Western Art Part 1:

• Middle Ages - it is the period between the decline of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.
• Church - most important products of the early Middle Ages
• The printing press came later after the Middle Ages, so copies of the scriptures were done by hand.
• Middle Age art can be divided up into three main periods and styles: Byzantine Art, Romanesque Art, and Gothic Art.
• Middle Ages was religious art with Catholic subjects and themes
• Middle ages was religious art with catholic subjects and themes
• Middle ages artist:

  1. Donatello
  2. Giotto di Bondone
  3. Benvenuto di Giuseppe
  4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• Donatello- italian sculpture who made statue od David, Mary Magdalene, and Madonna
• Bondone- artwork: Padua's Scrovegni Chapel
• Giuseppe- also known as Cimabue
• Giuseppe- well-known for his painting and mosaic
• Lorenzetti - artwork of allegory of good and bad government
• Renaissance - period of European cultural, artistic, political, and economic "rebirth."
• Early Renaissance - classical artist focusing on symmetry and perfect form
• High renaissance - perspective and space gave the art even more realism
• Baroque Period - theme: Expansion
• Bondone - emotional intensity
• Massacio- trajectory of Western art
• Michaelangelo- he was part of the revival of classical greek and roman
• Da vinci - renaissance man
• Perspective of Depth- three-dimensional perspective
• Expansion- central theme of baroque period
• Baroque period- use of dramatic lighting and concept of time
• barocco - portugese term "irregular shaped pearl"
• Vivaldi - an italian baroque composer
• Corelli- italian vionelist
• Giovanni - bring a modern secular spirit into church music
• Johann Bach - known such as Celo suites
• George Handel - german-british baroque composer known for his operas
• Classical Block style- features a rectangular or square plan with a flat roof
• Romanticism - highlited heroic elements
• Romanticism - emphasizes, emotions and feelings of man
• French Revoluion- one of the major revolution in history
• Romanticism- theme: goodness of manking
• Sky is another important element shaping the mood of landscape paintings
• Realism - depict real life events
• Realism- influenced by hellenistic greek culture; emphasis human body
• realism- focuses on accuracy and mirror reality
• gleaning- bits of grain that were left behind to take home for food