the art of the italian renaissance
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The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Changes in Art . Following this slide are two images. Examine the two images. One is from the Medieval (Middle Ages) period and one is from the Renaissance. How can you tell that these images are from different time periods? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Changes in Art Changes in Art Following this slide are two images.
Examine the two images. One is from the Medieval (Middle Ages) period and one is from the Renaissance.
How can you tell that these images are from different time periods?
What are the characteristics of each piece? Does one image have brighter colors? Does one have clearer images?
Try to list all of the distinguishing characteristics of each piece.
New TechniquesNew Techniques Fresco
Perspective
Human anatomy and movement
Sculpture
Architecture
Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints, 3-D
Organization of outdoor space and light through geometry
Realistic of humans
Free Standing! Donatello- Greek and
Roman influence Brunelleschi- focused
on human needs not divine
Pieta
BY:
Donatello
Masters of High Masters of High RenaissanceRenaissance
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Did realistic painting, dissected human bodies, goal to capture the beauty of nature
Admired for Madonna's (Virgin Mary)
Accomplished painter, sculptor, architect
Sistine Chapel Sistine Chapel
Art and PatronageArt and Patronage Italians were willing to spend a lot of
money on art./ Why were they so wealthy? / Art communicated social, political, and
spiritual values./ Due to banking & trade- people had the
money to spend & commission artists. Public art in Florence was organized
and supported by guilds.
Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!
1. 1. Realism & Realism & ExpressionExpression Expulsion Expulsion
fromfromthe Gardenthe Garden
MasaccioMasaccio 14271427 First nudes First nudes
sincesinceclassical classical timestimes..
2. 2. PerspectivePerspective
Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!
Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!
First use First use of linear of linear
perspective!perspective!
Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!
The The TrinityTrinity
MasaccioMasaccio 14271427
What you What you are, I once are, I once was; what I was; what I am, you will am, you will
become.become.
3. Classicism3. Classicism Greek-Roman
influence. Secularism. Humanism. Symmetry/
Balance
Raphael, School of Athens (1509)
12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 17: Plotinus (Donatello)
R: Apelles (Raphael)
4.4. Emphasis on Emphasis on IndividualismIndividualism Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre:
The Duke & Dutchess of UrbinoThe Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.
5. 5. Geometrical Geometrical Arrangement of Arrangement of
FiguresFigures The Dreyfus The Dreyfus Madonna Madonna with the with the PomegranatPomegranatee
Leonardo da Leonardo da VinciVinci
14691469 The figure as The figure as
architecture!architecture!
6. 6. Light & Light & Shadowing/Softening Shadowing/Softening
EdgesEdges
ChiaroscuroChiaroscuro
SfumatoSfumato
77. Free-. Free-StandingStandingSculptureSculpture Individualism
free standing figures, first since Classical era
Contraposto posture
The The “Modest Pose”“Modest Pose”Medici “Venus” (1c)Medici “Venus” (1c)
8. 8. Artists as Artists as Personalities/CelebritiesPersonalities/Celebrities
Lives of the Lives of the Most Most Excellent Excellent Painters, Painters, Sculptors, andSculptors, andArchitectsArchitects
Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari
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