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Renaissance Art

Terms in this set (45)

Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait (oil)
Michelangelo, David (freestanding marble)
Donatello, David (freestanding bronze)
Raphael, The School of Athens (fresco)
Leonardo, La Joconde (oil)
Durer, Knight, Death, and the Devil (copper engraving)
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus (tempera)
Brunelleschi, Duomo of Florence
Ghiberti, "The Gates of Paradise" (gilded bronze relief)
Michelangelo, Pieta (niche marble)
Leonardo, The Last Supper (wall painting)
Brueghel, The Hunters in Snow (oil)
Durer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (woodcut)
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling (fresco)
Durer, Self-Portrait (oil)
Michelangelo, Raphael, and others, Saint Peter's Basilica
Holbein, Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam (oil)
Michelangelo, The Last Judgment (fresco)
Michelangelo, Moses (niche marble)
Fontana, Portrait of a Lady with a Lap Dog (oil)
Brueghel, The Fight between Carnival and Lent (oil)
Francesca, Double Portrait (of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino (tempera)
Memento mori
An icon that is a reminder of our mortality
Iconography
In art, the study of symbols and images
Zeitgeist
German phrase loosely translated as "spirit of the times"; for our purposes, please remember that art is not created in a historical vacuum...instead, art is a window into the values and ideas of the society from which it emerges
Perspective
Name for the technique by which artists create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface; also, consider the many ways by which artists are able to achieve perspective in art
Gothic (medieval) architecture
Characterized by tall spires, large stained-glass windows, dark interiors, ornate exteriors, vertical lines, pointed arches, flying buttresses; overall purpose was to lift one's thoughts heavenward
Renaissance architecture
Characterized by domes, small round windows, horizontal lines (this world is important = secularism), rounded arches, vaults, and columns; inspired by Greco-Roman architecture; Renaissance architecture demonstrated that humans and their world were important
Types of sculpture
Relief vs Niche vs Freestanding
Medieval (Gothic) painting
Religious themes dominated; paintings were flat = very little depth or perspective; lack of realism in human subjects; the artist viewed as an artisan and not individually important; gold backgrounds; halos; use of tempera paints (binding agent is egg yolk), key patrons typically the RCC and the aristocracy
Renaissance painting
Known for its artistic realism (or naturalism); religious and secular themes and subject matter; use of oil paints (why?), portraiture (focus on the individual), key patrons include the RCC, aristocracy, and wealthy middle class merchants; focus on the human body (especially the nude in the Italian Renaissance) and non-human details (in the Northern Renaissance)
Fresco
Mural paintings on wet lime plaster; paint is typically water-based
Vitruvius
Roman architect and author of De Architecura (remember his book was "rediscovered" by Poggio Bracciolini in a monastic library in Switzerland in 1414 CE and read by the Italian Renaissance architect Brunelleschi)
Chiaroscuro
Italian for "light-dark"; when the artist uses strong contrasts between light and dark to give the composition a sense of depth
Columns (Doric/Ionic/Corinthian)
Durer, Melencolia I (copper engraving)
Holbein, Portrait of Sir Thomas More (oil)
Durer, Saint Jerome in his Study (copper engraving)
Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter (fresco)
Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II (oil)
Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione (oil)
Anguissola, Portrait of Philip II (oil)
Notre Dame Cathedral (Paris)
Form
The way a work of art looks (size, shape, colors, materials, composition):
Content
What a work of art is about; the subject matter of a work of art:
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