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Classical and Worldly Values

Classical and Worldly Values. The Renaissance Woman Upper-class, educated in classics, charming Expected to inspire art but not create it Isabella d’Este , patron of the artists, wields power in Mantua. The Renaissance and Science Leonardo’s Work: Science and Medicine. The Vitruvian Man.

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Classical and Worldly Values

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  1. Classical and Worldly Values • The Renaissance Woman • Upper-class, educated in classics, charming • Expected to inspire art but not create it • Isabella d’Este, patron of the artists, wields power in Mantua

  2. The Renaissance and ScienceLeonardo’s Work: Science and Medicine • The Vitruvian Man • Studies of a fetus from Leonardo's journals

  3. Leonardo’s Work: Science and Medicine Investigating the motion of the arm • Organs of a Woman’s Body

  4. III. The Renaissance and Art Introduction Following the barbarism of the Middle Ages, men of the 15th and 16th centuries have the impression of living an extraordinaryperiod of renewal. Theireraiscalled an age of individualgenius. Key Questions: In whatwaysis the Renaissance in the Arts a HumanistMovement? How does the Renaissance movement in the arts reflect the largerHumanist’sphilosophy?

  5. The Renaissance in Art: a return to ancient sources Just as the Humanists return to ancienttexts in Greek and Latin, the artists of the 15th and 16th centuryfind inspiration in the Ancient world as a reactionagainst the Middle Ages. The classic influence canbeseenthrough architecture and painting by the decoration of representedscenes (columns, cupolas, arches, etc.)

  6. An example of Greek temple architecture. Note the triangular pediment on top and the Greek columns below

  7. New Subjectmatter for Renaissance Artists Mythological and ancientscenesare once againrepresented Renaissance artistsalsopaintscenes of the Old Testament whichisalso a focus of the Humanists

  8. Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Uffizi Museum, Florence, Italy

  9. Michelangelo’s Detail of the Sistine Chapel, Creation of Adam 1508-1512

  10. IV. Italian Renaissance Art A. Patronage 1. Florence was the leader in Renaissance art especially in the quattrocento (1400s) a. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74): The Lives of the Artists Contemporary Renaissance art historian who left much valuable information about Renaissance artists and their works.

  11. Donatello’s “David”Note that the subject is standing in Contrapposto b. Massive patronage for the arts came from wealthy merchant-families (such as the Medicis) who commissioned countless works from the great artists. In essence, the wealth of Florence was mirrored by the superb artistic output of the Renaissance A good example is Donatello’s David which stood in the Medici courtyard during the wedding of Lorenzo de Medici. In Milan, the Sforza’s commissioned such works as Leonardo’s The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” c. 1493-1498

  12. c. Patronage also came from local churches who increasingly saw Renaissance art as a means of glorifying God. Some notable examples include Brunelleschi’s Il Duomo built for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral Ghiberti’s two sets of doors were created for the baptistery opposite Il Duomo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”

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