The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Dürer - ANSWER Renaissance
Arnofini Wedding Portrait- Jan Van Eyck - ANSWER Renaissance
Erasmus of Rotterdam - ANSWER Prince of Humanists
"Virtually anything worth knowing has already been written in either Latin or Greek."
"Sonnet 18"- Shakespeare - ANSWER
Lorenzo "the Magnificent" Medici - ANSWER Florence
Libraries, sculptures, etc
Pico's Oration (Speech) - ANSWER "What is God's greatest creation?"
God gave us free will
"Upon man, at the moment of creation, God bestowed seeds pregnant with all
possibilities."
Embrace art because we're exercising God's greats gift
"If a man cultivates what is rational, he will reveal himself a heavenly being and the
son of God."
Machiavelli - ANSWER Political philosopher
Ideal
Realistic
"Politics have no relations to morals"
"The ends justify the means"
Villa Rotonda- Palladio - ANSWER Ancient Greek and Roman influenced
45 degrees
Il Duomo Sta. Maria del Fiore- Brunelleschi - ANSWER Tallest Domes 375'
Josquin des Prez - ANSWER "Master of the Notes"
Complex polyphony (tonal harmony & imitation)
Ave Maria
Palestrina - ANSWER "Principe della Musica"
Song: Pope Marcellus Mass (Kyrie)
Priest pays for his education, works for priest
Ambitious
Made it to Pope, dies, next Pope wanted selvant monks, fires him, family dies in 2
years
Next Pope comes back and hires him as choir master (Pope Marcelus)
Counter reformation: make polyphonic melody before it's illegal
The Tribute Money- Masaccio - ANSWER Renaissance
Florentine painting
Castiglione - ANSWER Book of the Courtier
"I am not pleased with the courtier if he is not also a musician"
La Primavera- Botticelli - ANSWER Cupid being blindfolded means "love is blind"
Birth of Venus- Botticelli - ANSWER
Pietà- Michelangelo - ANSWER At Vatican
Idealization
Left hand facing up=sorrow
David- Michelangelo - ANSWER 14'
St. Peter's Dome- Michelangelo - ANSWER Biggest Dome 452'
The Creation of Adam- Michelangelo - ANSWER First fresco
Pope threatened to ex-communicate him
The Last Judgment- Michelangelo - ANSWER 70 yrs
Pope threatened him again
David- Donatello - ANSWER Bronze
Contrapposto
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