THE RENAISSANCE: THE BEGINNING OF MODERN PAINTING Name:

Common Renaissance elements:

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2.

3.

THE TOP FOUR BREAKTHROUGHS:

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3.

4.

THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: THE FIRST THREE HALL-OF-FAMERS

Quattrocento: ____________________________

Masaccio: INNOVATIONS:

MAJOR WORK:

Donatello: contrapposto:

MAJOR WORK AND ITS IMPORTANCE:

Botticelli: INNOVATIONS:

MAJOR WORK:

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Dates for the High Renaissance: ___________________

LEONARDO DAVINCI

“Renaissance Man”:

Attributes of Leonardo:

Leonardo’s flaw:

Notes on Mona Lisa (use the cover and the sidebar on p. 34 for your information):

Notes on The Last Supper:

Subjects of Leonardo’s Notebooks:

MICHELANGELO: THE DIVINE M

Early childhood:

Patron who took Michelangelo into his Florentine court at age fifteen: _______________________

Michelangelo’s “harassing wife”: _____________________ his “sons”: _________________________

WHO PAID THE BILLS?

“patron” in French and Italian means __________________

Michelangelo worked for ____ years on a for the “warrior-pope” ___________; he called the commission a “tragedy”

THE SCULPTOR

Michelangelo described his _________________ technique as “liberating the figure from the marble that imprisons it”

His most famous Pietá (which means “__________”) was carved when he was ____ years old; the triangular composition is from

_______________; the face is from _____________ sculpture; the accurate anatomy is due to ____________ _____________.

THE PAINTER: THE SISTINE CHAPEL

The ceiling: ________ human figures, __________ tall, representing the ____________ and ___________ of man; painted in

less than ______ years virtually without assistance; _____________ square feet on a curved roof and a ______-high scaffold.

The altar wall: the Last _____________; finished _____ years after the ceiling; Christ is an avenging ___________, not a

Redeemer; _______ contorted figures; ________________ kneeled and begged God to forgive his sins when he saw it.

THE ARCHITECT

Supervised ________________ Basilica in Rome (NOTE: It is not a cathedral); believed

the “limbs of __________________are derived from the limbs of __________”;

designed the Campidoglio on the _______________ Hill in Rome by adding a building at

an awkward _____ angle and using a patterned __________ pavement because

proportion was “kept in the ______.”

RAPHAEL

Independent master at age _____ ; painted Vatican rooms (the Stanza della Segnatura)

including The School of ________ (pictured) at age _____; from Leonardo he learned

_____________ composition and _______________ (light and shadow); from

Michelangelo he adapted full-bodied, dynamic figures and ___________________ pose.

TITIAN: THE FATHER OF MODERN PAINTING

Titian dominated the art world in the city of ____________ for sixty years and used

strong __________ as his expressive device.

He covered his canvas with _______ for warmth and toned down his vivid hues with 30

or 40 layers of _________Titian established _______ on _________ as a medium; after

his wife died his colors became __________ ; as his sight failed his brushstrokes became

____________.

THE VENETIAN SCHOOL

Artists in __________ focused on sculptural forms and epic themes; artists in

____________ on color, texture and mood______________ was the first master of oil

and integrating figure and landscape; ______________ aroused emotion throughlight

and color as in The Tempest; ________________ and _______________ continued

large-scale deep-colored theatricality;the _____________ painter Tiepolo and the

_______________ painters Guardi and Canaletto carried on the tradition

ARCHITECTURE IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Alberti was the Renaissance’s major _________________ who urged artists to study

history, poetry and ______________; wrote the first systematic guide to

____________________ and rules for ideal human ____________________.

Brunelleschi’s skills:

He championed _______________ plan church; designed a dome for Florence’s

______________ by building two supporting___________ and crowning it with a

_____________; used _______________ _____________ as Pazzi Chapel decorations.

Bramante built the _____________ (“Little Temple”), a harmonious central-domed

church, where ___________ was crucified.

Palladio wrote Four Books on __________________, which influenced neo-classicists

Jefferson and Wren (St. Paul’s Cathedral).

Classical elements of the Villa Rotunda:

THE FOUR R’S OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

ROME:

RULES:

REASON:

‘RITHMETIC:

THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

Beginning date and countries:

Inspiration: Italians: _____________________ Northern Renaissance: ____________________

Story about Charles VI of France:

New medium and its effect on art:

Italian Renaissance art vs. Northern Renaissance art

SPECIALITY

STYLE

SUBJECTS

FIGURES

PORTRAITS

TECHNIQUE

EMPHASIS

BASIS OF ART

COMPOSITION

The Low Countries and main art cities: _____________________________________________________________________

JAN VAN EYCK

Inventor of oil painting: ______________________

Typical characteristics of Jan van Eyck’s paintings:

Characteristics of Arnolfini Wedding:

HIERONYMOUS BOSCH

Characteristics of Bosch’s art:

Twentieth century artists who saw Bosch as their forerunner: __________________________

PIETER BRUEGEL

Influence of Bosch: _________________________________________________

Subjects of Bruegel’s work: ______________________________, ____________________________

genre: ____________________________________ atmospheric perspective: ___________________________

THE GERMAN RENAISSANCE

HOLBEIN: PRINCELY PORTRAITS

Reason Holbein went to England:

King for whom he was court painter: _____________________; he painted _____________ of his wives

Subject and aspects of The French Ambassadors:

DÜRER: GRAPHIC ART

“The _______________ of the North”; “Art stands firmly fixed in __________________.”

Painted __________________; the earliest was at age ___________________

First to use ____________________ as a major art medium, as in The Four

________________ of the __________________.

MAKING PRINTS: THE INVENTION OF GRAPHIC ARTS

WOODCUTS: Method and other information:

Artists involved in revival: ____________________________________________

ENGRAVING: Method:

intaglio:

burin:

MANNERISM AND THE LATE RENAISSANCE

Problem between the High ________________ and the Baroque and its solution:

Historical disorder during 16th century:

Origin of name “Mannerism”: _______________________________________________

Mannerist composition:

Mannerist bodies:

Mannerist color:

Tintoretto, The Last Supper:

LIFE ON THE EDGE

Rosso:

Pontormo:

THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: __μ______ __________)

Birth and first training:

Influences after coming to Venice:

Final city:

Aspects of work:

BEAUTY SECRETS OF THE SPANISH LADIES: