ch. 10 fine arts

age of discovery

15th and 16th centuries Portuguese and Spanish navigators explored Africa and Asia and the Americas

Santa Trinita Madonna

Madonna and child Enthroned painted Cimabue

Ognissanti Madonna

Madonna and child Enthroned painted by Giotto, c. 1310 for Church of______________, Florence

Biagio da Cesena

Master of ceremonies under Pope Paul third, lampooned as Minos judge of the damned with ass's ears and Michelangelo's last judgment for Sienna's disrespect for the work

creation of Adam

Michelangelo's most famous Sistine ceiling fresco God's finger giving Adam the spark of life

last judgment

Michelangelo's ultra while fresco for the Sistine chapel late Renaissance style

Contrapposto

Natural stance of a human at rest with titled pelvis and one knee slightly bent

atomospheric perspective

use of atomos favorite transparency or haziness to show depth into a two-dimensional artwork. farther objects hazier in details especially if there is missed or dust in the air use somewhat an antiquity but most delicately developed in the 15th century.

Pope Julius II

Giuliano Della Revere, the warrior Pope nephew of Pope Sixtus iv commissioned the rebuilding of St Peters and Michelangelo's Sistine chapel ceiling

Raphael

Rafaello Sanzio a greatest artist contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci famous for his use of unione, died young

aerial perspective

use of color to show depth in a two-dimensional artwork further objects are blower in color use some what an Antiquity, but most delicately developed in the 15th century.

Cangiante

use of different colors for shading and painting another canonical mode of Renaissance painting Michelangelo was the Great Master.

Cangiante

use of different colors for shading and painting another canonical mode of Renaissance painting Michelangelo was the greatest master.

Annunciation

when the angel Gabriel formed Mary she was to Bear a son, favorite artistic subject

Latin cross

a Christian cross in which the bottom arm is longer than the others

Greek cross

a Christian cross with four arms of equal length

Jacob Arcadelt

a Franco Flemish composer active in Florence in mid 16th century celebrated for his madrigals.

Bouffons

a choreographed simulated sword fight the most complicated and only performance dance in Orchesographie

Fugitive Color

a color made with a pigment that fades changes or degrades over time or exposure to light

Pavane and Galliard

a common Renaissance dance pairing, processional dances slow duple and fast triple meter

Lunette

a crescent moon shaped space and in the Sisitine chapel containing ancestors of Christ

Cimabue

a late medieval Italian painter teacher of Giotto

Mannerism

a light Renaissance painting style moving toward Baroque features: turbulent motion, distorted proportions and posters, chiaroscuro; less pronounced then in Baroque works

procession of the Magi

a painting guy does only for the medical family chapel depicting the travel of the three wise men

Neoplatonism

a philosophy developed in the Renaissance reconciling Christian theologically with ancient philosophy

Branle

a popular Renaissance circle dance standard set of four plus dozens of mimed branles

golden section or radio

a proportion such that the proportion between the larger division of a line and the whole equals the proportion of the smaller division to the larger one: a/ (a+b)=b/a that is 1 :1.618:1 slightly less than 2/3 and irrational number that mysteriously gives a sense of grace and beauty and artistic creations

aedicula

a small shrine like a two-legged table under St Peter's that may Mark St Peter's Grave

Spandrel

a space with straight and curved sides in the Sistine chapel containing ancestors of Christ

obelisk

a tall tappering square pillar topped with a pyramid used as a monument in Egyptian architecture

Pilaster

an architectural reinforcement similar to a buttress in function, but with the appearance of a column embedded in the wall.

linear perspective

an illusion of three dimensional space in a two-dimensional work attempted beginning in antiquity the precise geometry devised in the 15th century by Filippo Brunelleschi described in book by Leon Battista Alberti

circus

ancient Roman stadium shaped like an interligated letter u

Donato Bramante

and alien Renaissance architect first to make a substantial progress on the new St Peter's basilica

colossal order

architectural device first described by Alberti in which a large "_______"________or row of calms or pilasters of two or more storeys inserted between columns or pilasters of half or lesser length around windows or doors of each storey.

Thoinot Arbeau

author of Orchesographie, a pen name, and anagram on Jehan Tabbourot, the author

david

biblical figure depicted in statues by Donna Taylor Michaelangelo and Bernini

Johannes Gutenberg

inventor of movable type other printing innovationsbegin math book production, increase readership and literacy, beginning and c. 1439

castel Sant Angelo

medieval castel of the popes developed from mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian

vanishing points

one or more focal points for the geometry of linear perspective to create the illusion of depth

birth of Venus

painting by Botticelli female nude pagan goddess on classical models controversial

adoration of the Magi

painting by botticelli of the three wise men kneelingbefore the child of Christ

Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel

pilgrimage chapel in Padua built as penance but usurer Enrico including the life of the Virgin The Life of Christ and passion of Christ

Giotto

regarded by some as the first residence painter student of Cimabue

Musical Imitation

repetition of a melodic in several voice parts in pairs or throughout one at a time

Giovanni Pisano 1250 to 1315

sculpture of pulpit in St Andrea pistolia father Nicola carved pulpits in Pisa and Siena

unions

similar to sfumato, but uses different industries of color to show shape, instead of just the dark and light

(Michelangelo's) Moses

statue of Moses for Pope Julius II, tim, Michelangelo's only sculpture on the tomb

Chiaroscuro

strong contrast of light and dark in painting the most empathetic of the canonical modes of Renaissance painting, uses increases in late Renaissance through Baroque

Chiaroscuro

strong contrast of light and dark in painting the most emphatic of the canonical modes of Renaissance painting use increases in late Renaissance through Baroque

profit Daniel

the Old testament____________depicted among other prophets on the Sistine ceiling

Sistine Chapel

the Pope's chapel next to St Peter's basilica built by Pope Sixtus iv to the supposed dimensions of Solomon's Temple decorative by many celebrated artists including Michaelangelo.

humanism

the Renaissance human centered philosophy that replaced the theory centered worldview

madrigal

the first musical form based and early on the depiction of the text through musical devices

Orchesographie 1589

the first printed dance instruction book popularized dance among the upper middle class

Renaissance

the historical period 1400 to 1600 with revival of the Outlook and wisdom of classical Antiquity.

Stanza della Segnatura

the library of Julius the second the seat of the supreme tribunal of the church with Frescoes Raphael comparing worldly and spiritual wisdom

School of Athens

the most famous of four Frescoes by Raphael in the stanza Della Segnatura, depicting the philosophers of Antiquity

Delphic Sibyl

the prophetess/Oracle of Delphi decipitated among other ancient sibyls on the Sistine ceiling

Magi

the three kings who visit to the infant Christ was a favorite artistic subject

Ginevra de Benci

the young Florentine woman in an early portrait by Leonardo da Vinci his only painting in the Western hemisphere

Sangallo

uncle nephew architects of St. Peter's Giuliano one of the first group in the 14'70s also appointed briefly in 1516 and Antoniothe younger assistant to Bramante then chief architect of St. Peter's 1516 through 1546

sfumato

use in painting of delicate shading of dark and light to show shape instead of hard outlines Leonardo Vinci the Great Master

britches painter

Daniele da Volterra commissioned by a later Pope to cover the nudity of Michelangelo's Sistine chapel Frescoes the nickname given by the people of Rome who have little patience with papal pretensions but who adore benevolent popes.

mausoleum

Elaborate above ground tomb

basilica of San Lorenzo

Florence Church of Medici parish designed by Filipino Brunelleschi, Renaissance prototype.

Benozzo Gozzoli

Florentine Renaissance painter of Frescoes of the Magi in the Medici Palace chapel.

Sandro Botticelli 1445 through 1510

Florentine Renaissance painter of adoration of the Magi and the birth of Venus

Donatello

Florentine Renaissance sculpture his David was the first large scale male nude since Antiquity.

Fra Angelico

Florentine painter and Dominican flare of the early 15th century

Fra Angelico

Florentine painter and Dominican friar of the early 15th century

Leon Battista Alberti

Florentine painter and writer of the early 15th century his on painting the first published description of linear perspective

Sistine ceiling 1508 to 1512

Friscoes of the creation, completed in 4 years by Michelangelo someday his greatest work

Filippo Brunelleschi

Italian Renaissance sculpture and architect, cells dome design for Florence Cathedral.

Caradosso

Italian Renaissance sculpture and godsmith struck a 1506 medal of Julia second backed with Bramante's design for St. Peter's

Pietro Perugino

ItalianRenaissance painter famous for Christ giving the keys of heaven to St Peter one of three works by him commissioned by Pope Sixtus iv for the Sistine chapel walls

Florence Cathedral

Santa Maria del Fiore and Italian Gothic style begun by Arnolfo Brunelleschi

Leonardo da Vinci

considered by some the greatest Italian printer of the Renaissance and the original multi-talented renaissance man also experimenter sculptor engineer designer and spectacles all of which limited his painting output which was relatively small.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

considered by some the greatest Renaissance sculptor Florentine active in Rome where he is also famous for his Sistine chapel frescoes

Pieta

deception of Mary lamenting over Christ's body Michelangelo's most famous

Forshortening

depiction of an object of length from its end known in classical times but further developed in the Renaissance

word or text painting

expressing the words meaning in music with motives figures, harmonies or other devices

Joaquin Desprez

famous Franco netherlandish composer master of imitative polyphony, sang in the Sistine chapel 1489 to 1495

Michelangelo slaves

figures for the huge original conception of Julius second, tomb, 2 complete and 4 partrial

Carlo Maderno

final architect of St Peter's 1607 through 1627 completed nave and facade in a conservative Baroque style harmonious with the Renaissance original very effective colossal order.

Medici

for several generations Renaissance Florence's wealthiest most powerful family great patrons of the arts

Medici

for several generations, Renaissance Florence's wealthiest, most powerful family, great patrons of the arts

canonical mode of painting

four new techniques in Renaissance paintin sfumato,unions, cangiante, and chiaroscuro