assignment: renaissance art

Assignment: Renaissance Art• Examine the following slides on the art of the

Renaissance.• Copy all notes from slides 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 17, 18,

20, 21, 23, 25, and 26 into your notebook.• Most of all, take the time to look at the

paintings, sculptures, and architecture. They are all examples of Renaissance art.

• You do not need to copy the headings of slides if they are just examples of art—example slide 4

Characteristics of Renaissance Art

• Still used religious topics, but with secular themes

• Sculptors produced works celebrating the individual and the “pagan” spirit of the day.

• New wealth and materialism led to palaces and private residences beginning to rival the magnificence of churches with collecting Renaissance pieces.

Painting• Before 1300 most

paintings were two dimensional

• Giotto (Father of Renaissance painting) made painting more lifelike by varying the brightness of his colors

• The Lamentation introduced new contrasts of light and shade and gave a three-dimensional lifelike quality

Giotto’s Return of Joachim to the Sheepfold

• It was through patronage that the Renaissance art was made possible

• Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and many others were employed by popes and leaders of the city-states

• Anatomical realism through Masaccio and Botticelli

Masaccio’s “The Expulsion from Paradise”—anatomical realism

Botticelli’s “Primavera”—view of Platonism love

Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1490) shows Italian artists skill with perspective. The down the body view captivates the eye as realistic

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)• lived Renaissance ideal of the

universal person: painter, advisor to kings, engineer, physiologist, botanist,

• Scientist and artist; produced The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa

• Produced many mechanical designs

• Also study human anatomy extensively

Leonardo’s Virgin and Child With Saints

Michelangelo (1475-1564)• Pope Julius II commissioned

Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel over 4 years– Sistine Chapel frescoes—10,000

sq. ft., 343 figures, 4 years to complete

• Scenes from the Bible• Perfect example of perspective,

anatomy, and motion

Michelangelo was a sculptor, an architect, a poet, and a painter.

This could be his best scene ever. What is it?

The Creation of Adam

Where is this found?

Religious focus?

Artists’ training

• Michelangelo and Leonardo received training in Florence under Titian– Kings and princes of Europe competed

for Titian’s service• Many artists served as apprentices to

older artists before being commissioned on their own.

• Rafael and Donatello were apprentices

Raphael (1483-1520)

• Master of Renaissance grace and style, theory and technique

• large Vatican fresco: The School of Athens

Sculpture

• Renaissance painting owed much of its three-dimensional qualities to the painters’ knowledge of sculpture

• Giotto, Leonardo, and Michelangelo were sculptors

Donatello (1386-1466)• Father of Renaissance

sculpture• Donatello’s huge bronze

statue of David was the first sculptured male nude in thousand years

Donatello’s Mary Magdalen

• Made his subject all skin and bone, lank hair, and tattered clothing

• Still is considered saintly

Michelangelo

• Considered the greatest sculptor of all time

• A universal man• Produced

masterpieces in sculpture like an 18 foot David

Michelangelo’s Pieta

• Mary mourning the limp body of Christ is considered the most perfect marble carving

• Most statues weren’t meant to fill the church, but some did

• Most made it into private collections or into public squares

Cellini’s Perseus

Architecture• Filippo Brunelleschi and

Leon Alberti studied ancient Roman buildings and used their principles to design cathedrals

• St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is a model of Renaissance symmetry– Designed by Michelangelo

who died before completion in 1626

• Renaissance architects relied heavily on Plato’s writing on geometry

Brunelleschi’s Catherdal of Florence

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