Thursday September 19th Bronzino Allegory of Venus and Cupid c 1545 London oil on panel All about artificiality elitist off putting provocative metaphorically and visually twisted Chronos God of time What on Earth might be happening behind it o All about confusion and disbelief of what we might be seeing Michelangelo Last Judgment Sistine Chapel 1536 41 He has been changing his style not the same as the Ceiling he had painted in earlier years The authority of the church is questioned everything is up for debate o More material temptations The energy of the composition o There is a huge void in the Middle and everything is pushed away A whirlwind of activity with a tangle of bodies Christ in the center the saved to the right the damned to the lef The legs are shorter and the heads are small the balance of bodies is really thrown off o Which is crazy because Michelangelo loved the human body so much Mary is unlike herself because she is cowering and helpless A very despairing pessimistic moment Michelangelo painted a self portrait on the skin of a saint Welcome to Venice Disegno vs Colore Everything is built around color the style is very distinct Poesia poesie poetry Poetry is considered the highest because you have to be literate and imaginative Poets were true intellectuals Girogione Giorgis da Castelfranco The Tempest c 1506 Oil on canvas Galleria dell Accademia Venice Our first painting on canvas canvas is much more light The fact that a painting can be portable means that it can be bought and sold much easier Indicative of a new thing call art collecting Things start to feel more familiar because this represents creativity and originality unlike the art before this time Not sure what the subject of this painting is o A storm seeming to form in the background o Everything comes from the color rather than a sharp clean line o A landscape outside of the city Quality of venetian painting o The figure on the lef looks like a soldier His clothing is very tattered Not very focused on his body both bodies pushed to the side The scales of the bodies are kind of off o The male is dressed and the female is nude which is common o The woman is nursing nude and on the ground bound to nature o The man is dressed and standing and his clothing signifies his status in a state of culture o The male female divide is the foundation for the representation of woman for the next 500 years or even longer Male men commission male painters to represent women nude Looking expresses power Titian Titiano Vecellio Pastoral Concert c 1510 oil on canvas Louvre Male and Female Nature and Culture The relationship between the men and the women is very unclear Raphael Madonna c 1505 The line is very clear in this picture Titian Venus of Urbino 1538 A nude woman lying on a bed looking over her shoulder come hither We call this poetry but there is no poetic text that justifies this picture La Donna Nuda was the original title Patron Duke of Urbino Venus The Goddess of love The figures in the background look like servants o They could be getting clothes out of the chest to dress her Another thought is that this could be a portrait for a wedding All women were being reduced to this idea to please a man Tuesday September 24 Existential Angst c 1500 Y 1 5 K Existential a word from philosophy existence Angst anxious nervous The Lutheran reformation 1517 Vesperbild c 1330 We don t know the name of the artist Vespers are evening prayers and bild means picture or image The subject is German in origin The bodies are tortured and the emotion has completely manipulated the appearance of the body The odies are not proportionate The bodies are twisted around Michelangelo Pieta c 1498 Much more beautiful The bodies are proportionate The figures are beautiful and regal Albrecht Duerer Adam and Eve 1504 He is the Michelangelo of the North He is a print maker o This is a print called an engraving The original copy is carved into a sheet of metal with ink The cool thing about this one is that it is mechanically reproducible He is conscious of what s going on in Italy and he s trying to make the North make sense He wants to be as good as the Italians but he is very proud of being from the North Tries to incorporate Italian ideas and Northern techniques There is a signature claiming ownership o This was not done at earlier times He signs in Latin o He did not actually know Latin Adam and Eve were based on classical sculptures o Venus Medici Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man The idea of a perfect man Matthias Gruenewald Isenheim Altarpiece c 1515 This was meant for a hospital that was specifically for Ergotism o An infection that you get from eating moldy rye bread o A terribly disfiguring illness with painful lesions all over your skin o Went to a hospital to die usually not to get better like we do today Huge and massive work of art Christ who is dying on the cross the virgin saint job the Baptist The predella on the bottom o The dead Christ o Painted to look like he is suffering from the same disease that the patients are suffering from o Suffering becomes meaningful because it is connected to Christ His suffering was connected to salvation therefore their suffering was connected to salvation The fingers are totally elongated and twisted On the inside things get better o Bursts of light and hope o An angel concert art historians don t know what do make of this o Scenes of joy on the inside o A beautiful scene with Mary and the baby Jesus o Christ is holding up his wounds to show the viewer that he died but rose again triumph Triumph over death injustice being killed for no reason Duerer Melancholia I 1514 Another word for sadness or depression Melancholia was considered a disease due to too much black vile inside of you In the renaissance the idea of this changes o Someone who is creative is also misunderstood and experiences a creative and intellectual frustration which leads to melancholy This was called a psychological self portrait Usually referred to in the feminine a feminine word All kinds of tools that would allow you to build something o A compass o A saw o Holding onto the compass but just fiddling with it o Having everything you need and not being able to do anything Representation of melancholy o Hourglass time is running out o Magic Square a square with numbers if you had the numbers in all the rows they all add up to 24 There is no purpose Massive figure with little tiny wings o Aspirations towards greatness not quite