Group Assignment (9/25)

Compare and Contrast

Identify artist, title, and culture/style of each image and analyse their similarities and differences in style, symbolic meaning, function, and how they are representative of their respective cultures.

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Chapter 17 Study Guide

Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy

High Renaissance

• Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks, 1483
• Leonardo, Last Supper, 1495
• Raphael, School of Athens, 1509-1511
• Raphael, Galatea, 1513
• Michelangelo, Pietà (Roman), 1498-1500
• Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504
• Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, 1511-1512
• Michelangelo, Last Judgment, 1536-1541
• Bramante, Tempietto, begun 1502
• Michelangelo et al., Saint Peter’s Basilica, 1506-1590

Venetian Renaissance

• Palladio, Villa Rotonda, c. 1550-1570
• Giovanni Bellini and Titian, Feast of the Gods, 1514
• Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1536-1538
• Tintoretto, Last Supper, 1594
• Veronese, Christ in the House of Levi, 1573

Mannerism

• Pontormo, Entombment of Christ, 1525-1528
• Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, 1534-1540
• Correggio, Assumption of the Virgin, 1526-1530
• Michelangelo, Laurentian Library (vestibule), 1524-1534

1. Define the following terms:

1. disegno
2. chiaroscuro
3. sfumato
4. impasto

2. What institute functioned as the greatest source of artistic patronage in Cinquecento Italy?

3. Why did Leonardo consider painting to be superior to sculpture?

4. Why was Michelangelo resistant to receiving the commission for the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

5. What is the major difference between Early and High Renaissance architecture?

6. What is the major difference between the painting style of Venice and that of central Italy?

7. What is poesia?

8. Identify one major obstacle that prevented many women from pursuing a career in art in the Renaissance.

9. Name one way in which Giulio Romano departs from the rules of classical architecture in the Palazzo del Te.

Group Assignment (9/18)

As a group, analyze the work of art you have been assigned. Attempt to identify the artist, subject, culture, and approximate time period of the work using visual evidence and your own knowledge of history and art. Do not simply list off facts you have found through Google. Support any conclusions you come to with specific details from the work. Discuss anything you may find interesting in the piece such as potential symbols, connections with other works, or artistic virtuosity.

*Some groups may need to wait until the lecture on Tuesday or read slightly ahead in the book (finish chapter 16) to recognize the style of their given work.

**Images this week may be more difficult to identify than last week. Simply use your eyes to gather clues and let them guide you where they will. Don't worry about getting it wrong! Wrong answers can still be great as long as they're backed up by visual evidence!

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Chapter 16 Study Guide

The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy

Early Italian Renaissance

• Filippo Brunelleschi, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401-1402
• Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise (east doors of the baptistery of San Giovanni), 1425-1452
• Donatello, David, c. 1440-1460
• Verrocchio, David, c. 1465-1470
• Masaccio, Holy Trinity (from Santa Maria Novella), c. 1424-1427
• Paolo Uccello, Battle of San Romano, c. 1435 or c. 1455
• Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, c. 1484-1486
• Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence Cathedral Dome (Duomo), 1420-1436
• Leon Battista Alberti, west facade of Santa Maria Novella, 1456-1470
• Perugino, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter, 1481-1483
• Andrea Mantegna, Foreshortened Christ (Lamentation over the Dead Christ), c. 1500

1. Renaissance Florence saw itself as the inheritor of which ancient civilization?

2. Which biblical personage did Renaissance Florence associate itself with? Which mythological figure did it associate itself with?

3. Why is the Medici family important to the development of the Renaissance? How did they gain their wealth?

4. Explain what perspective is and name the two kinds of perspective discussed in class.

5. What is contrapposto? Give an example of a Quattrocento sculpture that exhibits the use of contrapposto.

6. How do Botticelli’s paintings such as Birth of Venus and Primavera reflect Renaissance culture and ideology?

7. How does Brunelleschi’s loggia of the Ospedale degli Innocenti emulate classical  aesthetics and rationality? (3 examples)

8. Who was Girolamo Savonarola? What were his beliefs regarding the Medici and humanism and what effect did his beliefs have on Florence in the 1490s?

9. What is the significance of Perugino’s Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter to the papacy?

Group Assignment (9/11)

As a group, analyze the work of art you have been assigned. Attempt to identify the artist, subject, culture, and approximate time period of the work using visual evidence and your own knowledge of history and art. Do not simply list off facts you have found through Google. Support any conclusions you come to with specific details from the work. Discuss anything you may find interesting in the piece such as potential symbols, connections with other works, or artistic virtuosity.

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