Name: Sainte-Chapelle
Location: Paris, France
Medium: Architecture
Style: French Gothic
Title: Queen Blanche of Castile and Louis IX
Book: St. Louis Bible
Medium: Illuminated manuscript
Style: French Gothic
Title: Virgin and Child of Jeanne d'Evreux
Medium: gilded silver sculpture
Style: French Gothic
Artist: Coppo di Marcovaldo
Title: Crucifix
Medium: tempera and gold on wood
Style Italo-Byzantine
Artist: Cimabue
Title: Crucifix
Medium: tempera and gold on wood
Style: Italo-Byzantine
Ours is a lot more faded.
Artist: Cimabue
Title: Madonna and Child Enthroned
Medium: gold and tempera on wood
Style: Italo-Byzantine
Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Title: The Allegory of Good Government
Location: Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Medium: fresco
Style: Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Title: THe Effect of the Good Government on the City and Country
Location: Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Medium: fresco
Style: Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Giotto
Title: Ognissanti Madonna
Medium: tempera and gold on wood
Style: Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Giotto
Name: Arena Chapel
Location: Padua, Italy
Medium: fresco
Style: Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Giotto
Title: Crucifixion
Location: Area Chapel. Padua, Italy
Medium: fresco
Style: Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Giotto
Title: Last Judgement
Location: Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy
Medium: fresco
Style Early Italian Renaissance
Artist: Mechior Broederlam
Title: Scenes from the Birth and Infancy of Christ
Medium: tempera on wood
Style: International Gothic Style
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Artist: The Limbourg Brothers
Title: January
Book: Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Medium: Illuminated manuscript
Style: International Gothic Style
Artist: The Limbourg Brothers
Title: February
Book: Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry
Medium: Illuminated manuscript
Style International Gothic style
What you see in the art
Content
The reason why the art was made and how it can help explain what is going on during this period.
Context
size, medium, color, line, lighting, texture, space, composition
Formal Qualities
The human body
Figure
Materials that are used in the work of art
Medium
A statue you can physically walk around
Sculpture in the Round
Three dimensional image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth
Relief Sculpture
modeling in light and dark in painting, drawing, or print. Creates depth and volumetric forms.
Chiaroscuro
Arrangement of visual elements in the work of art
Composition
To invoke emotions rather than reality
Expressionistic
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Realistic
To imitate the appearance of nature
Naturalistic
The perfect looking way
Idealized
Person that commissions the artwork
Patron
Painting on parchment used on hand writing books. Done in rich colors and gold
Illuminated manuscript
12th and 13th century. Architecture liked to use pointed arches and stained glass to let the light into the Church.
Gothic
Items that are or belong to holy people
Relic
Element of Gothic architecture that allows the building to be taller
Pointed arches
a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall
Buttress
Re enforcement to help distribute the weight of the high ceiling
Ribs
To cover thinly with gold leaf or gold paint
Gilded
Most figures are central and floating and thin and long. use of gold in the background, S-Shaped
Italo-Byzantine
A work of art on or above the alter. ie the Crucifix
Alterpiece
a painting on a wet plaster wall
Fresco
An image that symbolically illustrates an idea or concept
Allegory
The bigger the more important the person is
Hierarchic Scaling
More naturalistic art, More art that takes place on earth, instead of in heaven, Rebirth of classical (Greco-Roman) artistic idea
Humanism