WS #23

Chapt. 22  Mannerism and Venetian Style

Venetian Art

Giovanni Bellini, in his continuous development as an artist, created what is known as the Venetian style of painting. 

v     Trace this development by briefly listing influential artists, styles, and media. 

 

 

 

v   Describe the term sacra conversazione. 

 

          One of Bellini’s paintings is an example of sacra conversazione.  The San Zaccaria Altarpiece represents a more refined version of this as well as represents his ability with the oil paints.

v     Explain.  

 

 

v     What student of Bellini’s influenced the work The Feast of the Gods (22-32)?

 

v     The style characteristics in the Venetian school works differ from the Florentine/Roman style. How?

         

 

 

v     What is meant by the “Arcadian Spirit?” 

         

          Gardner describes Titian as the most prodigious and prolific of the great Venetian painters, in fact, among the very greatest painters of the Western world.

v     The use of ____________ is an important change that took place. 

v     The Madonna of the Pesaro Family (22-36) shows Titian’s individual approach to composition as a variant of the High Renaissance style of Leonardo or Raphael. Explain. 

 

 

 

          From the Venus of Urbino (22-61) one can see that Titian uses color as an element of more than mere description but also one that organizes the composition.

v     Explain. 

 

 

Influences: 

Bellini  on  Giorgion  on  Titian  on  Tintoretto   from  Michelangelo  (drawings)


Mannerism

v     What did the term mannerism refer to?

 

 

          During the Renaissance, artists looked to nature and observation for their studies where as the Mannerists looked to the masters as their models, especially Michelangelo.  By turning to those artists, they concentrated on the human figure, painting them in gestures as complicated as a dance, deliberately intricate.

v     The composition of Pontormo’s Decent From the Cross (22-42) shows characteristics of the Mannerist style through:

 

 

v     Parmigianino’s work Madonna with the Long Neck (22-43) achieves ___________________.  That is the principle aim of Mannerism.    

v     In Mannerist paintings, of special interest were the extremities.  Why?

 

v     Mannerist portraiture differed somewhat from the figurative works.  Describe this using Bronzino’s Portrait of a Young Man (22-45). 

 

 

v     What is the name of the first female artist we have studied?  What did Giorgio Vasari say about her art?  ______________________________  An influence on her work was Michelangelo; she was a court painter in Spain to Phillip II and gave advice to Van Dyke, a renowned Flemish portrait artist.

v     What piece of sculpture sums up Italian and French Mannerism, and who sculpted it? 

 

v      What is significant about Abduction of the Sabine Women (22-48)? 

 

 

v     Using the Palazzo del Te’, describe how Giulio Romano’s work is considered Mannerist in style. 

 

 

The desire to create ambiguities and tensions is as typical of the Mannerist architecture as it is of Mannerist painting, and many of the devices invented became standard features in the formal repertoire of later Mannerist buildings.

v     What church’s design was most influential on later church design and specifically Baroque church architecture? 

 

v     What architects and design style influenced della Porta? 

 

 

          Although Tintoretto has some characteristics of Mannerism in his works, most experts do not put him in this category.  Rather they consider him the anticipation of Baroque art.

v     Contrast Tintoretto’s Last Supper (22-52) with Leonardo’s Last Supper (22-3).

 

  

                                               

v     Veronese specialized in what style of painting?

 

 

          Veronese’s arguements for the original title of his Marriage at Cana did convince anyone. Why?

 

 

     Bramante had a great influence on Jacopo Sansovino (Tatti)

 

Jacapo Sansovino

v     Which public buildings did Jacopo Sansovino desig    

 

v     Describe the Mint. 

 

 

     In the design for a Library, Sansovino uses architectural motifs based on several earlier buildings.

v     What motifs and from what buildings did they come? 

 

 

          Palladio became the chief architect of the Venetian Republic upon the death of Jacopo Sansovino.  His influence is felt over several centuries, especially in (what countries)

         

v     What may have been the significant reason(s) for the “villa-building boom” during the 16th century?  Expand on this. 

 

 

v     Which Villa is the most well-known? 

v     What seems to have been the major influences on Palladio’s designs? 

 

 

 

v     Both the Villa Rotunda and San Giorgio Maggiore are described as “examples of classicism at its most correct, using “rational,” organization.

 Explain.