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The Art of the Italian Renaissance

The Art of the Italian Renaissance. Changes in Art . Following this slide are two images. Examine the two images. One is from the Medieval (Middle Ages) period and one is from the Renaissance. How can you tell that these images are from different time periods?

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The Art of the Italian Renaissance

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  1. The Art of the Italian Renaissance

  2. Changes in Art • Following this slide are two images. Examine the two images. One is from the Medieval (Middle Ages) period and one is from the Renaissance. • How can you tell that these images are from different time periods? • What are the characteristics of each piece? Does one image have brighter colors? Does one have clearer images? • Try to list all of the distinguishing characteristics of each piece.

  3. Fresco Perspective Human anatomy and movement Sculpture Architecture Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints, 3-D Organization of outdoor space and light through geometry Realistic of humans Free Standing! Donatello- Greek and Roman influence Brunelleschi- focused on human needs not divine New Techniques

  4. Pieta BY: Donatello

  5. Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo Did realistic painting, dissected human bodies, goal to capture the beauty of nature Admired for Madonna's (Virgin Mary) Accomplished painter, sculptor, architect Masters of High Renaissance

  6. Sistine Chapel

  7. Art and Patronage • Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art. • Why were they so wealthy? • Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values. • Due to banking & trade- people had the money to spend & commission artists. • 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!

  8. Characteristics of Renaissance Art

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

  10. 2. Perspective • The Trinity • Masaccio • 1427 Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

  11. 3. Classicism • Greek-Roman influence. • Secularism. • Humanism. • Symmetry/Balance Raphael, School of Athens (1509)

  12. 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 17: Plotinus (Donatello) R: Apelles (Raphael)

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

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

  15. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Sfumato Chiaroscuro

  16. 7. Free-Standing Sculpture • Individualism  free standing figures, first since Classical era • Contraposto posture The “Modest Pose”Medici “Venus” (1c)

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

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