Chartes Cathedral, France

12th-13th century

Gothiv, Larger Cathedral and Society Rising

Requires Organization and hierarchy

Left Towe built in 16th Century

Pointed Arch very Gothic

Prophets and Kings and Queens of Judea

Located in the West Facade (main enterance)

very uniformed and column like; stylized

Pallazo della Signoria and Loggia dei Lanzi

Florence, Italy 14th century

Town Hall

where the public would be addressed

simplistic vs. Gothic 

Renaissnace

Loggia dei Lanzi

Florence, Italy

14th Century

Open archways where politicians spoke

Christ in Majesty

Anonymous

Byzantine, 12th century

Stylized=Simplified

Able to recognize it, but not realistic

Virgin and Child Enthroned 

Cimabue

Florence, Italy 13th century

Done on Wooden Panels (Very Tall)

Weird Angles

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Giotto

Florence, Italy

Wooden Panel (Very Tall)

Student of Cimabue

Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel 1305

Giotto

Fresco (painting on damp plaster)

Patroned by Scrovegni

Padova, Italy 

Giotto

Lamentation (1305)

Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel

Fresco

Allegories of Good and Bad Government

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

(1338-1340)

Fresco (Locted in Palazzo Pubblico)

Bragged how their city was ideal and better than all others

Allegorical Figure- Female- shows security

Life of John the Baptist

Andrea Pisano (1330-1336)

Gilded bronze, south doors of the bapistry of San Giovanni Florence, Italy

Limbourg Brothers

January (1) and February (r) from:

Tres Riches Hueres of the Duke Berry (1411-1416)

Colors and ink on parchement (9"x5")

made from animal flesh

Buxheim St. Christopher

(mid-15th century)

Hand colored woodblock print on paper

Buxheim monastry

Carved from wood block and is usually referred to as printing (Relief Printing)

Demons Tormenting Saint Anthony (1485)

Martin Schongauer (Germany)

Engraving (Intaglio Printing)-

More commonly called engraving since it is usually done on a sheet of metal

Printed first copy of the bible

Hunt of the Unicorn, Tapestry Series

Finding the Unicorn at the Fountain (1500)

Flanders

Cartoon to start tapestry 

Unicorn a symbol of christ

Only a virgin can see a unicorn

Arnolfini Double Portrait (1434)

Jan van Eyck (often credited with creating oil painting although it had been around since 12th centrury)

oil on wood panel

 Flanders, Italy

Ghen Altarpiece (1432)

Jan and Hubert van Eyck

Flanders, Italy

Oil on panel

Closed and Open

Iconography- religious symbolism

Polyptych- many panals

Adam and Eve life size nudes

Lamb on alter(blood)- revelation

Florence Cathedral

Begun 1296

Dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1420-36

Very Geometric

2 domes for support (octagonal)

Ospedale degli Innocenti (begun c. 1421)

Filippo Brunelleschi

Orphanage in Florence

Romanesque

Palazzo Medici - Riccardi

Michelozzo

(begun in 1446 in Florence)

Florence ran by Medici family(bankers)

-handle funds of the pope

Inner courtyard- loved art

David (c. 1450)

Donatello

Florence

Bronze 5'2"

Originally displayed in the courtyard of Palazzo Medici- Riccardi

Jacob and Esau

Lorenzo Ghiberti

East Doors (Gates of paradise) 1425-1452

Bapistery of Florence Cathedral, Gilded Bronze

Trinity (1425-1428)

Masaccio

Fresco

Florence, Italy

Florence is the heartland of the Reniasannce

Scientific

Good Shading

Expulsion from Eden and Tribute Money(1426-28)

Masaccio

Fesco

Florence, Italy

key term: modeling- shading

Christ Delivering the Keys to Saint Peter (1481)

Perugino

Fresco

Located in Sistine Chapel

Vatican City, Rome

One Point Perspective

Linear Perspective

Vanishing Point

Orthaginal Lines

Camera Picta 1465-1474

Mantegna (worked for Duke of Mantua)

Foreshortening- make certain parts of the body longer or shorter

Battle of the Ten Nudes (1465-1470)

Antonio del Pollaiuolo

engraving

Hercules and Antaeus

Birth of Venus (1484-1486)

Sandro Botticelli

Tempera and gold on canvas

more linear; first large scale nude woman

Not really porportionate

Vitruvian Man(1490)

Leonardo da Vinci

Ideal human form to ideal geometric form

Virgin of the Rocks (1485)

Leonardo da Vinci 

Oil on Wood- transferred to canvas

The Last Supper (1495-98)

Leonardo da Vinci

Milan

Oil and tempera on plaster

Mona Lisa (1503-6)

Leonardo da Vinci

Oil on Panel

Small Cowper Madonna (1505)

Raphael

Oil on wood panel

relates to Mona Lisa

School of Athens (1510-1511)

Raphael

Fresco

In the Popes Library (Vatican)

2 central figures 

very symmetrical

Michaelangelo portrait and self portrait

allegory- we are all like Greeks

Cartoon for Tapestry of Christ's Charge to Peter (1515)

Raphael

Color on Paper

Tapestries of Sistine Chapel

King of Englad bought cartoons

Christ's Charge to Peter (1517)

Wool an Silk with gold wrapped threads

one of the tapestries for Sistine Chapel (Vatican)

Pieta (1500)

Michaelangelo

Marble 5'8" hugh

Saint Peter's Vatican, Rome

"pity" meaning mourn over Jesus

great detail

David (1501-1504)

Michelangelo

Marble

17' tall without pedestal

Florence

quite disproportionate

very narrow

in front of Palazzo della Signoria

Sistine Chapel Ceiling (1508-1512)

Michelangelo

Fresco

Vatican City, Rome

theme was from Genesis

Creation of Adam

Michelangelo

Cieling of Sistine Chapel

very muscular

went back and covered nude God

Venus of Urbino (1538)

Titian

oil on canvas

Venice

kind of inappropriate

Pesaro Madonna (1519-26)

Titian

Oil on canvas

Venice

Titian was a great colorist

more pushed off the center (side triangle)

Last Super (1594)

Tintoretto

Oil on canvas

Venice

goal was to draw like Michaelangelo and color like Titian

very slashy brushstroke

works very quickly

Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)

Parmigianino

Oil on wood panel

Mannerism

Entombment (also called Descent from the Cross)

1524-1528

Jacopo Pontormo

Oil and Tempera on wood panel

bight/unsettling colors

Allegory with Venus and Cupid (1545)

Bronzino

Oil on Panel

Last Judgment (1536-41)

Michelangelo

Fresco

Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome

Ths brings Michaelangelo back to Rome in over 25 years

First painted chirst naked and then other painters came back and painted over it

Feast in the House of Levi (1573)

Veronese

Oil on canvas

Little emphasis on Jesus

Sacreligious?

Originally named last supper and then the inquestion made him rename it

Isenheim Altarpiece (1500)

Matthias Grunewald

Oil on Wood Panel

Isenheim France

Crucifixion, Lamentation and Saints, Annunciation, Virgin and Child, Resurrection, and Temptation of St. Anthony

Self-Portrait (1500)

Albrecht Durer

Oil on wood panel

Nuremburg, Holy Roman Empire/ Germany

considered Leonardo or Michelangelo of the North

Looks like Jesus- very egotsitical

Four Apostles (1526)

Albrecht Durer

Oil on panel

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire/Germany

John is the red one and pre-eminent and holds key to Rome

Also pictures Peter, Paul and Mark

Book being more important than religion

Lutheren beliefs

where Nazi trials held

first Lutheren city

Adam and Eve (1504)

Albrecht Durer

Engraving/intaglio printing

studied people who studied the body

Bull, rabbit, Elk, Cat, Mouse, Mountain, Serpent, and Parrot

The Great Piece of Turf (1503)

Albrecht Durer

Watercolor

landscapes originated in North( this one of the firsts)

Danube Landscape (1525)

Albrecht Altdorfer 

Oil on Vellum on wood panel

Francis I (1525-1530)

Jean Clouet

Oil on wood panel

France

Costume ins flattering (texture)

The Burial of Count Orgaz (1586)

El Greco

Oil on canvas

Spain

more manneristic

elongated figures

portrait like faces (very detailed)

Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1515)

Hieronymous

Oil on wood panel

Figures not anotomically correct

God offering Adam to Eve

Weird Animals

Olchemy?

Weird musical instruments

Hunters in the Snow (1565)

Pieter Bruegal

Oil on Wood panel

Flanders

expansion/happiness

The Harvesters (1565)

Pieter Bruegal the Elder

Oil on wood panel

Flanders

going about business/happy

idealistic sense of peasents

The French Ambassadors (1533)

Hans Holbein the Younger

Oil and Tempera on Panel

skull slashing through the bottom

-mortality?

-christianity?