Download - The Northern and Late Renaissance
Mannerism(from handout)Mannerism - Post-Renaissance, Pre-Baroque style of painting and sculpture in Italy
characterized by elongated, distorted and exaggerated figures.
Pictorial space often crowded, complex or confusing
Parmagianino,Madonna with the Long Neck,
1534-40
Little guy
and this column is for what???
Quite a crowd
KEY IMAGE
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PontormoFlorentine, 1494 - 1556/1557Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544oil on panel, 102 x 78.9 cm (40 1/8 x 31 in.)
Mannerist portraits are often devoid of emotional connotation, but there is some exaggeration of physical features
Summary – Northern and Late Renaissance
• RELIGION/POLITICS – Reformation; much political & religious violence
• IDEAS – a skeptical Humanism
• ART – a realism of everyday life: PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES; oil painting, Mannerism
• MUSIC – conservative perfection (Palestrina) & new approaches (madrigals)
Anchor Dates1000 - Musical STAFF used for
- CHANT in the
- EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD in
- MONASTERIES1066 - BATTLE OF HASTINGS depicted in the
- BAYEUX TAPESTRY which we associate with
- FEUDALISM
1150 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
ARS NOVAAfter 1300
RENAISSANCE DATEBOOK1432 –
1492 – Columbus, Christian consolidation of Spain
c.1500 –
Donatello’s nude David
Michelangelo’s David & Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . Virgo Serena
REFORMATION
Josquin Ave Maria . . .
1500
Michelangelo
DonatelloDavid
Leonardo
Raphael
MichelangeloDavid
1400 1600
Renaissance timeline
The music of Palestrina is associated with
. the Counter-Reformation
. exquisite technique and contrapuntal control
. the late Renaissance
Text painting is
a. depictions of scenes from Biblical texts in art
b. short descriptions of paintings in captions in books
c. the depiction of the sense of sung words in musical gestures
d. short descriptions of paintings next to paintings in museums
(“word painting” in glossary)