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Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian Man 1490 solved challenge of fitting human body into a circle and square by putting midpoint of circle at navel and square at groin. suggests ideal beauty and cosmic perfection of human form. |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Embryo in Womb 1510-1513 |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Project for a Church |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna of the Rocks 1485 altarpiece with fanciful bizarre rock canopy bg. madonna, john the baptist, christ and angel appear in tender scene, all 4 appear close. stacked structure of hands. sfumato, max chiaroscuro. popular image in florence at the time (john adoring christ) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci 1474-78 ginevra means juniper, juniper bush in bg is identifier. oil paint shows flemish influence. 3/4 view is also flemish influence, more suggestive of personality. large shift away from profile portraiture occurs at this time. |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper 1495-98 San Maria della Grazie, Milan experimental fresco painted on refectory wall. the mystery of transubstantiation in the subject. jesus is at center, apostles appear in 4 groups of 3, tightly knit compositional knots. fictive architecture an expansion of the room, jesus silhouetted in window, he resembles an equilateral triangle. all disciples react emotionally. |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Battle of Anghiari 1504 Florence, Palazzo Vecchio lost mural depicting a battle between Florence and Milan won by Florence. experimental fresco a secco with encaustic technique failed and quickly faded. horses and riders all very compositionally tangled, extremely expressive figures. figures had "options" in leonardo's prep drawings |
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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa 1503-5 wife of Francesco della Giocanda. her eyebrows were probably finely detailed and applied last, and removed by the abrasion of early restoration attempts. her humor isn't common in portraiture of married women. lips have sfumato which makes expression more ambiguous contrast between reserved figure and wild landscape, fantasy landscape perhaps suggestive of personality? |
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Raphael Marriage of the Virgin 1504 raphael sponged up a lot of Perugino's teachings, this is very close to his teacher's painting of the same subject- placement of hands has better contrast though, figures are more energetic and less symmetrical and ring is exchanged at the bottom of an imaginary circle that carries through the top of pic. |
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Madonna and Child with Saint John 1507 more solid forms than marriage of the virgin triangular cluster of figures implied in gazes and contours markedly serene, figures weighty but light |
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Raphael School of Athens 1508-11 Fresco Cycle in the Stanze, Vatican Palace each wall of fresco cycle had composition referencing a sect of human endeavor. this is philosophy scene. plato and aristotle @ center under an arch. interest in balance and contrast. plato is old and dignified, points up at cosmos. aristotle is young and vigorous, hand down at earth, holding books of timaeus and ethics, respective important works. plato is all about ephemerality of physical world, concepts. aristotle is empirical, know the world around you. their eye contact suggests commonality of thought. architecture is enormous and classical. fresco resembles masaccio's trinity and also new st peters by bramante. |
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Raphael Galatea 1513 Villa Farnesina, Rome. home of pope's banker. artists in 16th c have more confidence with classical subject matter and nudity. cupids shoot at galatea with love arrows. rendered bodies are confident and solid, realistic. galatea is vertical axis, horizon is horizontal axis, cupid arrows cross and the intersection is on her face. |
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Raphael Portrait of Pope Leo X with his Nephews 1517 we get a good sense of the power balances between all 3 |
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Raphael Saint Paul Preaching in Athens 1515-16 cartoon executed for a tapestry, was sent to flanders for weaving, spread high renaissance ideas to northern europe. has severity of masaccio's frescoes. Power of saint expressed by his gesture and audience reaction. bramante inspired architecture encloses the space. |
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Raphael (engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi) Judgement of Paris 1510-1520 raphael did a lot of religious commissions but loved pagan subject matter. engravings like this spread his designs far and wide-printing press was recent invention. drawing refers to roman art depicting the same scene. water gods and nymphs borrowed from roman art. |
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Michelangelo Pieta 1498 highly idealized youthful figure .abundant drapery .mary is like 30% taller than christ for sake of composition .brutality and indignity downplayed. .mary expresses knowing acceptance .theological basis of themes, not weepy human drama but essential sacrifice. |
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Michelangelo David 1501-1504 colossal figure of florence's beb .commissioned for duomo exterior .psychologically complex and vibrant .compare to donatello's st george and david .when it was unveiled it was judged "too fine" to go all the way up there so it sat at eye level in palazzo vecchio. |
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Michelangelo Temptation and Expulsion from Eden 1508-12 Sistine Ceiling .center of ceiling .tree of knowledge divides, serpent and angel resemble 2 sides of same coin. serpents tail like a spring. .good and evil are not that far apart, could flip flop. .influence of masaccio. |
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Michelangelo Creation of Adam 1508-1512 Sistine Ceiling .kind of created humanitys conception of god here .adam is about to be passed the spark of life, when the gap is passed he will go from being clay and earth to being truly man. .creation story is really a sculptor's story, meant a lot to michelangelo. |
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Michelangelo Libyan Sibyl 1508-1512 Sistine Ceiling such twisty musculature... yes... so twisty. the tension and power embodies a lot of michelangelo's artistic legacy. |
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Michelangelo Moses 1513-1515 intended for corner of roof of julius ii's tomb. ultimate image of dignified patriarch .holds 10 commandments .horns come from a mistranslation that had been cleared up by this time but michelangelo just carried on the tradition. |
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Michelangelo Tomb of Julius II 1505-45 this pope named himself after caesar... he was a guy after temporal, earthly authority. a militaristic pope. wanted massive freestanding tomb but there were cutbacks after his death. |
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Michelangelo Academy Slaves 1525-27 ignudi on tomb of julius ii called slaves because they seem restrained common tomb imagery - soul restrained by body, people deprived by loss michelangelo carved by scanning back to front, so figures appear to emerge like they're breaking out, they look sort of modernist to our eyes. michelangelo sees the figure in the marble and sees himself as helping it out. -thing is half alive like creation of adam. |
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Michelangelo Last Judgement 1534-41 Sistine Chapel, Vatican christ is unusually strong/muscular and beardless- just pure godlike essence at this, the end of time!!! damned to the R, holy on my L when this was unveiled people were shocked by NAKED JESUS!!!! "a stew of nudity.. stirs up... unwanted... thoughts!" after he died someone got the job of painting over the offending bits. -extreme poses, heading into mannerism territory. funfax- st bartholomew holds flayed skin with michelangelo's face. insert yaself in the fukin weirdest way possible. |
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Michelangelo Pieta 1546 intended for michelangelo's own tomb- nicodemus bears his face and supports christ- he gives himself unmediated access to the divine. he tried to destroy this in 1555 and left it unfinished. |