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Italian Painting

Italian Painting. Two Main Styles. Tempera Fresco. Tempera. Dry Surface Wooden Panel Grounded with several coats of plaster in glue Colors tempered with egg or vegetable albumin. Fresco. Used for mural paintings Painted on wet plaster. The High Renaissance.

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Italian Painting

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  1. Italian Painting

  2. Two Main Styles • Tempera • Fresco

  3. Tempera • Dry Surface • Wooden Panel • Grounded with several coats of plaster in glue • Colors tempered with egg or vegetable albumin

  4. Fresco • Used for mural paintings • Painted on wet plaster

  5. The High Renaissance • Began in 1490’s and ended in 1527

  6. Famous Paintings

  7. Michelangelo-Sistine Chapel

  8. The Virgin and Child with Two Saints • Giovanni Bellini Feast of the Gods

  9. The Mona Lisa • Leonardo da Vinci Vitruvian Man

  10. Sculpture • Two Main Types • Marble • Bronze

  11. Influential Sculptors

  12. Michelangelo • Pieta • David

  13. Donatello • David • Atys

  14. Lorenzo Ghiberti • Gates of Paradise

  15. Renaissance Humanism

  16. The Basics • What is humanism? • A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. • humans are of primary importance • significance of human dignity, human concerns and human capabilities So Renaissance humanism is…

  17. “Renaissance Humanism is the spirit of learning that developed at the end of the middle ages with the revival of classical letters and a renewed confidence in the ability of human beings to determine for themselves truth and falsehood. ”

  18. Humanist Scholars • shaped the intellectual landscape throughout the early modern period • sought to create a citizenry (including, sometimes, women) able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity • they would be capable of better engaging the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions • This was to be accomplished through the study of the studiahumanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy

  19. Political philosophers • Niccolo Machiavelli • He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic • He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, poetry, and some of the most well-known personal correspondence in the Italian language • Thomas More • revived the ideas of Greek and Roman thinkers, and applied them in critiques of contemporary government

  20. Political Philosophers • Matteo Palmieri • known for his work Della vita civile ("On Civic Life"; printed 1528) which advocated civic humanism • Pico della Mirandola • wrote what is often considered the manifesto of the Renaissance, a vibrant defence of thinking, the Oration on the Dignity of Man

  21. Renaissance Humanism and Shakespeare • Shakespeare was a humanist • He shared the Renaissance desire to seek the truth about human nature • believed firmly in his ideas about human nature and our place among the order of the universe • He was a believer, a liberal Christian, but had the characteristics of a Renaissance humanist

  22. Humanism in Shakespeare • Much Ado About Nothing • Renaissance ideals are explored and integrated into the fabric of the story and the personalities of the central characters • Women are not confined to the more traditional role of objects and their position is more elevated than what one might see in earlier literature • An increased emphasis on human potential and beauty—both physical and verbal

  23. Humanism in Shakespeare • Hamlet • His mind and view point was influenced by the atmosphere of the current notion • Hamlet has a thirst for knowledge and learning, being reported as an avid reader, and he is free and independent enough to apply his own judgment to what he reads • Hamlet’s speech in Act II, “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god—the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!” (II.ii.293–297) is directly based upon one of the major texts of the Italian humanists, Pico dellaMirandola’sOration on the Dignity of Man

  24. Humanism in Shakespeare • The Tempest • Prospero is a metaphor for the civilizing power of the artist and educator whose 'liberal arts' tame the tempests in the human spirit • He exhibits the ennobling qualities of compassion, generosity, friendship and wisdom.

  25. Questions? • What is fresco? • What are the two main types of sculpture? • What are the characteristics of humanism? • How were Shaspeare’s plays humanist plays?

  26. Works Cited • http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/07.html • http://askbarfy.com/sculptors.html • http://www.crystalinks.com/davinci.html • http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bellini/ • http://www.thesacredpage.com/2011/04/hallel-psalms-and-last-supper.html • http://www.muralist.org/fresco/painting.html • http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/egg-tempera.html

  27. Works Cites • http://schoolworkhelper.net/2010/11/exploring-the-renaissance/ • http://www.articlemyriad.com/177.htm • http://madsciencepro.com/wordpress/ • http://www.answers.com/topic/humanism • http://newhumanist.org.uk/1262/thinker-william-shakespeare • http://shallon.glogster.com/renaissance/ • http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/walter.sargent/public.www/web%20230/unit%201%20old%20worlds.html • http://madsciencepro.com/wordpress/ • http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ENGL401-1.2.2-Renaissance-Humanismand-Shakespeare.pdf • http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00C9O6

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