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Early Christian
Jesus (especially Good Shepherd), pick up on the illusionism of Greco-Roman art, mosaics, central plan
versus the basilican plan, Mary , catacombs, sarcophagus
Works: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Good Shepherd at Galla Placidia, Loaves and Fishes and Santa
Coztanza, catacombs of Pricilla, Santa Costanza, Galla Placidia, Sant’Apollinare Nuovo,
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Lunette
Mandorla
Nimbus
Prefiguration
Byzantine
FFFG (Flat, frontal, floating, gold) , Justinian and Theodora, icons, iconoclasm, luxury goods for private
devotion
Works: Hagia Sophia, Barberini Ivory, San Vitale, Justinian and his attendants, Theodora and her
attendants, pantokrator, Vladimir Virgin, Lamentation, Saint Catherine’s, Saint Mark’s,
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Iconoclasm
Diptych
Triptych
Encaustic
Tempera
Pendentives
Squinches
EARLY MEDIEVAL
WARRIOR LORDS (small and portable, interlace and animal style)
Sutton Hoo Purse cover
HIBERNO-SAXON (Ireland and England; illuminated manuscript)
Chi-rho-iota from the Book of Kells
Lindesfarne Gospels
Celtic Crosses
CAROLINGIAN (Charlemagne’s renaissance)
Saint Matthew in the Ebbo Gospels
Coronation Gospels
Palatine Chapel
Equestrian statues
Lindau Gospels
Torhalle Gatehouse
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OTTONIAN (King Otto; emotional)
Gero Crucifix
Saint Michael’s, Bishop Berward’s doors
Gospel of Otto III
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Animal style
Interlace style
Illuminated manuscript
Carpet page
Vellum or parchement
Cloissone
westwork
ROMANESQUE
Age the pilgrimages, roman-like, religious images versus texts
Works: Saint-Pierre, Saint Sernin, Pisa Cathedral Complex, Saint-Etienne, Bayeux Tapestry, last
Judgment at Autun, Morgan Madonna, Ascension of Christ at Vezelay, Visions of Hildegard, Eadwine the
Scribe
Vocab
Ambulatories
Radiating chapels
Reliquary
Tympanum
Portal
Jamb statues
Crossing square (bays)
Trumeau
Post and lintel
Vaulting
GOTHIC
Churches, height and light, Abbot Suger, lux nova, pointed arches
FRANCE
Early Gothic- Saint-Denis
Transition- Chartres
High Gothic- Reims
Raynonant (Radiant)- Saint-Chapelle (all glass!)
Late Gothic/Flamboyant- Amiens, Saint-Maclou, Milan
ENGLAND
Decorated
Perpendicular
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Salisbury Cathedral, Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, Gloucester Cathedral
VOCAB
Vaulting (tunnel/barrel vaults, groin vaults, rib vaults…)
Flying buttresses
Rose window
Westwork
Fan vaulting (Henry VII)
RENAISSANCE
15th C to 16th C (late 1300s to 1600s)
“re-birth” of classical ideas, “re-birth” of learning, perspective, philosophy, Medici family, Florence,
CHRISITIANITY, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael)
LATE GOTHIC/INTERNATIONAL STYLE/PRECURSORS TO THE RENAISSANCE
ARTISTS/WORKS: Giotto (Madonna Enthroned, Arena Chapel), Cimabue (Maesta), Duccio (Virgin and
Child Enthroned with Saints), Lorenzetti (International Style)
ARCHITECTURE
Shorter than Gothic, simplistic, rustication, combined previous styles (Romanesque mixed with classical
elements), domes, Palladio’s villas
Works: Villa Rotunda, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Tempietto, Florence Cathedral, Saint Andrea, Santa Maria
Novella
RENAISSANCE PAINTING/SCULPTURE
Linear perspective (vanishing point…)
Dead Christ, Last Supper, the Holy Trinity
Atmospheric perspective (fuzzy)
Mona Lisa, Madonna in the Meadow
Venetian Renaissance: COLOR! Titian, Giorgione, Bellini
Venus of Urbino, Pastoral Symphony
Artists: Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Da Vinci, Raphael, Bramante, Raphael, Donatello
Works: Sistine Chapel and the Last Judgment, Pieta, David, Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to
St. Peter, Gates of Paradise, Sacrifice of Isaac
VOCAB
Patronage
Classical humanism
Sfumato
chiaroscuro
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tenebrism (begins in the Renaissance but usually Baroque)
NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Religious themes, Reformation,
Isenheim Altarpiece, The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, engravings/etching, Money Changer and
His Wife, Garden of Earthly Delights, Merode Altarpiece, Ghent Altarpiece, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife,
Allegory of Law and Grace, Fall of Man, Harvesters, Deposition
Jan Van Eyck, Van der Wyden, Robert Campin (Master of Flemalle), Bosch, Limbourg Bros, Durer,
Fouquet, Hans Holbein, Breugel the Elder
VOCAB
Still life
Book of Hours
Genre scenes
MANNERISM
Elongated forms, elegance, emotional content, asymmetrical, unnatural, artifice, unusual light sources
Works: Madonna with the Long Neck, Descent from the Cross, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Sabine
Women
Artists: Bronzino, Pontormo, Parmiganino, Anguissola, Tintoretto,
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S-curve (serpentine figure)
Attenuated
Marc
Sarah
Victoria
Erica
Jessica
Andrea
Naomi
Clare
Kevin