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Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art. Italian Early and High Renaissance Art. Art and Patronage. Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art. Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values. Italian banking & international trade interests had the money.

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Renaissance Art

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  1. Renaissance Art Italian Early and High Renaissance Art

  2. Art and Patronage • Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art. • Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values. • Italian banking & international trade interests had the money. • 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!

  3. Characteristics of Renaissance Art

  4. Realism & Expression • Expulsion fromthe Garden • Masaccio • 1427 • First nudes sinceclassical times.

  5. 2. Perspective First use of linear perspective! • The Trinity • Masaccio • 1427

  6. 3. Classicism • Greco-Roman influence. • Secularism. • Humanism. • Individualism  free standing figures. • Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose”Medici “Venus”

  7. Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466. 4. Emphasis on Individualism

  8. 5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures • The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate • Leonardo da Vinci • 1469 • The figure as architecture!

  9. 6. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, andArchitects • Giorgio Vasari • 1550

  10. Early Renaissance The First Three Hall-of-Famers

  11. Masaccio1401-1428 • Founder of early Renaissance Painting • Painted human figure as a real human being (3D) • Used perspective • Consistent source of light (accurate shadows)

  12. The Tribute Money

  13. #2 Donatello 1386-1466 • The sculptor’s Masaccio • David (1430-32) • First free standing, life-size nude since Classical period • Contrapposto • Sense of Underlying skeletal structure

  14. The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello) real gaunt “Speak, speak or the plague take you!”

  15. #3 Boticelli • 1482 • Rebirth of Classical mythology • Fully Pagan • THE BIRTH OF VENUS

  16. The Italian Renaissance • Leonardo • Michelangelo • Raphael • Titian

  17. Da VinciMona Lisa (1503-06)Perspective,Anatomy, Composition

  18. Cultural icon

  19. The Last Supper • Emotions • Response

  20. Michelangelo • David • MichelangeloBuonarotti • 1504 • Marble

  21. Raphael School of Athens 1510

  22. Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo

  23. Plato:looks to theheavens [or the IDEALrealm]. Aristotle:looks to thisearth [thehere andnow].

  24. Pythagoras

  25. Ptolemy Euclid

  26. Titian • Dazzling contrasting colors • Ample female forms • Asymmetric compositions • Bacchanal of the Adrians 1518

  27. Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

  28. A Portrait of Savonarola • By Fra Bartolomeo, 1498. • Dominican friar who decried money and power. • Anti-humanist  he saw humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and corrupting. • The “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 1497. • Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other luxury goods in public. • Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the fire!!

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