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Topic 9 – Beyond mere craft: The knowledgeable artist

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Key terms:

· Romanism/Romanist artists

· Perspective: linear perspective or one-point perspective; vanishing point, orthogonal lines, velo; aerial perspective; foreshortening, contrapposto

· Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura (On Painting), 1435

· Classical orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

· Greek temple: colonnaded portico; cella or naos

· Scholasticism vs. studia humanitatis; Renaissance Humanism, 1400-1650

· Erasmus of Rotterdam (14-1536), Moriae Encomium (In praise of folly), Basel, 1509

· Peter Gillis (1486-1533), town clerk at Antwerp

· Quentin Massys, Medal of Erasmus, 1519

· Thomas More (14-1535), Utopia, Basel, 1516

· Karel van Mander, Het Schilder-boeck (The Book of Painters), 1604

Image group URL: Artist http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjck&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=8AJGaS8h

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Jan van Eyck

Man in a red turban

1433

<2>

Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait

1498

<3>

Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait in fur-trimmed coat

1500

<4>

Jan Gossaert

Nepture and Amphitrite

c. 1516

<5>

Maarten van Heemskerck

Self-portrait in front of the Colosseum

1553

<6>

Quentin Massys

Erasmus of Rotterdam

1517

<7>

Quentin Massys

Peter Gillis

1517

<8>

Hans Holbein the Younger

Sir Thomas More

1527

<9>

Peter Bruegel

The artist and the connoisseur

c.1565