1. The Renaissance
Prepping for the test

2. Describe these terms: Foreshortening Chiaroscuro Contrapposto Sfumato
Horizon Line aka Vanishing Line aka Vanishing Point

3. Perspective / Foreshortening
is the visual effect or optical illusion that causes an object or distance to appear shorter than it actually is because it is angled toward the viewer.

4. Perspective / Foreshortening
Andrea Mantegna, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

5. Chiaroscuro (Light and Darkness)
in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

6. Chiaroscuro
St Francis in ecstasy. Carravagio

7. Contrapposto (Balance and Proportion)
is an Italian term that means counterpose.
It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.
This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively relaxed appearance.

8. Contrapposto

9. Sfumato
comes from the Italian language and is derived from "fumo" (smoke, fume).
"Sfumato" translated into English means soft, vague or blurred.

10. Sfumato

11. Sfumato

12. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
is a point in the picture plane that is the intersection of the projections (or drawings) of a set of parallel lines in space on to the picture plane.

13. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point

14. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point

15. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point

16. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point

17. Horizon Line / Vanishing Line Vanishing Point
Why?

18. Remember the most common artists

19. Who did it?

20. Who did it?
Annunciation (1475–1480)‍—‌Uffizi, is thought to be Leonardo's earliest complete work.

21. Who did it?

22. Who did it?
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c – 1514

23. Who did it?

24. Who did it?
Donatello
David

25. Who did it?

26. Who did it?
Raphael
The Madonna of the Pinks
c. 1506–7

27. Who did it?

28. Who did it?
Leonardo
Mona Lisa
1503–05/07

29. Who did it?

30. Who did it?
Titian
Woman with a Mirror
1515

31. Who did it?

32. Who did it?
Raphael
The Small Cowper Madonna
1505

33. Who did it?

34. Who did it?
Boticelli
Birth of Venus
1486

35. Who did it?

36. Who did it?
Donatello
St. Mark
1411–1413

37. Who did it?

38. Who did it?
Titian
The Crowning with Thorns

39. Who did it?

40. Who did it?
Michelangelo
David
1504

41. Who did it?

42. Who did it?
Leonardo
Virgin of the Rocks
1480’s

43. Who did it?

44. Who did it?
Titian
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
1515

45. Who did it?

46. Who did it?
Donatello
Penitent Magdalene

47. Who did it?

48. Who did it?
Michelangelo
Madonna and Child
1504

49. Who did it?

50. Who did it?
Raphael
The Alba Madonna
1510

51. Who did it?

52. Who did it? Michelangelo Moses 1513–1515
(for the tomb of Pope Julius II)
1513–1515

53. Who did it?

54. Who did it?
Michelangelo
Bacchus
1496–97

55. Who did it?

56. Who did it?
Raphael
Madonna Solly
1502

57. Who did it?

58. Who did it? Raphael. Wedding of the Virgin, 1504
This is an altar piece.

59. Who did it?

60. Who did it?
Raphael
Madonna with the Blue Diadem

61. Who did it?

62. Who did it?
Michelangelo
The Last Judgement
1534–41

63. Who did it?

64. Who did it?
Raphael
Transfiguration
1520, unfinished at his death.

65. Who did it?

66. Who did it?
Michelangelo
Doni Tondo
1504–06

67. Who did it?

68. Who did it?
Boticelli
Adoration of the Magi
1475

69. Who did it?

70. Who did it?
Michelangelo
Pietà
1498–99

71. Who did it?

72. Who did it?
Raphael
Sistine Madonna
1512

73. Who did it?

74. Who did it?
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
1434

75. Who did it?

76. Who did it?
Raphael
Madonna of the Rose

77. Who did it?

78. Who did it?
Michelangelo
The Creation of Adam
1510