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The Renaissance

The Renaissance. 1300-1600. Renaissance. Definition: Rebirth of art and cultural ideas of ancient Greece and Rome starting at the end of the middle ages Where: Started in Italy spread all over Europe. Why did ancient culture need a “rebirth”?.

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The Renaissance

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  1. The Renaissance 1300-1600

  2. Renaissance • Definition: Rebirth of art and cultural ideas of ancient Greece and Rome starting at the end of the middle ages • Where: Started in Italy spread all over Europe

  3. Why did ancient culture need a “rebirth”? • After Roman Empire ended in the 400s—people lived in small villages. • There was no communication between villages and no sharing of culture

  4. How did Ancient culture survive to be rediscovered? • During the middle ages Catholic Clergy copied ancient documents to keep them alive • Nobody was reading these things, but they still existed

  5. How did the ancient cultural artifacts get rediscovered? • Merchants who traveled to far away places brought back goods and ideas • Soldiers coming back from the crusades in the middle east brought back goods from what used to be the Eastern part of the Roman Empire • Europeans also began to read classics from the Islamic Empires

  6. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY ARE WAS “INFLUENCED” by classical art?

  7. Characteristics of Classical Art: • Purpose of art to show importance of regular people as well as gods and goddesses • People in art were lifelike, but perfect • Bodies were portrayed as in motion • Faces were calm • Pictures of people doing regular things • Paintings had little or no perspective

  8. Marble Statue Greek 5th Century copy of Roman Bronze

  9. Mosaic Diana, the huntress-goddess

  10. Medieval Art • The Purpose of art was to teach religion to people who could not read and write

  11. Question • How do you think medieval art will be different from Classical art?

  12. Characteristics of Medieval Art • Most art showed Jesus, Saints and people from the bible • Important people and things were shown larger than everything else • Figures were still: no movement • Fully dressed, serious faces • Two dimensional • Bright colors, solid color background

  13. Byzantine Baby Jesus and Mary

  14. Power of the priest

  15. Renaissance Art • The purpose of art was to show the importance of people and nature in addition to religion

  16. Characteristics of Renaissance art • Religious and non religious scenes • Nature • Lifelike 3D figures---knowledge of anatomy • Action • Both nude and clothed • Real people doing real things • Faces express feeling • Colors respond to light • Symmetrical • Background with perspective

  17. School of Athens

  18. The Last Supper

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