new ideas in renaissance art
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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