art chapter 16

Trinity with the Virgin

-Painting by Masaccio -fresco -Linear Perspective to construct deep. -Triangular organization.

Sistine Chapel

A chapel adjoining Saint Peter's Basilica, noted for the frescoes of biblical subjects painted by Michelangelo on its walls and ceilings. The Creation is one of the notable subjects of the ceiling paintings, and the judgment day is depicted on the rear wall of the chapel. Michelangelo worked for 4 years.

The last Supper

A fresco painted by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus and his disciples at the moment Jesus announces that one of them has betrayed him. Restoration of the fresco has caused great controversy. Some art critics claim that the colors are now "too bright" and that Leonardo's original work ahs been mutilated. the restoration has been open to the public on a limited basis since 1999.

Allegory

A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. • Scholars have yet to reconstruct the message of this painting. • However, we can see that Venus and Cupid, who are mother and son, are displaying behavior saying they are in a different type of relationship.

Tres Riches Heures

A prayer book containing many illustrations depicting various aspects of life in the Middle Ages in Western Europe. The Book of Hours was a medieval book of hours, This was a collection of the text for each liturgical hour of the day. • This book contained a calendar and the page in the picture is the February page. • The title means, "the very rich hours."

The story of Jacob and Esau

Isaac inherited Abraham's position as patriach. The problem was he had twin boys: Jacob and Esau. Which son someday would take his position as patriach? It couldnt be divided. The older son should rightfully get the position. However, God wanted the younger son Jacob to get this position. Jacob was a story of conflict. It was surprising that God wanted Jacob to be Isaac's successor because he was a trickster. He was a trickster to his brother. He did alot of mean things. However, he was considered to carry one quality that was crucial to living out the covenant which was the determination, perseverance and never giving up attitude. He manage to prosper through life. He got married, had many children and grew very rich. Jacob did reconcile with his father and brother twenty years later. God renewed his covenant and changed his name to Israel.

Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals

It is a portraitist of Pope Leo X who was a passionate collector of books and manuscripts, and he eventually amassed a fine library. Standing beside him are two nephews he had elevated to the office of cardinal.

St. Mark Donatello

Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David., Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David

Madonna and Child with Saint Anne--figures in a triangular grouping

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1506. Use of sfumato to depict women in nature. Emphasis on Christ's humanity: genitalia + familial relationships. Devotional piece, not liturgical. • The three people are Saint Anne the grandmother of Jesus, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Jesus as a child. • The three are shown together like this to indicate the connected lineage of them. • Jesus holding the lamb symbolizes his future sacrifice. • The lamb was a sacrificial animal and Jesus is referred to as the Lamb of God. • The exchanged look says that they both know what the future holds, but Mary's hold on Jesus says: Yes, but not yet. • The dark tree is an allusion to the cross on which Jesus dies. • The rough and lifeless terrain in the background suggests the beginning of creation.

St. Mark statue is made of

Renaissance sculptures often created a full-scale model of a NUDE figure in CLAY, then draped clay-soaked linen about it to crate garment, arranging the folds before the fabric dried. This model was then copied in marble. Scholars believe that Donatello was one of the first sculptors to se this method.

Sant'Andrea in Mantua

The Basilica of Sant'Andrea is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral and minor basilica in Mantua, Lombardy (Italy). It is one of the major works of 15th-century Renaissance architecture in Northern Italy. Commissioned by Ludovico III Gonzaga, the church was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti on a site occupied by a Benedictine monastery, of which the bell tower (1414) remains. The building, however, was finished only 328 years later. Though later changes and expansions altered Alberti's design, the church is still considered to be one of Alberti's most complete works. It looms over the Piazza Mantegna.

Renaissance period

The greater artist were considered a BREED apart, constituting a class of their OWN that transcended the social class determined by birth--not nobility, not bourgeoisie, not clergy, but a separate and elite category of people respected not because of who they were but because OF what they could do. They live in the courts of the nobles and the popes, they moved freely in good society, their company was sought after their service in demand.

The Birth of Venus

The lady in the middle is Venus Zephyr the wind god and his wife are to Venus's right and a lady representing spring is to her left.

St. Mark statue

The state is placed in a niche, but unlike most architectural sculptures from the Middle Ages, it does not depend on this framework for support. Hater, the fully rounded figure stands independently in true contrapposto, the weight on the right leg, left leg bent. The shoulders compensate: right shoulder lower, left shoulder higher. The clothing responds to the form underneath. Where the left knee bends outward, the robe falls back; where the right arm is pressed to the body, the sleeve wrinkles. We sense that if St. Mark moved, the garments would move with him. The figure is a naturalistic as any ancient Greek statue, yet there is a stamp of individual personality in both face and body that may have come from Dnnattello's reading of Mark's Gospel.

The birth of Venus

This is the story of the birth of the Roman goddess, of love and beauty, Venus who was born in the sea. - part of humanism because it takes a classical look at Greek and roman mythology. By Sandro Botticelli. He is famous for painting delicate women. It is a painting on canvas in Florence for the medici family. This work by Botticelliestablished a long-lasting image of female beauty. Botticelli's best-known painting - one of the first of a full-length nude female since antiquity - which established an enduring image of female beauty

The Annunciation

This is the story of when the archangel Gabriel tells Mary that she has been chosen to bear the Son of God. • Several angelic creatures called cherubim are shown but have no identity. Mary the mother of Jesus is depicted as well as the archangel Gabriel. • The is an illuminated dove in the painting represents the Holy Spirit

The Tempest mens

approaching storm, which closes in dramatically over the city while the two foreground figures are still bathed in sunlight. The storm and the lush vegetation create a world in which nature dominates, not people, and the painting evokes a powerful, compelling mood of apprehension and anticipation.

The story of Jacob and Esau

made of gilt bronze part of a second set of doors at a cathedral in Florence. The fist set of door was for the baptistery on this cathedral.

Renaissance means

rebirth of greek and roman empire rebirth- marked a new beginning in arts and science

Trinity with the Virgin

the style of columns appears that both Ionic and Corinthia columns are depicted. The for most columns have what appears to be acanthus leaves carved into the capital, which is characteristic of Corinthian style. The other columns paper to have the volutes carved into the capital, which is characteristic of Ionic style Masaccio has arranged the figures in a stable triangle that extends from the head of God the father, who stands over the dead Christ,on either side of Christ, are Mary his mother and St. John the Evangelist, through the two donors who kneel to either side of the holy grouping and outside their scared space.

The Gates of Paradise

was a famous work from the Renaissances in the Cathedral of Italy. It was door of when good things were happening.

The Tempest

• Artist of the time and before would paint figures then paint the landscape around them. In this piece, the artist painted the landscape first and the figures later. Even the artist's contemporaries seem not to have known story he was depicting or to have been able to identify the nude woman nursing a child at right and the soldier (or shepherd) at left.

Isenheim Altarpice

• It originally hung in the chapel of a hospital devoted to the treatment of illnesses afflicting the skin, including syphilis. • Jesus is hung on the cross. To his right is his mother Mary being caught by St. John as she faints and Mary Magdalene is kneeling. To his left is John the Baptist.

Merode Altarpice

• Joseph the husband of Mary is in the right panel. Mary the mother of Jesus and the archangel Gabriel are in the middle panel. The people in the left people are the donors who commissioned the work and depicted as kneeling and witnessing the holy even. • The lilies on the table, the just-extinguished candle, and the white linen all point to Mary's purity. • A tiny figure carrying a cross heads towards Mary's right ear to indicate that Jesus will be conceive by will of God and not by impregnation by man. • Joseph is building a mousetrap which is symbolic of Jesus trapping the devil.

The Ambassadors

• On the left is the person who commissioned the work and was also the French ambassador to England. On the right is his friend Georges de Selve a French bishop who also served as an ambassador. • The table has objects on it representing the four humanist sciences of music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. The Islamic rug means there is a connection to the wider world. The globe speaks to European exploration and discovery. The lute has a broken string and the hymnal next to it is open to a hymn written by Martin Luther and these symbolize the discord created by Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. • The title is The Ambassadors and it means that these two people are accredited diplomats sent to be a representative of their country in a foreign country. • The painter's motto was, "remember you must die." The stretched skull which is visible up close and viewed at the right angle says that death cuts across life and shows itself by surprise.

The last Supper

• This is the last supper which is the story of Jesus just before he was arrested, tried, and executed on the cross. It is where he broke bread and gave it to his apostles as well as wine and the sacrament of Holy Communion comes from. • Jesus is in the center and the 12 apostles are at the table as well. All the apostles except Judas have light around their heads. • There are ghostly figures above representing witnesses from heaven. • Everyone else in the painting are servants and other people going about their lives.