Week 13: Webwork 12: Renaissance Art Innovations:

• linear perspective • aerial perspective • development of oil paints • different use of light/shadow • geometric perspective • foreshortening

Styles:

• humanist • mannerism • realism • Greco-Roman (classical) • Symbolism • Emotionalism

Artists: (ideally an artist or two from each area should be included with the format shown below)

• Masaccio – developed the style that became the trademark of the Italian Renaissance – examples would include ‘The Holy Trinity’ and ‘The Tribute Money’

• Fra Angelico (painter) and Lorenzo Ghiberti (sculptor) – blended ideas of the Early Renaissance with the more conservative Gothic Period – Fra Angelico painted ‘The Annunciation’ Ghiberti is best known for ‘The Gates of Paradise’

• Paolo Uccello – highly concerned with use of perspective – ‘The Battle of San Romano’

• Piero della Francesa – ‘The Baptism of Christ’ • Donatello – used perspective in sculpture • Brunelleschi – architecture – the Dome of Florence Cathedral • Sandro Botticelli – ‘Adoration of the Magi’ • Leonardo da Vinci – architecture, mathematics, sculpture,

painting, anatomy, poetry, literature, music, geology, botany, hydraulics – ‘The Last Supper’ and ‘Mona Lisa’

• Michelangelo – sculpture and painting – ‘Pieta’, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

• Raphael – soft colors, circular forms, gentle landscapes –‘The School of Athens’ and ‘The Alba Madonna’

• Sofinisba Anguissola – female artist Renaissance in Northern Europe -- could include artists like Campin, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes,

The Art of Venice – artists would include Giorgione da Castelfranco, Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco Northern Europe – Matthias Grunewald, Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hans Holbein, Humanism defined as an interest in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Humanists embraced Greco-Roman beliefs that each individual has dignity and worth. Life like appearances in painting and sculpture, combined with the study of nature during the Renaissance was evidence of humanism. This thought can be expanded with examples. The High Renaissance -- between the years 1495 and 1527 -- master artists DaVinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, were living in Italy and creating timeless masterpieces—this was a concentrated surge of creative energy on three fronts simultaneously.