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Explore the evolution of the artist's social standing from craftsmen in the Middle Ages to revered geniuses in the Renaissance. Discover key figures like Michelangelo, Jan van Eyck, and Albrecht Durer, their artistic techniques, and impact on the art world.
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THE ARTIST AND SOCIAL STATUS • Middle Ages -> artists seen as “artisans” = skilled craftsman • In the Renaissance/by the end of the 15th -> the artists came to be seen as artistic geniuses -> the spark of the divine • Artist as a hero -> “Il Divino” = the divine one = Michelangelo • Rise in social and economic status for the artist MICHELANGELO
THE NORTHERN ARTISTIC RENAISSANCE Italian renaissance Northern renaissance • Focus on the human form • Technical artistic skills led to realism • Frescos = walls paintings on wet plaster • Illuminated manuscripts • Wooden panel paintings for altarpieces • Focus on rendering details • Oil painting • Focus on religious subjects not pagan THE PROPHET DANIEL – CEILING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL -> FRESCO
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE – ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF ITALY THE GHENT ALTARPIECE “THE VIRGIN OF CHACELLOR ROLIN”
JAN VAN EYCK – northern renaissance artist • Key artist in artistic center of Flanders • First to use oil paints -> new colors and finer detail • GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE
N PORTRAIT OF OSWOLT KREL BY ALBRECHT DURER – NORTHER RENAISSANCE PAINTER
ALBRECHT DURER • Northern Renaissance artist from Germany HARE DURER SELF PORTRAIT ADAM AND EVE
MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE • Dufay – most important composer of Renaissance music • Music shifted from being only for the church to royal courts and cities = secular music • The madrigal – a poem set to music