The Renaissance
Name:Period:
Renaissance - Defined
� Describes the cultural achievements of the 14th century through the 16th century; those achievements rest on the economic and political development of earlier centuries.
� Translated – “The Rebirth,” of art learning
Italy Leads the Way� Seafaring cities (Venice and Genoa)
profited from the Crusades, oversea trade, ship building.
The Sforza Family of MilanMilan – Trading crossroads from East to West.
The Medici’s of Florence: became the official
bankers of the Pope.
*Intellectual Changes*� The New Golden Age, “Revival” of Roman culture
� Individualism: stressed personality, uniqueness, genius, and full development of one’s capabilities and talents.
� Humanism: the study of the literary culture needed by anyone who would be considered educated and civilized.
� Secularism: the concern with the material world instead of with the eternal world of spirit.
Characteristics of Renaissance Art
1. Realism & Expression
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.
3. Classicism
� Greco-Roman influence.
� Secularism.
� Humanism.
� Individualism free standing figures.
� Symmetry/BalanceThe “Classical Pose”
Medici “Venus” (1c)
4. Emphasis on Individualism� Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre:
The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino
� Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.
5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
� The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
� Leonardo da Vinci
� 1469
� The figure as architecture!
6. Light & Shadowing/Softening
Edges
Chiaroscuro
Sfumato
The Ideal City Piero della
Francesca, 1470
Leonardo, the Artist:From his Notebooks of over 5000
pages (1508-1519)
horizontal
vert
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Perspective!
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
