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- Tempera on canvas
- Black outlines (does not try to hide outlines)
- Human proportions out of scale
- venus emerges fully grown from foam of sea
- roeses scattered before her
- left: zephyr (west wind) and chloris (nymph)
- right: handmaiden rushes to clothe her
- figures float, not anchored to ground
- crisply drawn (BLACK OUTLINED) figures
- landscape flat and unrealistic, simple v-shaped waves
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- Nude--A& E only ones acceptable to be nude in the Renaissance
- Shows human proportions by showing nude figures (Classical and Northern techniques)
- Contrapposto of figures from the Italian Renaissance
- Engraved into copper plate
- Ideal image of humans before the Fall of Man
- Northern European devotion to detailed paintings
- Italiam massing of forms
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- Oil and tempera on plaster
- linear perspective; orthagonals of ceiling and floor point to jesus
- high renaissance composition: key figure (Jesus) in the center, alone, and highlighted by the window behind (three windows in this case)
- twelve apostles grouped into threes, symmetrically balanced around Jesus, who is the focal point of the orthagonals
- Painting portrays great drama to the audience as jesus has just said "one of you will betray me" and the various reactions of the apostles can be seen: surprise, fear, anger, denial, suspicion, and, in the case of Jesus, anguish.
- Judas falls back clutching his bag of coins, face in darkness
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- Fresco
- large, muscular figures
- creation of light and dark
- painted cornices frame groupings of figures in an organized way
- many figures done for artistic expression rather than to enhance the narrative (e.g., the Ignudi)
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- Fresco
- open, clear light uniformly spread throughout composition
- nobility and monumentality of forms parallel to the greatness of the figures represented
- Figures gesture to indicate their philisophical thought
- Two greatest figures in ancient greek thought are in center: Plato, with the features of Leonardo on left, pointing up/Aristotle on right
- Bramante= bald figure of Euclid on lower right
- Michaelangelo resting on stone block writing poem
- Raphael's overall composition influenced by Da Vinci's The Last Supper.
- 1-point perspective
- triumphal arch, barrel vault, pilasters (classical architecture)
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Panel 1:
- Crucifixion, Dark background, dead, decomposing flesh, arms almost torn from sockets , lashed and whipped body
- agony of the body unflinchingly shown , swooning Mary
- Christ amputated as patients suffering ergotism (the disease the hospital the painting is in treats) would be
- same true in the predella: Christ's legs seem amputated below the kneecaps
Panel 2:
- Christ rises from the dead on the right--his rags harm him now
Panel 3 :
- St. Anthony in right panel: oozing boils, withered arm, distended stomach (all ergotism symptoms)
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- oil on wood
- hole in the center of the circular composition
- elongation of bodies
- high-keyed colors, perhaps taking into account the darkness of the chapel
- hands seem disembodiesd
- some androgynous figures
- no weeping, just yearning
- linear bodies twisting around one another
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- oil on wood
- hole in the center of the circular composition
- elongation of bodies
- high-keyed colors, perhaps taking into account the darkness of the chapel
- hands seem disembodiesd
- some androgynous figures
- no weeping, just yearning
- linear bodies twisting around one another
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- Woodcut and letterpress
- Catholocism vs. Protestantism separated by tree
- Left: Judgement Day arrived
- RIght: Christ emerges from tomb and promises salvation to all who believe in him
- Cranach influenced by Luther
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- Oil on canvas
- sensuous delight in the skin tones
- looks at us directly
- complex spatial environment: figure placed forward on the picture plane, servants in the middle space; open window with plants in the background
- Roses contribute to floral motif carried throughout the work
- Cassoni: trunks intended for storage of clothing for a wife's trosseau
- painting became a standard for future reclining female nudes
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- Oil on wood panel
- Alpine landscape, typical winter scene
- Strong diagonals lead the eye deeper into the painting
- FIrues are peasant types, not individuals
- Landscape has high horizon line, a northern European tradition
- Endless details; nothing is static
- Hunters have had little success in the winter hunt; dogs are skinny and hang their heads
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