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TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED : LATE GOTHIC/EARLY RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH: EARLY NETHERLANDISH PAINTING.

This double title refers only to the North : Major artists: The Master of Flemalle Jan/Hubert van Eyck Rogier van der Weiden Conrad Witz

Major innovations that will impact Italian paintiug: Oil-based paint: before oil based paint

1 Supernatural event transferred from a symbolic setting to contemporary domestic interior: ex. *The Annunciation - The Master of Flemalle, takes palace in a northern middle class home, instead of a ambiguous symbolic setting (some biblical shit) ex. *The Crucifixion - Jan van Eyck, takes place in an alpine area with mountains has medieval houses in the background 2 Disguised Symbolism: subtle symbolism that always involves the Virgin Mary 3 Vanitas: referring the brevity of life ex. *The Engagement - Jan van Eyck, the mirror on the back wall represents vanitas

4 Atmospheric perspective: the further into the distance you go the more the colors fade. ex * The Crucifxion 5 Landscape portrait: you're able to identify specific geological features that exist in real life. boom. 6 Transparency of water: * The Miraculous Draw of Fish Roger van der Wieden, this was the first understanding of the transparency of water, apparently.

EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: FLORENCE 1410-1450 SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING Major artists: Sculpture: Florence: Donatello, Ghiberti Architecture: Brunnelleschi

Painting: Masaccio, Domenico Veneziano, Piero Dellla Francesca Andrea Del Castagno Innovations: 1 Linear Perspective------Brunnelleschi

2 Continous Narrative-----Donatello 3 First instance of full understanding of weightshift since Classical Antiquity--------Donatello 4 Flattened-out relief---------Donatello 5 Sacred Conversation format -------veneziano 6 Fresco cycle------Masaccio, Della Francesca EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: FLORENCE, ROME, VENICE 1450-1500: ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, PAINTING Major Artists: Architecture, Leone Battista Alberti Sculpture: Andrea Del Verrocchio Painting: Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini Innovations: 1 Application of Classical architectural elements to a non-classical structure, --------Alberti 2 The introduction of the Nude Venus in her appropriate Clasical context, ------Botticelli 3 Fresco painting of the walls of the Sistine Chaopel, St. peters Bacilica, Rome. --Perugino 4 Worms eye view------------Mantegna HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: MILAN, ROME:, VENICE

PAINTING, Sculpture Architecture Major Artists: Painting: Milan: Leonardo Da Vinci , Rome: Michelangelo, Raphael Architecture: Rome: Michelangelo, Donato Bramante, Painting: Venice : Giorgione, Titian Innovations: Leornado: 1 Chiaroscuro (light and shadow), Leonardo da Vinci 2 Sfumato, Leonardo 3 New portrait format, --Leonardo 4 Sculptures in Action-in -repose-----Michelangelo FRIDAY FFBRUARY 22 ND MIDTERM EXAM

March 3 to March 17

NO CLASSES

HIGH RENAISSANCE CONTINUED: Painting: Rome : The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Fresco, Vatican, St. Peters Bacilica-------Michelangelo Fresco Cycle in the Room of the Signatures Vatican, St.

Peters Bacilica------Raphael Architecture: The Capitoline Hill,-----Michelangelo The Dome of St. Peters Bacilica----Michelangelo Painting: Venice: Giorgione: Introduction of the lyrical landscape as

backgroundfor for Venetian painting, Stylistic format for the new subject: The Reclining Nude to be completed by Titian Use of a monochromatic palette --------Titian MANNERISM IN ITALY AND SPAIN: Painting: Italy: Florence Major Artists: Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Tintoretto Spain: El Greco Reaction to the perfection of the High Renaissance Masters: elongated figures, strange colour combinations, distortions, no central point of the composition

BAROQUE IN ITALY AND SPAIN: Painting, Architecture, Sculpture Major Artist: Painting: Rome: Caravaggio Architecture, Sculpture: Bernini Spain: Painting: Velazquez Innovations: Religious subjects presented in every day settting made visible only through the use of light elevation of ordinary objects into a higher level by s specific use of light

Baroque in Flanders and Holland Major Artists: Painting: Flanders: Peter Paul Rubens Holland Painting: Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Vermeer, Willem Claesz Innovations: Flanders: Rubens--Church comissions 1 Combination og Italian High renaissance art with local traditional subjectmatter--2-Very large scale paintings.

3 Artists workshop Holland No church comissions: large number of art centers: Increase in ssubject matter, styles and artists. 1 Group portraits 2Genre paintings 3 Still Life paintings ROMANTICISM : FRANCE, SPAIN, ENGLAND , delacroix England Painting: Constable, Turner Major innovations Break with traditional History painting: Current political scandalous subjects without a hero Development of a strong landscape tradition REALISM France Major artists: Painting: Spain: Francisco Goya Painting, France: Theodore Gericault, Eugene

Major Artists: Painting: Gustave Courbet, Eduard Manet(does not belong to a specific category), Innovations:

Ordinary everyday subject treated on the scale of traditional History painting, Salon des Refusees,---- established for the exhibition of the paintings refused by the traditional Exhibition Salon Modern Parisian life activities, ---Manet Fight for Artistic freedom------Whistler IMPRESSIONISM: FRANCE Major Artists: Painting: Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas Out doors painting, break with traditional use of space, and viewpoints, snapshot quality POST-IMPRESSIONISM: FRANCE Major Artists: Painting: Paul Cezanne, VincentVan Gogh, Paul Gauguin Term Post Impressionism used for artists that have passed through the Impressionist phase and then moved beyond in various directions APRIL 26 APRIL 29-MAY 6TH LAST DAY OF CLASSES JURY WEEK------no classes

MAY 6 -MAY 10 MONDAY MAY 6

FINAL EXAMINATION WEEK FINAL EXAM

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER

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