Slide IDs (10) Ar#st/Architect Title Culture/Stylis#c Period Cultural Significance Sec3on II: Chronology (3) Place Slides in Proper Chronological Order. Sec3on III: Essay (2) Study your major themes Good to Know… Exam Date: Tuesday Feb. 28, 9:30-‐10:45 The mid-‐term is worth 25% of your final grade. Full study guide is on Blackboard under “Study Guides.”
1. Proto-‐Renaissance c. 1270-‐1400 2. Early Northern Renaissance c. 1400-‐1500 3. Early Italian Renaissance c. 1400-‐1500 4. High Italian Renaissance c. 1490-‐1600 5. Mannerism c. 1530-‐1560 6. High Northern Renaissance c. 1500-‐1600 7. Baroque c. 1600-‐1700
with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centered at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square figure may be found from it. For if we measure the distance from the soles of the feet to the top of the head, and then apply that measure to the outstretched arms, the breadth will be found to be the same as the height.” – Vitruvius, De Architetura, Book III, Ch. I, Sec3on 3 Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1490.
block of marble does not poten3ally contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate this image.” Michelangelo, David, 1501-‐1504.
History • Seculariza3on Examples: • Marie de Medici – Rubens (mythological, poli3cal) • Enrico Scrovegni – Arena Chapel (Gioko) • Davids of Florence • Effects of Good/Bad Gov’t
decadent, frivolous, and distrac3ng), secular images, less religious images. • Counterreforma3on: Art as Educa3on, Miracles, Mys3cism, Emo3on, Drama, Examples: • Reforma3on: Return of the Hunters – Bruegel, Rembrandt –Night Watch, S3ll Life with the Tazza (Claesz), • Counterreforma3on: Bernini’s David, St. Teresa in Ecstasy,
Bap3stery Doors of Florence Cathedral, 1401-‐1402. Lorenzo Ghiber3, Sacrifice of Isaac, compe33on entry for the Bap3stery Doors of Florence Cathedral, 1401-‐1402.