What Do I Turn in before Midterm?

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What Do I Turn in before Midterm?

• The best drawings you have from each section
• Shading - pedestals, single or multi-day still
  lives
• Self portrait

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Where Have We Been?

• Prehistoric
• Egyptian
• Mesopotamian (near-eastern)
• Greek
• Roman
• Early Christian / Byzantine / Middle Ages
• Romanesque
• Gothic

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The Romanesque Period

• 1050-1200

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The Romanesque Period(1050-1200)

• Tremendous creative explosion
• Church reasserts itself
• Crusades begin in 1095
• Return of urban life
• Economic reform
• Barbarians settle down (convert)
• Romanesque
• Architectural forms and cultural atmosphere
  reminiscent of the Roman Empire

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Whats so Roman about it?
Early Christian Basilica
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Whats so Roman about it?
The Barrel Vault The Groin Vault
Ribbed Groin Vault
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The Transept and Westwork
Transept
Westwork - St. Etienne, Caen (1068)
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Interiors
Durham Cathedral (1093-1226)
St. Savin-sur-Gartempe
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Pisa Cathedral and Campanile 11thC-12thC
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Architectural Sculpture

• Designed to put the Fear of God into you
• Like manuscript illuminations in three dimensions

St. Paul South Portal, St. Pierre, Moissac
(early 1100s) Jeremiah
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The Tympaneum

• Popular themes
• Christ Enthroned The Last Judgement

Abbey of Mary Magdalene, Vezelay
South Portal, Moissac
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• Christ Enthroned

The Mission of the Apostles Vezelay
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• The Last Judgement

The Weighing of Souls Autun Cathedral (1130-35)
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Gothic Art and Architecture
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The Gothic Period
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The Gothic Period

• The Age of Faith

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The Gothic Period

• The Age of Faith
• The Age of the Great Cathedrals
• (1150-1250)

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The Gothic Period

• The Age of Faith
• The Age of the Great Cathedrals
• (1150-1250)
• The Age of Chivalry

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Abbot Suger

• The inventor of the Gothic style (1137-1144)
• Abbot of royal Abbey Church of St.-Denis
• Advisor to Louis VI
• Combined several things to produce change
• Political power
• Religious zeal
• Civic pride
• New philosophy about art and architecture
• We can only appreciate beauty and truth by first
  being able to appreciate beautiful works of art.
• The dull mind rises to truth through that which
  is beautiful.

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Notre DameParis (1163ff)Nave, lookingtoward
apse
Verticality Miraculous light
Stained glass
Note Pointed Arch
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Notre DameGod as the Ultimate Mathematician
Flying buttresses!

• Geometry
• Beauty
• Harmony
• Balance

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Notre DameGod as the Ultimate Mathematician
Flying buttresses!

• Geometry
• Beauty
• Harmony
• Balance

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Autun Cathedral (1120ff)
Amiens Cathedral (1220ff)
100 Years
High Gothic
Gothic
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San Chapelle, Paris (1243-48)
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Milan Cathedral, Italy (1386 ff)Flamboyant
Gothic
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Gothic Sculpture
Romanesque
Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
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Gothic Sculpture

• Realism
• Dignity
• Serenity
• Elegance
• Pathos
• Classicism

Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
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Gothic Sculpture

• Realism
• Dignity
• Serenity
• Elegance
• Pathos
• Classicism

Jamb sculptures Chartres Cathedral (1205)
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Moses Well, by Claus Sluter
Detail, sculpture by Giovanni Pisano
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The Return of Painting!

• Return to fresco, panel painting (encaustic), and
  murals
• Flourishes first in Italy
• NEW MEDIA
• Tempera Pigment is suspended in egg yolk and
  water. Applied to a wood panel with an
  underpainting of gold leaf covered with green or
  brown
• Combines
• Byzantine style with classical Greek and Roman

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Duccio (1255/60-1315/18) Egg Tempera
Christ Entering Jerusalem
Annunciation
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Giotto (1267?-1336/7)The Father of Modern
Painting
Resurrection of Lazarus
Jesus Entry into Jerusalem
Fresco/Composition!
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Giotto Madonna Enthroned
Gentile da Fabriano - Nativity
Note treatment of light
Chiaroscuro (light and shade)
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Contrast with ByzantineIcons
Vladimir Virgin, Russian
Madonna Enthroned late 1200s
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Manuscript IlluminationThe Limbourg Brothers
February The Book of Hours 1413-16
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ThursdayMidterm review session

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