330 likes | 807 Views
Art of the Renaissance. Objective. Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology. Art in the Middle Ages.
E N D
Objective • Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology.
Art in the Middle Ages • The Middle Ages saw art focusing on the church and religion • Paintings included people wearing halos • Important people were larger than others • Saints and God’s family • Common for background to be gold (representing heaven) • Attempts at representing space looked “off”
Madonna and Child in Glory Jacopa di Cione 1360/1365
Art in the Renaissance • People became more interested in themselves and their surroundings • A Humanist approach to art and science began • The study of human nature • Saints and ordinary people looked more realistic • Halos began to disappear • Landscape in paintings was earth instead of heaven
Art in the Renaissance • Math was used to create space and perspective in paintings • Oil paints were created • No longer had to use egg tempera paints
Miraculous Mass of St. Martin of Tours Franconian School About 1440
Madonna and Child with St. John GuilianoBugiardini 1523/1525
The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait Jan Van Eyck Flemish painter 1434 One of the first oil paintings
The Adoration of the Magi Albrecht Durer 1504
The Bean Eater AnnibaleCarraci 1582/1583
Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci 1505 Wife of a silk merchant Leonardo