"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do." - Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self Portrait Playing Lute.  c. 1615 -17.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Orazio_and_Artemisia/images/57.L.jpg

Worksheet #2 Due

one point perspective

two point perspective

Masaccio. Trinity with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Donors. c. 1425 - 27/28.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

The Holy Trinity perspective diagram
http://community.pmc.edu/weinstej/IDS%20123/Masaccio,%2520Holy
%2520Trinity%2520(diagram).jpg

the male gaze = a theory introduced by Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema that examines the activity of looking in classic Hollywood cinema. Mulvey posited that because the story is usually told from the white heterosexual male protagonist's point of view, the viewer is assumed to also be white, male and heterosexual. Prompted by this theory, art historians have traced this idea of looking back to the Renaissance when artists, through the invention and use of linear perspective began to imagine their viewer to be male.

Four of her five sisters were also trained painters, but not her brother. The second eldest sister, Elena, also studied under Bernardino Campi but gave up art after becoming a nun. Two of the other sisters ended their artistic pursuits when they married, and the last died at an early age. Sofonisba would go on to become the Spanish King Phillip's court painter and the first internationally recongnized woman artist.

Sofonisba Anguissola. Portrait of Elisabeth of Valois. 1563 - 65.
http://www.freebase.com/view/wikipedia/images/commons_id/982536

The influence of humanism is clear in Sofonisba's attention to the individuality and humanity of her subjects

Bologna was unique among Italian cities for:

Map of Europe during the Early Renaissance
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

Having a university that admitted women, beginning in the 13th century

(Women were allowed to teach, but only from behind a screen)

Painter's guild honored a female patron - Saint Catherine

Men and women joined its artisans guild equally

More women artists associated with Bologna than any other Italian city

Lavinia Fontana. Portrait of Ginevra Aldrovandi Hercolani. c. 1595.
http://art.thewalters.org/imagecache/PL1_37.1915_Fnt_TR_T02V_d.jpg

Lavinia Fontana. Consecration to the Virgin. 1599.

Lavinia Fontana. Noli Me Tangere. 1581.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

noli me tangere = latin for don't touch me

The traditional understanding of John 20:17 posits that after the resurrection, Mary Magdelene recognizes Christ in a garden and reaches out for him to verify what she believes she is seeing.  Christ's response has long been interpreted as "don't touch me." However, the gospel was written in Greek and the phrase was improperly translated.  A more accurate interpretation of the Greek phrase, Μή μου ἅπτου, may be "stop clinging to me."

tempera  = a fast drying, water-based paint that
uses egg yolk as a binder

oil paint = a slow drying paint that
uses lindseed oil as a binder

Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus. c. 1484-86.
Tempera on canvas.

Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and His Wife, Giovanna Cenami (?). 1434. Oil on panel.

Lavinia Fontana.  Holy Family with Saints Margaret and Francis.  1578.
http://www.wellesley.edu/DavisMuseum/images/pageGraphics/education/2001_104_Fontana.jpg

Advantages of oil paint:

Deep, rich color

Slow drying time

Paint could be thinned

Shiny, slick surface

Could be painted on canvas support

Long lasting/ durable