HUMANITIES 251

J. SWEDENE

Please use these review materials as a guide. Do not consider them exhaustive of all the material likely to show up on the test.
  
Florentine Renaissance Style (Fleming, Chapter 9)

Three transitional figures to Renaissance

Florence cathedral (dome)

Cupola, what is a

Machiavelli

Cosimo de’ Medici, who was he; why was he rich;

Sculpture: Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghilberti

Competition (Ghilberti vs. Brunelleschi); subject matter of contest submissions

Story of Adam and Eve; who sculpted it; why it’s unique and inventive

Donatello’s Prophet and David and Repentant Magdalene; characteristics of-

Verrochio, sculpture

Pollaiuolo, sculpture

Linear perspective, atmospheric perspective; what are-

Masaccio

Paulo Ucello, Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico

Fillipo Lippi’s influence on Botticelli

Botticelli (subject matter of his paintings, philosophical influences)

Da Vinci- contributions in painting; painting techniques

Humanism

Humanitarianism

Scientific naturalism

Renaissance Individualism

Some questions:

1. How did architecture show up in paintings? Which paintings illustrate this?
2. Differentiate between the three statues of David from Fleming chapter 9. How do each of these paintings illustrate Renaissance thinking?
3. What was the fashionable Greek philosophical system of the Florentine Renaissance?
4. Explain how Renaissance Individualism was present in the artwork from that period.
5. According to arguments made in class, was Florentine life in the 15^th century really utopian? What evidence is there to support this view?

Three greatest Renaissance figures acc. to Fleming 

Two powerful popes from 1503-1521; who were they...

Raphael School of Athens, Portraits of popes

Michelangelo’s Moses and Individualism

Michelangelo and Greek philosophy on Sistine Chapel ceiling

Pieta- sculpture

Projected tomb of Julius II

Boboli Captive and Michelangelo’s view of the sculptors task

Bound slave and its relationship to a Hellenistic sculpture

Vasari

Creation of Adam

Anthropomorphism
 
 

Some Questions:

1. How does Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting exhibit his neopagan influence?

 

 

2. In what way does Michelangelo combine Christianity and paganism which Botticelli does not?
   

 

 

3. Why is it better to be feared than loved, according to Machiavelli?

 

 

4. Is cruelty ever acceptable, according to Machiavelli?

 

 

5. What is the difference between the philosophers on Plato’s half of the School of Athens and Aristotle’s half?