Western art history and movements (Renaissance)

• Describe renaissance


  "Rebirth" of the classical styles of Greece and Rome
• When was the renaissnade developed?


  In the 14th century
• Enumerate the characteristics of the renaissance


  • Highly symmetrical with a progression toward the center
  • carefully proportioned
  • used linear perspective developed by Brunelleschi
  • Themes in art: biblical, mythological, historical
• Enumerate the masters of the renaissance

  • Donato di Niccoló di Betto Bardi (Donatello)
  • Michelangelo Buonarotti
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Rafael)
• Enumerate Modern and Contemporary art movements and their famous artists


  • Impressionism - Claude Monet
  • Post-Impressionism - Van Gogh
  • Dadaism - Marcel Duchamp
  • Surrealism - Andy Warhol
  • Photorealism - Chuch Close
  • Conceptualism - Ai Wei Wei
  • Performance Art - Yoko Ono
  • Installation ARt - Yayoi Kusama
  • Street ARt - Bansky
• Describe Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi


  • aka Donatello
  • He was an early renaissance sculptor
  • He was known to accurately show suffering, joy, and sorrow in faces and body positions. Figures were powerfully expressive.
  • He was also known for the sculptural style "rilievo schiacciato"
• What is 'rilievo schiacciato'?


  It is style of sculpting with extremely low relief (mura rag gi carve from a flat marble surface), incorporated perspective into sculpture
• what are the two works of Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi


  • The Ascension with Christ giving the Keys to St Peter
  • Penitent Magdalene
• The Ascension with Christ giving the Key to St Peter was sculpted through? and what style?


  Marble

  Rilievo Schiacciato
• Describe Michelangelo Buonarotti


  • often called the Divine One (Il Divino)
  • Primarily a sculptor, but was also a painter
  • Influenced the style called "mannerism"
  • Painting style was called "cangiante"
• Describe the painting style cangiante and who did that style.


  "to change". It is the technique of changing from he local hue to a different hue in highlight areas or in shadow areas.
• Canigante is done when?


  This is done when the local hue (when it is dark) cannot be made light enough for highlight areas or when the local hue (when it is light) can not be made dark enough for shadow areas without the resulting color getting muddied or dull.
• How did the painting style "cangiante" come about in speculations?


  This painting style may have come about because the pigments available at that time were severely limited (and many artists even made their own paints).
• What is this artwork and who?

  The Ascension with Chirst giving the keys to st peter

  marble

  rilievo schiacciato

  by Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

  
• What is this and who made it

  Penitent Magdalene (sorrowful Magdalene)

  by Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

  
• This artwork by Michelangelo Buonarroti took 4 years to complete


  Sistine chapel ceiling

  
• Famous works by Michelangelo Buonarotti both painting and sculpture


  The Creation of Adam

  Sistine chapel ceiling

  Moses

  Pieta

  David
• What is this and who made it

  The Creation of Adam

  Michelangelo Buonarotti

  
• What and who?

  Moses, Michelangelo Buonarotti

  
• What and who?

  Pieta, Michelangelo Buonarotti

  
• Describe Leonardo da Vinci


  • He is the Epitome of the Renaissane Man
  • His painting style is "sfumato"
• what is the sfumato painting style? who did it?


  Sfumato - "gone up in the smoke" no harsh outlines or borders; giving the smokey effect; mid tones dominate the palette.the technique of It is a technique that allows tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

  by: Leonardo da Vinci
• Prominent works of Leonardo da Vinci


  • Mona Lisa - sfumato technique
• Describe Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino


  • aka Rafael
  • Famous for his Madonnas
  • Painting style: "unione"
• What is the painting style of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino?


  "Unione" - a union of sfumato and belleza di colore. It also has soft shadows but retaining vibrancy of color
• Desribe Unione with examples


  Raphael's "Alba Madonna" (1510) (Washington National Gallery of ARt) is a combined sfumato and bellezza di color. Also his "Sistine Madonna" paiting.

  Example:

  Sfumato - Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna and Child with Saint (1507) at Paris, Lovre,

  Bellezza di colore - Michelangelo Buonarotti's Holy Family (1504) at Florence, Uffizi Gallery
• Prominent works of Rafaello Sanzio da Urbino


  Madonnas:

  • Alba Madonna (1510)
  • Sistine Madonna

  Fresco:

  • Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican city
  • Theology, Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Poetry
  • Cardinal and Theological Virtues
  • Disputation of the HOly Sacrament
  • Parnassus
  • School of Athens, fresco, Stanza della Segnatura