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Renaissance Art. Cimabue (1240- 1302). Last of the Byzantine style painters Giotto’s master teacher Madonna and Child (1280). Giotto. 1267-1337 First great Renaissance artist The Ognissanti Madonna. Giotto’s The Stefaneschi Polyptych . . Giotto’s Campanile. Designed 1334
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Cimabue (1240-1302) Last of the Byzantine style painters Giotto’s master teacher Madonna and Child (1280)
Giotto 1267-1337 First great Renaissance artist The Ognissanti Madonna
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
Filippo Brunelleschi1337-1446 Architect, goldsmith 1420-1436: construction of the duomo
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 Masaccio Famous for his portrayals of the Virgin Mary Annunciation scenes
“Adoration of the Magi” (1475-6) Sandro Bottacelli (1445-1510)
The High Renaissance • da Vinci • Michelangelo • Raphael
Michaelangelo’s David Back from the US (just kidding…don’t believe everything you find on the Internet!_
1506 Raphael (of Urbino) Madonna of the Goldfinch
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)