Chapter Twenty-One
Humanism and the Allure of Antiquity: Fifteenth-Century Italian Art
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Vocabulary Words:
   chiaroscuro            foreshortening              linear perspective          Neo-Platonism
       Medici              Savonarola             Orthogonal              Tromp l'oeil       Renaissance
rustication          vanishing point
On the left is an early Renaissance sculpture and on the right is a Late Gothic sculpture from Northern Europe.  Compare and contrast them with the chart below.

Name:__________________________

                                                                                            Sculpture:
                                                                                          Stance/presentation
                                                                                          Anatomical detail/correctness
                                                                                          Movement/gesture
                                                                                          Facial expression
                                                                                          Purpose/function/context
                                                                                          Meaning/content
                                                                                          Negative/positive space
                                                                                          Organic/geometric form

Left image:                                                                                                         Right image:
Name of work of art:____________________    Name of work of art:______________________
Date:________________                                             Date:_________________
Period or Style:______________                              Period or Style:__________________
Material/Technique:____________________    Material/Technique:_____________________
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Similarity #1__________________________    Similarity #1___________________________
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Difference #1_________________________      Difference #1__________________________
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Difference #2________________________          Difference #2__________________________
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Difference #3_______________________              Difference #3_________________________
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Difference #4_______________________                Difference #4_________________________
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