the complete study guide for art history

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TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED :

LATE GOTHIC/EARLY RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH:EARLY NETHERLANDISH PAINTING.

This double title refers only to the North :

Major artists: The Master of FlemalleJan/Hubert van EyckRogier van der WeidenConrad Witz

Major innovations that will impactItalian paintiug:

Oil-based paint: before oil based paint

1 Supernatural event transferred from a symbolicsetting to

contemporary domestic interior:

ex. *The Annunciation - The Master of Flemalle, takespalace in a northern middle class home,instead of a ambiguous symbolic setting (somebiblical shit)

ex. *The Crucifixion - Jan van Eyck, takes place in analpine area with mountains has medieval houses inthe background

2 Disguised Symbolism: subtle symbolism that alwaysinvolves the Virgin Mary

3 Vanitas: referring the brevity of lifeex. *The Engagement - Jan van Eyck, the mirror on the

back wall represents vanitas


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4 Atmospheric perspective: the further into thedistance you go the

more the colors fade.

ex * The Crucifxion

5 Landscape portrait: you're able to identify specificgeological

features that exist in real life. boom.

6 Transparency of water: * The Miraculous Draw of Fish-

Roger van der Wieden, this was the first understandingof the

transparency of water, apparently.

EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: FLORENCE 1410-1450SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING

Major artists:

Sculpture: Florence: Donatello, Ghiberti

Architecture: Brunnelleschi

Painting: Masaccio, Domenico Veneziano, Piero DelllaFrancesca

Andrea Del Castagno

Innovations:

1 Linear Perspective------Brunnelleschi


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2 Continous Narrative-----Donatello

3 First instance of full understanding of weightshiftsince

Classical Antiquity--------Donatello

4 Flattened-out relief---------Donatello

5 Sacred Conversation format -------veneziano

6 Fresco cycle------Masaccio, Della Francesca

EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: FLORENCE,ROME,

VENICE1450-1500: ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE,

PAINTING

Major Artists:Architecture, Leone Battista Alberti

Sculpture: Andrea Del Verrocchio Painting: Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino,

Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini

Innovations:

1 Application of Classical architectural elements to anon-classical structure, --------Alberti

- 2 The introduction of the Nude Venus inher appropriate Clasical context, ------Botticelli

3 Fresco painting of the walls of the

Sistine Chaopel, St. peters Bacilica, Rome. --Perugino

4 Worms eye view------------Mantegna

HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: MILAN, ROME:,VENICE


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PAINTING, Sculpture

Architecture

Major Artists:Painting: Milan: Leonardo Da Vinci , Rome:

Michelangelo, Raphael

Architecture: Rome: Michelangelo, DonatoBramante,

Painting: Venice : Giorgione, Titian

Innovations: Leornado:

1 Chiaroscuro (light and shadow), Leonardo da Vinci

2 Sfumato, Leonardo

3 New portrait format, --Leonardo

4 Sculptures in Action-in -repose-----Michelangelo

FRIDAY FFBRUARY 22 ND MIDTERM EXAM

March 3 to March 17 NO CLASSES

HIGH RENAISSANCE CONTINUED:

Painting: Rome :

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Fresco,Vatican, St. Peters Bacilica-------Michelangelo

Fresco Cycle in the Room of the Signatures Vatican,St.


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Peters Bacilica------Raphael

Architecture:

The Capitoline Hill,-----Michelangelo

The Dome of St. Peters Bacilica----Michelangelo

Painting: Venice:Giorgione:

Introduction of the lyrical landscape as

backgroundfor for Venetian painting,Stylistic format for the new subject:

The Reclining Nude to be completed by Titian

Use of a monochromatic palette --------Titian

MANNERISM IN ITALY AND SPAIN:

Painting:

Italy: Florence

Major Artists:Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Parmigianino, Bronzino,Tintoretto

Spain:

El Greco

Reaction to the perfection of the High RenaissanceMasters:

elongated figures, strange colour combinations,distortions, no

central point of the composition


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BAROQUE IN ITALY AND SPAIN:Painting, Architecture, Sculpture

Major Artist: Painting: Rome: Caravaggio Architecture, Sculpture: Bernini

Spain:Painting: Velazquez

Innovations:

Religious subjects presented in every day settting

made visibleonly through the use of lightelevation of ordinary objects into a higherlevel by s specific use of light

Baroque in Flanders and Holland

Major Artists:Painting: Flanders: Peter Paul Rubens

Holland

Painting: Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Vermeer,Willem Claesz

Innovations: Flanders:

Rubens--Church comissions

1 Combination og Italian High renaissance art withlocal

traditional subjectmatter---

2-Very large scale paintings.


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3 Artists workshop

Holland

No church comissions:large number of art centers: Increase in ssubject

matter, styles andartists.

1 Group portraits

2Genre paintings

3 Still Life paintings

ROMANTICISM : FRANCE, SPAIN, ENGLAND

, Major artists:Painting: Spain: Francisco Goya

Painting, France: Theodore Gericault, Eugenedelacroix

England

Painting: Constable, Turner

Major innovationsBreak with traditional History painting:Current political scandalous subjects without a hero

Development of a strong landscape tradition

REALISM France

Major Artists: Painting: Gustave Courbet,

Eduard Manet(does not belong toa specific category),

Innovations:


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Ordinary everyday subject treated on the scale oftraditional History

painting,

Salon des Refusees,---- established for the exhibitionof the paintings

refused by the traditional Exhibition Salon

Modern Parisian life activities, ---Manet

Fight for Artistic freedom------Whistler

IMPRESSIONISM: FRANCE

Major Artists: Painting: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas

Out doors painting,

break with traditional use of space, and viewpoints,

snapshot quality

POST-IMPRESSIONISM: FRANCE

Major Artists: Painting: Paul Cezanne, VincentVan Gogh, PaulGauguin

Term Post Impressionism used for artists thathave passed

through the Impressionist phase and thenmoved beyond in

various directions

APRIL 26 LAST DAY OF CLASSES

APRIL 29-MAY 6TH JURY WEEK------no classes


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MAY 6 -MAY 10 FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK

MONDAY MAY 6 FINAL EXAM

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