the art of the italian renaissance

Changes in Art Changes in Art Following this slide are two images.

Examine the two images. One is from the Medieval (Middle Ages) period and one is from the Renaissance.

How can you tell that these images are from different time periods?

What are the characteristics of each piece? Does one image have brighter colors? Does one have clearer images?

Try to list all of the distinguishing characteristics of each piece.

New TechniquesNew Techniques Fresco

Perspective

Human anatomy and movement

Sculpture

Architecture

Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints, 3-D

Organization of outdoor space and light through geometry

Realistic of humans

Free Standing! Donatello- Greek and

Roman influence Brunelleschi- focused

on human needs not divine

Pieta

BY:

Donatello

Masters of High Masters of High RenaissanceRenaissance

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphael

Michelangelo

Did realistic painting, dissected human bodies, goal to capture the beauty of nature

Admired for Madonna's (Virgin Mary)

Accomplished painter, sculptor, architect

Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel

Art and PatronageArt and Patronage Italians were willing to spend a lot of

money on art./ Why were they so wealthy? / Art communicated social, political, and

spiritual values./ Due to banking & trade- people had the

money to spend & commission artists. Public art in Florence was organized

and supported by guilds.

Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!

1. 1. Realism & Realism & ExpressionExpression Expulsion Expulsion

fromfromthe Gardenthe Garden

MasaccioMasaccio 14271427 First nudes First nudes

sincesinceclassical classical timestimes..

2. 2. PerspectivePerspective

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

First use First use of linear of linear

perspective!perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

The The TrinityTrinity

MasaccioMasaccio 14271427

What you What you are, I once are, I once was; what I was; what I am, you will am, you will

become.become.

3. Classicism3. Classicism Greek-Roman

influence. Secularism. Humanism. Symmetry/

Balance

Raphael, School of Athens (1509)

12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 17: Plotinus (Donatello)

R: Apelles (Raphael)

4.4. Emphasis on Emphasis on IndividualismIndividualism Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre:

The Duke & Dutchess of UrbinoThe Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

5. 5. Geometrical Geometrical Arrangement of Arrangement of

FiguresFigures The Dreyfus The Dreyfus Madonna Madonna with the with the PomegranatPomegranatee

Leonardo da Leonardo da VinciVinci

14691469 The figure as The figure as

architecture!architecture!

6. 6. Light & Light & Shadowing/Softening Shadowing/Softening

EdgesEdges

ChiaroscuroChiaroscuro

SfumatoSfumato

77. Free-. Free-StandingStandingSculptureSculpture Individualism

free standing figures, first since Classical era

Contraposto posture

The The “Modest Pose”“Modest Pose”Medici “Venus” (1c)Medici “Venus” (1c)

8. 8. Artists as Artists as Personalities/CelebritiesPersonalities/Celebrities

Lives of the Lives of the Most Most Excellent Excellent Painters, Painters, Sculptors, andSculptors, andArchitectsArchitects

Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari

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