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Art History Test #1
Renaissance Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
03/05/2012

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Disegno
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Define:Tuscan artists like Michaelangelo used this. It's a focus on design and line
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Michaelangelo's Holy Family
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Colorito
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Define:
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What do we know about Fransiscans?
Definition
Blue collar,
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Gioto
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Piera della San Francesca
Definition
was a mathematician
his paintings are known for their humanism
The Legend of the True Cross in __________church
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Perspective
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One-point linear perspective
Definition
a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally that radiate from one point.

2 sets of lines, transversals and orthogonals (verticals), a vanishing point,

Brunelleschi invents perspective in 1413
Used in Masaccio's TRINITY---1426--Santa Maria Novella in Florence
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Title: TRINITY
Artist: Massachio
1426
Location: Santa Maria Novella: Florence
Definition
Mary on the left side, John the Evangelist (on the opposite side of Mary), Berti and his wife who commissioned the painting...

This painting reinforces the idea of family..mother mary, brother john the evangelist...and reminds those in the church that life is fleeting, death is imminent...preaches the iconic message

The message of the father, son, and holy spirit (dove)
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Adoration of the Magii
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Vasarian Paradigm
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the process by which Vasari gave value to art

significance:Vasari is the first historian of Italian art and he provides a timeline for Renaissance art.
example:
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Difference btwn gothic and renaissance art?
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Enthroned Madonna with Saints
Giotto; 1310
Church of Ognissanti, Florence?
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Giotto's "Enthroned Madonna With Saints" connects her with us through her physicality, something that is very Renaissance.

His style was a big change. There was a 3D throne, it had dimension with people and there were folds in the fabric on Mary
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Adoration of the Magi
Gentile da Fabriano
1423
Uffizi in Florence
Definition
This painting is a great example of continuous narrative, bc the wise men are shown throughout the panel doing various things..there's not just one scene in the panel, and this doesn't mean there are more than 3 wisemen, they are just depicted repeatedly.
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Birth of Venus
Botticelli
1483
Uffizi
Definition
Woman in the clam shell, covering her crotch

Neoplatonism-contemplation of physical beauty allows you to understand spiritual beauty
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Timeline of the works of art
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