Reading Assignment:

Chapter 12, Early Renaissance Art (same

one as last week we had a general reading
last week, now we have specific topics to
concentrate on)
Things to concentrate on: oil painting, Jan
van Eycks work, woodcuts and engravings,
linear perspective, Masaccio

Study Group
Syeda is facilitating
In person or via email/text?
Who would like to take part?

ART HISTORY II, RENAISSANCE TO 1980

Fall Semester Writing Assignments and Dates
First Written Assignment
Due Date: Tuesday, September 22
Due: In class. We will be discussing the topic and then composing a short essay
answer.
Topic: Identity
Word Limit: 500 Words
(you must pare down your ideas to the most important; be concise and clear in your
writing)
We will be discussing, in class, the pros and cons of our lives today vs. the lives of
people in Renaissance Florence. After a discussion of the topic, you will be posed a
specific question about identity in Renaissance Florence to which you will compose a
short essay in class.

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Second Written Assignment

Due Date: Tuesday, November 24th at midnight
Due to: My email at Holly.Stevens@tamuc.edu
Please make sure that you include your full name on your submission in addition to Art History II
in your email subject line. (Help me keep my limited grip on sanity by clearly labeling your email.)
Topic: Time Traveling Cultural Art Exchange
Word limit: 500 words. You will need to be concise.
If you could travel anywhere outside the US, what single work of art would you most like to see?
Why?
What work of art here in the US would you most like people from other countries to experience?
Why?
A few pointers before you dive in:
1) You are not limited in the work of art you choose to see outside of the United States. For
instance, we do not cover non-Western art, but you could choose to see the Great Wall of China.

Quiz

1. In this class, you are graded on two main components. The first
component is quizzes.
True or False: For your final grade, I use your 10 best quiz scores.
2. True or False The second component used to calculate your grade is a
comprehensive final
written exam.
3, 4, 5. (3 points) Please list three facts about the Middle Ages discussed in
class.
6. The Middle Ages is thus named because it comes between:
a. the fall of the Roman empire and the start of the Renaissance
b. the initial outbreak of the Black Plague and the invention of
antibiotics
c. the fall of the Greek culture and the adoption of Christianity
d. the end of the Inquisition and the discovery of North America

7. True or False The Arnolfinis were wealthy.

8. True or False Some artists of the Renaissance won their commissions
through competitions.
9.

Contrapposto means counter posed. True

10.This work of art utilizes contrapposto. True

Extra Credit What culture would you guess
created this work of art?

False
False

Transition of the Middle Ages to

the Renaissance

Naturalistic/abstracted

Realistic

Duccio

Cimabue

Cimabue the
Flagellation

Giotto the Mocking

and Flagellation of
Christ

Giotto
1267
-1337

Depth

Stories told in
cohesive,
chronological
cycle

04/22/14

Yellow is the life of Joachim

Turquoise is the life of Jesus
Green is the life of Mary
Dark Blue is the seven virtues
and vices that run around the
bottom of the church in
grisaille work

04/22/14

portraits

As if you are
walking in on
scene

Tried to show
emotion the
baby is a
baby at least

Quick Diversion.
Mini Ugly Baby Jesus Lecture
Prepare for nightmares.
Now you will see just how decent
Giottos swaddled baby Jesus actually
was . . .

This is actually
St. Nicholas
Refusing His
Mothers Milk
but it
absolutely
works for the
comparison to
Giottos
swaddled
Baby J.

Rogier van der

Weyden created a
whole slew of
nightmarish
skinny Baby
Jesuses.

My own photos from Houston

Museum of Art

Now that you have a new

appreciation for Giotto, back to
his painting.

People as they actually interacted

c. 1275 Manuscript
Illumination

Giottos Raising of
Lazarus
c. 1305

Graphic images coming up . . .

This guy is from Oregon! He was

infected in the summer of 2012!

HUMANISM
humanist - humanistic: of or pertaining to Renaissance humanism;
"the humanistic revival of learning"
humanist - of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity
and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific
method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in
continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas
humanist - a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts
humanist - an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone
concerned with the interests and welfare of humans
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Medieval vs. Renaissance

Art
A short introduction to the
differences between art done
during the Middle Ages and art
done during the Renaissance

Medieval Art
Often Christian in nature images of the
Virgin Mary, the Crucifixion, saints
Concerned with telling a story; not concerned
with realism
Almost no concern with emotions the
images were meant to trigger your memory
for the Biblical story, not convey the emotions
of the characters
Very flat looking no linear perspective,
implied depth, etc.
Hierarchical more important people are
bigger, less important people are smaller
Created by people who were trained to copy
innovation not valued

Renaissance Art
Wide variety of themes, topics and stories used as
inspiration everything from the Bible to Pagan gods
to everyday occurrences were fair game as subject
matter
Very concerned with convincing the viewer that
he/she was looking through a window on to a real
occurrence
Artists spent years studying emotions, stances,
muscles, etc, to get the look of the characters in the
image just right
Very convincing implied depth linear perspective,
overlapping, shadowing, were all used to great effect
Not hierarchical
Created by people who were trained by other artists
in a quest for naturalism dissection, study of light,
study of human movement all included in curriculum

Cimabue
Madonna
and Child
1280 CE

Andrea
Mantegna
Madonna with
Sleeping Child
1465 - 1470

Book of Durrow
St. Matthew
7th century

Caravaggio
St. Matthew
1602

Medieval Manuscript Illumination,

12th century?

Bartolomeo Scappi, manuscript print,

1570

Renaissance?
Dates? Artists? Famous people?
History?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Donatello di Betto Bardi
b. 1386, d. 1466, age 80
Leonardo (da Vinci)
b. 1452, d. 1519, age 67

Michelangelo Buonarrati
b 1475, d. 1564, age: almost 89
Raphael Sanzio
b. 1483, d. 1520, age 37

In real life, Donatello was much older than everyone else; Leonardo was only
14 years old when Donatello died. Michelangelo and Raphael were not even
born yet.

Ponte Vecchio

Architect:
Michelozzo