10.7.13 Notes

Classy things: At the end of this week, everything must be caught up!!!! All reading assignments and blog postings.
 Study Guide for slide comparison exam; two images up, shown side by side. 12 minutes to write about the slides in a relevant way . Discussion about the the slide must be in relation to eachother not just about one slide at a time.
Slides will be posted on D2L to study for the exam.  
EXAM WILL BE OCTOBER 21, 2013. Image, artist and title (date with in 5 years of real time).
Study everything!! there will be 6 slide comparisons but we will NOT be told which ones.
IT IS A BLUE BOOK EXAM, please remember to bring one!


NOTES:
Sistine Prophets
*Sistine Ceiling; relates to the Arch of Constantine with the medalic forms  and architecture.  Male Prophets and female Oracles alternate the ceiling. Reco Roman culture is wedded to the Sybls Christian culture

*Delphic Sibyl, one of the earliest of the paintings. knows how to amplify the figure with drapery, the minor montifes, gyni (little genuises). hold scrolls or books in the ancient way. Crossing of the arm over the body is a Michelangelo sign. Both this and the Madonnas have the impassive look; looking to the future not the past. predicted the savior wearing a crown of thorns. all the seated posses create a sense of monumentalality.

*Joel, Hebrew prophet. heavily draped. prophet of "the vines of Noah ",

*Zaccariah, the prophet of Christ entering into Jerusalem, placed above were the pope s to enter.

*Erithraea Sibyl, very muscular turning contraposto composition. Gold balisters, use of gold. Michelango used male models only ..
last judgement prophet.  

*Isaiah, Swirling drapery and has a face of a poet. very youthful, all the prophets seem to be gripped in the metaphysical pose. gripping an idea. Prophet of the Virgin Birth

*Cumaean Sibyl; old cave orecal, croan. Was 700 years old when Virgil found her. makes prophet of Virgin Birth.

*Ezekial; makes very blunt movement. His Putti shows him to the creation of Eve and fall of Man. The prophet of  "the gate no man should enter"

*Daniel; youngest of the prophets. Takes notes by having his Putti holding his book. Michelanglo shows how he can change color....blue to green. to yellow.

*Libyan Sibyl, Prophet of the birth of Christ, last and right by the alter. Muscles look like landscapes. Legs are too long to help with the pose. increasing the monumentality of the figures with in the thrones.

*Jonah, right over the alter with a huge fish like whale. He seems as if he is watching the scene of creation.
Jonah and the whale...a Resurrection story. very straining pose. All the prophets are like the are looking back into time watching as the story unfolds.

*Jeremiah, the brooding monlift. completing introverted and meditative. He is really Pope Julius II.
-Auguste Rodin was inspired by this paint which created "the Thinker".

*Michelangelo's Ancestors of Christ in the Lunettes; very melancholy figures waiting for salvation. Depression showed heavenly in faces.  

Transverse Axis; last scenes are painted first. Michelangelo see's he has spacing issues with the pictures.he must expand his scale of figures. Everything changes with the creation of Eve.
Introductory figure at the edge of the painting is reclining. (the great flood)

*The Studiolo of Francesco de' Medici, Prince of Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1570's
collections of his "sciences' " were hidden behind wall hangings.

*the sacrifice of Noah, the Nudi's are what encapsulates the image.
The druken slob,

*Ghiberti, Creation and Expulsion, Paradise Doors, Florence, Baptistery 1425-52
Nudity expresses damn nation in Medieval art. Now it encapsulates Renaissance. Center is the creation of Eve, left is the creation of Adam, right is the angel driving them out of paradise.
The real doors are inside, the outside doors are a fake.

*The temptation and the fall, he had to expand the figures to relate the size. The serpent that gives Eve the fruit is "female". Adam helps her by bringing down the branch. The landscape was trivial and barren, the figure was the most important part. Eve became uglier and less powerful after the fall, become the woman of the everyday.
Power of movement, the musculature, the resilance of the body is unlike anything they had ever seen. Eve points at her womb which is a for shadowing of the pain of child birth and the birth of humanity.
"sex in paradise is love without lust"

* Masaccio, Expulsion. Brancacci Chapel, Florence, c. 1425.
the ivy branches were added later because of objections to the nudity.

*Creation of Adam.
Adam was created out of the image of "God". "the greatest handshake of all time" Spark of life that jumps between the heavenly divine and the earthly . The tension between the two images is electrifying.
Beards were forbidden for the priest and the popes. the symbolism of the beard linked the pope to the patriarch. the other figures that are behind "God" ... who are they? is it Eve? Why is she looking at Adam? Who is the figure that the other hand of God holds onto? Mary and Christ is a good speculation.
at the creation of Adam, there must be sin in the world. There are two theories;
1. rebellion of Lucifer and the angels, make is so that God must replenish the leagues of angels and so he create man.
2.Muslism and christian; the jealousy of lucifer of the creation of man creates the Heaven and Hell

It was said that Michelangelo had surpassed the ancient art work of the body.  


Raphael
* self portrait, from Orbino. Culture center, father was court painter.

*Rome, the Pantheian, were raphael's tomb is located.

*Perugino, Sposalizio (marriage of the Virgin). Centralized structure. The old guys "rod" has the winning flowering rod. repitition of pose and types.

*Raphael, Sposalizio, 1504, Milan, Brera.... same idea, deeper linear perspective; More space. has more movement and better collaboration in the figures. The Building is high Renaissance architecture. First time that Raphael shows his name.

*Raphael, Prophet Isaiah......the response to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.