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Leon Battista Alberti

Composer of the standards of beauty and one point perspective; humanist, 1404-1472

Pretentious arse.

Sfumato

Misty haziness used by Leonardo

Linear/Scientific Perspective

When things are drawn towards a vanishing point, very linear.

Atmospheric Perspective

When things are dulled/pulled back by the atmosphere

Canon

Perfect, works that set the standard of beauty, written first by Polykleitos

Massacio

Nailed linear perspective; Trinity of the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelists and Donors, patrons often included in his work, 1401-1428. Did the Jesus, tribute money, and Mother and Child.

Vitruvian Man

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1490, pen and ink on paper, 13.5in x 10in; serves as an understanding of proportion (palm 4 fingers, foot 4 palms, man is 24 palms)

Davinci code

Fresco Secco

Paint on dry plaster, used by Egyptians.

Buon Fresco

Paints into plaster; prepare each section with plaster, apply paint, finish that before it dries.

Hurry the hell up

The Great Schism

1305- The french Pope Clement the 5th is elected, Italians get mad. 1378- Clement the 7th is elected with Urban the 6th until Roman Emperor decided Martin the 5th was the only acceptable guy. 2 popes elected and make people angry.

Schism is a silent hill monster with a funny head C:

Iconography

The parts of a whole

Gestalt theory

Iconology

The meaning of the picture as a whole

Giorgio Vasari

1511-1574 Art historian guy; he was pretty tight with Leonardo and the Medici, was in a competition but lost to Brunelleschi. Temptation of Saint Jerome, Palazzo Pitti.

Was he really all that important tbh

Giotto Di Bondone

Lamentation ( weird putti trash babies in the sky and the dead fig tree to the right) gets a little funky on the details like the sock foot.

Donatello

Did the David bronze sculpture of the boy David, very scrawny and sarcastic, standing on Goliath's head. Use of contrapasto and Greco Roman principles in saint mark (commissioned by guild of linen, 1411-1413, marble, 7'9")

Contrapposto

A relaxed stance found in Greek statues

Humanism

Emphasis on knowledge and education, desire to excel, moral duty, and civic responsibility.

Orthogonal

Containing right angles

Vanishing Point

Used in linear perspective where all things point towards it

Pieta (St Peters)

Michaelangelo, 1496; realistic proportions, lack of emotion, realism valued over the purpose of the piece

Compared to German work

Chiaroscuro

Light vs dark

Karel Van Mander

Flemish painter, 1548-1606, mannerism, does scenes of big crowds and fantastical backgrounds

Leonardo Da Vinci

1452-1519; Madonna of the Rocks (oil on wood, 6'6 1/2" x 4') use of chiaroscuro, atmospheric perspective, and unified representation. Last Supper (1495-1498, oil and tempera on plaster, 13'9" x 29'10") Mona Lisa (1503-1505, oil on wood, 2'6" x 1'9") probably Lisa del Gioconda, landscape is unknown, painting was kept, use of hands as hands.

Do you really need a hint jfc

Michaelangelo

David, Pieta, Sistene Chapel ceiling. Commissioned by Julius the 2nd, originally a sculptor but also painted with a sculptor's eye.

Hieronymous Bosch

1450-1516, Does fantastical works,very surreal with religious concepts and narratives painting, Netherlands artist.

Cosimo d' Medici

Associated with Jacopo Pontamo, part of the most influential families, humanist/enlightenment

Cosimo d' Medici

Associated with Jacopo Pontamo, part of the most influential families, humanist/enlightenment

La Giaconda

Mona Lisa. Use of sfumato, chiaroscuro, 1503-1505, oil on wood, among a million other things.

Sandro Boticelli

Birth of Venues, neo Platonist, Venus is another version of Mary, celebration of love for Botticelli, crisp line, no collar bone, commissioned by the Medici

Martin Luther

Didn't like how the church tried to absolve people through gold and he wrote 99 things wrong with everything, placed it on the church, he was excommunicated and started his own church, The Protestant Reformation.

Albrecht Durer

Kind of looks like Jesus and painted a self portrait that makes him look really dumb and full of himself. Very dull colors. Also did Melancholia (1514, engraving, deals with the effects of depression and having nothing to do with the muses around him)

Jan van Eyck

Did the self portrait in the Red Turban, Annunciation (patrons depicted in lower section) and used oils for the rich textures that could be depicted.

Relief Printing

All other types of printing, carving out.

Planar printing

Draws on the surface

Pope Julius 2nd

Forced Michelangelo to paint the Sistene Chapel after saying he wanted him to create his tomb

Pope Paul 3rd

First Pope of the counter Reformation, commissioned artists like Raphael, last renaissance Pope.

Council of Trent

Decided upon the Counter Reformation

Counter Reformation

The Catholics response to Martin Luther taking their believers in his Protestant views, patron to baroque art and transfered to mannerism

Giorgione and Titian

Started the venetian school with Titian

Sofonisba

A female painter during the mannerism period

Giovanni Arnolfini

Painted with his wife by Jan Van Eyck, multitude of symbolism within the painting. 1434, oil on wood