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Patronage: Giving artists freedom to work Church as major patron from 15th c. Religious and Classical themes. Giotto di Bondone ( c. 1266-1337 ) Scenes from the Life of Christ: 20 . Lamentation ( 1304-6) Fresco Realism Emotion Perspective.
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Patronage: Giving artists freedom to work Church as major patron from 15th c. Religious and Classical themes
Giotto di Bondone(c. 1266-1337) Scenes from the Life of Christ: 20. Lamentation (1304-6) Fresco Realism Emotion Perspective
Masaccio (“Messy One”, a.k.a. TommasoGuidi, Lo Scheggia[“The Splinter”], 1401-c. 1428) Trinity (1425-28) chiaroscuro (contrast of light and shade)
Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444-1510) The Birth of Venus (c. 1485) Classical themes
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Self-Portrait (c. 1512) Vitruvian Man (1492) Virgin of the Rocks (1483-86) – sfumato (“smoky”) Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) (c. 1503-5)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) The Creation of Adam (c. 1510) Nudes Sistine Chapel Julius II (p. 1503-13)
Raphael Sanzio(1483-1520) Madonna dellaSeggiola(Madonna of the Chair, 1516) The School of Athens (1509)
Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-c. 1652) Judith Beheading Holofernes (1611-12)
Neoplatonism Michelangelo The Pietà (1498-99) Donatello (1386-1466) David (c. 1430)
DonatoBramante (1444-1514) St Peter’s Basilica, Rome Tempietto, Rome Pythagoras (6th c. BC) Giovanni Palestrina (c. 1525-94) Super FluminaBabylonis
Giovanni Pico dellaMirandola (1463-94) Kabbalah Free will as means to great good or evil Possibility of rising to angelic near-divinity
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Born in Florence. Humanist education Politician and ambassador 1512 Machiavelli forced to retire The Prince Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy History of Florence
The End of the Renaissance: Economic decline: Ottomans, New World trade, competing producers/merchants Wars: Death, destruction, economic damage Results: reduction in patronage, lack of stable environment for artistic activity