Art Appreciation 1301 Study Guide for Unit III
Media and Methods/Technique covered in this section: painting, printmaking, photography, and
sculpture.
Chapter 3.6 - 3.7 Historical Styles or Media /Methods Covered
Painting Oil, watercolor
Printmaking Relief (woodcut, wood engraving), Intaglio (engraving,
drypoint, etching), Aquatint
Photography Camera obscura, history of photography
Sculpture Sculptural advancements
1Architecture Cast Iron Architecture
The Renaissance Early Northern, Proto-Renaissance, Early Italian
Renaissance, High Renaissance, Venetian
Renaissance, Late Renaissance outside of Italy, and
Mannerism
The Baroque The Baroque in Italy, Spain, Flanders, Holland and
France; the Rococo
Modern Art Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and architectural
advancements. Realism is in the next unit.
Historical Styles Vocabulary
THE RENAISSANCE
Early Northern Renaissance (1400’s +)
The Limbourg Brothers, May International Gothic Style
Illuminated manuscript
Robert Campin, Annunciation Panel painting
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride iconography, oil glazes, trompe l’oeil
Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
Italian Renaissance
Proto-Renaissance (1200’s – 1300’s)
Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned Tempera on panel with gold leaf
Giotto, Madonna Enthroned
Early Italian Renaissance (1400’s) Rebirth of Classics, Humanism
Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, The Competition!
Florence Cathedral dome Early Ren. dome on Gothic church
Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Donatello, David contrapposto, classical nude
Masaccio, Holy Trinity Linear Perspective, fresco
Andrea del Verrocchio, David mythological themes, humanism,
tempera
Piero della Francesca, Resurrection architecture, pilasters
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
The High Renaissance (1495-1520)
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, the “Renaissance man,” sfumato,
Madonna of the Rocks, Mona Lisa study of human proportion*
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, David St. Peter’s has both Renaissance and Baroque
St. Peter’s dome elements
High Renaissance
Raphael, School of Athens
Renaissance in Venice
Media and Methods/Technique covered in this section: painting, printmaking, photography, and
sculpture.
Chapter 3.6 - 3.7 Historical Styles or Media /Methods Covered
Painting Oil, watercolor
Printmaking Relief (woodcut, wood engraving), Intaglio (engraving,
drypoint, etching), Aquatint
Photography Camera obscura, history of photography
Sculpture Sculptural advancements
1Architecture Cast Iron Architecture
The Renaissance Early Northern, Proto-Renaissance, Early Italian
Renaissance, High Renaissance, Venetian
Renaissance, Late Renaissance outside of Italy, and
Mannerism
The Baroque The Baroque in Italy, Spain, Flanders, Holland and
France; the Rococo
Modern Art Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and architectural
advancements. Realism is in the next unit.
Historical Styles Vocabulary
THE RENAISSANCE
Early Northern Renaissance (1400’s +)
The Limbourg Brothers, May International Gothic Style
Illuminated manuscript
Robert Campin, Annunciation Panel painting
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride iconography, oil glazes, trompe l’oeil
Matthias Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece
Italian Renaissance
Proto-Renaissance (1200’s – 1300’s)
Cimabue, Madonna Enthroned Tempera on panel with gold leaf
Giotto, Madonna Enthroned
Early Italian Renaissance (1400’s) Rebirth of Classics, Humanism
Brunelleschi, The Sacrifice of Isaac, The Competition!
Florence Cathedral dome Early Ren. dome on Gothic church
Ghiberti, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Donatello, David contrapposto, classical nude
Masaccio, Holy Trinity Linear Perspective, fresco
Andrea del Verrocchio, David mythological themes, humanism,
tempera
Piero della Francesca, Resurrection architecture, pilasters
Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
The High Renaissance (1495-1520)
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, the “Renaissance man,” sfumato,
Madonna of the Rocks, Mona Lisa study of human proportion*
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, David St. Peter’s has both Renaissance and Baroque
St. Peter’s dome elements
High Renaissance
Raphael, School of Athens
Renaissance in Venice
