Italian v. Northern Renaissance Art – Flashcards
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Italian Renaissance: make everyone look super perfect and idealize the human form Northern Renaissance: depict everyone as they truly are, unidealized human forms, everyone is super ugly
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Difference between Italian Renaissance realism and Northern Renaissance realism
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Making everything look realistic. Idealizing the human form and giving all subjects some sort of emotion.
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: realism and emotionalism
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Making everything look realistic by using intense details and depicting humans with all their imperfections.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: realism and naturalism
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Using one-point perspective to make the painting look more realistic and to direct attention towards one object.
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: perspective
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Since Northern Renaissance painters had oil paints, they could make everything super duper detailed.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: attention to detail
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Using classical techniques (freestanding marble sculpture, coin-like portraits) Using classical subject matter (pagan gods, ancient Greek philosophers) Nudity
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: classicism
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Exactly what it sounds like: depicting peasantry and middle-class in paintings
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: emphasis on peasantry and middle-class
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Depicting individual humans in all their greatness (portraits! esp of patrons)
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: individualism
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Painting beautiful landscapes, placing emphasis on nature rather than humans.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: interest in landscapes
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Painting subjects so that they lead the observer's eye along a triangular path.
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: geometric arrangement
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Put their patrons into random paintings (bc patrons decided what was painted). Depicted them in portraits.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: emphasis on patrons: upper-class and nobility
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Using intense shading and lighting techniques to make painting look super realistic. Chiaroscuro and sfumato
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: light and shadow
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Artists often depicted themselves or patrons in portraits.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: interest in portraiture and interiors
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Artists were super rich and sought after. Vasari's "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" fostered interest in many artists.
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Characteristic of Italian Renaissance art: artists as celebrities
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Often depicted darker religious subject matter: judgement day, apocalypse. No nudity.
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Characteristic of Northern Renaissance art: influence of Protestant Reformation
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Northern Renaissance: interest in portraiture, interest in upper-class patrons, realism and naturalism
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