Art 134-World Art History II
Study Guide, Chapters 17 & 18
Pictures/Slides from Text
1. 17.5, Michelangelo, Tomb of Giuliano de Medici, 1519-1534,
Florence, IT
2. 17.12, Benvenuto Cellini, Saltcellar of Francis I, 1540-1543,
Vienna, IT
3. 17.13, Giovanni Bologna, The Rape of the Sabine Woman, 1583,
Florence, IT
4. 17.14,15, Michelangelo, The Last Judgment, 1534-1531, Sistine
Chapel, Rome, IT
5. 17.26, Correggio, Jupiter and Io, 1532, Vienna, IT
6. 17.29, Parmigianino, The Madonna with the Long Neck, 1535,
Florence, IT
7. 17.35, Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538, Florence, IT
8. 18.2, Pierre Lescot, Square Court of the Louvre, Paris, FR
9. 18.8,9, El Greco, The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586, Toledo, SP
10.
18.10,11,12, Matthias Grunewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece,
1509-1515, Colmar, FR
11.
18.14, Albrecht Durer, The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, 1498, New York, USA
12.
18.16, Albrecht Durer, Self Portrait, 1500, Munich, GR
13.
18.31, Pieter Aertsen, The Meat Stall, 1551, Sweden
14.
18.34, Pieter Bruegel, The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568,
Naples, IT
Facts/Information from Text
15.
The two key figures of the High Renaissance who continued
to work and transform their styles in the Late Renaissance were
Michelangelo and Titian.
16.
A new artistic style developed in the Late Renaissance which
emphasized grace, variety and virtuoso display known as
Mannerism.
17.
The most influential change in European society and the arts
during the Late Renaissance was Martin Luther’s Theses which
sparked a split within the Catholic church known as the
Reformation.
18.
The Reformation and resulting “Iconoclastic Controversy”
greatly reduced the demand for religious imagery and sculpture in
Europe.
19.
The reduced demand for religious themes sparked an
increased interest in allegorical themes based largely on classical
literature and art.
20.
An increase in trade and manufacturing brought urban wealth
throughout Europe and increased the demand for private
architectural projects in the form of palaces and castles.
21.
Increased construction of palaces and castles created a
greater demand for domestic art works including stained glass and
tapestry.
22.
A Late Renaissance painter, trained in Italy, who later settled
in Toledo, Spain and quickly became the 16th Centuries most
celebrated Spanish artist was, El Greco.
23.
One of the last religious painting projects of 16th Century
Germany was Matthias Grunewald’s elaborate “Isenheim
Altarpiece.”
24.
Perhaps the most influential and certainly the most famous
German artist of the Late Renaissance was the painter and
printmaker, Albrecht Durer.
25.
The latter part of the 16th Century saw the introduction of
new subject matter in painting which depicted common subjects
such as still life, landscape and peasant activities represented in our
text, primarily by the work of Pieter Bruegel.