Art_Appreciation/Week-4/Chapter-18-Class-Notes.md
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# Chapter 18 - The Renaissance Through the Baroque
- Classical Greek & Roman art influenced Donatello
- Donatello was the first to do a life-sized nude since ancient times
- The first monumental painting/representation of a nude goddess is *The Birth of Venus*
- **Sfumato** means smoke-filled, hazy, cloudy atmosphere
- *Mona Lisa* is painted with this method
- **Mannerism** was a style based on "intervention" and the technical virtuosity of the artist
- Michaelangelo's *Last Judgement* influences mannerism
- Characteristics of mannerism is artificial invention, technical imagination, and highly individualistic
- El Greco is the one mannerist artist that is considered a great artist
- **Baroque** is theatrical and dramatic
- The Baroque was believed to have been created by the papacy
- Kinkade is known as the painter of light (his signature)