Homework Assignment: #2: Compare these two works using our 3 part format.Compare these works: Identify General Statement Supporting Evidence

The High RenaissanceMan, the measure of all things

Greek Classicism: The model

A rebirth of humanism.Man stands alone, prepared

to take the consequences of

his own actions.

Action in repose

Reason guides Man’s action: The Climax

Spiritual InhibitionForms which are:

Restricted

Stylized

Man, the Challenger…again!Free standing

We know the sculptor’s name

From Otherworld to this world concern

FLORENCE, THE NEW ATHENS

Man imposes his will and pride

Ghiberti Brunelleschi

Who will win

the competition?

The commission for the Bronze Doors of the Baptistry

And the winner is?

Ghiberti brings the bible to earth. Although losing the competition, Brunelleschi’s

discovery of linear perspective paves the way.

Spatial illusion made possibleLinear and aerial perspective

Early Renaissance: Exploiting linear perspective.Niccolo da Tolentino leads the Florentine troops. 1450s. Paolo Uccello

A 3D obsession

Masaccio

Linear details

Foreshortening

Human emotion

One point perspective brings spatial harmony in a 3D illusion of reality.

Pre-Renaissance depiction

Ghirlandaio The Last Supper

Where is Judas? Do you get the point?

The High Renaissance: The culmination of pictorial communication.

Da Vinci utilizes linear perspective and groupings to organize space.

The viewer is placed in the audience; not as a participant at the table.

Judas is placed in opposition to Christ at a 90 degree angle.

Closed Form

Plane Composition

Linear

The High RenaissanceA culmination of visual knowledge

and aesthetic groundbreaking.

In the brief span of 25 years, four great

masters produced works unparalleled

in artistic achievement.

Raphael

Da Vinci

Michelangelo

Titian

Figures are composed within

an implied Closed Form, or in

this case, a triangle.

Religious themes

infused with HUMANISM

Figures and landscapeare placed parallel tothe picture plane.

Shapes are placed in a

a series of PLANES which

are parallel to the frame.

Closed-form & Plane

Raphael unifies his work

with a CLOSED FORM

composition.

Both linear and aerial

perspective place us

in this PLANE, stage-like

setting.

His idealized figures are

clarified with a LINEAR

emphasis on the clarity

of outline.

The light of day.

Raphael’s Deposition of Christ

Calm, balanced

grandeur of the

High Renaissance

Idealized

Rational

Humanism

Titian: The Venetian

Anticipates the

Baroque.

Lost edges

Intimate space

and lighting

Greater corporeality

Unified by light

PAINTERLY*

* Time in flux Lost edges Softer edges Suggested detail

Giorgione: The Venetian painter who reflects a more secular and

sensuous art of the Renaissance. His compositions will be

the source of inspiration for the French Realist, Manet.

Titian’s Venuses: A sensual response to the secular

focus of Venice’s wealthy merchant class.

This, I will do!

Michelangelo

A Sculptor A mission to free the

existing life within

the confines of a

discarded piece

of marble.

A Painter343 painted figures bring

the book of Genesis to life.

Contemplative Action In Repose

Sculptured figures

in fresco reveal as

much about the artist

as his subject.

Michelangelo believed the form

was in the stone, waiting for his

mallet and chisel for liberation.

Stone becomes

flesh and blood

as a genius tries

to fulfill God’s will.

A self-portrait of

the sculptor reveals

more than a physical

appearance.

The High Renaissance fades into…

Lorenzo de Medici Dusk & Dawn Giuliani de Medici Night & Day

Michelangelo’s Tomb of the Medici Mannerist sculpture

Raphael Change? What kind of change? Pontormo

transforms “the

calm, balanced grandeur” of the

Renaissance into disquieting

distortion, ambiguity and hidden

meanings.

Pontormo

MANNERISM:

El Greco: Spanish Mannerism Parmigianino: Italian Mannerism

What do these works

tell us about the times?

What do they tell us

about ourselves?

Action in repose

gives way to…

be continued…