Adoration of the Shepherds - El Greco

-Use of chiaroscuro

-Religious piece: shephards admire the newly born Jesus

-Note distoration of the bodies

Arnolfini Wedding - Jan van Eyck

-Note important symbolism of the objects around the room

Birth of Venus - Botticelli

-Note controposto

The Tribute Money - Masaccio

-Apagorical: tells a story from the gospel of Matthew

-Jesus tells Peter he will find a coin in a fishes mouth to pay their taxes with

-Seems like you could walk a circle around Jesus

David - Donatello

-Controposto

-Shows off the human body

The Last Supper - Leonardo da Vinci

-Controposto

-Lines all lead to Jesus

Pieta - Michelangelo

-Jesus & Mary post crucifixion

-Carved his name across Mary's chest

Detail from the Sistine Chapel - Michelangleo

-Located on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

-Painted lying down

-The Creation

School of Athens - Raphael

-Plato & Arestotle

-Raphael is one of the faces of the scholars

^Reflects pride and vanity

Villa Rotunda - Palladio

-Most famous architect

-Building is completely symmetrical

-Rotunda refers to the circular room in the middle (location of the dome)

-*Palladio majorly inspired Jefferson

The Swing - Jean-Honoré Fragonard

-Rococo Art

Descent from the Cross - Rubens

Ecstasy of St. Theresa - Gian Lorenzo Bernini

-Gold background meant to look like light shining down

Judith Beheading Holofernes - Artemisia Gentileschi

-Religious painting

Madame de Pompadour - Francois Boucher

-Rococo Art

-Bracelet on wrist has picture of her lover, Louis XV

Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci

The Feast of St. Nicholas - Jan Steen

The Meeting - Jean-Honoré Fragonard

-Rococo Art

The Nightwatch - Rembrant van Rijn

-Light leads you to the men in the center and the little girl on the left

• Also known as Early Christian (Pre-Renaissance)
• Rich use of color and figures
• Figures flat and stiff
• They seem to float
• Background golden or toned (may use real gold leaf)

• Oil on a stretched canvas
• Perspective (overlap, linear, aerial)
• Chiaroscuro
• Pyramid configuration

• Distinctive traits (idiosyncrasy)
• Sought to represent an ideal of beauty instead of natural images of it
• Used characteristic distortion and exaggerated human proportions/perspective

• Four main traits: lights, lines, realism and naturalism, and time
• Contrasts in lighting were used for a dramitic effect
• Realism and naturalism were used to depict details of everyday life

• Sculptures were realistic instead of idealistic
• ^more freedom to sculpt human emotion
• Perfection is a big aspect
• Works became more complicated

• Glorified human beings as the most important creatures in the universe
• Symbolized people's pride in city-states
• Expressed ideals of harmony, balance, order, and moderation
• Combined beauty and usefulness