AH Chapter 22

sacra conversazione

holy conversation

Rome

major center for artistic development in the High Renaissance

architecture

massive columns supporting extremely narrow architraves which seem to break halfway with slipping triglyphs...keystones of the arches do not seem to have fully settled into place

Pyramid

one of the favorite compositional devices of painters of the High Renaissance

Veronese

painted elaborate pageants set in Classical architecture

Correggio

painted groups of soaring figures on the dome of Parma Cathedral that seemed to ascend through rings of clouds into the sky itself

poesia

painting meant to operate in a manner similar to poetry

High Renaissance painting

pyramid; figures are calm, dignified, relaxed naturalness...characterized by complete command of the techniques of linear perspective but subordinate them to the dramatic presentation of the image

Holy Office of the Inquisition

Church court that dealt with heretics

Pope Paul III

Initiated/convened the Council of Trent in 1545, formed to review controversial Church doctrines and instruct the faithful in the religion, which could be done by means of images. It was also a response to the Protestant Reformation

Perugino

Raphael's teacher

tintoretto

Student of Titian, painted in the style of Mannerism... Created dynamic compositions, often by means of swirling clouds and fitful light

Giorgione

Venetian artist interested in the poetic qualities of natural landscape

Titian

Venus of Urbino set the model for the reclining female nude that was to remain popular for many centuries

Ignatius Loyola

founder of the Jesuits. the Jesuits were especially successful in the ares of education and effective missionaries

Giulio Romano

architect who used Mannerist characteristics

Vasari

author of the Lives of the most eminent Painters, sculptors, and architects

Michelangelo

believed that the artist must proceed by first finding the idea locked in the stone and then releasing it by chipping away the stone

Paul III

commissioned Michelangelo's Last Judgment

Jacopo Pesaro

commissioned the Madonna of the Pesaro Family in gratitude for the successful expedition against the Turks

Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain

commissioned the Tempietto

Mannerist painting

crowded figures, ambiguous flattened space, clashing colos, and complex allegory...characterized by rigidity, angularity and artificiality...compositions are crowded with no clearly defined focal point.

isabelle d'este

daughter of the Duke of Ferrera, wife of Francesco Gonzaga, powerful woman in 16h century... developed Mantua court

Bramante

designed and created the Tempietto

Venice

dominant concern in art was color

terribilita

the sublime shadowed by the awesome and fearful. most often used to refer to Michelangelo

Raphael

used int he themes of philosophy, law, theology, and poetry in Stanza della Segnatura

Equestrian marcus Aurelius

was moved to the Campidoglio

Julius II

was the most important Roman patron of Michelangelo...commissioned ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

1517

year the protestant reformation began