Adam |
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“Nowhere else in the entire sphere of art is themetaphysical so brilliantly expressed in a physical moment of such utterclarity…” Who said this? |
Berkhart |
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Raphael was part of what era? |
High Renaissance |
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Raphael was sponsored by who? |
Julius the 2nd |
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WHAT THISSSS |
Raphael, The School of Athens, 1511 |
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One side points up and one side points down... why? |
Pointing upwards to the world of ideal forms and intuition, and pointing downwards towards concrete proof and empiricism |
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Who was the most important pope to the renaissance? |
Julius the 2nd |
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Which two artists were sponsored by Julius the 2nd? |
Michelangelo and Raphael |
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Julius the 2nd sponsored artists in what movement? |
High Renaissance |
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Name the three most important renaissance artists |
Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo Da vinci |
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Who was described as "sickly sweet"? |
Raphael |
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Who used softer lighting and lighter subjects in their art during High Renaissance? |
Raphael |
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What era did Titian belong to? |
High Renaissance |
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What does Mannerist art describe? |
The decadence of the Italian period after Renaissance |
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What did Mannerist art reject? |
The norm |
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Mannerist art had what kind of figures? |
Elongated figures |
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What kind of structure did Mannerist art have? |
Illogical, special structure |
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What message did Mannerist art reflect? |
Spiritual inwardness |
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What 4 ideas did Mannerist Art amplify? |
Corruption, Rejection of art ideals, Emphasis on M style, Spritual inwardness |
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What is the quintessential Mannerist painting? |
Madonna with the long neck |
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HE DED!!!!!!!! (but what would the tombstone read) |
Madonna with the long neck, Parmigianino, 1535 |
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What did Parmigianino paint and in what era? |
Madonna with the long neck, mannerist |
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Baroque art is made in what style? |
Counter Rerformation style |
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What does Counter Reformation style mean? |
It emphasizes everything the Reformation criticized - energy, theatricality, illusion of space, grandeur |
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What period of art did Italian Baroque rebirth? |
Hellenistic Greece (3D, theatricality) |
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What period did Bernini belong to? |
Italian Baroque |
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Who knighted Bernini and commissioned him? |
Pope Urban the 8th |
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IS THIS ALLOWED |
The Rape of Persephone, Bernini, 1622 |
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Who made the Rape of Persephone? |
Bernini |
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WHOOOOOOOOOOO??!?!?!?!?!? WHOOO |
David, Bernini, 1623 |
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Why is Bernini's David so representative of Baroque art? |
He's very peak of the action |
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what ******* centrepiece is this u little bitch |
It's the Baldaccino, a giant centre piece in St. Peter's Cathedral, Vatican City, Bernini, 1634 |
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What was the dispute over Baldacchino's authorship? |
Rumour was that Boromini made the architecture and Bernini did the art, but only Bernini was credited |
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WHO///////// WHO THIS |
Bust of Costanza Bonarelli, Bernini,1630 |
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What's the story behind the Bust of Costanza Bonarelli? |
Bernini had an affair with his brother's wife, and so he beat both of them |
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What was Bernini's large failure? |
He tried to make the bell towers at St Peters, but they were far too heavy. He became the laughingstock of the city. |
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What was Bernini's comeback piece? |
The ecstasy of St Teresa |
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WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE |
The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Bernini, 1652 |
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What was Caravaggio's famed technique? |
Tenebrism |
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What is tenebrism? |
Dramatic illumination, very pronounced chiaroscuro |
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What movement did Caravaggio belong to? |
Italian Baroque |
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What were the subjects of Caravaggio's paintings? |
Common people |
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Who was commonly arrested, but tolerated for giving the church exactly what they wanted? |
Caravaggio |
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What significant Dutch event occurs in 1648? |
The Dutch declare independence from Habsburg rule, a dynastic monarchy. |
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Why was the Dutch independence important for art trade? |
There was no church or monarchy to commission paintings, so the free market bought paintings |
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Dutch Baroque art showed what? |
Pieces of daily life |
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What does it mean when Dutch Baroque art was painted on speculation? |
They were made first then sold |
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What kind of message did Dutch Baroque art send? |
Moral overtones, warnings against wanton lifstyles, symbolism |
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The dutch after their independence felt like... |
Israel, out the desert |
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Name two Dutch Baroque painters that painted familes |
Pieter De Hooch and Johannes Vermeer |
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ooohhh.. . . what |
Waterfall with Castle Built on the Rock, Jacob Van Ruisdael |
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What did Jacob Van Ruisdael paint? |
Dutch Baroque Landscapes |
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What era did Jacob Van Ruisdael paint? |
Dutch Baroque |
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Rembrandt belongs to which era? |
Dutch Baroque |
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WH AT WHAT IS THSI!??!?!?! |
The Night Watch, Rembrandt, 1642 |
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What were the 4 reasons the Night Watch by Rembrandt was important? |
1) Incipient action 2) Size (very big) 3) Solution to group painting (most were static, boring) 4) Details (lighting spotlights some figures) |
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Towards the end of his life, Rembrant had... |
Loose brushstrokes and non specific light sources |
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WOAH BUD DONT CUT HIM OPEN!! WHO ARE U |
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp, Rembrandt, 1632 |
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What was important about The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp by Rembrandt? |
It was a group painting that gave unequal representation to figures to make it less static. |
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Peter Paul Rubens belongs to what movement? |
Flemish Baroque art |
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What were Peter Paul Ruben's subjects? |
Peace messages, heavy voluptuous women, and 3D movement |
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wao... waaaooo!! WH O ARE YOU |
Allegory of Outbreak of War, Peter Paul Rubens, 1639 |
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Diego Velazquez belonged to which movement? |
Spanish Baroque |
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How did Diego Velazquez paint common people? |
He ennobled them |
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ooooooooooooooo where u at |
Rokeby Venus, Diego Velazquez, 1647 |
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Why was the Rokeby Venus a big deal? |
It was simply a nude, but Diego Velazquez pretended it was a Venus to get away with it. It was later defaced. |
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who... huh? who do you think you are? |
Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez, 1656 |
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What technique did Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez use? |
Perspective tricks |
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Louis the 14th/XIV was known as what king? |
The sun king |
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Who built himself and nobles a giant palace at Versailles? |
Louis the 14th/ XIV |
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How did Louis the 14th/ XIV use baroque paintings? |
To aggrandize himself, rather than the church. |
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WOAH who painted that FANCY COAT |
Louis XIV, Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701 |
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Name the two architects working for Louis XIV that designed Versailles |
Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Louis Le Vau |
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What does Versailles signify? |
Man triumphing over nature |
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What did the French baroque focus on? |
Theatrical decadence, opulence |
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what dis.... who could even say |
Palace of Versailles, 1682, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Louis Le Vau |
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Rococo was invented by... |
Louis XV |
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Why did nobles stop living at Versailles? |
Louis XV tried to keep them there but they were to Paris out of capacity issues |
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Who was Rococo art made for? |
The aristocracy |
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Rococo art displayed... |
sexual decadence, intimacy, delicacy, asymmetry |
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Rococo art introduced this artistic medium... |
integrated arts, multiple mediums, paintings integrated into interior design |
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What does the category of painting "fete gallante" mean? |
The aristocracy at play |
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Who was Madame de Pompadour? |
Louis XV's mistress, decided on art trends and which artists would be successful |
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Who was Francois Boucher? |
A rococo artists who painted nudes without the venus pretense |
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Neo classical art was the return to... |
aesthetics of greek and roman art |
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What does didactic mean? |
With the intention to teach |
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When was the emergence of didactic art? |
Neo-classical art |
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Neo-classical art valued this... |
skill in art, drawing, clean lines, proper drawing |
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Neo classicism emerged at the same time as this philosophical movement... |
The age of enlightenment (Siecle des Lumieres) |
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Neo-classicism took this position on humanity... |
Change and progress improved society and that humanity was perfectable |
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To which movement did Jacques Louis David belong to? |
Neo Classical |
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What was Jacques Louis David's significance to France? |
He was a revolutionary in France, painting political images |
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WHAT!!1 WHAT IS THSI!?!? |
The Death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David, 1787
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who.... who are u scooby doo |
The Death of Marat, Jacques Louis David, 1793 |
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ok we know who this is but who PAINTED IT??/ ur not THAT SMART... im kidding... i love u |
Napoleon crossing the alps, Jacques Louis David, 1801 |
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What did Jacques Louis David do for Napoleon? |
Create propaganda for Napoleon, showing him working hard for the people |
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Romantic art had 3 main points. Name them. |
1) Emotion trumps reason 2) Explore the areas of experience neglected by the ration mind - love, hate, fear 3) The importance of the individual and their creative viewpoints |
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Romanticism declared that the artist is a... |
hero! |
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What era did Theodore Gericault belong to? |
Romanticism |
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oh baby thats a pretty paitnnig |
The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, 1819 |
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What was The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault really about? |
It was a political painting about a scandal |
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Theodore Gericault painted these curious people to challenge the norm... |
People committed to mental facilities - until then, facial expressions were very standard in painting |
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what are frogs? |
WHAT ARE FROGS??? |
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Eugene Delacroix was part of what movement? |
Romanticism |
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*alex trebek voice* pick a category |
The Massacre of Chios, Eugene Delacroix, 1824 |
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painting or musical about the french revolution? |
Liberty leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830 |
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What was Eugene Delacroix's favourite topic to paint? |
Revolution! |
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Francisco de Goya was part of which movement? |
Romanticism |
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breakdances nervously... oh boy |
The Third of May, Francisco de Goya, 1814 |
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Francisco de Goya's favourite topic was... |
the failures of the age of enlightenment, innocent civilians, inhumanity |
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What does Picturesque mean? |
Visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting |
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Picturesque was a large aspect of what movement? |
Romanticism, especially landscape pantings |
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John Constable was a part of which movement? |
Romanticism |
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John Constable often painted what? |
Romantic picturesque landscapes |
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What does sublime mean? |
Awe mixed with fear |
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William Turner was part of what movement? |
Romanticism, especially sublime |
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What is a frieze? |
The wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. |
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What is a triglyph? |
The vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze |
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What is entasis? |
a slight convex curve in the shaft of a column |
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What is a metope? |
A rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze |
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What did the inner frieze show in the Parthenon? |
The panathenaic festival, dedicated to Athena |
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Who sponsored the Parthenon? |
Pericles |
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Name the 3 elements of an arch |
Piers (the two standing columns), each stone (a voussoir) and a keystone (the middle stone) |
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What is ribbed vaulting? |
A skeleton framework of arches used in gothic temples |
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What are the three elements of gothic architecture? |
Ribbed vaulting, pointed arches, flying buttresses |
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Name the 7 important roman emperors! (AVTTHMC) |
Augustus, Vespasian, Titus, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Constantine |
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Name Augustus' contributions to art |
the art of Periclean Athens/classical greece, used it as propaganda |
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Name Vespasian's contributions to art |
started the colosseum |
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Name Titus' contributions to art |
Finished the colosseum, the arch of titus |
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What does the arch of titus depict? |
The sack of Jerusalem |
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Name Trajan's contributions to art |
Trajan's column, built a forum |
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What does Trajan's column depict? |
The sack of Dacia |
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Hadrian's contributions to art |
Built pantheon with an oculus in it (it was a first!) |
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Marcus Aurelius' contributions to art |
Ended classical art domination, was always depicted bearded on a horse (douche) |
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Constantine's contributions to art |
Arch of constantine, his busts, chi-roh. "he sees the future that Christianity is the bomb.com." - sagi, everybody. |
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Caracala's contributions to art |
Baths of Caracala |
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Julius Caesar's innovation |
First emperor to put his face on a coin |
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Define contrapposto |
an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs. |
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Degine orthogonal
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at right angles |
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Define horror vaccui |
Fear of empty spaces |
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Define oculus |
a round or eyelike opening or design, in particular. |
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Define a coffering |
a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. |
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Define chi-roh |
a monogram of chi (Χ) and rho (Ρ) as the first two letters of Greek Khristos Christ, used as a Christian symbol. |
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Define tondo |
circular painting |
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What is Herringbone Brickwork? |
used to make the florence cathedrals dome support itsweight by fillipo Brunelleschi |
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Define encaustic |
pigmentsuspended in wax, wax hardens and tied to wooden base |
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Define tempera |
pigment suspended in egg yolk, hardens and binds tocanvas |
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Define fresco |
paintand water on plaster |
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Define oil painting
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painting with oil started in flanders by jan van eyck |
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Who were the Medici famili? |
The medici familyowned the medici bank, the largest and most powerful in Florence. They basicallyran the country. They sponsored lots of the art of the renaissance, like thatof Botticelli |
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Name the artists sponsored by the Medici |
Donatello, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci |
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Define humanism |
the philosophy that human individual viewpoints havevalue, and that critical thinking and rationalism are key. (very greek and roman) |
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Define Neoplatonism |
love can grow, civic pride is good, guilds werecompetitive. It was a cultural and educational reform, focusing on the writingsof classical periods. |
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Who did Julius the 2nd sponsor? |
Raphael and Michelangelo |
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What are the differences between Donatello, Michelangelo and Bernini's Davids? |
Donatello – erotic, after battle Michelangelo – before battle, nervous Bernini - climax of action, david is mid-sling |
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Which three sculptors made Davids? |
Donatello, Michelangelo, and Bernini |
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WHO CAN PASS THIS EXAM?? |
YOU CAN!! |
