Art History

• 1-Marco Pole travels to China
• 2-Invention of spectacles
• 3-End of crusades
• 4-Cortez conquers Aztecs
• 5-Life of William Shakespeare

Ponte Vecchio

• a "rebirth" of culture--
• art, literature, music, learning

the center of something, or the starting point where the trend moves outwards.

Florence, italy

"Ripple Effect"

The Duke of Milan was conquering Italy and was defeated only by Florence. Florence="New Athens" MAintained independence, "New Athens"=monuments, works of art, education was a higher priority. SMART PEOPLE HAVE ART

ponte

• 1-Early Italian (1300s-1490)
• 2-Northern European(1400-1570)
• 3-High Italian(1480-middle 1600s)

• *Paintings=realistic
• *subjects are reminiscent of Greek Art
• *Mythology=common subject matter
• **Most art was created for royalty in Florence, and THE MEDICI FAMILY

• GOTHIC
• -very clear who is holy
• -man babies
• -flatish
• -cold

• RENAISSANCE
• -realism
• -warm

bridge

creating the illusion of depth by having all lines converge on a single vanishing point

old bridge

ponte vecchio

florence, italy

• -wealthy bankers
• -had lots of $
• -family member was once a pope(all power)
• -they influences and commissioned many art pieces during this period

renaissance

overlapping shapes and making distant objects smaller to allow depth

showing depth by softening lines and making distant objects dimmer, hazier or paler, lack of outline provides a smoky appearance

• means "light-dark"
• using light and shadow to show weight, substance, and bulk; a sharp contrast between light/dark figures look more round and 3-d
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• a painting done on wet plaster, the paint soaks in creating a nearly permanent finish
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• a way of setting up a painting or picture where all of the subject matters are arranged in a way that they look like a triangle

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• a way of setting up a painting or a picture so that all of the main subject matters are arranged in a way that it looks like a circle(circular-blobbish)

he was sitting in a field being bored, saw a rock as a flat surface with some shale to make art with. cimabue discovered him and gave him an apprenticeship

• -born florence
• -child prodigy
• -father of european painting
• -could paint a perfect circle by freehand, without the help of any instruments

there was a contest to see who would design the doors for the baptistery of the church of giovanni in florence and he won. was commissioned to design. all of them are made out of gold and are scenes from the bible. michelangelo named them "GATES OF PARADISE"

• -born in florence
• -trains as goldsmith
• -won the rights to design first piece commissioned art piece in a contest

• -born florence
• -learns metal working from ghiberti
• -many in shop consider him hard to work with
• -his style had a huge impact on michelangelo(learned depth)
• -he was annoying at best
• -very talented
• -apprentice to ghiberti
• -works with bronze(not gold)

• -born florence
• -medici commissioned a LOT
• -mythological/religious scenes
• -wall frescos in sistine chapel
• -botticelli is his nickname. means little barrel. his brother made it up because he was mean and botticelli was kinda fat

adoration of the magi

• botticelli painted. he is in the right hand lower corner
• cosimo medici was in this painting

primavera

• subject-greek mythology
• gods(right to left)
• zepher, flora, aphrodite(center), cupid(center above), mercury/hermes on left. 3 fates also

the birth of venus

• amerigo vespucci's cousin posed
• painting for medici
• botticelli's most famous piece
• zepher and flora are in painting

• STORY/MYTH-
• gods fought, bled in ocean. seafoam created venus

the 3 kings/wiseman

portable prayer area

• -VERY steady hand
• -born NETHERLANDS
• -serves as court painter for john of bavaria, a count
• serves as court painter and valet for duke phillip the good of burgundy
• also works as a secret agent for duke

• the arnolfini marriage
• by van eyck
• SYMBOLISM
• dog-loyalty/faithfulness
• shoes-sacred and holy(take off)
• light/candle-godly(one candle-prescence of god)
• red-beyond religious, romantic
• fruit-oranges or apples?oranges=fidelity; apples=temptation
• mirror-whole image in mirror. 4 people in mirror, can see flowers out of the window through the mirror

• -born nuremberg, germany
• -child prodigy
• -nicknamed leo of the north
• -narcissistic; painted himself as jesus
• -always signed as turer not durer
• -becomes paranoid later in life because he felt everyone was jealous of him and wanted to kill him

• saint michael's fight against the dragon
• WOODCUT

albrecht durer/turer

• self portrait at 28
• albrecht durer/turer
• painted himself as jesus
• jesus gesture
• painted the reflection of himself painting the painting in his eye

• adam and eve
• albrecht durer/turer

wood cut

• -less attention is focused on anatomy and perspective, artists are more interested in technique and detail. not as much nudity
• area of focus-germany, france, flanders(modern day belgium), the netherlands, and england