Bell Work- Describe each of these artworks with 3 adjectives

- What are 3 differences you see between these artworks?

1.

2.

Objectives

� Analyze the characteristics of the Renaissance artists/ Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello,

Raphael

� Describe how early Renaissance works of art differed from that of the Middle Ages

Art of the Middle Ages

Add to your list with the following pictures…

Stained

Glass, Colog

ne, Germa

ny

Christ Giving

the Keys to Peter

Statues on the North

Transept

Chartres Cathedra

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Justinian and his court, Ravenna

Byzantine icon

Madonna and

Child, Berlinghiero, cir. 1230

Middle Ages vs Renaissance

� Flat� Unrealistic� Religious� Etc.

� How do these compare to the values of the Renaissace?

� Individualism: Celebration of the Individual

� Humanism: Love of Classical Learning

� Secularism: Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures

Renaissance Art

� Why does the Renaissance art look so different from the Middle Ages?

/ New Values/ New Techniques

1. Realism & Expression� The Birth of

Christ, 1304

� Giotto Bondone

� Fresco: Painting on wet plaster� Lifelike

� Illusion of depth

� Emotion & interaction

2. Perspective

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!

First use of linear

perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!

� The Trinity

� Masaccio

� 1427

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

become.

MasaccioThe Father of Modern Painting� Developed perspective: a technique that gave objects

the appearance of distance/ Objects look smaller the farther away they are / Parallel lines come together in the distance

� Healing of the Cripple, 1424

3. Geometrical Arrangement of

Figures� The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate

� Leonardo da Vinci

� 1469

� The figure as architecture!

4. Light & Shadowing/Softening

Edges

Chiaroscuro

Sfumato

Questions

� Give 2 examples of the difference between art in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance.

� Define Humanism

� What were 2 of the new techniques that Renaissance artists used?

� What is a fresco?

TO DO

� In Class: Perspectives Drawing

Filippo Brunelleschi

� Commissioned to build the cathedral dome./ Used unique

architectural concepts. He studied the

ancient Pantheon in Rome.

Used ribs for support.

Brunelleschi’s Dome

Comparing Domes

Other Famous Domes

Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital

(Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

The TURTLES!!!

Donatello

� Born late 14th century

� Technique:/ Created free

standing statues/ Real and life like / First since the

Romans to make a free standing sculpture

� Important Works: / David, 1430

Leonardo da Vinci

� Born in the mid 15th century/ A true Renaissance man

� Technique:/ Painter, scientist,

architect, inventor./ His works focused on

human emotions

� Important Works: / The Last Supper/ The Mona Lisa

� Vitruvian Man

� Leonardo daVinci

� 1492

TheL’uomo

universale

The Last Supper

The Last Supper , 1498& Geometry

horizontal

vert

ical

Perspective!

The Last Supper, 1498

A Da Vinci “Code”:St. John or Mary Magdalene?

Leonardo, the Artist

� The Virgin of the Rocks

� Leonardo daVinci

� 1483-1486

A Macaroni Mona

Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4 Parody: The Best Form of Flattery?

A Picasso Mona

An Andy Warhol Mona

A “Mona”ca Lewinsky

Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

Leonardo, the Architect: Pages from his Notebook - Over 5000 pages of drawings� Study of a central church. 1488

�Plan of the city of Imola, 1502.

Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology):Pages from his Notebook

� An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.

Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy):

Pages from his Notebook

Leonardo, the Inventor:

Pages from his Notebook

Man Can Fly?

A study of siege defenses.

Studies of water-lifting devices.

Leonardo, the Engineer: Pages from his

Notebook

Questions

� Donatello was the first to do what since the Romans?

� What is his most important work?

� Who is known as the True Renaissance man? Why?

� List 2 of his most famous works of art.

TO DO:

� In Class: Self Portrait