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Renaissance - Study Guide
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/10/2011

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The early Renaissance began in...

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Northern Italy (Florence)

c. 1400 - 1494

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The late Renaissance ran from...

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1495 - 1600

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The Renaissance lasted from...

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1400 - 1600

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Early Renaissance:

Painters and Sculptors

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Leonardo (painter)

Donatello (sculptor)

Brunelleschi (architect)

Masaccio (painter)

Botticelli (painter)

Ghiberti (sculptor)

 

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Leonardo is best known for...

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The Mona Lisa

The Last Supper

[science and technology] 

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Sfumato

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Leonardo's famous 3D style of painting

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Donatello's David...

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  • Sculpted in bronze
  • Clothed with hat and boots
  • His foot rests on the head of Goliath while brandishing Goliath’s sword.
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Masaccio is better known for...

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...his painting called Tribute Money

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Botticelli's paintings

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La Primavera

The Birth of Venus

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The Three Graces

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(Aglaia, Euthrosyne,Thalia)
Brilliance, Joy, Bloom
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Brunelleschi...

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 ...influenced renaissance artists and is best known for designing the Dome of Florence

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Ghiberti...

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...sculpted the "Gates of Paradise" or Baptistry doors over a 51 year period

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Masaccio's painting technique was called...

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Chiaroscuro - light and dark shading that produces a 3D effect

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Realism

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Leonardo's and Donatlello's sculpting style

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Prominent musicians from Flanders during the early Renaissance...

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Giles Binchois and Guilliame Dufay

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The Ordinary of the Mass

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  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo 
  4. Sanctus
  5. Angus Dei
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The late Renaissance artists were...

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Michelangelo

Raphael

Bramanté

Shakespeare

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Michelangelo

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Sculptures:

Pietas

David (marble, 18ft high)

Moses (bust only)


Paintings:

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

 

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Lorenzo di Medici...

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...took over the Di Medici Empire at the age of 25

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Martin Luther...

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 ...wrote the 95 theseswhich he placed on the door of Wittenberg chapel

 

 

 

 

 

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Josquin des Prez 

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Flemish composer during the late renaissance

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Andrea Gabrielli  

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Italian composer during the late renaissance

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The late Renaissance took place in the city of...

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Rome

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Painting on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel...

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The Last Judgement by Michelangelo
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