ARTS 150 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Lectures 1 10 Class days 2 11 Review Images to know slide piece name location period Key terms Media and Techniques People artists and patrons Time Periods Answers to practice exam Lecture 1 Class 2 September 3 6 10 Cathedral of Notre Dame of Chartres France Gothic period i ii iii iv Houses the tunic supposedly worn by Mary when she gave birth to Jesus Rounded Arches earlier styles Roman vs Pointed Arch gothic narrower pointed arch did a better job of pushing the weight out and down into the ground They could be built higher than rounded arches Nave Cathedral of Notre Dame in Chartes c 1200 1250 France Gothic a The nave is 121 ft high and its construction is a ribbed groin vault Flying buttress supports the height of the building from the sides A column is built next to the building and is then connected to the main building via an arch These arches make the building more stable as well as create a complex surface on the outside 13 Rose Widow Cathedral of Notre Dame of Chartres France Gothic period 15 16 Prophets and Kings and Queens of Judea Cathedral of Notre Dame of Chartres France Gothic period i ii 4 500 freestanding sculptures on the cathedral The bodies of the sculptures are very stiff but also have a sense of weightlessness there is no indication of their weight in the way their bodies rest on their pedestals Lecture 2 Class 3 September 5 5 6 Palazzo della Signoria and Loggia dei Lanzi Florence late Medieval early Renaissance i Courthouse and public square contains art work for public display 9 Anonymous Byzantine Christ in Majesty ii Flat no depth 11 Cimabue Virgin Enthroned Giotto i shading becomes subtler art takes on a more natural appearance Virgin Enthroned Florence e Renaissance i depth is being incorporated shading occlusion to show depth overlapping 12 Giotto Scrovegni or Arena Chapel e Renaissance 14 Giotto Lamentation from Scrovegni Chapel e Renaissance i first time people are shown in a crowd where they aren t unrealistically arranged so that you can see all their faces 17 18 19 Lorenzetti Allegory of Good Government e Renaissance i ii iii iv city shows some attempt at depth business and trade being freely conducted angel is the allegorical figure some naturalism Lecture 3 Class 4 September 8 5 7 Andrea Pisano Life of St John the Baptist Baptistery doors Florence Cathedral e Renaissance i Figures beginning to have weight and fluidity 12 13 Limbourg Bros January l and February r from the Tr s Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry e Northern Renaissance i Figures in art are still flatter but have greater detail 15 Buxheim St Christopher and woodcut technique e Northern Renaissance i Carve away all that won t be printed 16 Martin Schongauer Demons Tormenting Saint Anthony and intaglio printing engraving technique e Northern Renaissance ii ink is laid in the grooves carved into a sheet of metal 17 Moveable Type Printing and the Gutenberg Bible i Allowed for the bible to be mass produced and sold cheaply commoners able to have copies and read for themselves 18 Finding the Unicorn at the Fountain tapestry Flanders e Northern Renaissance ii Unicorn symbolizes Jesus fables told that only a virgin could successfully find approach a unicorn it s referencing to Mary iii Message you could go through Mary to reach Jesus with your prayers 19 Jan van Eyck Arnolfini Double Portrait Flanders e Northern Renaissance i Figures have more weight woman is doll like because it was frowned upon to have female models ii darker coloring than main renaissance trends has incorporation of shadows for depth Lecture 4 Class 5 September 10 3 5 Jan and Hubert van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece closed and open e Northern Renaissance i ii iii iv Closed Gabriel coming to Mary Open Adam and eve God on a throne sacrificial lamb symbolizing jesus Human figures becoming more anatomically correct women still look like dolls Northern art is more modest 9 Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore dome by Brunelleschi Florence middle Renaissance i Unable to build the dome till Brunelleschi 15 Brunelleschi Ospedale degli Innocenti Orphanage Florence middle Renaissance i Simple and elegant columns and arches 17 Andrea della Robbia Infant in Swaddling Clothes 1487 Ospedagle delgi Innocenti Florence glazed terracotta middle Renaissance 18 Palazzo Medici Riccardi exterior and interior Florence middle Renaissance i Where the Medici family lived they were patrons of the arts and had an interior courtyard with sculptures 21 Donatello David Florence orig in courtyard of Palazzo Medici Riccardi Florence middle Renaissance i Figure is in contrapoasto the full frontal nudity would ve been shocking at the time 25 27 Ghiberti East doors Jacob and Esau Baptistery of Florence Cathedral Florence middle Renaissance i incorporates continuous narration where multiple scenes from a single story are in the same panel ii the bodies are much more naturalistic appearance when compared to the south doors by Andrea Pisano Lecture 5 Class 6 September 12 4 Masaccio Trinity Florence middle Renaissance i ii iii iv v shows father God son Jesus who is on the cross and holy spirit dove the father is behind his son ready to raise him up from death makes the miracles of the church more believable to the congregation musculature is detailed shows that the artist really studied human form tomb underneath skeleton is highly detailed artist had access to one a conveys that everyone will die if you made good choices you too will go to heaven 7 9 Masaccio Expulsion from Eden and Tribute Money Florence middle Renaissance i ii iii there is a window across from painting that allows light to hit the image he uses the windows as his figurative light source for the shadows on his painting makes it highly realistic For the first time with Masaccio men stand on their feet tax collector especially really seems to have his weight on his feet Continuous narrative realistic depth 11 Pollaiuolo Hercules and Antaeus Florence middle Renaissance i ii Everyone is fighting everyone in Italy at this time not all art has to have Christian ties now sculpture is dynamic sort of out if context with Renaissance shows great understanding of body in the action pioneering In the Medici collection 12 Pollaiuolo Battle of the Ten Nudes engraving intaglio printing middle Renaissance i nudity is to show knowledge of Greco Roman art and of the physiology of the body the bodies form almost a catalog of positions lots of carnage more a demonstration of his