The music of Palestrina is associated with

. the Counter-Reformation
. exquisite technique and contrapuntal control
. the late Renaissance

Text painting is (“word painting” in glossary)

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
 VENICE
Back to Italy –
Color
GIORGIONE
Tempest
c. 1505
Oil on canvas
82 x 73 cm

p. 253
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
 Back to Italy –
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

 KEY IMAGE

and this column is for what???

Parmagianino,
Madonna with
the Long Neck,
1534-40
Quite a crowd

Little guy
Jacopo Pontormo
Descent from the Cross
1525-28
11’ x 6.5’ oil on wood
Mannerist portraits
are often devoid of
emotional
connotation, but
there is some
exaggeration of
physical features

Pontormo
Florentine, 1494 - 1556/1557
Monsignor della Casa, probably 1541/1544
oil on panel, 102 x 78.9 cm (40 1/8 x 31 in.)
 Michelangelo
Last Judgment,
Sistine Chapel
1534-41,
wall fresco
 Mannerism in music
Extreme chromaticism
Ex: 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 Dates - Musical STAFF used for
1000 - CHANT in the
- EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD in
- MONASTERIES
1066 - BATTLE OF HASTINGS depicted in the
- BAYEUX TAPESTRY
which we associate with
- FEUDALISM

1150 GOTHIC
ARCHITECTURE

After 1300 ARS NOVA

 RENAISSANCE DATEBOOK
1432 – Donatello’s nude David

1492 – Columbus, Christian consolidation of Spain

c.1500 – Michelangelo’s David &

Josquin’s Ave Maria . . . Virgo Serena
 KEY IMAGE

STYLE/PERIOD:

MANNERISM
 ARTIST:
Dürer

SUBJECT:

SELF-
PORTRAIT

Associate with:

NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE
OIL & NEW MEDIA
Renaissance
Josquin
timeline
Ave Maria . . .

Michelangelo
Donatello
David
David

Michelangelo

Raphael

Leonardo

REFORMATION

1400 1500 1600

Durer, Albrecht
Knight, Death and
Devil
1513
Engraving
24 x 19 cm

KEY IMAGE
 ARTIST: BRUEGEL
GENRE:

LANDSCAPE

Associate with:

NORTHERN
RENAISSANCE

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SHOCKING?

Titian,Venus of Urbino, 1538, Oil on canvas

Lucian Freud
Painter and Model, 1986-87
Oil on canvas, 160x121 cm
Lucian Freud, Lying by the Rags, 1989-90
Oil on canvas, 139x184 cm