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Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art. Perspective. Three dimensions on flat surface Classical artists had used it, but abandoned during Middle Ages. Vanishing Point. Parallel lines stretch away from viewer, they seem to draw together, until they meet at a spot on the horizon. Foreground/Background.

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Renaissance Art

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  1. Renaissance Art

  2. Perspective • Three dimensions on flat surface • Classical artists had used it, but abandoned during Middle Ages

  3. Vanishing Point • Parallel lines stretch away from viewer, they seem to draw together, until they meet at a spot on the horizon.

  4. Foreground/Background • Art had dimension • Leonardo’s Mona Lisa • Questions to Ponder

  5. Donatello • Made sculpture more realistic by carving natural postures and expressions which reveal personity.

  6. Leonardo da Vinci • Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist • Renaissance Man • Dissected corpses to understand muscle movements and how veins were arranged. • Keep notebooks of findings (wrote backwards) • Get drawings – helicopter, body, Last Supper

  7. Michelangelo • Most famous Reaissance Man • Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, poet • Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel • Depicts biblical history of world from Creation to the Flood., • Four years he laied on his back on a platform just a few inches below the chapel ceiling.

  8. Raphael • Studied Leonardo and Michelangelo • Paintings blended Christian and classical styles • Madonna, School of Athens

  9. Sofonisba Anguissola • First woman artist to gain an international reputation.

  10. Architecture

  11. Renaissance Architecture • Did not maintain Gothic style of the Middle Ages • Embraced columns, arches and domes favored by the Greeks and Romans. • Filippo Brunelleschi

  12. Renaissance WriterMachiavelli • The Prince (1513)- Basically- How to rule your country for dummies. • Wrote in vernacular writing- own language rather than Latin

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