ART HISTORY STUDY GUIDE: Chapter 22 High Ren. & Mannerism
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Julius II wishes to revitalize Rome - very creative period for the arts.
Artists want to emulate the grandeur of Rome.
Compositions: balanced, symmetry, triangular, ideal proportions
Venetian painting, more sensuous, sophisticated color harmonies.
Portraits - realistic likenesses displaying character and personality
Historical Timeline
Patronage and Artistic Life
High Renaissance - 1495-1520
Mannerism - 1520-1600
Artists - some from families with limited
means and some from families of limited
influence
Guilds rules the trades
Artists are gaining fame
Pope Julius II is the dominant patron of the
era
Women become patrons of the arts
Italian city states and emergence of
nation states
Large bankrolls and small populations
Princely courts
Doges courts
Papacy
Rome is sacked in 1527 - undoes
much of the achievements of the
High Renaissance
Mannerism emerges
Innovations in Painting
• Venetian artists begin painting on canvas - used to paint on
wood, but it would warp
• Sfumato Technique - used by Leonardo Da Vinci - misty
background effect -has the effect of distancing the viewer from
the subject by placing the subject in a hazy world removed from
us.
• Chiaroscuro - transitions between dark and light - no outlines
• Glazes - sheer layers of paint to build up color
• Portraits - change ¾ views become fashionable - because it can
hide facial defects - become psychological paintings, expressing
the character of the sitter
• Idealization - composition - balanced, symmetrical, triangular
(Raphael)
• Key figure is centered and highlighted (Da Vinci)
• Venetian painting - oil paint on canvas - nature’s beauty and the
pleasures of humanity - saints are more human than heroic aracadian settings
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Major Artistic Characteristics:
Innovations in Architecture
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Bramante believes the circle is
the perfect form - Tempietto
Bramante redesigns St. Peters,
building completed by
Michelangelo, dome completed
by Giacomo della Porta
High Renaissance Palace Farnese Palace
Innovations in Sculpture
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Return to the classical style of the
human form.
Heroic nudity was the height of
idealization
Great figures of the Bible and ancient
mythology
Figures have little negative space and
are frontal
Marble is the medium of choice - easily
available and referred back to classical
Unpainted
ART HISTORY STUDY GUIDE: Chapter 22 - High Ren/Mannerism - Italy - 16th C.
Vocabulary
Arcadian
Canvas
Chiaroscuro
Cinquecento
Glazes
Martyrium
Sacra Conversazione
Sfumato
Genre painting
Still life
Villa
Chateau
Cartoon
Intonaco
Giornate
Mannerism
Figura Serpentinata
Names to Know
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Bramante
Raphael
Titian
Images to Know
Painting - Renaissance
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Vitruvian Man/da Vinci
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The Last Supper/da Vinci
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Mona Lisa/da Vinci
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Madonna of the Rocks/da Vinci
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling/Michelangelo
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Creation of Adam from the Sistine
Chapel/Michelangelo
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Last Judgment/Michelangelo
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School of Athens/Raphael
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Madonna in the Meadow/Raphael
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Marriage of the Virgin/Raphael
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San Zaccaria Altarpiece/Bellini
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Assumption of the Virgin/Titian
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The Feast of the Gods/Giorgione/Titian
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Pieta/Titian/Giovane
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Madonna of the Pesaro Family/Titian
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Venus of Urbino/Titian
Painting - Mannerism
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Entombment/Pontormo
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Assumption of the Virgin/Correggio
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Madonna of the Long Neck/Parmigianino
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Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror/Parmigianino
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Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time/Bronzino
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The Last Supper/Tintoretto
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Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters and Brother/Anguissola
Sculpture - Renaissance
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Pieta/Michelangelo
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David/Michelangelo
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Moses/Michelangelo
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Unfinished Pieta/Michelangelo
Sculpture - Mannerism
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Saltcellar of Francis I/Cellini
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Abduction of the Sabine Women/Bologna