Italian Renaissance Review
Unit Concepts:
1. Renaissance was a ___________ of _____________________.
2. a. brought ____________________ to art
b. ________________________ themes
c. sense of ____________, ____________, and ________________.
3. Emphasis on ____________________ and the fame of the _________________ ________________.
Historical Backgrounds:
Time Period
Proto-Renaissance
Early Renaissance
Late Renaissance
High Renaissance
Mannerism
Dates:
Vasari:
Patrons:
Who were the Medici and what is their contribution and importance to the Renaissance, esp. the arts?
Vocabulary:
1. monumental
2. nominalism:
3. genre detail:
4. ponderation:
5. fresco:
6. foreshortening:
7. underpainting:
8. free-standing statue:
9. bas relief:
10. niche:
11. equestrian:
12. vanishing point:
13. perspective:
14. tempera on wood:
15. tondo:
16. chiaroscuro:
17. secular:
18. humanism:
19. quatrefoil:
20. sfumato:
21. Neo-Platonism:
Proto-Renaissance:
What are some of the characteristics of Gothic painting?
Cimabue:
Giotto:
How is are Cimabue and Giotto’s Madonna and Child Enthroned different?
Arena Chapel:
Lamentation:
Last Judgment:
How is Giotto so revolutionary in the Renaissance?
Simone Martini:
Annunciation:
Duccio:
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints:
Lorenzetti:
Allegory of Good Government:
(Why is this one so important)
Early Renaissance:
ARCHITECTURE
Filippo Brunelleschi:
St. Florence Baptistry doors:
Perspective:
Florence Cathedral Dome:
-Why was it so difficult?
-How did he do it?
Pazzi Chapel
San Lorenzo
Bartolommeo:
Palazzo Medici-Ricardi
SCULPTURE
Lorenzo Ghiberti:
Baptistry Doors / Sacrifice of Isaac:
Gates of Paradise:
Donatello:
St. George:
David:
Why was this sculpture important? Why was it “dangerous territory?”
Feast of Herod:
What does Donatello introduce into sculpture in this piece?
Gattamelata:
PAINTING
Masaccio:
The Holy Trinity:
Why was this such an important piece?
Brancacci Chapel:
The Tribute Money:
Expulsion from Paradise (Adam and Even Being Cast From the Garden):
Fra Angelico:
Annunciation
Fra Filippo Lippi:
Madonna and Child with Two Angels:
Late Renaissance Painting
Lorenzo the Magnificent:
Savanarola:
Sandro Botticelli:
Primavera:
Birth of Venus:
Andrea Mantegna:
Dead Christ:
Mantegna experimented with what visual illusion?
Ducal Palace Dome on Barrel Vault:
Perugino:
Giving the Keys to St. Peter:
ARCHITECTURE
Leon Battista Alberti:
San Francesco:
Santa Maria Novello:
High Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci:
Mona Lisa:
Madonna of the Rocks:
Last Supper:
Vitruvian Man:
Notebooks:
Michelangelo:
Pieta:
David:
Moses:
Sistine Chapel:
Last Judgment:
Moses-Julius Tomb:
St. Peter’s Basilica:
Raphael:
Madonna of the Goldfinch:
Madonnas:
Stanza della Segnatura:
School of Athens:
Transfiguration:
Portraits
Castiglione:
Pope Leo X and Two Nephews:
Titian:
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary:
Pesaro Altarpiece:
Venus of Urbino:
Portraits
Charles V
Big Concepts:
How is the Renaissance different from Gothic time period?
How does Renaissance art reflect balance, order, and stability? In painting? In architecture?
How was the Renaissance a rebirth of Classicism?
Trace the evolution of the depiction of the human body in art. In painting? In sculpture?
Why was Brunelleschi such an important figure in the Renaissance?
Describe the effect that linear perspective had in painting.
How did different painting media develop during the Renaissance? What accounts for these
developments?
What was the relationship between the patron and the artist? Why did wealthy families go to such
economic and cultural lengths to patronize the arts?
Describe the evolution of painting from Giotto in the Proto-Renaissance, to Masaccio in the Early
Renaissance, to Botticelli in the Late Renaissance, to the Great Masters of the High Renaissance.
Time Period: Years
Proto
Early
Late
High
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture