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T. FLEMING
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
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
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T. FLEMING
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
tenebrism (begins in the Renaissance but usually Baroque)
NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Religious themes, Reformation
Works: 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
Artists: 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,
Vocab
S-curve (serpentine figure)
Attenuated