Quiz 1 | ARTH-A 102

Madonna and Child, ca. 1200-Byzantine Style
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-Not naturalistic
-Clothing-drapery
-Made folds of drapery in geometric shapes
-Create transition from highlight to shadow...this is called modeling
-2D image
-Byz

Jean Pucelle, Arrest of Christ and Annunciation, 1325-28-French Gothic Style
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-Angel is telling Mary to bear the Christ child
-Gothic figures are tall, slender, and elegant
-Mary is in the "S" pose
-Head is t

St. Lawrence going to his Martyrdom, Ravenna, ca. 450-Early Christian Style
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-Produce in Italy
-In early Christian years
-St. Lawerence going to his death.
Thick, bulky figure
-Lots of facial expression

Duccio, Maest�, 1308-11, front panel
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-This an alter piece
-Stood on the high alter of a cathedral in Sierra.
-The painting is called Maesta
-Titles are given to differentiate similar paintings.
-Shows virg

Giotto, Madonna and Child Enthroned, ca. 1310
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modeling, pictorial space
more modeling than duccio
Sim to byz because of the gold background
turned to early Christian stlye because of monumentlity
picto

Entry into Jerusalem, Medieval Wall Painting, 1066-1485
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Moment is from life of Christ
Sunday before he was crucified
Laid out clothes and palm tree leafs
Art in middle ages, it was quite conservative
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Duccio, Maest�, back panel, Entry into Jerusalem, 1308-11
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-Both sides of panels are painted
-availed himself of the iconographic tradition
He also used group of disciples, Christ on a donkey
-Clothes

Giotto, Arena Chapel, 1305-06
Mostly famous painting cycle
Humanising stories

Giotto, Arena Chapel, Entry into Jerusalem, 1305-06
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-This is one of the most famous paintings
-Giotto uses same iconographic tradition
-He doesn't use a strong sense of pictorial space
-He tells the story bet

Giotto, Arena Chapel, Lamentation, 1305-06
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-Christ has been crucified
-Everyone is lamenting
-He uses the expression with hand gestures
-Emotion on faces
-Leaning and faces
-Leading lines that move

Orsanmichele
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-Was a civic city church
-It had niches for a sculpture
-Each niche was given to each guild
-The guild could represent themselves through sculptures
-1406, all these guilds were making sculp

Ghiberti, John the Baptist, 1412-16
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-Saint of the city of Florence
-Life size monumental sculpture
-Drapery relationship between fold and body
-The draper show movement of body
-One can no really see

Donatello, St. Mark, 1411-13
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-Proportions are not so tall or elongated
-Relationship between drapery and body
-It is much closer than Ghiberti
-Drapery folds show the way the body is standing
-One leg is straigh

Nanni di Banco, Four Crowned Saints, 1412-1415
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-He tried to imitated forms of ancient clothing
-Wearing very heavy cloth.
-They are wearing togas
-Very detailed curls of hair on head
-Recording ancient scu

Donatello, Feast of Herod, 1425
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-Relief sculpture
-It is carved out of a surface against a flat ground
-Uses linear perspective
-He has push major protagonist away from the center -that's weird
-Nothing much i

-Mankind is the center of all things
-It reproduces the world according to how we think we see the world
-We can't focus on two depths at the same time
~Back to Donatello~
-Artists were not slaves to a system
-They use it for their own purpose
-He pushes

Overview

Modeling

the technique of rendering the illusion of volume on a two-dimensional surface by shading.

Pictorial Space

the illusion of a 3-D image OR The illusory space in a painting or other work of two-dimensional art that seems to recede backward into depth from the picture plane, giving the illusion of distance.

Iconography

Literally, the "writing of images"�refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork, and to the study of content in art.

Linear Perspective

all parallel lines or surface edges converge on one, two, or three vanishing points located with reference to the eye level of the viewer

Guilds

Trade organizations

Renaissance

Rebirth
Classical tradition, focused on the human, celebration of the individual. 14th century
Petruarch started it

Naturalism

Realisticness

Relief Sculpture

("to raise") also called relievo, in sculpture, any work in which the figures project from a supporting background, usually a plane surface.