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Study guide: This is a general study guide, please read the chapters and memorize the Powerpoint presentations!

Although you will not need to identify the images, knowing the title, artist and year (century at least) will help you answer the questions about the works we covered in class. You will need to know all the details and facts that surround the works and artists, as we discussed it in class.

Here are the key artists and works around which the questions will center.

PROTORENAISSANCE OR 14TH CENTURY ITALY:


FLORENCE ANDREA PISANO (c.1290-1348) The Baptism of the Multitude, Detail of the south doors, baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, 1330-1336. FLORENTINE PAINTING Cenni di Pepi- CIMABUE (active 1272-1302) Virgin and Child Enthroned, Florence, c.1280. Giotto di Bondone (1300-1377) student of Cimabue Virgin and Child Enthroned, Florence, 1305-1310. Giotto, Scrovegni or Arena Chapel, Padua 1305-1306. The Lamentation Scene. SIENA and SIENESE PAINTING Duccio di Buoninsegna (active 1278-1318). Maesta Altarpiece, 1308-1311. Raising of Lazarus Simone Martini (1284-1344)- follower of Duccio Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation 1333. Tempera and gold on a wooden panel. Ambrogio Lorenzetti and Pietro Lorenzetti- influenced by Duccio

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Effects of Good Government in the city and in the Country, Siena, Italy, 1338-1339.

RENAISSANCE IN NORTHERN EUROPE


Claus Sluter, Well of Moses, 1395-1406. The Limbourg Brothers, February: Life in the country, tres riches heures, 1411-16. The Limbourg Brothers, January: The Duke of Berry at the Table, 1411-1416. Jan van Eyck (1420-1441) Jan van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban, 1433, Oil on Wood Panel. Jan van Eyck, Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, 1434. Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (open and closed). This includes the Adoration of the mystic Lamb. The Workshop of the Master of Flemalle (one of the artists was possibly Robert Campin) : Merode Altarpiece (Announciation), 1425-1430. Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, 1435-38. Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop, 1449. Jean Fouquet, Etienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child, The Melun Dyptich, c. 1452- 1455. PLEASE READ Flanders is the region in Northern Europe. It is todays Belgium (north- Brussels), but the area that we are looking at is also Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The art that is typical to that region in style and iconography (story telling of common topics, like Annunciation) is called Flemish Art.

You will need to know all the techniques that we learned, as well as parts/sections of the Altarpiece.

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