Art Review—Part One. Medieval Art The Renaissance

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Art Review—Part One

Medieval Art

Mannerism

• Period of the late Italian High Renaissance (circa 1520-1580 in Italy, into the 17th century in northern Europe)

• Extension/reaction to the forms of the earlier Renaissance artists

Jacopo Tintoretto's Last Supper

Baroque

• 16th-18th centuries• “Art of the Catholic Counter-Reformation”

Peter Paul Reubens

Lorenzo Bernini

Classicism

• Re-emphasis on classical forms

• Jean Racine—French Classicist author

Bernini…again

Rococo

• Developed out of Baroque art, but more ornate and bold with use of colors

• 18th century

Neoclassicism

• Mid-18th-19th centuries• Following the “classical” models

Jacques-Louis David

Royal Scottish Academy

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