new ideas in renaissance art

New Ideas in Renaissance Art

New idea #1: Perspective

Perspective: Medieval art

Perspective: Renaissance art

Keys to using perspective

1. Things that are far away look smaller than things that are close.

2. Close things obscure things that are far away.

3. Things that are far away have less detail than things that are close.

Renaissance perspective

Renaissance perspective

Renaissance perspective

Renaissance perspective

Renaissance perspective

New idea #2: Realistic people

People: Medieval art

Medieval sculpture: Chartres Cathedral

Medieval tomb sculpture

Medieval painting

Medieval painting:

“The Annunciation”

People: Renaissance art

Anatomy

Realistic people

“Anatomical studies”

(Leonardo)

Realistic people

“Man in a Blue Turban”

(van Eyck)

Realistic people

“Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero”

(Memling)

Realistic people

“David”

(Michelangelo)

Medici tomb sculpture by

Michelangelo

New idea #3: Nature and everyday life

Everyday life: Medieval art

Everyday life: Renaissance art

Dürer

“The Peasant Wedding” (Breugel the Elder)

“The Peasant Dance” (Breugel the Elder)

“Assassination of St. Peter the Martyr” (Giovanni Bellini)

New idea #4: Showing

religious topics in new ways

Religion: Medieval art

Medieval religious subjects

Religion: Renaissance art

“The Tower of Babel” (Breugel the Elder)

“Sainte Anne Marie et Jesus”

(Dürer)

“The Adoration of the Magi” (Breugel the Younger)

Compare and contrast:

Medieval vs. Renaissance

“The Last Supper”(Medieval version)

“The Last Supper”(Renaissance version)

Medieval “Last Supper”

• Weird perspective• Holy guys with halos• Unrealistic people

Renaissance “Last Supper”

• realistic perspective• realistic people• religious topic, but no halos• dog

This is also on page 308 of the textbook.

Your drawing must be as close to the original

as possible; do not attempt any jokes,

parodies, cartoons, or satires.

FULL COLOR!

NO TRACING!

New Ideas in Renaissance Art

1. Use of perspective

2. Realistic people3. Nature and everyday life4. New ways to show religious scenes

Medieval “Last Supper”

• Weird perspective• Holy guys with halos• Unrealistic people

Renaissance “Last Supper”

• realistic perspective• realistic people• religious topic, but no halos• dog