Transcript The Northern and Late Renaissance

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GIORGIONE
Tempest
c. 1505
Oil on canvas
82 x 73 cm
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Giorgione, Pastoral Concert, 1509
Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1520
TITIAN: COLOR & CANVAS
Titian,Venus of Urbino, 1538, Oil on canvas
Giorgione
1509, completed by Titian
Titian, Venus and Adonis, c. 1555, Oil on canvas
Titian, The Concert, c. 1510, Oil on canvas
Titian
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Mannerism
Mannerism
(from handout)
Mannerism - Post-Renaissance, Pre-Baroque style of painting
and sculpture in Italy
characterized by elongated, distorted and exaggerated figures.
Pictorial space often crowded, complex or confusing
KEY IMAGE
p 252
and this column is for what???
Parmagianino,
Madonna with
the Long Neck,
1534-40
Quite a crowd
Little guy
Jacopo Pontormo
Descent from the Cross
1525-28
11’ x 6.5’ oil on wood
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Mannerist portraits
are often devoid of
emotional
connotation, but
there is some
exaggeration of
physical features
Pontormo
Florentine, 1494 - 1556/1557
Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544
oil on panel, 102 x 78.9 cm (40 1/8 x 31 in.)
Michelangelo
Last Judgment,
Sistine Chapel
1534-41,
wall fresco
Mannerism in music
Extreme chromaticism
Ex: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, by Orlando de
Lassus, c. 1550
Summary – Northern and Late
Renaissance
• RELIGION/POLITICS – Reformation; much
political & religious violence
• IDEAS – a skeptical Humanism
• ART – a realism of everyday life: PORTRAITS,
LANDSCAPES; oil painting, Mannerism
• MUSIC – conservative perfection (Palestrina) &
new approaches (madrigals)
Anchor Dates
1000
- Musical STAFF used for
- CHANT in the
- EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD in
- MONASTERIES
1066 - BATTLE OF HASTINGS depicted in the
- BAYEUX TAPESTRY
which we associate with
- FEUDALISM
1150
GOTHIC
ARCHITECTURE
After 1300
ARS NOVA
RENAISSANCE DATEBOOK
1432 –
Donatello’s nude David
1492 – Columbus, Christian consolidation of Spain
c.1500 – Michelangelo’s David &
Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . Virgo Serena
KEY IMAGE
STYLE/PERIOD:
MANNERISM
ARTIST:
Dürer
SUBJECT:
SELFPORTRAIT
Associate with:
NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE
OIL & NEW MEDIA
Renaissance
timeline
Donatello
David
Josquin
Ave Maria . . .
Michelangelo
David
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo
REFORMATION
1400
1500
1600
ARTIST:
GENRE:
LANDSCAPE
Associate with:
NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE
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BRUEGEL
Durer, Albrecht
Knight, Death and
Devil
1513
Engraving
24 x 19 cm
KEY IMAGE
SHOCKING?
Titian,Venus of Urbino, 1538, Oil on canvas
Lucian Freud
Painter and Model, 1986-87
Oil on canvas, 160x121 cm
Lucian Freud, Lying by the Rags, 1989-90
Oil on canvas, 139x184 cm
The music of Palestrina is associated with
. the Counter-Reformation
. exquisite technique and contrapuntal control
. the late Renaissance
Text painting is
(“word painting” in glossary)
a. depictions of scenes from Biblical texts in art
b. short descriptions of paintings in captions in books
c. the depiction of the sense of sung words in musical
gestures
d. short descriptions of paintings next to paintings in museums