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Renaissance Art. January 10, 2014. Middle Ages Art. Mostly religious; sometimes royalty Unrealistic No background or depth 2-dimensional. Before the Renaissance. Giotto Lamentation over Jesus Scrovegni Chapel. Linear Perspective. Depth. The Italian Renaissance.
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Renaissance Art January 10, 2014
Middle Ages Art • Mostly religious; sometimes royalty • Unrealistic • No background or depth • 2-dimensional
Before the Renaissance Giotto Lamentation over Jesus Scrovegni Chapel
Italian Renaissance Art • The Italian Renaissance strove to develop a style that would portray images in a soft and graceful manner. • The Italian Renaissance was characterized by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman design and included an emphasis on human beings and the environment.
The Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter Pietro Perugino Sistine Chapel 1481
Italian Renaissance Art • The rediscovery of classical art that glorified human beauty and emphasized individual differences had a profound effect on painters during the Renaissance. • Early Renaissance Painters such as Perugino stressed religious themes. • In many of da Vinci’s paintings and portraits, feelings as well as personality were obvious in his subjects.
Masaccio Tribute Money Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria della Carmine in Florence 1426-28
High Italian Renaissance Raphael Santi The School of Athens Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Vaticani, Rome 1509-10
Raphael Marriage of the Virgin CittàdiCastello 1504
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa 1503 The Musician 1490
Michelangelo Sistine Chapel, Rome 1508-1512
Northern Renaissance • Reaction to what was happening in Italy • Flanders, France, Germany, England • Began late 1400s • Hard and angular; painstaking attention to detail • Stressed humans in their natural, every-day environments
Northern Renaissance Michael Pacher, Church Fathers St Augustine and St Gregory • Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban. 1433
Albrecht Durer Adoration of the Magi, 1504 Self Portrait, 1500
Jan Van Eyck The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434 The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, 1435