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Originally by: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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The Art and Artists of the Italian Renaissance. Originally by: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. 1. Perspective. The Trinity Masaccio 1427. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Originally by: Susan M. Pojer

Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

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1. 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.

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2. Classicism

� Greco-Roman influence.

� Secularism.� Humanism.� Individualism

free standing figures.

� Symmetry/BalanceThe “Classical Pose”

Medici “Venus” (1c)

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3. Empasis on Individualism� Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre:

The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino, Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

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Lorenzo de Medici,

the Magnificent

1449-1492

Cosimo I de Medici

1519 - 1574

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� Filippo Brunelleschi1377 - 1436

� Architect� Il Duoma

(Cathedral of St. Mariadel Fiore)

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Dome Comparisons

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

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

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I. Self-Portrait -- da Vinci, 1512

1452 - 1519

� Artist� Sculptor� Architect� Scientist� Engineer� Inventor

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horizontal

vert

ical

Perspective!

The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

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Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485

An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

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A Portrait of Savonarola� By Fra Bartolomeo,

1498.� Dominican friar who

decried money and power.

� Anti-humanist he saw humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and corrupting.

� The “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 1497./ Burned books, artwork,

jewelry, and other luxury goods in public.

/ Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the fire!!

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� David� Michelangel

oBuonarotti

� 1504� Marble

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The Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo Buonarroti

1508 - 1512

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Perspective!

Betrothal

of the Virgin

Raphael1504

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Portrait of Pope Julius II by Raphael, 1511-1512

� More concerned with politics than with theology.

� The “Warrior Pope.”

� Great patron of Renaissance artists, especially Raphael & Michelangelo.

� Died in 1513

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Pope Leo X with Cardinal Giulio deMedici and Luigi De Rossi by Raphael, 1518-1519� A Medici Pope.� He went through

the Vatican treasury in a year!

� His extravagances offended even some cardinals [as well as Martin Luther!].

� Started selling indulgences.

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The Penitent Mary Magdalene by Titian, 1533

� By the mid-16c, High Renaissance art was declining.

� Mannerism became more popular.

� This painting is a good example of this new artistic style.

Northern Renaissance