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chiaroscuro light/dark
idealism The Courtier
raphael school of athens
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote
Bonfire of the Vanities Savinarda
Cervantes - work Don Quixote
DANTE ALIGHIERI The Divine Comedy
Parmigianino -MannerismItalian artist responded to stresses of the age -Manneristssought to express their own inner vision - often doubts and indecisions - in a manner that evoked shock in viewer - MwtLN shows no logic or structure MW: - Madonna with the Long Neck
Masaccio Florence, Italy - Transitional Painter: used light and shading to give figures a more "humanized" appearance
Petrarch - title Father of Humanism
Donatello sculptor, created the bronze David
Brunelleschi Father of Renassiance architecture, did the Church of San Lorenzo, Cathedral of Florence, perfected the Duomo.
Durer painter, metal & wood engraver, Praying Hands
The end justifies the means The Prince
Michelangelo sculpter, painter, and architect who was considered a true renaissance man. Painted the Sistine Chapel and David.
High Renaissance in Rome, uniqueness and emotion--abandon logic and laws, unified proportion and space
"Gates of Paradise" (1452) Lorenzo Ghiberti, museo del opera del duomo
Jan van Eych man with a pink
Rubens overweight women, had assistants to start his paintings
Machiavelli Better to be feared than loved
Giotto Florence, Italy - Painter & Architect, notable for developing a 3 dimensional appearance in paintings / Famous for his various depictions of St. Francis of Assisi
Leonardo da Vinci Painted, sculpter, inventor, and scientist; a true renaissance man. Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel ceiling) Statue "David" expressed the Renaissance belief in human dignity and greatness
Brueghal Flemish painter, brought a sense of worth to peasantry in CHILDREN AT PLAY, THE BEGGARS, and THE PEASANT WEDDING.
Naturalism The primary goal: to immitate nature and persuade onlookers of the reality of their painting. This idea is....
Erasmus Dutch priest and humanist, new Greek edition of the New Testament, translated the bible into the vernacular
Brueghel flemish school, main focus was common man and landscapes, peasent wedding, the beggars, children's games
mannerism the artistic movement of the late Renaissance which exagerates
Gutenburg not an artist, but an inventor who invented the printing press
Guan Daosheng Painted "Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain" woman who was also a very talented calligrapher
Lorenzo Ghiberti -strove to imitate nature, esp. w/ lots of perspective -relief sculptures resurrected form+ spirit of Roman sculpture and architecture -depicted skillfully modeled human figures- stood out spatially against architecture + landscape backgrounds MW: -multiple pairs of bronze doors for the baptistery in Florence
Botticelli He made the "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus."
Bruneleschi He was an architect who completed the Church of San Lorenzo and the dome in the Cathedral of Florence.
Albrecht Durer Known as the German Leonardo and made the Self portrait, and the Knight, Death, and Devil.
Jan van Eyck a Northern Italian painter, he created "Arnolfini and Wife" with enormous detail (mirror) -- empiracal observation
Da Vinci mona Lisa, court painter to Louis XII of France, the last supper, vitruvian man
Botticelli - what - contribution Painted natural paintings and frescos; movement
"Expulsion from Paradise" (1423) Masaccio, Chapel Maria del Carmine (adam and eve get expelled from paradise.. red angel)