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Humanities 1010 with Bernardini at University of Colorado Boulder
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By: Spencer McCarthy
Textbook:
Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I
The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Tenth Edition)
Created: 2010-12-01
Size: 40 flashcards
Views: 323
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Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Tenth Edition)Created: 2010-12-01
Size: 40 flashcards
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Early Medieval
800--810
Aachen, Germany
From Coronation Gospels
example of classical paintings
used color and modulation (not lines) to create shapes
deft, illusionistic brushwork defines the drapery folds
Early Medieval
792--805
Aachen, Germany
Divided into horizontal and vertical parts
Similar to Roman Architecture
4 functions: Marterium (place of relics), tomb structure, private chapel, and church of the Imperial Court
Carolingian: of the period of Charlemagne (commissioned by)
Sutton Hoo Purse Cover
Early Medieval
625
From Sutton Hoo ship burial (lots of luxury items)
Multiple medium (gold, glass, ivory, enamel cloisonné)
- thin strips of metal sautered to enclose glass
men attacking/controlling beasts (hawks and ducks)
marked by symmetry and abstract figures
demonstrates extensive trade routes
Chi Rho Iota page
Early Medieval
8th, 9th century
Vellum (animal skin)
Style: interlacing ribbon
Hiberno saxon (Insular)
makes God's word beautiful
believed to have magical powers
First page of book of Matthew, from book of Kells
Depicts cats and mice
- represent everyday food supply problem
- also good vs evil
Romanesque
Gislebertus
Autun, France
1120--1135
Lazarus was the saint of healing--pilgrimage for those with infirmities
damned on left, saved on right
Christ is HUGE
TERRIFIES the church-goer
educational purpose for illiterate
Romanesque
Caen, France
1067
uses buttresses
divided into THREES
St. Etienne
Romanesque
Caen
1067
Vikings lived here (great constructors!)
buttress, bays, nave, aisles, arcade, gallery, clerestory, ribbed groin vaults
vaulted 1115--11120
Chartres Cathedral
Gothic
Chartres, France
1134, rebuilt 1194
2 different spires--1 on right more romanesque, 1 on left more gothic
Old Testament Kings and Queens
Gothic
Royal portal, Chartres, France
1145--1155
"Jamb statues"
Old testament imagery literally holding up the New
Saint Theodore
Gothic
Porch of the marytrs, Chartres
1230
Spear in one hand, shield in the other
Ideal Christian right
slight contrapposto
more dynamic than previous Jamb statues
Rose Window
Gothic
North transept, Chartres Cathedral
1220
Lux nova--windows translate natural sunlight into God
window is like the holy word: enlightens those inside
Depicts Old kings, Saint Anne holding the Virgin and the Virgin holding Christ
made possible by flying buttresses
Gothic
Chartres Cathedral, France
Archivolts, intercessor
numerology: 3 (trinity) + 4 (seasons, winds) = SEVEN
right portal shows early birth and life of christ
left portal shows ascension of Christ to heaven
Central portal shows Christ and four evangelists
Duomo
13th--15th Century Italian
Arnolfo di Cambio
Cathedral of Florence
1296, Dome finished 1469, facade added 19th century
symbol of wealth of Florence
"Duomo"--Domus Dei, meaning House of God
Bell tower designed by Giotto
14th Century Italian
Cimabue
1280--1290
Tempera on wood (fine powder mixed with water/egg)
Maestá--image of majesty
heavy use of gold
suggests divine world
attempt to indicate space, sense of depth
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14th Century Italian
Giotto
1310
replaced Cimabue's Madonna with a weightier Madonna
gives her substance
marks the end of medieval painting in Italy, beginning of naturalistic approach
Arena Chapel
14th Century Italian
Giotto
1305--1306
Padua, Italy
built to forgive the Scrovegni family of usury (lending money at interest)
interior is fresco
imitation marble veneer
top level is of Virgin Mary
Middle is life of Christ
Lower is the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ
entrance shows last judgement
Lamentation
14th Century Italian
Giotto
1305
Arena Chapel
Fresco
Giotto used mass/space, shows movement
Diagonal line leading to Christ
Barren tree=tree of life, dead
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
Northern Renaissance
Jan Van Eyck
1434
Oil on Wood
Placement refers to roles
- curtains of bed are open (family expansion)
- oranges (fertility)
- dog (fidelity)
- one candle in chandelier (light of God)
- mirror (signature, and witness)
Garden of Earthly Delights
Northern Renaissance
Hieronymus Bosch
1505--1510
tryptych
commissioned by Prussian aristocrat
Strawberry plant: reminds life is fleeting, like the taste of strawberries
Temptation of St. Anthony
Northern Renaissance
Martin Schongauer
1480--1490
Temptacio: precursor of temptation, means physically assault
Made possible by the printing press
uses parallel hatching instead of crosshatching
Deposition
Northern Renaissance
Rogier van der Weyden
1435
Oil on Wood
Commissioned by crossbowman's guild
Engages viewer with the figures
Christ's body echoes Mary's body
Gates of Paradise
Italian Renaissance
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1425--1452
South of the Duomo in the Baptistry
10 Old Testament scenes
marked by Linear Perspective
Issac and his Sons
Italian Renaissance
Lorenzo Ghiberti
1425--1452
Figures almost in the Round
depics Issac sending his so to hunt, women attending births
Gattamelata
Italian Renaissance
Donatello
1445--1450
Piazza del Santo, Padua
Equestrian statue of condottiere (mercenary general): Erasmo da Narni
allusion to Marcus Aurelias, Julius Caesar, etc.
depicts strength of character, resolution
Adoration of the Magi
Italian Renaissance/International Gothic
Gentile da Fabriano
Florence, 1423
Gold, lots of it
Graceful, figural poses
naturalistic rendering of setting
reflect on strozzi: the wealthiest family in florence
Tribute Money
Italian Renaissance
Masaccio
Branacci Chapel, Florence, 1427
figures are solid, skeletal bulk
Example of Continuous narrative
- moments of the story in the same painting
- lines of detail less visible
Birth of Venus
Italian Renaissance
Sandro Botticelli, commissioned by Medici
1482
Venus was terrestrial and celestial, earthly love and universal love
- arms covering (or enhancing?) her sexuality
Venus was the classical equivalent to Virgin Mary
- ties greek/roman classicism to Christianity
- based on Venus Pudica, variation of Aphrodite of Knidos
Italian Renaissance
Leon Battista Alberti
Designed 1470, Begun 1472
Inspired by Vitruvius' "On Architecture"
Also inspired by Roman ideals
- front is composite of temple front and arch of Constantine
- interior is almost the same as Basilica Constantine
- extends vertical thrust of the building
David
High Renaissance
Michelangelo
1501--1504
David = Florence
- saw themselves as the little guy
Michaelangelo is a neoplatanist: images are produced from artist,
- must come from an idea
Ceiling of Sistine Chapel
High Renaissance
Michelangelo
1508--1512
Vatican
Tells the story of Genesis, 3 key moments in Noah's life
makes the chapel a cycle in time (wall to wall to ceiling)
figures hold acorns = sextus is an oak tree = sextus commissioned sistine chapel
Polysemous: having multiple meanings
Creation of Adam
High Renaissance
Michelangelo
1511--1512
God's and Adam's figures echo
- We are God and God is us
adam is heavy, material, earthly
God is moving, light, heavenly
New St. Peter's Basilica
High Renaissance
Bramante
1505
Vatican
Greek Cross Plan
Bramante wanted it to be a martydom of Peter
Very strongly classical Greek and Roman
Madonna of the Pesaro Family
High Renaissance
Titian
1519--1526
Oil on Canvas
commissioned by Jacobo Pesaro (commander of papal fleet)
commemorates the defeat of the Turks
revolutionary: Madonna is not in the center!
depicts Pesaro family and Madonna in scene: entwines earthly and heavenly
opens up the scene
Venus of Urbino
High Renaissance
Titian
1538
Oil on Canvas
Courtesan: elevated prostitution, underlines masculinity of patron
Chamber art: to be viewed privately by patron
Essentially erotic art
- reflects the traditional Venus pose
- private, enclosed space
- coy expression
sleeping spaniel = fidelity
Skin is framed by the bedsheet
Last Supper
High Renaissance
Leonardo daVinci
1495--1498
Oil and tempera on plaster
located in dining hall in Milan monastery
- reminds monks while THEY are eating
Christ has no halo, but is still distinct
each of the figures embody a certain emotion
- Leonardo is an empiricist: experience is the only source of knowledge
Mona Lisa
High Renaissance
Leonardo daVinci
1503--1505
Oil on wood
"La Gioconda"
wife of a wealthy merchant
gaze engages the viewing, it's unnerving
Chiaroscuro
- contrast between light and dark
- sfumato
- used my many thin layers of color, no lines
Leonardo said art is 2 things: man, and the intention of the soul
Madonna in the Meadow
High Renaissance
Raphael
1505--1506
subtle chiaroscuro
preferred clarity and light tones to his master's (Leonardo) obscurity
School of Athens
High Renaissance
Raphael
1509--1511
fresco
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican
- contains historical, legal, religious, philosophical texts
- four branches of human wisdom
Left shows followers of Plato (as Leonardo)
- Pythagorous, Heroclitus (as Michaelangelo)
- Diogynese, Euclid, Zoroaster, Ptolomy, Raphael and Sodoma
Four Apostles
Reformation Art
Albrecht Durer
1526
Diptych (2 panels)
Peter is BEHIND John (Peter being the papacy)
Word of the church is foreground, structure of church is in the background
- Protestantism!
The French Ambassadors
Reformation Art
Hans Holbein
1533
Oil and Tempera on Panel
depicts humanists
- globes, hymn book (Lutheranism), cloth is a symbol of wealth
displays tension between the Church and opulence
- mandolin string is broken
- skull
- memento mori: remind us of the eventuality of death
- material world is unimportant
About this deck
By: Spencer McCarthy
Textbook: Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I
The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Tenth Edition)
Created: 2010-12-01
Size: 40 flashcards
Views: 323
Textbook:
Gardner's Art Through The Ages, Volume I The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Tenth Edition)Created: 2010-12-01
Size: 40 flashcards
Views: 323
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