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Early Renaissanceintroduction
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Giotto’s Lamentation (1306)- Why is this fresco a big deal?
!- How is it different from earlier art? - What do the aesthetics of the time tell us about the spirit of the times? !http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html !http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giottos-lamentation.html
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Prayer book decorationca. 1250-How does this differ?
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Cimabue (chee-muh-BOO-ay) Madonna Enthroned ca. 1280
Giotto Madonna Enthroned ca. 1310
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International Gothic Style Simone Martini
The Annunciation 1333 [multiple styles may exist simultaneously]
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Renaissance“rebirth”
• Rebirth of what? !
• Early Renaissance centered in Florence. – Banking Center (gold florin a standard coin in Europe) !
– Bank from Italian word (banco) !
– important to trade !
– Florentine banking offices throughout Europe help spread ideas of Renaissance. !
– important patrons of the arts
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Humanism
• belief in human perfectibility !
• renewed study of ancient Roman and Greek literature and philosophy !
• emerges from the Italian Renaissance
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Writers of note
• Pico della Mirandola – See C&V 7th, pp. 287-8 – On the Dignity of Man,
read the introduction for next class (email)
– Used many sources – Was to be his introduction
to a debate with church figures (did not take place)
• Machiavelli – See pp. 289-290 – The Prince, read excerpt
for next class (email) – How to be a ruler. – “ends justify the means” – pragmatic
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Renaissance Art
• New “realism” in art !
• Three dimensions in painting – “Renaissance Space” !
• Traits in Renaissance art (C&V 7th Edition, p 270) – Perspective – Observation of real people – Representation of psychological states – Uncluttered – Roman and Greek motifs
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International Gothic Style vs. Early Renaissance Style(see pg. 269 of C&V 7th Edition)
GENTILE DA FABRIANO, Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece from Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy, 1423. Tempera on wood approx. 9’ 11” x 9’ 3”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
MASACCIO, Holy Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, ca. 1428. Fresco, 21’ x 10’ 5”.
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Renaissance art traits(see C&V 7th edition, p. 270)
Attention to perspective Fra Angelico Annunciation ca. 1445
Emotional states Masaccio Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden ca. 1425
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links for more information• Masaccio’s Holy Trinity
• http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/holy-trinity-santa-maria-novella-florence.html
• Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden
• http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/masaccios-expulsion.html
• Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation
• http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/fra-angelico-the-annunciation.html
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SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1482. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5’ 8” x 9’ 1”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
-Theme of Roman gods !
-Venus here shows a synthesis of -idealized beauty (Neo-Platonism) -Christian mysticism (like the Virgin) -Classical ideal of the female figure of Venus
!- C&V 7th edition, p. 283 !
-Medici Family -Important banking family -Arts patronage -Funded Ficion’s
!-Neo-Platonism
-ideal beauty -Ficino (fee-CHEE-noh) translated much of Plato’s work into Latin -Ficino’s Academy funded by Medici family
!-http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Botticelli.html
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Botticelli’s Primavera (Springtime), ca. 1478Who is in the center? Mary? Venus? !Zephyr pursues a nymph who transforms into Flora
!Mercury and the three Graces on left
!Cupid overhead !http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/botticelli-primavera.html