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 planApse

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”

1st 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

Pluto & Persephone(Hades & Persephone or Abduction of Persephone)

by Bernini

Baroque

Mona Lisa

by Leonardo

Renaissance

Remember one of the reasons for its fame (stolen, mystery, background, Napoleon, etc.)

Notre Dame

Dying Gaul

Hellenistic

Calling of St. Matthew

By Caravaggio

Baroque

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

Moses

by Michelangelo

Renaissance

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

Vermeer

Baroque

Kore

Archaic

Religious purposes

Marble

Raphael

Renaissance

Baldachinno

Bernini

Bronze and Gold

In St. Peter’s

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