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Renaissance Art. Renaissance Art Techniques. Realism - show people and nature as they really are. Pieta by Michelangelo completed when he was 24 years old in 1499. “Moses” - Michelangelo. Renaissance Art Techniques. Light and Shadows -
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Renaissance Art Techniques Realism - show people and nature as they really are. Pieta by Michelangelo completed when he was 24 years old in 1499
Renaissance Art Techniques Light and Shadows - creating the illusion of three dimensional form (rounded) on a two dimensional (flat) surface. Chiaroscuro is a technique of blending light and dark to create a more realistic image.
Renaissance Art Techniques Realistic Details - life-like portraiture, accurate proportions and sizes, realistic patterns and details, realistic colors and textures. “Ideal City” Piero della Francesca (c. 1470)
Renaissance Art Techniques Linear Perspective - creating the illusion of deep space in man-made structures and in architecture. Botticelli “The Cestello Annunciation” c. 1489
Renaissance Art Techniques Atmospheric Perspective -details fade in a landscape. Leonardo Ginevra de' Benci c. 1474
fresco • From the Italian for “fresh.” A painting done on wet plaster with water color paints. The painting becomes part of the wall.
Michelangelo BuonarrotiCeiling of the SistineChapel(1509-1512)
Northern Renaissance Art Pieter Breugel – “The Peasant Dance”
Northern Renaissance Art “Woman Peeling Apples” – Pieter de Hooch
Jan van Eyck“The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini & Giovana Cenami”(1434)