Art History 2, 4th ed. – Review for Test 1- Chapters: Intro, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Introduction, “Starter Kit”
Dating abbreviations: BC/BCE, AD/CE, c. (p.xxi), Chronology
Vocabulary: form, function, content, subject matter, iconography, style (period, regional),
representational/objective (realism, naturalism, idealism, illusionism), abstraction,
expressionism, nonrepresentational/nonobjective, medium/media (painting, graphic
arts/drawing, photography, sculpture, architecture); sculpture – carving, modeling, casting,
assembling, freestanding/sculpture-in-the-round, relief –high/haut and low/bas); architectureplan, section
Chapter 17 – Fourteenth Century Art in Europe
Plates: 17-4, 17-5, 17-6, 17-8, 17-11a and b, 17-15, 17-19
Artists: Andrea Pisano, Cimabue, Giotto di Bondone, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Ambrogio
Lorenzetti
Vocabulary: loggia, piazza, Baptistery, quatrefoil, maniera greca, grisaille, fresco (buon,
secco), giornata, sinopia, panel painting, gesso, Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript,
Annunciation, embroidery, rib vaults, clerestory, Vesperbild/Pieta
Topics:
-Gothic and Byzantine influences
-Relationship between Cimabue and Giotto, and Giotto’s innovations
-Lorenzetti’s secular murals depicting governance
-Effect of the plague on art and society
Chapter 18 – Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe
Plates: 18-1, 18-3, 18-9, 18-13, p.581, 18-24, 18-26
Artists: Jan van Eyck, Claus Sluter, (Workshop of the) Master of Flemalle, Rogier van der
Weyden, Petrus Christus, Michael Pacher, Martin Schongauer
Vocabulary: aerial/atmospheric perspective, International Gothic Style, diptych, triptych,
polyptych, altarpiece, tapestry, oil paint, picture plane, Flamboyant Gothic Architecture, relief,
woodblock/woodcut, intaglio, engraving
Topics:
-Iconography of plates 18-1, 8-9, and p.581
-Northern European interest in meticulous details, surfaces, objects, symbols, etc.
-Oil paint
-Portraiture – religious and secular
-Printmaking and printing press used for images and text (movable type) – advantages
of making multiple copies, effect on society.
Chapter 19 – Renaissance Art in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Plates: 19-2, p. 601 a and b, 19-10, p.608, 19-19, 19-20, 19-26, 19-34
Artists: Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Perugino, Fra Angelico, Masaccio,
Piero della Francesca, Sandro Botticelli
Vocabulary: module, linear perspective, sgraffito, trompe-l’oeil, allegory, sacra conversazione
Topics:
-The figure – study of anatomy, use of models, re-emergence of large scale nudes in
painting and sculpture
-Classical subject matter (pagan themes) and Neoplatonism
-Continued depiction of religious subject matter, secular portraiture
-Characteristics of architecture
-Linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, modeling with light and shadow to create
a sense of space.
-Florence as a cultural center
-Savanorola – first hints of the Reformation/Counter Reformation
Chapter 20 – 16th Century Art in Italy
Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Bronzino, Tintoretto
Plates: 20-3, 20-5, p.640, 20-10, 20-12 &13, 20-24, 20-29, 20-34, 20-37
Vocabulary: Renaissance, Pieta, chiaroscuro, sfumato, cartoon, figure triangle/pyramid
Topics:
-Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael - multiple talents (“Renaissance Man”)
-Elevation of the status of the artist and visual art
-Dissections used to understand anatomy
-Classical imagery continues, even in some religious paintings
-Rome as a cultural center
-Venetian art (Color and tone stressed over drawing/structure)
-Mannerism
-Reformation/Protestants, Counter-Reformation, Office of the Inquisition
Chapter 21 – Sixteenth Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula
Artists: Grunewald, Durer, El Greco, Bosch, Hans Holbein the Younger
Plates: 21-1, 21-4 &5, 21-16, 21-17, p. 704
Vocabulary: iconoclasm, chateaux
Topics:
-Characteristics of Northern Renaissance art (still lots of detail, iconography)
-Protestantism, Protestant Reformation
-Portrait, landscape and genre themes continue along with religious imagery
-Durer as a synthesis of Italian and Northern Renaissance
-Art market in the Netherlands