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Early Renaissance Painting

Early Renaissance Painting. A few words before we begin. Fresco : mural painting on wet plaster Trompe l’oeil : “trickery of the eye,” illusion. Painters covered. Masaccio – short career >decade Fra Angelico – Dominican monk meets painter Andrea del Castagno: from Venice to Florence

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Early Renaissance Painting

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  1. Early Renaissance Painting

  2. A few words before we begin • Fresco: mural painting on wet plaster • Trompe l’oeil: “trickery of the eye,” illusion.

  3. Painters covered • Masaccio – short career >decade • Fra Angelico – Dominican monk meets painter • Andrea del Castagno: from Venice to Florence • Andrea Mantegna: influenced by Donatello • Perugino: from Umbria to Florence • Botticelli: commissioned by Medici family

  4. Masaccio • Painter’s guild in 1422 • Rome in 1427 • Understood Brunelleschi’s theory of ______?

  5. Trinity by MasaccioPainted fresco in Church of Santa Maria NovellaDonors red garb suggests member of Florentine council.Trompe l’oeil with barrel vault in linear perspectiveDemonstrates Masaccio’s knowledge of Brunelleschi’s perspectiveWhat different columns do you recognize?

  6. Interior of Brancacci Chapel, frescoDiffers from Flemish Painters, how?Created a new realism with focus on mass of bodies.Cast Shadows

  7. Expulsion from ParadiseFresco from Brancacci ChapelInstead of focusing on anatomy, focused energy to depicting the sheer mourning and emotion.

  8. Tribute Money - Masaccio ArtAcademy

  9. Continuous NarrativeJesus and Peter in middle, Peter on left with coin and fish (shown here), and Peter paying on right.

  10. Tribute Money is known for it’s integration of figures, landscape, and architecture • Linear perspective + intuitive perspective • Look again at Tribute Money, and can you tell what parts show linear perspective and what parts show intuitive?

  11. Tribute Money

  12. Fra Angelico

  13. Annunciation, 1438-45 • Fresco in Monastery of San Marco • Building style used by Brunelleschi during that exact time of painting. • Inspire meditation for monks • Located at top of stairs in Monastery, where monks pause before heading to their individual cells.

  14. Linear perspective opens the roomSlender figures assume modest posesNatural lightFra Angelico finished last few painting years painting the Pope’s private chapel in Vatican.

  15. Andrea del Castagno • Last Supper • Fresco, 1445-50, refectory of Convent of Sant’ Apollonia • The convent for Benedictine nuns • Refectory is dining hall

  16. Andrea Mantegna Mantegna, Frescoes in the Camera Picta Ducal Palace, Mantua Entered painters’ guild at 15, highly influenced by Donatello Painted mostly entire like for Ludovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua Excelled in perspective, integrating the figures into the setting, and naturalistic detail.

  17. Putti, or winged baby angels, play around the balustrade. This is a dome in the chapel. Tromp l’oeil For-shortened perspective

  18. Dead Christ

  19. Perugino • Resolution of Great Schism 1417 • Rome was chosen for Papal residency • Perugino came to Rome to paint in Sistine Chapel • Painted Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter • Teacher of Raphael

  20. Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter Fresco right wall of Sistine Chapel, Vatican Grid-like composition: vertical and horizontal Primary color usage Perspectival recession Atmospheric perspective

  21. Botticelli • Studied in studio of Verrochio (Equestrian Statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni) • Painted for Sistine Chapel • Also painted for Medici family (bankers) • Used tempera, not oil

  22. Cupid Mercury Flora Zephyr Three Graces Aura Botticelli, La Primavera (Spring), 1478 Medici Wedding

  23. Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles, Late Classical SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1482. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5' 8" x 9' 1". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

  24. Take 2 minutes to review over your notes You have 15 minutes to write, in your opinion, who was the most talented fresco painter or tempera painter we have covered so far. Convince me with facts from your notes and your opinion. Work is individual, write in complete sentences, and I will be collecting these at the end of the period.

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