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Robert Campin, Mérode Altarpiece, oil on wood panel, ca. 1425-28, Flemish. - Depicts the annunciations inside a flemish home.
- Common household objects as religious symbols
- Patrons present in left panel
- Realism of particulars.
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Masaccio, Trinity, 1425-27, fresco, Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence. - illusion of a stone funerary monument
- present are: Mary, John the evangelist, kneeling donors.
- Crypt reminds us that death awaits us all; redemption only through Christ.
- linear perspective
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Artist Unknown, Ideal City with Fountain and Statues of Virtue, c. 1500, oil on wood panel. - balanced and harmonious plaza
- precise linear perspective--well ordered civic life
- Roman Colosseum, Constantine's arch, Florentine Baptistry, fountain.
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Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and his wife Giovanna Cenami (?), 1434, oil on wood, Flanders. - wedding or betrothal
- symbolism
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Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, c. 1474-76, tempera and oil on wood, Flanders. - Painted in Flanders, then transported to Italy; believed to have influenced Florentine painters, such as Ghirlandaio.
- Patron and fam are present
- center: Nativity, Adoration of the new born child
- atmospheric perspective: distant objects painted w/ more muted colors.
- heavy symbolism
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1300-1600 in Europe - Continued growth of urban centers and a mercantile economy
- Rise in lay intellectual activity
- Change in the status of artists from craftsmen to intellectual
- Women’s legal rights are greatly restricted, esp. in Italy
- The philosophy and art of the classical world are studied and emulated
- Humanism: a new way of thinking!
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A worldview focused on human beings and their responsibilities and achievements
Education that perfected individuals through the study of past examples of civic and personal virtue Lives directed toward achieving both a common good and individual nobility
In order to achieve this, the study of Greek and Latin was necessary
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use of household or common objects to represent religious meanings. Ex. vase, flowers in Merode altarpiece. ( i just made this up, couldn't find a definition.) |
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A painted or carved panel or winged structure placed at the back of or behind and above an altar. Contains religious imagery, often specific to the place of worship. |
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multi-panel paintings. In most works there is a larger central panel called the "main panel", and the other panels are called "side-panels", and also "wings".
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the lower zone, or base, of an altarpiece, decorated w/ painting or sculpture related to the main iconographic theme. |
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a painting medium made by blending egg yolks w/ water, pigments, and sometimes other materials, such as glue. yum. |
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any painting executed on a wood support. A panel can consist of several boards joined together. |
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useing the technique of applying water-based pigments directly onto wet or dry plaster. |
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water-based pigments applied directly onto wet plaster. Color is absorbed by the plaster, becoming a permanent part of the wall. |
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any painting executed w/ pigments floating in oil. allows for greater ease of work: - Developed in Northern Europe
- slow drying--allows for more corrections
- great range of relative opaqueness of paint layers
- permits for high degree of detail and luminescence.
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linear perspective (scientific or Renaissance perspective) |
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mathematical system enabling artists to depict the visible world in a convincingly illusionistic way. - picture's surface is considered a flat plane, that intersected the viewer's field of visionat a right angle
- imaginary lines (called orthagonals) meet at a single vanishing point on the horizon
- extends pictoral space, into real space
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| Alberti's treatise On Painting |
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1435, Leon Battista Alberti codified mathematical perspective in this treatise. |
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Any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to the imagined picture plane. in LINEAR PERSPECTIVE: all orthogonals converge at a single vanishing point in the picture and are the basis for the grid. |
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formed by the implied meeting point of earth and sky. the Vanishing point or points are located on this line. |
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means "a day's work." Is the section of a fresco plastered and painted in a single day. |
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earlier layer than the intonaco, layed slightly coarsely to provide a key for the intonaco. |
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A reddish-brown ocher-like earth color pigment. It is used for the cartoon or underpainting for a fresco. It is composed of iron oxides, from a kind of clay or quartz called sinople.
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the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco wall painting is painted.
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