Artist: Pisano
Title: "Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
Pisa Cathedral Baptistery
Pisano's relief panel on a Baptistery Pulpit in Pisa, Italy and a French Relief Carving have the same narrative of Mary's Annunciation, Nativity and Adoration. The subject was favored by the church. The church and the relief carving emphasizes Mary's virg
Artist: Giotto
Title: "Virgin and Child Enthroned"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
(Made for the Church of the Ognissanti, Florence
as an Altar Piece. Is made from egg tempera.
Stands about 10 feet tall and 7 feet wide.)
Compared to Cimabue's Virgin and Child Enthroned, Giotto's altarpiece of the same subject, painted about 30 years later for the church of Ognissanti (All of the Saints) in Florence, exhibits greater spatial consistency and sculptural solidity while retain
Artist: Giotto
Title: "Scrovegni Chapel"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
Padua. Frescos.
Giotto was called to Padua in Northern Italy soon after 1300 to paint frescos for a new chapel being constructed at the site of an ancient Roman arena-explaining why it is usually referred to as the Arena Chapel. The chapel was commissioned by Enrico Scro
Artist: Giotto
Title: "Scrovegni Chapel
The entrance wall was covered with the Last Judgement, (Scrovegni and his assistant are pictured along with the Arena Chapel.) and the sanctuary wall with three highlighted scenes from the life of Christ.
Artist: Giotto
Title: "The Lamentation"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
Padua "Arena Chapel".
Eight foot fresco.
On the lower register, where Jesus' grief-stricken followers lament over his dead body, Giotto conveys palpable human suffering, drawing viewers into a circle of personal grief. The stricken Virgin pulls close to her dead son, communing with mute intensit
Artist: Lorenzetti
Title: "Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
Sala dei Nove, Palazzo
Pubblico, Siena
Fresco
In 1338, the Siena city council commissioned Ambrogio Lorenzetti to paint frescos for the council room of the Palazzo known as the Sala dei Nove (Chamber of the Nine) or Sala della Pace (Chamber of Peace) on the theme of the contrast between good and bad
Artist: Lorenzetti
Title: "Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country"
Date: 14th Century
Stylistic Period: Proto-Renaissance
Sala dei Nove, Palazzo
Pubblico, Siena
The Porta-Romana, Siena's gateway leading to Rome, divides the thriving city from its surrounding countryside. In this panoramic landscape painting, Ambrogio describes a natural world marked by agricultural productivity, showing activities of all seasons
Artist: Workshop of Master of Flemalle
Title: "Merode Altarpiece" (Triptych of the Annunciation)
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Northern Renaissance
This small triptych altarpiece was used for private purposes. It is set in a contemporary setting. The donors, the couple who paid for the painting, is seen on the left side of the altarpiece. They are seeing a vision of the Annunciation. Having Mary, the
Artist: Van Eyck
Title: "Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Northern Renaissance
Giovanni Arnolfini-the pasty gentleman with the extravagant hat in this double portrait-earned, rather than inherited, the right to have himself and his wife recorded by renowned artist Jan Van Eyck. It was the wealth and connections he made as an Italian
Artist: Van der Weiden
Title: "Deposition"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Northern Renaissance
Louvain, Belgium
Seven tall altarpiece.
As little as we know about Jan Van Eyck, we know even less about the life of Rogier van der Weyden. Not a single existing work of art bears his name. He may have studied under the Master of Femalle, but the relationship is not altogether clear. Having fir
Artist: Christus
Title: "A Goldsmith in His Shop"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Northern Renaissance
Might be an actual portrait of the goldsmith.
About 38 inches by 33 inches.
Among the most interesting of these painters was Petrus Christus who became a citizen of Bruges in 1444 and signed and dated six paintings in a career that extended over three decades. In 1449, Christus painted a portrait of a goldsmith, serving two well-
Artist: Brunelleschi
Title: "Dome of Florence Cathedral"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Early Renaissance
Filippo Brunelleschi achieved what many considered impossible: He solved the problem of the dome of Florence Cathedral. Brunelleschi had originally trained as a goldsmith. To further his education, he traveled to Rome to study ancient Roman sculpture and
Artist: Alberti
Title: "Sant' Andrea"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Early Renaissance
Mantua
With this church, there is a significant similarity between it and the Arch of Constantine. There is pediment on top of the arch, columns, barrel vault archway with coffering, and architectural molding to make it stand out. Instead of isles inside of the
Artist: Donatello
Title: "David"
Date: 15th Century
Stylistic Period: Early Renaissance
Stands at 5 feet 2 inches.
The sculpture is first recorded as being in the courtyard of the Medici Palace in 1469, where it stood on a base inscribed with these lines:
Donatello's long career as a sculptor in a broad variety of media established him as one of the most successful and admired sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. He excelled in part because of his attentive exploration of human emotions and expression, as
What is the object produced by?
The Culture
What is Chronology?
When was it made. The when, time, and the what.
(We may have the date because of the artist told us, there is a document or we know the time span of the particular work). An arrangement of dates in order of their occurrence.
What is Historical period?
A certain time in history. We have certain characteristics and we know was relevant in that time.
What is Historical context?
What was going on during a certain era.
Historical Context List
Cultural, Religious, Political, Economic, Philosophical, scientific, technological, intellectual.
Identify
Name(of artist)
Title(of work of art)
Medium
Function
Date and Style
Dimensions
Style and Stylistic Period
Medium
The material from which a work of art is made.
Function
Why was it made and for whom?
Style
A particular manner, form, or character of representation, construction, or expression that is typical of an individual artist or of a certain place or period.
In other words, the manner or execution that is characteristic of the society/cultural that pro
Stylistic Period
Proto-Reniassance, Early Renaissance, etc.
Subject: Genre
A term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life, including (among others) domestic interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.
Subjects: Portraiture
Depiction of actual person. Can only be a portraiture if the person was seated before the artist or there is previous renderings of the subject.
Subjects: Religious
Sacred art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritual realizati
Subjects: Historical
Paintings based on historical, mythological, or biblical narratives. Once considered the noblest form of art, history paintings generally convey a high moral or intellectual idea and are often painted in a grand pictorial style.
Subjects: Mythological
The body of myths belonging to a culture. Myths are traditional stories about gods and heroes. They often account for the basic aspects of existence � explaining, for instance, how the Earth was created, why people have to die, or why the year is divided
Subjects: Landscape
The depiction in art of landscapes - natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view - with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
(Didn't become popular until 1600's.)
Allegory
allegory In a work of art, an image (or images) that symbolizes an idea, concept, or principle, often moral or religious.
Aesthetic
A set of principals undying and guiding the work. Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
Patronage
The person who commissioned the work.
Formal Elements
Determines the content. Setting, Forms, Composition, Space, Color, Light and Shadow.
Setting
The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
Forms
The things in the paintings, like objects, furniture, focal points
Composition
The overall arrangement, organizing design, or structure of a work of art.
Space
The dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move.
Color
The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light.
Light & shadow
How the light and dark contribute to the story of the painting. A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object. It occupies all of the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross s
Architecture
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
Relief Carving
A three-dimensional image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth, setting off the figure. Called high or low (bas-) relief depending upon the extent of projection of the image from the background. Called sunken relief wh
Section
View of elevation cut in half.
Articulation
A method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design.
Fa�ade
The face or front wall of a building.
Elevation
The arrangement, proportions, and details of any vertical side or face of a building. Also: an architectural drawing showing an exterior or interior wall of a building.
Sculpture in the round
Three-dimensional sculpture that is carved free of any background or block.
Sarcophagus
A stone coffin. Often rectangular and decorated with relief sculpture. Wealthy would have a sarcophagus.
Guilds
An association of artists or craftsmakers. Medieval and Renaissance guilds had great economic power, as they controlled the marketing of their members' products and provided economic protection, political solidarity, and training in the craft to its membe
Greco-Roman(Classical)
Ancient Greece and Rome
Abstraction
Freedom from representational qualities in art.
Stylized
Depict or treat in a mannered and nonrealistic style.
Duchy
Governed by a Duke
Republic
Governed by selected officials
Warm Colors
ROY (Red, Orange, Yellow)
(Intensity of colors enhances the work)
Cool Colors
BGP (Blue, Green, Purple)
Renaissance
19th Century term meaning re-birth.
Panels
Any painting executed on a wood support, usually planed to provide a smooth surface. A panel can consist of several boards joined together.
Foreshortening
The illusion created on a flat surface by which figures and objects appear to recede or project sharply into space. Accomplished according to the rules of perspective.
Tempera
A painting medium made by blending egg yolks with water, pigments, and occasionally other materials, such as glue.
Triptych
An artwork made up of three panels. The panels may be hinged together in such a way that the side segments (wings) fold over the central area.
Coffer
A recessed decorative panel used to decorate ceilings or vaults. The use of coffers is called coffering.
Book of Hours
A prayer book for private use, containing a calendar, services for the canonical hours, and sometimes special prayers.
Dome
A rounded vault, usually over a circular space. Consists of curved masonry and can vary in shape from hemispherical to bulbous to ovoidal. May use a supporting vertical wall (drum), from which the vault springs, and may be crowned by an open space (oculus
Gold
Represents heavenly realm
Nude
Beauty and Truth
Humanism
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solvin
Contrapposto
an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs.
Lamentation
the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.
Transitional
Relating to or characteristic of a process or period of transition.
(14th Century was Transitional)