1st Period Art Test

1 Almost Renaissance time and is showing Renaissance characteristics – maybe ask them to do a comparison Some perspective, better face position

2 Point in time when Adam and Eve have been kicked out the Garden (you may have to recap the Bible stories many kids will not know) You can see the grief on the face – realistic but I find to be clumsy representations of the human body

3 A fresco (painting on wet plaster) in a monastery. Was not a really prized painting – they actually created a doorway which took out a little of the painting – see at Jesus feet The moment in the story when Jesus announced that one of the disciples would betray him – “who me, not me, him???”

4 Most famous painting – Why? Don’t know who it is – Lisa a girl for hire, wife of famous banker, Leonardo in drag? The link takes you to a webpage with a pic morphing Mona Lisa and Leonardo Hands are supposed to be excellent examples The smile – is it really a smile? A smirk? There are no eyebrows to help give an indication Also, ask them where the horizon line hits her then quickly change slide. Let them answer, then go back and let them answer again. Look at it – on one side it is lower then the other. It is supposed to make you subconsciously try to solve the problem so your eyes go back and forth

5 A drawing from da Vinci’s notebook – I really don’t know enough about this one

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8 A chapel is a room for worship in a larger building. So like a chapel in a hospital… The Sistine Chapel is a room in the Vatican. The Sistine Chapel is a special room, this is where the College of Cardinals meet when the Pope dies to elect a new Pope. No one else is allowed in the room, as a matter of fact if the Cardinals do not arrive at a decision in a reasonable amount of time they can be locked in until a decision is made. When the Cardinals take a vote that does not result in a Pope then the ballots are burned with an additive that gives off gray smoke. The smoke can be seen by the crowds gathered in St. Peters square. If a Pope gets elected, then the smoke is white. The following slides are of panels of the ceiling.

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10 Pieta – Mary holding the dead body of Jesus. Dead bodies are difficult to do well. It is hard to show the weight of a dead body. One way to do it is to make the body disproportionately large/long. But Michelangelo accomplished the feeling of a dead body without elongating the body too much. This is Michelangelo’s first piece. Michelangelo considered himself a sculptor, not a painter. He was a young artist, proud of his first sculpture. He had just delivered the statue to its new home. He went back to check on it. Two older men from town were there discussing the artwork. They were commenting how good it was, the detail, Mary’s face, etc. Michelangelo was standing back listening, beaming with pride. One asked “who is the artist?” the other answered some other artists name. Michelangelo was furious, he rushed out, grabbed his chisel, came back to the statue and chiseled his name into the strap across Mary’s chest.

11 One of the creation panels – The moment when God gave life to Adam, you can almost see the electricity between their fingers. God is sitting in a image that closely resembles the human brain. Get an AP Psych student to point some parts out to you. The columns are completely painting 2-D –

12 Gothic style – expressive ugliness to give statue a life of its own, the ugliness shows her sinful nature This is Magdalen is made of wood. This is based on the Bible story where the man asked Jesus to come speak but doesn’t show him the normal courtesies. The woman, maybe a prostitute, wet his feet with her tears and dried his feet with her hair. Wait a second – what she is wearing is her - - - hair.

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14 She looks pregnant, but critics say this is just the style of dress at the time (yeah right) I think he looks like Voldemort. Lots of symbolism in painting

15 The doors on the Baptistry outside the church. These are the doors directly across from the front of the church – Sometimes called the gates of paradise because this was the closest one would come to heaven on earth because at this moment when a person was just baptized and free of sin. There was a competition to design the new doors. Ghiberti won. The doors are bronze. Each panel tells part of a Bible story. Along the sides are reliefs of people

16 David – again – but this David is at a different point in the Goliath story. Instead of the moment when David had defeated Goliath and chopped off his head – This is the moment when David has volunteered to fight Goliath. Remember he was the younger brother, no one thought he would be successful. This is the moment when David stepped out, rocks in hand, slingshot over the shoulder, he has sized up his competition and decided that he can do this. David has the look of confidence. This is a very Renaissance concept. The de Medicis had commissioned a sculpture for the roof of the Justice building in Florence. But when Michelangelo delivered the statue, it was too perfect for the roof, so the statue was placed next to the entrance. David’s look of confidence was supposed to strike fear in the guilty. Most sculptors would plan their works in advance. They would sketch it out, make a model, grid off the block of marble… But not Michelangelo – He felt like their was a form trapped in the block. He felt his job was to “free” the form from the marble. He would talk to the marble, “come out of there” “show yourself” “who is in there.” The block of marble that David was carved from had a significant flaw and had been discarded by another artist.

17 A prophet of Jesus – I don’t know what she prophesied about Jesus??? – But Delphi was a city in Greece. The sibyl (fortune teller, an oracle) that lived in Delphi was famous. It was always a woman, there was always a younger woman in training to replace the older sibyl when she died. If you had a big question like “Should my city-state go to war with the other city-state?” You would walk to Delphi, go down into her cave. The first thing you would see is the body of the former sibyl in cage with jewels in the place of her eyes. You would be shown to a waiting room. Sometimes the wait was several hours. Finally, you would be allowed to ask the Sibyl your question. “Should my city-state go to war with the other city-state?” The sibyl would answer with something like “In any war there is a winner and a loser.” You’d be like “oh, cool, ok.” Leave and walk home. About half way home you would shake it off and think about it and realize you don’t really know what her answer was. The cave of the Delphic Sibyl has recently been discovered. The cave has a crack in the floor. From the crack in the floor a narcotic gas is leaking into the cave putting the people into a trance.

18 Two versions of this painting with subtle differences – Da Vinci Code conspiracy theory type things – on later slide. Sfumato – da Vinci style of painting that is fuzzy and hazy look

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20 Also in Northern Renaissance – painted more common people Brueghal has lots of bright white, that clay/red color, and earth tones I think his people have a rounded edge type quality

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22 On the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel – The Second Coming when Jesus returns (with Mary at his side) to take the faithful to heaven and condemn the unsaved to hell. The picture also looks like a skull – the arches make the eyes, Jesus is about the nose -

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