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"Last Supper" by del Castango


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Located in the dining hall of a convent


- Booth helps to assist linear one point perspective

"Ceiling Fresco in the Camera Picta at the Ducal Palace in Mantua" by Mantegna


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Fresco paintings are in the bedroom for the newlyweds


- Painted to create the illusion that there is an oculus over where the bed would be


- Puti (chubby babies with wings) peer over into the room


- trump l'oeil - 2d design suggests 3d

"Battle of the Nudes" by del Pollaiuolo


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- early example of printmaking/engraving done on a metal plate and pressed to paper with ink


- no battle in particular


-figures create an oval design in space

"The Duke and Dutchess of Urbino" by Piero della Francesca


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Dyptic images framed together


- Profile view goes back to aincent Roman days where rulers were seen on coins in profile view


- Italian portraiture uses landscape scenes in background in contrast to flemish blackout backgroungs


- Heads directly above the horizon of Urbino


- Atmospheric perspective


-Broken nose in jausting match and lost eye, profile view makes potrait more appealing

"Dukes private study at the palace of Gubbio" by Unknown


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Wood pannels that decorate studiolo (private study)


- Cubboards aren't real but made to look 3d on a 2d surface


- Turban ring is placed on a table connects with the world of art where artists used turban rings as drawing subjects


- intarsca = wood inlay. different pieces of wood are cut and placed into the wall


-trompe l'oeil

"Birth of Venus" by Botticelli


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Venus is the goddess of love and beauty from Roman mythology


- First purely mythological subject is Italian art


- Done on canvas which wasn't common for the time and things were painted on wood panel


- Winds on left blew Venus to land


- Sculpture owned by the Medici family directly inspired the painting of Venus

"Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter" by Perugino


Early Italian Renaissance 1400-1495


- Fresco done at the Vatican in a new side chapel comissioned by Pope Sixtus IV "Sistine Chapel"


(before michelangelo's ceiling)


- Jesus gives the keys of heaven to St. Peter that emphasizes the authority of Peter as the first leader of the Roman based church. Emphasises the legitamecy of the Papacy.


- One point linear perspective and use of orthogonals in lines on floor. Atmospheric perspecive.


"The Virgin of the Rocks" by Leonardo da Vinci


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Chiaroscuro - working light against dark to create 3D form. chiaro/oscuro


- Two babies - St. John and Jesus. Blessing baby is Jesus and prayer hands are St. John


-Triangular composition


-Water in foreground represnts St. John and baptism


-sfumato = smoky

"The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Overpainting was removed after WWII and preserved original painting


- WWII bombing destroyed the building where the fresco was located but the wall it was on didnt colapse


- Leonardo switched up the Last Supper game by adding Judas to the crowd,



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"Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- painting of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo


- comissioned portrait and client never recieved painting


-painting brought to france and sold to King Francis I who recieved it after da Vinci's death


- 24 years old


- landscape background Italian trademark that looks strangely eroded


-sfmato lighting and chiaroscuro

"Ginevra de'Benci" by Leonardo da Vinci


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- kept in a cold castle for many years in euorpe so it is well preserved. Most preserved of all of Leonardo's works


- contains leonardo's dna - he used his fingerprints to create foliage design in background


- Early work, no sfmato, skin looks pearly white

Pieta by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


-not easy to present and be sensible, woman holding a grown man on her lap


-set out to create the greatest sculpture that ever existed in Rome


-carved "Michelangelo Buonarrati of Florence made it" across Mary's chest


-Mary is a wonderful example of stoicism (not showing much emotion)


-Mary has giant lap disguised by fabric


-major critique is that Mary does not look 47. church said that's cool, virgins don't age


Pieta (Rondanini Pieta) by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


-Rondanini = last family to own it


-unfinished because death. you can see chisel marks


-more expressive representation of the subject. Mary is trying to make dead Jesus stand


-wanted to make connection between Christ and Mary stronger


-moved Jesus from left. hacked arm off and chiseled Jesus out of Mary


-last words = "Remember the death of Christ"

David by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


-originally meant to be placed on top of the Cathedral of Florence (Duomo)


-too magnificent to even risk damaging it by putting it on top of the cathedral. put it in front of town hall instead.


-channeled ancient Greeks: idealized profile head, frontal representation of body, contraposto, tree trunk support, heroic physique


-hand was broken off by thrown chair


-real sculpture located in Accademia museum. scale replica located in original spot

Moses (from tomb of Pope Julius II) by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


-Michelangelo finished Sistine chapel ceiling frescoes then got to work on Julius tomb sculps


-seated in contrapossto with tablets under arm


-looking at those damn idol worshippers. not happy.


-bout to get up and hurl those tablets in anger


-super full beard. sculpture intended to be seen from below. originally going to be placed on second floor of tomb


-Moses has horns..because jews descended from devil?


or mistranslation of "light"

The Holy Family by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


-sculpture-like quality of painting


-Mary giving Jesus to Joseph or vice versa, reference to name of commissioners - Doni family (Doni = donate, to give)


-also known as Doni Madonna


- Sibyl - fortune teller


- Putto/putti - chubby male child, usually nude and sometimes winged, commonly confused with cherubs but the two are unassociated.

"Sistine Chapel - ceiling frescoes" by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- 9 center scenes from old testament stories- 1. creation 2. adam and eve 3. noah


- most popular is the center panel creation of Adam. he's about to put the spark of life into Adams body by touching fingers with him


- God comes with entourage of angels and Eve who peers around God to look at Adam


- Limp hand of adam symbolizes he does not yet have the spark of life in him yet

"Sistine Chapel - altar wall (Last Judgement)" by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- not compartmentalized so it looks more jumbled


- top center focal point is jesus


- Sibyl from Lybia figure is holding the book that pertains her prophecies of the coming of christianity and is depicted closing the book and looking at the floor of the chapel in contempt that her predictions have materialized


- Sibyl of lybia is painted from a male model, Michelangelo drew a study from a man


- Blue was a more expensive color that came from aquamarine stones


- Pope wanted it made suitable during "campaign for decency" and Michelangelo said no because no one should be concerned about the nudity in the painting if they had pure thoughts


- loin cloths were painted over nude figures not by michelangelo


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"Giuliano de'Medici with allegorical figures of Day and Night" by Michelangelo


High Renaissance 1495-1520

"Madonna of The Goldfinch" by Raphael


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Triangular design in outdoor setting (gods creation)


- Christ child standing in contrapposto between Mary's legs


- Goldfinches make their nests in thorn bushes which connects them with the thorn crown worn by Jesus

"The Small Cowper Madonna" by Raphael


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Church on upper right shouldn't exist in this time period


- Very subtle halos

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Studiolo - private study

"The Tempest" by Giorgione


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- We are unsure of whether this painting is religious, mythological, allegorical, etc. We don't know what's going on and this makes the painting provocative. He allows the viewer to create a story based on the elements of the painting.


- Appealed to the intellectual community of venice in the early 16th century

"Pesaro Madonna" by Titian


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Mary and child surrounded by saints = sacra converazione


- Pesaro family comissioned altarpiece


-Commemorates a naval victory over the turks (muslims)


- Large flag shows the papal coat of arms to connect them with the Vatican

"Venus of Urbino" by Titian


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Dog symbolizes fidelity


- Reclining contrapposto


- Servant figures in background are going into a chest where the fabric goods that the woman would bring to her marriage were kept


- Dog and fabric connect to marriage

"Olympia" by Manet


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- References "Venus of Urbino" by Titian and the High Renaissance


- high class prostitute


- Flowers from suitor are being delivered to her

"Plan for St. Peters" by Bramante


High Renaissance 1495-1520


- Church collected repentance funds from community to construct building


- Michelangelo worked on this building at the end of his career but couldn't finish it cause he died


- dome on st peters based on his design but not built by him, based on his plans and made after his death


"Descent from the Cross" by Fiorentino


Mannerism 1520-1600


- Jesus attached at the feet to the cross in the center of the composition. Figures placed around the sides of the composition and not in the center


"Deposition" by Pontormo


Mannerism 1520-1600


-Mannerism doesn't always make


"Dead Christ with Angels" by Fiorentino


Mannerism 1520-1600


- Shallow space, activity in the front plane. Key element of mannerism


- Taking place in the tomb, surrounding space is dark and angels hold candles to create light


- Jesus seated on sarcofacus


- Angel tickels wound to see if they can get a reaction out of Jesus who they're unsure of whether hes dead or na

"Madonna of the Long Neck" by Parmigianino


Mannerism 1520-1600


- Master of anatomical distortion


- Christ child looks dead


- Little man is ambiguous, possibly a bridge figure


- Column in background is unidentifiable because it has no capitol and holds nothing up


"Saltcellar of King Francis I" by Cellini


Mannerism 1520-1600


- Comissioned by King Francis I


- A saltcellar is a piece for a dining table that serves salt. Also houses peppercorns


- Neptune holding his trident (god of the sea = seasalt) and Earth mother holding her breast (nurturer)


- pepper and sea = earth and water

"Rape of the Sabine Woman" by Giambologna


Mannerism 1520-1600


- Created as a multi figured sculpture to be placed next to the david statue


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"Burial of Count Orgaz" by El Greco


Mannerism 1520-1600


-count orgaz laid to rest below painting.


-painted more than 200 years after count was buried.


-believed that count orgaz was so righteous that when they buried him, saint stephen and saint augustene showed up to lower the count's body into the grave.


-bridge figure = el greco's son.


-el grecos in the crowd lookin at us

"Feast in the House of Levi" by P. Veronese


Mannerism 1520-1600


-done for a refectory (a DINING HALL[it made sense!])


-painted as last supper. but way too many people. and a dog. and a cat under the table.


-GERMANS?!?! some figures in the painting could be identified as germans. inquisition didn't like that (martin luther, reform, starting in Germany)


-"i felt like it"


-wrote inscripton referencing chapter from gospel of saint luke. about jesus breaking bread at this sinning ass banquet. (at the house of Levi)

"San Giorgio Maggiore" by Andrea Palladio


Mannerism 1520-1600


-located on its own island.


-width = height


-dark stone offset against pure white walls


"Villa Rotonda" by Andrea Palladio


Mannerism 1520-1600


-positioned on highest point of land owned by…owners


-symmetry. all four sides =


-center dome. very much like greek cross plan.


-portico

"The Last Supper" by Tintoretto


Mannerism 1520-1600


-women not usually depicted in last supper scene


-oil on canvas


-diagonal table shows understanding of perspective


-intense light around Jesus' head. not in foreground


-Judas on other side of table away from the team. lickin shots at the j man.


-looks like a ratskeller. below ground


-Jesus is dishing out the bread.

"St. Peter's facade" by C. Maderno


Baroque 1600-1750


-dome looks sunken into church from front


-engaged columns as opposed to free standing


-yellowy tinged stone chosen bc gold associated with papacy

"Baldacchino (High Altar of St. Peter's)" by Bernini


Baroque 1600-1750


-over spot where St. Peter was buried


-10 stories high


-only used by Pope when celebrating mass inside St. Peters (usually christmas and easter)


-marble, cast bronze, gold


-grapevines going up columns (wine=blood of christ)


-bumblebees because pope's family coat of arms was a bee

"Chair of St. Peter" by Bernini


Baroque 1600-1750


-no one sits in this chair. WOW as you look at this


-bronze, gold, glass, STUCCO (a combination of lime and marble dust combined with water to make a paste-like clay-like substance that can be molded)


-chair looks magically levitated, enveloped in clouds


-reliquary containing a piece of wood believed to have come from a bench used by Peter for preaching