ART 1001 : ART 1001 Exam 2 Study Guide
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Italy: home of renaissance/proto-renaissance: independent city states (florence, venice, etc. , civic pride, prosperity through commerce, humanist learning. Influences from french gothic style (international style: lavish, intricate, the lorenzetti brothers: ambrogio lorenzetti, ambrogio lorenzetti, peaceful city, from effects of good government in the city and in the. Illusionistic tomb with skeleton at bottom: fra angelico: the florentine friar painter, fra angelico, annunciation, san marco monastery, florence, 1440-1445, fresco, fra angelico- friar at san marco. Illustration of 13th century text on how to pray (de modo orandi) Illusionism: andrea mantegna, ceiling of the camera degli sposi , fresco, pinnacle of refinement. Illusionistic oculus (eye) into the sky: di sotto in su illusion from foreshortening cherubs, andrea mantegna, saint james led to martyrdom, ovetrai chapel, church of the eremetari, padua, Iconography: wings: praying donors with patron saints, center: adoration of the christ child, angels, sheperds, magi, campin: an altarpiece for private devotion. Intentions: satire, pornography, moral warning: lecture 10.
