ART 102 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Jesus, Michelangelo, Italy
ART 102
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Art 102
1/25/17
Nino Pisano
Artist- nicholas from pisa - low standing
- Last names reserved for upper class
- Title: art wasn’t titles, identified by subject
Political rivals- in Italy city-states
- Cause artistic competition
- Large religious complexes “town pride”
Religious imagery - explain and guide devotion
-many people illiterate
Nino’s Figure
- Pagan origin (hercules) - can be Christianized
- Hercules (strong) considered pagan precursor to Christian virtue ( moral strength)
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Appearance of figure is different:
-shows contrapposto: makes him look alive
-ready to act, athletic,nude
- different from rigid and thinner figure in medieval art
Ex, Christ in Chartes, France
- Modeled on ancient Greek Roman art
- Examples in Pisa
- Roman past pride source for Pisa
- New interest in way body works
- Revive Greek-Roman art and reject current art
- Became major themes in renaissance
Virtues- represented through personification
-location on structure convey meaning
-symbol of birth
Cathedral and baptistery - civic identity
- Baby joins religion and community
Pisano’s pulpit - housed in and viewed in
- Baptistery - not in museum, seen in daily life
1/27/2017
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Artist: Giotto ( Giotto de Bondone)
- Giant of western painting
Painting: all saint church
- High altar
- Light bounces off
- Want to advertise charity
- Altar pieces expensive
- Knee and breast show light
- For painting: many people
- Carpenter, wood carver, gilden, painter, bricklayer
- No art stores or paint for sale
Composition: gold leaf, thin layer
- Tempera : pigment in egg based vehicle
- Paint made from scratch
Iconography- study of symbols
-gold symbolize heaven
Cathedrals- point up to heaven
Painting: madonna enthroned
- Virgin mary depicted on throne
- Florence powerful in 1200s to 1500s
- Not big but powerful
- Civic pride through art and architecture
- Big cathedral and architecture
- Has roman foundation- grid pattern
- Port city: river gives access to sea
- Rich city
- Textiles (cloth) - main industry, shown in paintings
- If rich - commission art for church
- Donate for good spiritual cause
- mandicat orders/ beggars - poor
- dont own property
- double service- Church happy for donation)
-rich man happy (go to heaven)
Cimabue
- Cenni
- Painitng: folds and ripples - idea
- Also shadow
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Document Summary
Pagan origin (hercules) - can be christianized. Hercules (strong) considered pagan precursor to christian virtue ( moral strength) Different from rigid and thinner figure in medieval art. Revive greek-roman art and reject current art. Pisano"s pulpit - housed in and viewed in. Baptistery - not in museum, seen in daily life. No art stores or paint for sale. Port city: river gives access to sea. Textiles (cloth) - main industry, shown in paintings. Churcha based on basic squares and circles. Horizontal line - where eyes meet perspective. Perspective - parallel with what seems as end point. Blood of christ trickles out of illusion and located at where lines meet up. When priest holds up wafer located where lines meet up. Jesus - tilting head and talking w/ mary. Mary - communicates with viewer and guides attention to jesus. Further out- patrons (people who paid for painting) Think of #3 which is holy trinity.
