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The Renaissance. The Rebirth of Learning In Europe. Egyptian Art. Art of India. Chinese Art. Greek Art. Roman Art. Early Medieval Art. Religious in nature One dimensional Illuminated Sometimes referred to as Gothic. Renaissance Art.
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The Renaissance The Rebirth of Learning In Europe
Early Medieval Art • Religious in nature • One dimensional • Illuminated • Sometimes referred to as Gothic
Renaissance Art • The word "Renaissance" comes from the French and means rebirth, the rebirth of ancient learning. In Italian, the word is Rinascenza.The Italian Renaissance period is usually divided into Early Renaissance (1420-1500) and High Renaissance (1500-20).
13th Century • Christian painting and sculpture were just beginning to break away from the restraints of the dogma and conventions of the earlier medieval period. • Breaking away in order to give greater human emotional content to religious subject matter. • The life and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi had been largely responsible for this. • Also responsible were the contacts with French Gothic art.
14th Century • Once attention had been drawn to human emotion, it was only natural that interest in the human being himself and in his physical surroundings should follow. • The resulting secularization of religious subject matter is apparent in the paintings of the 14th century.
15th Century • More detailed observation of man himself and of nature followed in the 15th century with the growth of interest in anatomy, perspective, details of nature, landscape backgrounds, and form and color in light.Paintings of the 15th century also reflect the growing curiosity about man's achievement in Italy's past--that is, the Classic past. • It is this preoccupation with and study of Classic culture and art that gave the Renaissance in Italy its particular character. • Classic culture also brought with it mythology and the ideal of beauty.
16th Century • Christianity was added to Platonic ideal: Neo-platonism.Michelangelo in the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and Raphael in the Vatican Stanze are representative of this movement at the beginning of the 16th century; they brought the Renaissance to the highest achievement in painting in Rome.But the attempt to reconcile paganism and Christianity foundered. • The Reformation intervened and the works of the Mannerists show what resulted in painting.The Counter-Reformation ushered in the new period, the Baroque.
Classicism • In the broadest artistic sense, Classical art is that art which is based on the study of classical models, and art which emphasizes qualities considered to be characteristically Greek and Roman in style and spirit: • Reason • Objectivity • Discipline • Restraint • Order • Balance • These characteristics can be summed up in one term: Harmony.
Five Great Achievements of the Renaissance • There are five fundamental elements in the great achievements of the Italian Renaissance in the world of Art: • Naturalism • Organization of space • Invention of parallel perspective by Filippo Brunelleschi: the scientific use of a perspective based on lines that come together at a single vanishing point on the horizon • The use of classical motifs • The new dignity of the individual
Characteristics of Renaissance Painting • Harmonious proportions among all elements of a painting • Reintroduction of chiaroscuro: the gradations of light and dark within a picture, especially one in which the forms are largely determined, not by sharp outlines but by the meeting of lighter and darker areas • The perfection of geometric or parallel perspective
Characteristics of Renaissance Sculpture • The reintroduction of contrapposto: the pose of the human form in which the head and shoulders face in a different direction from the hips and legs -- a spiral twist • The systematic study of anatomy and of the organic functions of the body • Free-standing monumental statues
Characteristics of Renaissance Architecture • A harmony of all parts with symmetry and order of geometric proportions and designs using Classical architectural elements.
Leonardo da Vinci • Considered the Renaissance Man • Engineer, inventor, painter, sculpture
Renaissance or not? • Look at the next two slides and determine if they are Renaissance in style and why or why not.
