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Title: Courtyard Faςade, Palazzo del Tè, Mantua
Artist: Giulio Romano
Date: 1527-34
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- What jokes do you find on this facade? explain
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Title: Fall of the Giants
Artist: Giulio Romano
Date: 1530-32
Medium: Fresco
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- What room is shown collapsing in this fresco?
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Title: Assumption of the Virgin
Artist: Correggio
Date: c1526-30
Medium: Fresco
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- Who are the swirling figures beneath the central scene of the dome?
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Title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Artist: Properzia de'Rossi
Date: 1525-26
Medium: Marbe
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- Through which techniques does the sculptor indicate motion in the figures
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Title: The Tempest
Artist: Giorgione
Date: c1506
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- Why would the focus of this painting seem to be more intent on the landscape rather than the figures?
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Title: The Pastoral Concert or
Allegory on the Invention of Pastoral Poetry
Artist: Titian
Date: c1510
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- Respond to the assertion that the real subject of the Pastoral Concert is warm afternoon light.
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Title: Pesaro Madonna
Artist: Titian
Date: 1519-26
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- Describe the play of warm and cool colors of the painting.
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Title: Venus of Urbino
Artist: Titian
Date: c. 1538
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- To what extent is pure sensuousness a subject in this work? explain
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Title: Pietà
Artist: Titian (finished by Palma Giovane)
Date: c. 1570-76
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- Describe the role of light and shadow.
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Title: Isabella d'Este
Artist: Titian
Date: c. 1534-36
Medium: Oil on canvas
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- Did Titian capture the power and intellect of Isabella d'Este as well as the outer trappings of wealth?
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Title: Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: c. 1536-41 (cleaning finished 1994)
Medium: Fresco
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- How much of a pictorial influence was Michelangelo's scuptural experience on this fresco?
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Title: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: c. 1546-64
Medium: Architecture
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- Is the dome an overwhelming visual distraction to St. Peter's, or is it a rational completion of the church's design?
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Title: Pietà (aka Rondanini Pietà)
Artist: Michelangelo
Date: c. 1559-64
Medium: Marble
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- What does an "unfinished" work such as this tell us about the mind of Michelangelo?
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Title: Faςade of the Church of Il Gesù
Artist: Giacomo della Porta
Date: c. 1573-84
Medium: Architecture
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- How does the faςade reflect Renaissance ideas and design?
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Title: Plan of the Church of Il Gesù
Artist: Giacomo da Vignola
Date: 1540; completed by Giacomo della Porta in 1584
Medium: Architecture
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- What logistical considerations did Vignola have to deal with in order to lay out the plan of this church?
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Title: Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicità, Florence
Artist: Filippo Brunelleschi (chapel); Pontormo (paintings)
Date: c. 1419-23 (chapel); 1525-28 (paintings)
Medium: chapels, paintings
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- Does Pontormo's work overwhelm the space in this chapel? explain
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Title: Entombment
Artist: Pontormo
Date: c. 1525-28
Medium: Oil and tempera on wood panel
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- Describe the color scheme used in this work.
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Title: Madonna with the Long Neck
Artist: Parmigianino
Date: c. 1534-40
Medium: Oil on wood panel
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- Who is the figure between the foregroung group and the columns?
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Title: Portrait of a Young Man
Artist: Bronzino
Date: c. 1540-45
Medium: Oil on wood panel
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- What does Bronzino's portrait tell us about qualities and characteristics that were valued in mid-sixteenth century courts?
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Title: Allegory with Venus and Cupid
Artist: Bronzini
Date: mid-1540s
Medium: Oil on panel
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- For what audience was this work intended? explain
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Title: The Farnese Hours: Adoration of the Magi and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist: Giulio Clovio (Jura Klovic, of Croatia)
Date: c. 1546
Medium: Vellum
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- Discuss the Mannerist features present here.
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| a semicircular interior space or structure |
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heroic figures of nude young men
ex: Sistine Chapel ceiling (Michelangelo); ceiling of Gallery, Palazzo Farnese (Caracci) |
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a gray Tuscan limestone used in Florence
synonymous with brunelleschi's interiors
ex: Foundling Hospital (Brunelleschi), Church of San Lorenzo - Old Sacristy (B), New Sacristy (Michelangelo) |
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| a plump, naked little boy, often winged; in classicala art, called a cupid; in Christian art, a cherub |
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a stone, often extra large or decorated for emphasis, forming the corner of two walls; a vertical row of such stones is called quoining
ex: the corners of the Palazzo Farnese (Antonio da Sangallo the Younger) |
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a painting medium made by blending egg yolks with water, pigments, and occasionally other materials, such as glue; preferred by Italians
ex: The Last Supper (Leonardo) |
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| the use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting |
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