UVA Study Exam * 2 Correctly Answered.
Donatello, David, 1430-32 - CORRECT ANSWER •Made of bronze
•Donatello being commissioned by the metachi to sculpt this of David because David represents Florence in renaissance Italy
•The Duke of Milan is represented
•Second Implication: the meta...
•The angel Gabriel telling Mary that she is going to give birth to the son of god
•Enunciation: announcing of Jesus birth
•Sprouting lilies are common of scenes of enunciation
Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1492 - CORRECT ANSWER •Secular/ non-Christian art
•On the right is Flora: flowers on fabric
•Zepherilis on the left; the winds
•Zepher is the left wind
•Purpose: Boudoir painting/ bedroom painting
•Given to a couple on for their wedding
•Implicate sex and sexuality and encourage marriage to be fruitful
Leonardo, La Gioconda, 1503-06 - CORRECT ANSWER •Mona Lisa
•Aligns with Leonardo's facial structure
•Was stolen and some people believe that the one in the Louve is a fake
•It has a weird history
•May sell for 2.8 billion
•Can't clean it because of the way it was painted; many thin layers of oil
•She is looking off in a direction contrary to meeting our gaze
•Lines around hand and bodice is blurred: smoky/ sufmatto
•Led to a heightened sense of. Realism. That people were not used to
•The background is not balanced which turns her and gives it greater sense of depth/ same with
overlaying of hands
, Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509-11 - CORRECT ANSWER •Several rooms in the Vatican known as
"Raphael rooms"
•Raphael is more well liked than Michelangelo
•He is trying to create an illusion of reality
•Showing that it was part of God's plan to create thought
•Reintroducing philosophy
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1505-12 - CORRECT ANSWER •Shows the book of Genesis: first
book of the bible
•Wasn't originally supposed to be this elaborate
•Fresco: painting on wet plaster
•Stood upright and arched neck as painted
Sistine Chapel central panel - CORRECT ANSWER •Central panel
•Creation of man
•Physical representation of God
•Bodies that Michelangelo does are different
•They were considered grotesque/ too muscular/ they were not that Athenian idea of Apollo
Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514 - CORRECT ANSWER •Saturation with the piece
•Static/ sad/ everything feels heavy
•A disinterest in life
•The main image is an angel
•Imagery of loss/ perpetual sadness
Ideas that he is obsessed with
Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533 - CORRECT ANSWER •England
•Sometimes called the French Ambassadors
•Called the greatest portraitist alive
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