TERMS AND STUDY QUESTIONS FOR AH 202, MIDTERM ONE

TERMS:

1) Humanism (Marsilio Ficino)

2) Linear Perspective (orthogonals, vanishing point)

3) Chiaroscuro

4) Buon fresco

5) Oil paint

6) Sfumato

7) Medici family (Cosimo I, Lorenzo ‘Il Magnifico’)

8) Black Death

9) Colorati/disegno (Pietro Aretino)

10) Graphic arts: Wood cut, Engraving, and Etching

11) Tenebrism

12) Linear (Renaissance, Linear (formed by lines), Closed Space, Symmetrical, Logical Composition, Linear Recession, Multiple Elements)

13) Painterly (Mannerist/Baroque, Painterly (formed by color), Open Space, Asymmetrical, Confused Composition, Diagonal Recession, Unified Elements)

14) Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther)

15) Counter-Reformation (Council of Trent)

16) Impasto

17) Fra Girolamo Savonarola

18) Genre painting

19) Still life

STUDY QUESTIONS:

1) What new qualities and ideas did Giotto bring to his work?

2) What event marks the beginning of the Early Italian Renaissance in Florence? Explain its importance.

3) Give a Humanist interpretation of Venus figure in Botticelli’s Primavera.

4) List 5 symbolic objects in Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding and explain their meanings.

5) How does the painting from Venice from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries differ from paintings from other areas? Discuss style, materials, and subject matter.

6) What was the Reformation? How did it affect art?

7) How do Italian Baroque churches differ from those built during the Renaissance?

8) What is tenebrism? When was it employed and Name an artist and a work that use it.

9) During the Baroque era, Dutch painters explored a variety of subjects. Name two subjects common to this period and explain their significance.

10) What was the influence of Louis XIV on French Baroque?