art history review: early renaissance

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Art HistoryReviewRenaissance

By Danielle Hernandez


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Preparing to Study Art History

In order to assess various works of art inboth areas of content and form, you must

be familiar with some terminology andconcepts.

These include knowing about somedifferent mediums.

You must also be familiar with aestheticdistance and know how to talk aboutwhat makes this high or low for you in awork of art.


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Aesthetic Distance

Dont be fooled! High is low and low

is high!Aesthetic distance refers to how

you connect with a work of art.

Does it jump out at you? Strike you

as interesting? Or is it just plainboring!?


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Aesthetic Distance

High Aesthetic Distance*Think of high distance in numerical terms. The higher youre distance is, the further youare from something!*

*le yawn*


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Aesthetic Distance

Low Aesthetic Distance

*le fangasm*


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Mediums (Materials) Ambermade from tree sap thats hardened.

Bedrockgood foundation for architecture

Bronzea metal alloy, malleable, easy to work with

Dressed stonecut stone Frescopainting pigment on wet or dry (fresco

secco) plaster. If paint is applied when wet, it lastsa long time

Papyruspaper made from reeds

Resinsticky plant substance similar to amber Slatedifficult to work with since its sedimentary

and layers can easily crack off

Othersbasalt, diorite, sandstone, limestone,granite


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Techniques Celaturemaking things 3D by adding TO it (like taking a

stone base and layering clay over it)

Glypticmaking a 3D image by taking AWAY from it (like

chiseling away at stone)

Chiaroscurousing shadows/shading to make something2D look 3D (ie. Cartoon compared to realism)

Flat colorcolor without shading (non-photorealisticcutouts)

Encausticpainting in wax; very difficult but lastsextremely well


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Techniques Foreshorteninggiving something a different angle

or perspective to make it more interesting (ie. Uncle

Sam wants you poster)

Optical illusionsomething that appears as itmeasurably is not

Parataxis/paratacticcombining more than one

perspective in one subject; more realistic than

photorealism; more information

Isomorphismsimilarity or form, shape, or structure

3 dimensionalsculpture or carving or anything offa

plane

2 dimensionalflat painting/drawing on a plane


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Forms Bas relieflow relief (projecting as opposed to

engraving)

Clerestoryarchitecture; high in the middle, low on

the sides; results in interesting lighting Closed compositionattached to stone, wall, etc.

Open compositionsculpture is totally free fromoriginal medium (compare to in-the-round)

Sculpture in-the-rounda free standing sculpture

Freestandingmore free than in-the-round; has nostrut (stand/support holding it up)

Corbelstones set as support (architecture)

Hypostyle halla hall with a roof supported by rowsof columns


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Forms In reservewhat is left behind after carving around a

structure

Orthogonalof or pertaining to right angles

Petroglyphcarving or painting in rock Pictographany picture

Post and lintel2 columns with a stone on top (thinkStonehenge)

Registerground line

Stasisno motion shown in work; freeze frame (ieVictorian photograph)

Split imageimage seen from 2 views

Tectiformrectangular (or not) or just lines found;may be artist signature or instructions, etc.


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Arena ChapelWHO: Giotto

WHAT: Fresco murals(compartmentalized)

WHERE: Padua, Italy

WHEN: c. 1305 (Early Renaissance)

SIZE: ---


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Arena Chapel Frescoes


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Madonna

EnthronedWHO: Giotto

WHAT: Tempera on Wood

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: 7 x 11

Me:

52


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Kiss of JudasWHO: Giotto

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Padua


SIZE: Part of acompartmentalised mural


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LamentationWHO: Giotto

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Padua


SIZE: Part of acompartmentalised mural


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Pazzi ChapelWHO: Brunelleschi

WHAT: Stone, centrally plannedcathedral

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: more down to earth than

Gothic cathedrals- does not

soar upwards


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Hospital of the

Innocents

OrphanageWHO: Brunelleschi

WHAT: loggia with roundedarches

WHERE: Florence


SIZE:about 350 tall


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Sacrifice of IsaacWHO: Brunelleschi

WHAT: Bronze tile

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: 1401 (Early Renaissance)

SIZE: 21x17

**This was the losing panel in

the competition


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Sacrifice of IsaacWHO: Ghiberti

WHAT: Bronze tile

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: 1401 (Early Renaissance)

SIZE: 21x17

**This was the winning panel in

the competition


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Self Portrait from

the Gates of

ParadiseWHO: Ghiberti

WHAT: Gilt Bronze

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: 6diameter


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Triumph of DeathWHO: Traini

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Pisa


SIZE: 24


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Vitruvian ManWHO: Many artists have

portrayed it, but this one is by

Leonardo da Vinci

WHAT: Pen and ink on paper

WHERE: Italy (Milan?) NOWIN VENICE


SIZE: 13.5x10


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The Last SupperWHO: da Vinci

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Milan


SIZE:15 x 28


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Mona LisaWHO: da Vinci

WHAT: Oil on wood

WHERE: Italy


SIZE:30 x 21


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The TrinityWHO: Masaccio

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: about 21x9


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Tribute MoneyWHO: Masaccio

WHAT: Fresco

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: about 8x20


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FlagellationWHO: della Francesca

WHAT: Tempera on panel

WHERE: Urbino


SIZE: 23 x 32


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Madonna and

Child with SaintsWHO: della Francesca

WHAT: Oil on Panel

WHERE: Urbino


SIZE:8 x 6


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Battle of San

RomanWHO: Uccello

WHAT: Tempera on Panel

WHERE: Florence

WHEN:c. 1440s-50s (HighRenaissance)

SIZE: 6 x 106


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Birth of VenusWHO: Botticelli

WHAT: Tempera on Canvas

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: c. 1480 (HighRenaissance)

SIZE: 6 x 9


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PrimaveraWHO: Botticelli

WHAT: Tempera on Panel

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: c. 1482 (High Renaissance)

SIZE: 7 x 10


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Saint MarkWHO: Donatello

WHAT: Marble (in aedicule)

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: c.1411-1415 (HighRenaissance)

SIZE: ---


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DavidWHO: Donatello

WHAT: Bronze

WHERE: Florence

WHEN: c. 1430-40 (HighRenaissance)

SIZE: 5 2


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GattamelataWHO: Donatello

WHAT: Bronze

WHERE: Padua


SIZE: 11 x 13


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Mary MagdaleneWHO: Donatello

WHAT: Painted wood

WHERE: Florence


SIZE: 62


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Scenes from the

Very Rich HoursWHO: Limbourg Brothers

WHAT: Illumination

WHERE: France

WHEN: c. 1413-1416 (EarlyRenaissance)

SIZE: 9 x 5


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Scenes from the

Very Rich HoursWHO: Limbourg Brothers

WHAT: Illumination

WHERE: France

WHEN: c. 1413-1416 (EarlyRenaissance)

SIZE: 9 x 5

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