The music of Palestrina is associated with

. the Counter-Reformation

. exquisite technique and contrapuntal control

. the late Renaissance

 

Text painting is

a. depictions of scenes from Biblical texts in art

b. short descriptions of paintings in captions in books

c. the depiction of the sense of sung words in musical gestures

d. short descriptions of paintings next to paintings in museums

(“word painting” in glossary)

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ColorVENICE

GIORGIONETempestc. 1505Oil on canvas 82 x 73 cm

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Giorgione, Pastoral Concert, 1509

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, c. 1520

TITIAN: COLOR & CANVAS

Titian,Venus of Urbino, 1538, Oil on canvas

Giorgione 1509, completed by Titian

Titian, Venus and Adonis, c. 1555, Oil on canvas

Titian, The Concert, c. 1510, Oil on canvas

Titian

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Mannerism

Mannerism

(from handout)

Mannerism - Post-Renaissance, Pre-Baroque style of painting and sculpture in Italy

characterized by elongated, distorted and exaggerated figures.

Pictoral space often crowded, complex or confusing

Parmagianino,Madonna with the Long Neck,

1534-40

Little guy

and this column is for what???

Quite a crowd

KEY IMAGE

Jacopo PontormoDescent from the Cross1525-2811’ x 6.5’ oil on wood

PontormoFlorentine, 1494 - 1556/1557Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544oil on panel, 102 x 78.9 cm (40 1/8 x 31 in.)

Mannerist portraits are often devoid of emotional connotation, but there is some exaggeration of physical features

MichelangeloLast Judgment,Sistine Chapel

1534-41,wall fresco

Mannerism in music

Extreme chromaticismEx: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, by

Orlando de Lassus, c. 1550

Summary – Northern and Late Renaissance

• RELIGION/POLITICS – Reformation; much political & religious violence

• IDEAS – a skeptical Humanism

• ART – a realism of everyday life: PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES; oil painting, Mannerism

• MUSIC – conservative perfection (Palestrina) & new approaches (madrigals)

Anchor Dates1000 - Musical STAFF used for

- CHANT in the

- EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD in

- MONASTERIES1066 - BATTLE OF HASTINGS depicted in the

- BAYEUX TAPESTRY which we associate with

- FEUDALISM

1150 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

ARS NOVAAfter 1300

RENAISSANCE DATEBOOK1432 –

1492 – Columbus, Christian consolidation of Spain

c.1500 –

Donatello’s nude David

Michelangelo’s David & Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . Virgo Serena

STYLE/PERIOD:

KEY IMAGE

MANNERISM

ARTIST:Dürer

SUBJECT:

SELF-PORTRAIT

Associate with:

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

OIL & NEW MEDIA

REFORMATION

Josquin Ave Maria . . .

1500

Michelangelo

DonatelloDavid

Leonardo

Raphael

MichelangeloDavid

1400 1600

Renaissance timeline

Durer, AlbrechtKnight, Death and Devil1513Engraving24 x 19 cm

KEY IMAGE

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BRUEGELARTIST:GENRE:

Associate with:

LANDSCAPE

NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

Titian,Venus of Urbino, 1538, Oil on canvas

SHOCKING?

Lucian FreudPainter and Model, 1986-87Oil on canvas, 160x121 cm

Lucian Freud, Lying by the Rags, 1989-90Oil on canvas, 139x184 cm