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Renaissance Art and Architecture

Renaissance Art and Architecture. Beginning of Modern Painting. Common Elements of Renaissance throughout Europe. Greco-Roman tradition (strongest in Italy) Scientific study of human body and nature Realistic reproduction of forms of nature

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Renaissance Art and Architecture

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  1. Renaissance Art and Architecture Beginning of Modern Painting

  2. Common Elements of Renaissance throughout Europe • Greco-Roman tradition (strongest in Italy) • Scientific study of human body and nature • Realistic reproduction of forms of nature • Prestige of artists moves from craftsman to genius • Technological breakthroughs • Oil on stretched canvas • Perspective • Chiaroscuro—light emerging from dark, illusion 3-D • Pyramid configuration—symmetrical, balanced composition

  3. Early Renaissance • Masaccio • Realism • Perspective • Single source of light casting authentic shadows

  4. The Holy Trinity

  5. Massaccio “The Tribute Money” Note contrapposto of figure in orange tunic, natural stance with weight on left leg and right knee bent. Expressive faces, chiaroscuro especially in rear

  6. Early Renaissance • Donatello • Sculpture • 1st life-size freestanding nude since Roman times • 1st freestanding equestrian statue since Roman times • Contrapposto, weight on one leg with body usually turned • Draped realistically, sense of skeletal structure

  7. Donatello (1386-1466)David (1430 bronze) Gattamelata (1450 bronze)

  8. Mary Magdalene

  9. Botticelli • More curvi-linear style than Masaccio or Donatello • Reintroduces classical mythology

  10. Botticelli1444-1510

  11. Botticelli

  12. High Renaissance • Characteristics: • Humanism • Classicism • Balanced composition • Self contained • Ideal beauty, realistic anatomy • Represents technical mastery of the techniques of the Renaissance

  13. Leonardo da Vinci

  14. Leonardo da Vinci

  15. Leonardo da Vinci • Poster child for ADHD • Aerial perspective…..thickness of the air…farther away, thicker and bluer the air • See Virgin of the Rocks • Sfumato….smoky in Italian….use of pale blues and soft grays to “veil” the landscape and blur edges for blending….not dependent on perspective….invented by Leonardo • Chiaroscuro….used most effectively by Leo to give 3-D effect, esp. with faces

  16. MichelangeloThe Pieta

  17. MichelangeloDavid

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  19. MichelangeloSistine Chapel: Adam

  20. MichelangeloLast Judgement

  21. MichelangeloCapitoline Hill

  22. Raphael

  23. Titian

  24. Bellini GiorgioneSt. Francis The Tempest

  25. Architecture • Rome • Rules • Reason • ‘Rithmetic

  26. AlbertiSanta Maria Novella

  27. Brunelleschi

  28. Bramante

  29. Palladio

  30. Northern Renaissance • Based more on nature than Greco-Roman tradition • Very realistic • Oil paint • Atmospheric perspective

  31. Jan Van Eyck

  32. Hieronymous Bosch

  33. Bruegel

  34. German Renaissance Hans Holbein Albrecht Durer

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