480 likes | 503 Views
The Art of the Italian Renaissance. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Perspective. The Trinity Masaccio 1427. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. Perspective!. First use of linear perspective!.
E N D
The Art of the Italian Renaissance By: Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Perspective • The Trinity • Masaccio • 1427 Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.
Geometrical Arrangement of Figures • The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate • Leonardo da Vinci • 1469 • The figure as architecture!
Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Sfumato Chiaroscuro
The Baptism of ChristVerrocchio, 1472 - 1475 Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo, the Artist • The Virgin of the Rocks • Leonardo daVinci • 1483-1486
Refractory Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 vertical horizontal Perspective!
Deterioration • Detail of Jesus • The Last Supper • Leonardo da Vinci • 1498
David • MichelangeloBuonarotti • 1504 • Marble
The Popes as Patrons of the Arts • The Pieta • MichelangeloBuonarroti • 1499 • marble
The Sistine Chapel’s CeilingMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512
The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens
The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man
The Sistine Chapel Details The Fall from Grace
The Sistine Chapel Details The Last Judgment
Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504
Raphael’s Madonnas (1) Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna
Raphael’s Madonnas (2) Madonna della Sedia Alba Madonna
Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.
The Northern Renaissance By: Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife(Wedding Portrait)Jan Van Eyck1434
Quentin Massys (1465-1530) • Belonged to the humanist circle in Antwerp that included Erasmus. • Influenced by da Vinci. • Thomas More called him “the renovator of the old art.” • The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530
Lucas Cranach the Elder Old Man with a Young Woman Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) • The greatest of German artists. • A scholar as well as an artist. • His patron was the Emperor Maximilian I. • Also a scientist • Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and human proportions. • Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits. • Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) • A pessimistic view of human nature. • Had a wild and lurid imagination. • Fanciful monsters & apparitions. • Untouched by the values of the Italian Quattrocento, like mathematical perspective. • His figures are flat. • Perspective is ignored. • More a landscape painter than a portraitist. • Philip II of Spain was an admirer of his work.