Renaissance Art

Cimabue (1240-1302)• Last of the

Byzantine style painters

• Giotto’s master teacher

Madonna and Child(1280)

Giotto1267-1337First great Renaissance artistThe Ognissanti Madonna

Giotto’s The Stefaneschi Polyptych.

Giotto’s Campanile• Designed 1334• Chief architect for

the city of Florence

Giotto’s Frescoes

• What is a fresco?• Why were Giotto’s so

great? • Where are they now? – Scrovegni Chapel, Padua– Santa Croce, Florence– Assisi

More Frescoes by Giotto

Filippo Brunelleschi1337-1446Architect, goldsmith1420-1436: construction of the duomo

Pazzi Chapel, Florence (1430)

Donatello (1386-1466)

• Greatest Renaissance Sculptor in Florence

• Breaks with Gothic solemn rows of saints

• Donatello’s David in bronze is first male nude since Classical times; first freestanding bronze in Italian Renaissance

Masaccio

• Born 1401-28• Influenced by Giotto,

friends with Donatello and Brunelleschi

• One of first to use a “vanishing point” and scientific perspective in paintings

• Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469)Tarquinia Madonna (1437)Likely a student of MasaccioFamous for his portrayals of the Virgin Mary Annunciation scenes

Lippi’s “Funeral of St. Stephen”

Fra Angelico

Sandro Bottacelli (1445-1510)• “Adoration of the Magi” (1475-6)

Ghirlandaio (1449-94)

The High Renaissance

• da Vinci• Michelangelo• Raphael

Da Vinci’s Last Supper

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Michelangelo's David

1505

Michaelangelo’s David Back from the US (just kidding…don’t

believe everything you find on the Internet!_

Madonna of the Goldfinch

1506 Raphael (of Urbino)

Michaelangelo’s Frescos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cej4Ggq5nQI (NOVA recreation of Fresco technique)

• http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.html (Video of actual Sistine Chapel Frescos)