Art History 2850 Exam 1

Contrapposto

"body shift" weight shift to one leg or the other

Naked

- someone has no clothes but they are supposed to (embarrassed/exposed)

Nicola Pisano

-- anticipated the Renaissance before it even happened -only had one patron --created classical style sculpture --Christian art with Roman style --the baptismal font is similar to Roman sarcophagi with its dense figures

Icon

--symbolic image --Perfectly spiritual humans identified as human like, but not accurate in human anatomy because they are "divine" (and artists didn't understand the anatomy yet) --All icons look the same because "God showed us what these characters looked like" but really they're just keeping up the traditions of their appearance

Andrea del Verrocchio, Bartolommeo Coleoni, 1483-88 --Compare: Donatello's Horseman --Don's is on a cannonball, died in battle. Ver's died of natural causes --Don's horse is too big --Ver's power is in his character (the face), Don's power shown by ideology --Compare: Marcus Aurelius --The positioning of the leg shows they both died of natural causes Marcus - the man is proportionally bigger than the horse --Comparison, Ver's is the most proportionally accurate than the other two --Intimidating face, scary, strong presence, great leader

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Pietro Perugino, The Baptism of Christ, 1493

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Hercules and Antaeus, 1465 --Same composition --Sculpture --Hercules' back is bending in a way that is impossible still --Didn't understand anatomy completely

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Nude

lack of clothing is not a concern, the celebration of the human body in this natural form • Hence "Nudist" Colonies

stylization

looking at another work to reproduce the image

Brunelleschi's Cut in the Ceiling of the Pantheon, Close-up, Rome --Couldn't figure out why it was so strong (it lasted through multiple earthquakes) --Asked Pope's permission to cut a hole in the ceiling to study how it was made --He discovered that it consisted of two domes: one inner and one outer --Dome is a 3 Dimensional arch so if you double the stability its weight was distributed perfectly

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Renaissance

rebirth of Greek and Roman culture

Fra Girolamo Savonarola

saw the reintroduction of Greek and roman culture as heresy --traveled through Florence sermon-ing against the Renaissance movement. -- "Burning of the Vanities": burning of all Greek and Roman things -- went after the Pope and the Medici Family