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Background to Renaissance
Background to the Rennaissance
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
09/18/2012

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Portrait of Francesco Petrarch

b.1304-d.1374

^^ divided art into 3 periods: Roman(height of culture), Dark ages(decline), & golden age (rebirth) 

Term

Classical World

(2 great ancient cities) 

Definition
Athens & Rome 
Term
Primary qualities that define art
Definition
Humanism (images of the human body) & ??
Term
What thrived in the classic age, other than humanism?
Definition
Architecture
Term
Roof, top, & column are examples of...
Definition
ELEVATION
Term
Architectural Orders?
Definition
Doric, Ionic, & Corinthian
Term

1. who influenced construction in architecture ?

 

2. Who came up with style? 

Definition

1. Romans

 

2. Greece 

Term
example of improvement to architecture?
Definition
Round arch (better support)
Term
who forced the right to rule over the Roman Empire, wins & eliminates the persecution of christianity?
Definition
Constantine the great
Term
Because of the new rule of christianity, what is the new capitol (named after the ruler)
Definition
Constantinople
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What is Syncretism?
Definition
A layering of meaning (past tradition layers onto new traditions)
Term
What is Iconography? what kind of art is it important for?
Definition
writing with images; important for Christian art.
Term
what is symbolism important for?
Definition
its how christian art communicates
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[image]
Definition

Polydeitos

Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

c. 450-40 BCE

marble

 

Term
[image]
Definition

by Praxiteles

Aphrodite of Knidos

c. 350 BCE

marble 

Term
[image]
Definition

Agustus of Primaporta

early 1st Century CE

marble 

Term
[image]
Definition

Marcus Aurelius

c.176 CE

bronze 

Term

[image]

Definition

The Parthenon

(located on the Acropolis)

-"high city" or "sity on a hill"

Athens, Greece

c. 447-438 BCE 

Term
[image]
Definition
Reconstruction of the Parthenon w/ polychrome decoration
Term

 

[image]

[image]

Definition

 Exterior & Reconstruction of the Pantheon

Rome, Italy

c. 118-28 CE 

Term
[image]
Definition

Constantine the Great

c. 325-26 CE

marble 

Term
[image]
Definition

Good Shepherd

mosaic from the mausoleum of Galla Placidia

Ravenna, Italy

425-426 CE 

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[image]
Definition

reconstruction of old St Peter's Basilica

ROME

320-27 CE

Term
[image]
Definition

Chi Rho Iota Page

from The Book of Kells

Ireland

c. late 8th century

pigment on pachment 

Term
[image]
Definition

Detail of a figure from a manuscript

made in Modern-day Germany

c. 8th century

pigment & gold on parchment 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Chartres Cathedral of Notre Dame

Chartres, France

1134-1220 

Term
[image]
Definition

Detail of the Flying Buttresses

at Chartres Cathedral

 (FRANCE)

Term
[image]
Definition

Stained glass rose & lance

at windows

CHARTRES cathedral 

Term
[image]
Definition
NAVE of Chartres Cathedral
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