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Renaissance Art. Middle Ages. lacked depth perspective realism – looked flat color individualism people were viewed in terms of their place in society an excitement about life life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or hell rather than an experience worth having.
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Middle Ages • lacked • depth • perspective • realism – looked flat • color • individualism • people were viewed in terms of their place in society • an excitement about life • life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or hell rather than an experience worth having
It was.... • Sacred • Symbolic • Simplified • Stylized • Background is flat and stage-like
Giotto • a Renaissance Man • transitional piece • Mary and baby are the focus • not intended to show everyday life, but life in Heaven • Mary and Christ are large than others • background covered with gold – showing this is God’s kingdom • gold halos • baby Jesus is small man • facial features are the same • only god can create Madonna and Child
Adding Math and Science • Leonardo da Vinci has circles and squares to find the mathematical proportions of man • “aim of science and art are one” • artists study geometry, anatomy, botany, physics • subjects provide the information needed to better represent artistically what they were drawing Proportions of Man
Masaccio • rediscovered the technique of linear perspective • a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions • creating the illusion of “real space” • established an imaginary line on the viewer’s eye level called the horizon line • center of this line called the vanishing point • the point at which lines leading into the distance seem to meet Trinity with the Virgin and St. John
New things Renaissance Artists added.... • Single light source • putting together science and nature • Sfumate “up in smoke” • aerial perspective for showing distance outdoors • figures closest to viewer – clean and bright • figures far away – light, hazy, fade into the distance • Chiaroscuro • blending • Proportion • haze • eliminate contrast in background
Da Vinci • Mona Lisa • Single light source • Sfumato • Chiaroscuro • Proportion
Michelangelo • The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican
the Delphic Sibyl • A perspective device called foreshortening
Euclid Archimedes
Raphael Raphael
Adoration of the Magi Botticelli
Arnolfini WeddingJan Van Eyck • Oil Painting • Symbolism
Compare/Contrast Middle Ages Renaissance