Gardner Introduction and Chapter 19

Introduction; Gothic to Renaissance
(revised 8/08)

     VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
SUBJECT MATTER, FORM, CONTENT
subject (what) + form (how) = content (why)

Iconography

STYLE:  Representational, Non-representational, Realistic, Naturalistic, Idealized

ELEMENTS OF ART:  Line, Shape (2-d), Mass (3-d), Space, Color, Texture, Value

PERSPECTIVE:  Linear (Mathematical) [see p. 547]
   horizon line, vanishing point, orthogonals, transversals

Foreshortening

SCULPTURE:  freestanding, low-relief, high-relief

ARCHITECTURE:  plan, elevation, section

Proto-Renaissance
Renaissance
Italo-Byzantine style (maniera greca)
International (Gothic) style
patron
Humanism
chiaroscuro

ALTARPIECE: Diptych, Triptych, Polyptych

Fresco Painting: intonaco, cartoon, giornate

Tempera



LATE GOTHIC-EARLY RENAISSANCE
 
Nicola Pisano 
Pulpit of Pisa Cathedral Baptistery, Pisa, 1259-60 (marble)
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/p/pisano/nicola/index.html

Cimabue

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets, c. 1280-90 (tempera/wood)
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/c/p-cimabue1.htm

Giotto (di Bondone) 

*Madonna Enthroned, c. 1310 (tempera/wood)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/giotto/p-giotto5.htm

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel,
Padua, 1305-6
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappella_degli_Scrovegni


*Lamentation
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/giotto_ext.html


Duccio di Buoninsegna

Virgin & Child Enthroned with Saints , Maesta altarpiece, 1308-11 (tempera/wood panel)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/duccio/p-duccio7.htm
Simone Martini (& Lippo Memmi?) 
INTERNATIONAL STYLE
*Annunciation, 1333 (tempera, gold leaf/wood)
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/martini/p-martini3.htm

Pietro Lorenzetti

The Birth of the Virgin, 1342 (tempera/wood)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/l/p-plorenzetti3.htm

Ambrogio Lorenzetti 

Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country, Plazzo Pubblico, Siena, 1338-39
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/lorenzetti.htm

CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS

1.  Define the terms: Form, Subject, Content, Iconography, Style, and Medium (Media).

2.  Identify and discuss five factors contributing to the emergence of the Renaissance in fifteenth-century Europe?

3.  Define the characteristics of the Italo-Byzantine style and discuss their appearance in Bonaventura Berlinghieri's St. Francis Altarpiece (fig. 19-5).

4.  How do the works of the Pisanos reflect the influence of Classical art?

5.  What new contributions did Giotto make to the art of painting that led to the emergence of the Italian Renaissance style?

6.  Define the characteristics of the International Style.  How are they exemplified in the work of Simone Martini (fig. 19-13)?