FAH230H1 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes -
FAH230H1
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
FAH230 – Renaissance Art and Architecture
Lecture 1 – Thursday, January 4, 2018
Office hours – after class
- Mainly focus on Italy, and a bit on Northern Europe
Renaissance
- Freh ord, eas reith
- The word came out in the 19th century but was present (idea) in 14th century
- Florence, Rome, Venice – key places
Florence
- Three crown poets
o Dante – divine comedy
o Francesco Petrarch – father of renassicance humanism, poet, very popular and
influential throughout renaissance period, desire to be remembered after death,
quest for fame and quest for immortality
o Giovanni Boccaccio – Decameron (book)
- Petrarch and Boccaccio – desire to revive the ancient world , language and writings of
greek and roman world
o Petrarch really had a nostolga for rome
▪ Because popes were in france and not Italy
o Conceived a rebirth of classical antiquity
First verse: Petrarch praises vergil for giving face to his city
Second verse: gives praise to painter for bringing fame to his hometown
- Funny because giving praise to an ancient author and a contemporary painter
- Self osiee that theres a reak fro the edieal period
- Begin to see themselves as living in an entirfely new period
- Contemporary authors and artists were creating things that could rival the ancient
authors and artists
- Reoccurring theme of renaissance: contemporary rival against antiques
- Antique art insprired the imitation of nature – Vasari
- e dot agree, there are continuity of medieval to renaissance
- renaissance suggests innovation, not just classical revival and imitation of nature and intiquity
- Linear perspective being the greatest innovation
- Parsgone – Italian word for debates
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Vasari
God was the first desiger, ad Gods first desiger is the reatio of the uierse
- Art originated with nature, first image, first sculpture was the earth
- History of art through a series of biogrpahes
o Rulers and saints only get biographies
Late Duecento and Trecento art in Italy
Cimabue
- Crucifix from Pisa, Cross #15 , late 12th century
- Byzantine style leading style in Italy
- Presented as the first light of the ren, took the first steps
- Born around 1240, active around the 13th centure (prob from Florence)
- He worked in the greek manor, byzantine style but through him we see the move in
vsual arts
- (fiction) Constantly drawing on his books and skip school to study – to show that he had
an inate – born skill and his father supported him
- he drew from nature and improved a lot
- byzantine style as a dead tradition
- byzantine art: 2d forms, figures placed very frontily,
- classical inention in the work
o greater realism, and drapery techniques, postures and gestures from greek art –
to auggest mourning
o image was stripped down to focus on the mourning and suffering and body
- Enthoned Madonna and child wth cangels and prophets
- Naesta – majesty
- Presented as queen of heaven
- New drama and emotive power of the work
- Thrown is shown frontily, below reprenstation of prophets
- Attempted to show depth through the angles but has not exactly given the sense of 3d
o Everyone is at different angles, up at mary, down on the thrown, angels head on
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Giotto
- Have more weight to them
- Stronger sense of bodies beneath their clothing
- More sense of modelling threw light and dark
- More epic than duccio – duccio lyrical
- Arena Chapel
o Paints three different levels
o The paitig ouldt e uderstoof y the igorat
o Founding father of renaissance painting
o New naturalism they saw in his work
o Argued that he built it (enrico) to make up for his sins
o Placement of figures in image
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Document Summary
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