Art History 105 Exam I

Figure 12-2 Tres Riches Heures - Limbourg Brothers - Page with February - Ink pigment with parchment paper - Patron – Duke of Berry - 1411-1416 - Most Famous Book Designers - Unfinished - Book of Hours – calendar (hours of the cross) drove a person to live a monastic lifestyle

Figure 12-3 Workshop of the Master of Flemalle - Merode Altarpiece - 1425-1428 - Triptych of the Annunciation - Triptych – an artwork made of 3 panels - Area Flanders (Flemish) - Lily – purity (mary’s purity) - Blown-out candle – presence of god - Joseph – husband - Mousetrap – bait for devil - Patrons – peter englebreht and hi wife - Patrons in a walked garden symbolize Mary’s purity

Figure 12-4 Ghent Altarpiece: Annunciation with Donors (closed and open) - 1432 - Jan Van Eyck - Original context – cathedral - Mary being informed she’s pregnant (Close) - Mary, god, John the Baptist, angels playing music and Adam & Eve (Open)

Figure 12-1 Double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife - Jan Van Eyck - 1434 - Portrait of two people - Dog – fidelity, loyalty - Removed shoes – holy ground - Rich clothing – linen, wealthy - Elaborate chandelier - Oranges – wealth - Saint Margaret – childbirth - Mirror images – detail of how Jesus was born - In mirror can see backs of the people standing - Van Eyck signed the work and was in the mirror - Detail iconography

Figure 12-5 Deposition - Rogier van der Weyden “Painter of tears” - Ca. 1435 - Body hanging loosely - Virgin Mary faints and her body echos the body of Jesus - Swooped composition - Patrons – Guild of Archers - Compressed space is tighter kind of like a diorama - Attention to detail – bright color - Oil on wood panel 7x8 feet

Figure 12-6 A goldsmith in his shop, possibly saint eligius - Petrus Christus - 1449 - Betrothed Girdle

Figure 12-7 Portiniari Altarpiece (open) - Hugo van der Goes - C. 1474-1476 - Center panel – adoration scence - Lilies – purity - Detail - Patrons on left and right panel want to be seen as pious, and patrons associating with the heavenly qualities.

Figure 12-10 Temptation of Saint Anthony - C. 1480-1490 - Martin Schongauer - Engraving replaced woodcuts because to easier to make. - See his face is very calm, because he’s so pious - Artist imagination at work

Figure 12-12 Dome of Florence Cathedral - Filippo Brunelleschi - 1420-1436 - Ambitious, had the idea of church before he had the technology - Open in the inside - Circle pulled up - Top piece supported by ribs - Self-buttress, self-supporting - Incorporated linear perspective in his building

Figure 12-16. Attributed to Michelozzo di Bartolomeo - Palazzo Medici-Riccardi - Begun 1446 - Was re-entry into Florence for Medici family - Asserting their wealth, taste, fashional - Not too extravagant - Created on 3 part structure - Lowest level – rusticated stone - Middle level – lightness, smoother than lowest - Upper level – smoothest, lighter - Makes it looker grander, imposing - Corners – block the light, creates shade

Figure 12-13 Sacrifice of Isaac - Filippo Brunelleschi - 1401-1402 - Issac uncomfortable pose - Jagged look, rough

Figure 12-14. Sacrifice of Isaac - Lorenzo Ghiberti - 1401-1402 - Smoother, graveful - Abraham – composed - Angel – gliding - No intense drama - Distance between issac and knife - Won the competition due to cost effective, cheaper to make

Figure 12-18. David - Donatello - C. 1446 or 1460 - Story of David vs. Goliath - When boy becomes a man, man defeats evil - Earliest known lifesize free standing bronze statue since Antiquity, Innovation - Patron – Medici commissioned - Used Roman/Greek technique to create the statue - Wears helm, shoes, Classical nude. - Naked – vulgar - Nude – Classy

Figure 12-20. Jacob and Esau - Lorenzo Ghiberti - C. 1435 - Used different sense of relief to bring the closeness of the figure and create depth - Bronze - Using actually literal depth – which creates illusion

Figure 12-23. Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors - Masaccio - C. 1425-1428 - Masaccio first to understand body perspective in canvas space - Donors are painted in painting. Public statement about their belief and wealth - The trinity – dove, god and jesus - The triangle used in composition - At bottom a tomb with skeleton decomposing - Memento Mori – remind you of death. Used to scare people back to church