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Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art. As with Renaissance Literature, three themes of Renaissance Art: Humanism, Secularism, and Classicism.

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Renaissance Art

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  1. Renaissance Art As with Renaissance Literature, three themes of Renaissance Art: Humanism, Secularism, and Classicism. The Renaissance will see a shift in art - from art purely for the sake of glorifying God and teaching Biblical and Catholic lessons to art for the sake of also glorifying human beings and their Earthly emotions, experiences, surroundings. Realism will be the key to Renaissance art, as compared to Medieval Art…

  2. Carolingian Evangelist • Late 8th Century • From the CodexAureus of Lorsch (an illuminated Gospel Book from the Charlemagne period of the Frankish kingdom)

  3. A typical Medieval depiction of Christ • A Christ Pantokrator (Christ with the halo in a cross form) • From the 11th Century

  4. The Morgan Leaf – detached from the 12th Century Winchester Bible (English) • Depicts scenes from the life of David

  5. Medieval depiction of Charlemagne’s coronation in 800.

  6. Fra Angelico, Adoration of the Magi Fra Angelico, AKA Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Brother John from Fiesole 1395 - 1455)

  7. Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi

  8. Realism – the key difference. • Contributes to the humanism of Italian Art • Achieved through use of new techniques: • Perspective • Chiaroscuro and realistic coloring • Overlapping figures • Movement • Use of realistic fore- and backgrounds

  9. The Italian Renaissance

  10. Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510)Birth of Venus

  11. Botticelli, Primavera

  12. The “Big Four” of Italian Renaissance Art • Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519) • Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1464) • Raphael - Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 – 1520) • Titian - Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488 - 1576)

  13. Size of this preview: 447 × 599 pixels The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne Leonardo da Vinci Depicts St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary, and the infant Jesus.

  14. Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper

  15. Leonardo Da Vinci,MonaLisa

  16. Michelangelo,Sistine ChapelThe Entire Vault here- Ceiling depicts the stories of the Book of Genesis, back wall is The Last Judgement

  17. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

  18. Sistine Chapel, Creation of Adam

  19. Details from The Sistine Chapel Ceiling The Prophet Ezechiel The Creation of the Sun, the Moon and the Planets

  20. The Last Judgement

  21. Michelangelo,Pieta

  22. Michelangelo, David

  23. Raphael, School of Athens

  24. The School of Athens detail-Plato &Aristotle

  25. Raphael,Madonna

  26. More Raphael….. Group of Swiss Soldiers, the Mass of Bolsena Portrait of a Cardinal

  27. Titian, The Venus of Urbino

  28. Titian, Bacchanalia

  29. Titian Pope Paul III and His Grandsons

  30. Titian Portrait of Charles V at the Battle of Muhlberg

  31. The Northern Renaissance Italian Renaissance Vs. Northern Renaissance Subject matter: Italian: Classical mythology, religious scenes. Northern: Domestic interiors, portraits, religious scenes. Style: Italian: Symmetrical, balanced, good sense of mass, linear perspective. Northern: Attention to surface detail, naturalism. Known for: Italian: Figures with mass and volume, knowledge of underlying anatomy. Northern: Minute surface detail. Media: Italian: Fresco, tempera, oil. Northern: Oil on panel.

  32. Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini Wedding

  33. Durer, Self-Portrait

  34. Durer, Adoration of the Magi

  35. Durer engraving,Hands with Bible

  36. Durer The Virgin and Child with a Monkey

  37. Hans Holbein, Henry the VIII

  38. Hans Holbein, Jane Seymour

  39. Holbein, Sir Thomas More

  40. Hans Holbein, Erasmus

  41. Bruegel, Children’s Games

  42. Children’s Games, detail

  43. Bruegel, Peasant Wedding

  44. Peasant Wedding, detail

  45. Brueghel The Blind Leading the Blind

  46. Brueghel The Harvesters

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