Quiz 1 Art History

Quiz 1, chapter 18 and 19 15th century art in northern europe and italy

34 cards   |   Total Attempts: 190
  

Cards In This Set

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Question 1
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The Book of Hours - Limbourg Bros - 1410
International Gothic - removal of front wall, uptilted perspective
Calender, alternates each month between upper and lower class.
one brother started then died, then other brother finished
Question 2
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The Merode Altarpiece - Campin - 1420
Triptych - three paneled piece
Iconography - potted lily, purity of virgin mary - walled garden, mary's virginity - roman statue tumbling, paganism over
Question 3
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Arnolfini Wedding Portrait - Van eyck - 1430
iconography - women on more domestic side of room, mirror - seeing eye of god, dog represents fidelity
Question 4
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Ghent Altarpiece - Jan Van Eyck - 1400
International Gothic - more realism
Atmopheric Perspective - objects in distance are distorted
First Monumental nudes since antiquity, Adam and Eve
Question 5
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The Portinari Altarpeice - Hugo Van Der Goes - 1475
influenced by eyck and weyden
painted unrealistic subject matter, angles, realistic. unrealistic painted smaller
peasents of equal importance to upper class
Question 6
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The Dome - Brunelleschi - 1420
first work of post medevel architecture
circle - no beginning and no end
oculus - eye, opening to allow light in
lantern - covers oculus
Question 7
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Sacriscty of St. Lorenzo - Brunelleschi - 1420
Commisioned and burial site of Medici's
Ratios
12 windows and 12 shces represent apostles
oculus - gods eye
Question 8
N
Palazzo Medici-Ricardi - Bartolmeo - 1450
Built for the Medicis
rusticated - stone is unrefined
cornice - projecting element on top of building
Question 9
N
The Four Martrys - Banco - 1410
Member of the Stone Guild
They were sculptors who refused to build a pagan god in roman times
trompe l'oeil - appears if figures just jumped right in, foot overhanging the niche
Question 10
N
The Gates of Paradise - Ghiberti - 1430
Gilded bronze exterior, linear perspective in each indivdual story from the old testament
contre pasto - all weight on one foot, shows movement
Question 11
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David - Donatello - 1450
First life sized nude sculpture since antiquity
lost wax method - wax mold, bronze poured in and wax melts
david and goliath
contre pasto
Question 12
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The Holy Trinity - Masaccio - 1410
Dove - holy ghost
first painting able to be measured as an archtectual piece
trompe l'oeil - columns in church are of the same style as the ones in painting
only 21 years old
Question 13
N
Brancacci Chapel - Massacio - 1410
Tribute Money
Contiuous narration
first painting where everything is realistic
foreshortening - human figure is compressed in space
Question 14
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The Annunciation - Fra Angellico - 1440
Fra Angelico painted each monks room
painted same color as monestary
trompe - looks like extension of monestary
slightly still medievel
Question 15
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The Last Supper - Andrea del Castagno - 1450
trompe l'oeil - continuation of dining room
lightning bolt above judas head
linear perspective