Art History Review Pay attention!
Durer (German) Renaissance Print (engraving)
Know the Elements! 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 Balance Contrast Repetition Variety Movement Unity Emphasis
“Night Watch” Rembrandt Baroque
Floor plan Apse 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)
Shading of the Sphere 1- Highlight 2-Light Side (direct light) 3- Shadow Edge 4-Reflected light 5- Shadow Core 6- Cast Shadow
Artemisia Gentileschi Baroque “Judith Slaying Holoferens”
Giotto “Madonna” 1 st 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? 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
Notre Dame
Dying Gaul Hellenistic
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
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 Fresco
Vermeer Baroque
Kore Archaic Religious purposes Marble
Raphael Renaissance
Baldachinno Bernini Bronze and Gold In St. Peter’s
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