A painted or carved panel or ensemble of panels placed at the back of or behind and above an altar. Contains religious imagery, often specific to the place of worship for which it was made, that viewers can look at during liturgical ceremonies or private devotions.
Relating to the East Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) from the fifth century CE to 1453.
A luxurious handmade book with painted illustrations and decorations.
The place where the basilica meets the transept. Forms a cross-looking shaped church, and also where the bell tower is.
Invented by Jan van Eyck and uses linseed oil as a binder.
Any aspect of art or architecture reminiscent of the rules, canons, and examples of the art of ancient Greece and Rome; any art aspiring to the qualities of restraint, balance, and rational order exemplified by the ancient.
Melchior Broederlam - "Retable De Champmol"
"Les tres de riches heures du Duc de Berry, February"
-It could be a portrait of the Young Leonardo Da Vinci.
Christ said "Upon this rock I will build my church." Peter is the rock. Peter is going to create a community of Christians.
Oil on wood. 1485. Mary in blue, has her hand over Christ (who is blessing John) and her other hand on John the baptist (who is preying). Pyramidal shape. Atmospheric effects.
-continued architecture of room in the monastery.
Symbolizes 2 main ways to serve God: active (Giuliano) and contemplative (Lorenzo), Figures at bottom = night & day and dusk & dawn.
great altarpiece depicting the Virgin and Child is located in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari ( Frari) in Venice.monumental architecture in which they appear. Pesaro family kneel in adorationThe perspective is also off-center. If we follow the orthogonal lines of the steps, we can see how they would intersect at a vanishing point to the left of the canvas.
an altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo, completed in 1528. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, The Deposition is located above the altar of the Capponi Chapel at the church of Santa Felicita, in Florence.
his painting suggests a whorling dance of the grief-stricken. They inhabit a flattened space, comprising a sculptural congregation of brightly demarcated colors. The vortex of the composition droops down towards the limp body of Jesus off center in the left.
One of the greatest (north) Renaissance paintings of the 16th-century,Painted for the hospital(know for amputation) chapel of Saint Anthony's Monastery at Isenheim, Emphasis of emotion and physical suffering. Composition vertical v. horizontal representing Christs ascension.
Oil on Wood -In the left panel (left) St. John (Luther's favorite evangelist) looms large, overshadowing St. Peter, who as the first pope holds a key to the Church. In the right panel (below), St. Paul, often deemed the spiritual father of Protestantism, nearly blocks St. Mark from view. Durer's Four Apostles stands out in art history as a pure Protestant painting -- these four men are part of the foundation of its doctrines.
Emphasizes the Roman Catholic position that good works are required to achieve salvation and that saints serve as intercessors with heaven. St Stephen and St Augustine appear at the funeral, portrayed as contemproary event, local nobility and clergy painted, celestial assembly painted differently-flamelike movement toward Christ: Italian Mannerist works. Must look up: space seems boundless. Three levels: sky, stage, sarcophagus.
Cardinal Scipione Borghese who commissioned the statue of David, confronting the giant Goliath and armed only with a sling, executed between 1623 and 1624-. The right side shows David's movements, his stride is almost a leap as he aims his sling; seen from the front (fig.4) the pose is frozen, just one second before the fatal shot, and seen diagonally (fig.5) there is a rhythmic balance between movement and pose.
The Loves of the Gods is a monumental fresco cycle, completed by the Bolognese artist Annibale Carracci and his studio, in the Farnese Gallery which is located in the west wing of the Palazzo Farnese, now the French Embassy, in Rome, Italy.