Transcript Art History Review (with answers)

Art History Review
Pay attention!
Durer (German)
Renaissance
Print (engraving)
Know the Elements!
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Line
Space
Shape / Form
Value
Texture
Depth
Color
Parthenon
Visually Perfect
(stairs, columns etc
through illusions)
Acropolis of Athens
Dedicated to Athena
(Peter Paul) Rubens
Baroque
Flemish Oil Painter
Discobolis
Classical
Myron
Know the Principles
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Balance
Contrast
Repetition
Variety
Movement
Unity
Emphasis
“Night Watch”
Rembrandt
Baroque
Apse
Floor plan
Transept
Nave
Facade
“Annunciation”
Van Eyck
Renaissance
Tons of Symbols
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Michelangelo
Renaissance
Fresco
Old Testament Scenes
Creation of Adam (most
famous of scenes)
1- Highlight 2-Light Side (direct light) 3- Shadow Edge
4-Reflected light 5- Shadow Core 6- Cast Shadow
Shading of the Sphere
Artemisia Gentileschi
Baroque
“Judith Slaying Holoferens”
Giotto
“Madonna”
1st in Mid-ages to do:
Emotion, Foreshadowing,
Depth, and individualism.
Middle ages (medieval)
Art Styles (Time Periods)
• Archaic
• Classical
• Hellenistic
• Medieval
• Renaissance
• Baroque
Bernini
Baroque
“Apollo and Daphne”
Marble
(Both)
David
Renaissance
(Left)
Donatello
Bronze
(Right)
Michelangelo
Marble
Color Theory
Van Eyck
Giovonni Arnolfini and His
Bride (Arnolfini Wedding)
Renaissance
Dog=fidelity, No shoes=holy
ground, Pregnant=fruitful
marriage, 1 candle=Light of
Christ/God’s presence,
Signature=Witness to
wedding, Mirror people=more
royal witnesses, etc.
Korous
Archaic
Marble
Left and Right brain?
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Opposite hand use
Not allowed to look down
Can’t erase (marker)
No talking
Relax and take your time
Caravaggio
Baroque
Death of a Virgin
(Religious story in
common setting)
Criminal
Nike of
Samothrace
Hellenistic
Wet Drapery
Last Judgement
Michelangelo
Fresco
Apse Wall of
Sistine Chapel
Giotto
Lamentation
Middle ages
Fresco
Venus de Milo
(real name Aphrodite of
Melos)
Hellenistic (classical
slightly)
Marble
Pieta (Mary
and dead
Christ-the pity)
Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse
Woodcut (print)
Durer
Renaissance
When there is a change in
direction, there will be a change
in …….
Value
Last Supper
Leonardo
Renaissance
Fresco and Oil
2 symbols???
Laocoon
Hellenistic
Marble
Leonardo
Madonna of the rocks
Renaissance
Shows atmospheric
perspective
Adoration of the Magi
Botticelli
Renaissance
Best known though for Mythology
Dying Chief
Hellenistic
Rubens
Baroque
Pluto & Persephone
(Hades & Persephone or
Abduction of Persephone)
by Bernini
Baroque
Mona Lisa
by Leonardo
Renaissance
Remember one of the reasons for
its fame (stolen, mystery,
background, Napoleon, etc.)
Notre Dame
Dying Gaul
Hellenistic
Calling of St. Matthew
By Caravaggio
Baroque
School of Athens
Raphael
Renaissance
Know 2 people in the
Picture
Pantheon
Roman
Made of Concrete
Dedicated to All the gods
Self Portrait
Rembrandt
Baroque
Hellenistic
Bronze
Moses
by Michelangelo
Renaissance
Annunciation
Bernini
Baroque
(St. Teresa)
Rules for 2 pt Perspective
• Lines are either vertical or go to
Vanishing Points
• Every corner has 3 lines from it. One
will be Vertical. One will be to the left
and one to the right vanishing point.
St. Peters Basilica
Dome by –
Michelangelo
Piazza by- Bernini
Sits in Vatican City
(inside of Rome)
Classical
Marble
Lamentation
Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Renaissance
Vermeer
Baroque
Kore
Archaic
Religious purposes
Marble
Raphael
Renaissance
Baldachinno
Bernini
Bronze and Gold
In St. Peter’s
Good Luck!