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Art of the Early Renaissance . Presented by Ed White Adapted from Mike Venegas UTEP. Renaissance. A period from the early 1300’s to roughly 1600 when there was a renewed interest in history literature and art. Renaissance = “Rebirth” Europe’s economic recovery
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Art of the Early Renaissance Presented by Ed White Adapted from Mike Venegas UTEP
Renaissance • A period from the early 1300’s to roughly 1600 when there was a renewed interest in history literature and art. • Renaissance = “Rebirth” • Europe’s economic recovery • Renewed study of ancient Greece and Rome
Humanism • The birth of humanism • Humanism was an ideal that focused on the world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter. (Civic, Religious) • Rejected medieval view of humanity and focused on the goodness of mankind
Humanism (cont.) • Began in Florence, Italy • Ideal setting • Wealthy patrons Cosimo De Medici
Early Renaissance • Period from 1400 to 1500 • Artist as a craftsmen • Art created by commission • Art through imitation
Workshop system • Collaboration of masters and apprentices • Family-based • Run like a business Palazza de Vecchio
Workshop • Art was commissioned • Apprentice started in early teens • Studied under master for several years Elizabeth 1
Products of the workshop system • Michaelangelo • Master – Domenico Ghirlandaio • Leonardo da Vinci • Master- Andrea del Verocchio
Innovations • Frescoes- art created on damp plaster • Oil paints • Realistic portrayal of human nature
Innovations • Chiaroscurro- use of shadows to show balance of light and dark • Science • Linear perspective- allowed artist to represent objects in relative sizes
Giotto • Giotto is considered to be the most influential artist on Renaissance painting. • Father of the Renaissance • Giotto’s dignified figures seemed to displace space, to stand upon the ground with real substance and weight. • The figures seem to extend both backward, into the picture, and forward, toward the spectator’s space.
Filippo Bruneleschi(1337-1446) • Florentine architect and engineer • First to carry out a series of optical experiments that led to a mathematical theory of perspective. • His method of perspective had a dramatic impact on the depiction of 3-dimensional space in the arts
One point linear perspective Pierro della Francesca “View of an Ideal City”
Masaccio(1401-1428) • One of first artists to apply the new method of linear perspective in his fresco of the Holy Trinity • Used a barrel vaulted ceiling to imitate with precision the true appearance of architectural space • Figures depict accurate human anatomy
Pierro della Francesca(1416-1492) • Expressed an obsession with perspective • His works are characterized by carefully analyzed architectural spaces and sensitivity to geometric purity of shapes. • Wrote several treatises on perspective and geometry
Carefully analyzed perspective and geometry • The Discovery and Proving of the True Cross
Donatello(1386-1466) • New sense of naturalism in sculpture • Use of classical contrapposto stance (relaxed not rigid) • Statue of David considered first full scale nude since ancient times
Andrea Mantegna(1430-1506) • Created unusual vantage points • Looking at figures from below • Lamentation of the Dead Christ the viewer is looking from the feet of the subject. • Deep foreshortening • Effectively placed the viewer at the scene, adding to the sense of empathy
Lamentation of the Dead Christ • Use of unusual vantage points
Sandra Boticelli(1445-1510) • First artist to paint a full-length female nude • In Birth of Venus the figure occupies the center of the work which was traditionally reserved for the Virgin. This work is possibly the most pagan image of the entire Renaissance.
Da Vinci Self Portrait? Mona Lisa
Literature in the Early Renaissance Jennifer Montes
Before the Renaissance • Christian Age • Literary production limited • Important original books of the time • Exameron by St. Ambrose • City of God and the Confessions by St. Augustine • Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Characterized by: • Large collections of church hymns • Didactic poems of relative significance • Sermons • Theological treatises • Legends of various saints • Fables • Historical chronicles beginning with Creation
Rise of Humanism • Involved the modern discovery or rediscovery of those fields we now call the humanities • History, moral and political philosophy, poetry, literature, rhetoric, grammar, and linguistic study and interpretation. • Humanism was a deliberate revival, renascence, or "renaissance" of the arts and humanities.
Humanism • Humanists took Christian ideas and secular and pagan (Greek and Roman) ideas to gain knowledge useful in making them better people • Virtuous, responsible, educated citizens, aware of what had been thought and done at other times and places. • The humanists sought to understand what it was to be fully human.
Early Renaissance affected by: • Works of Dante • Works of Petrarch • Invention and widespread use of movable type
Dante Alighieri • Born in Florence, Italy in 1265 • Son of Alighiero di Bellincione Alighieri and his first wife Bella • Wrote his first book “Vita Nuova” (New Life) in 1294 • Exiled in 1302
Exile • De Vulgari Eloquentia –treatise on his native language • Never completed • Il Convivio –collection of verse • Never completed • Began writing the Commedia (Divine Comedy) in 1306
La Divina Commedia • The Divine Comedy • Completed in 1321 • Narrative poem • Written in terza rima (third rhyme) • a verse form consisting of tercets • rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc) • Form modified by Dante
Divine Comedy • Allegory of human life written to convert the corrupt to righteousness • Represents three realms of the Christian afterlife • Inferno (Hell) • Puragatorio (Purgatory) • Paradiso (Heaven
Influences of Dante • Virgil • Lucan • Theological Influences • St. Thomas Aquinas • Sts. Gregory, Isidore, Anselm, and Bonaventure • Boethius
Influenced by Dante • Artists • Giotto • “Cimabue thought/To lord it over painting’s field; and now/ The cry is Giotto’s, and his name eclipsed.” (Purgatorio, canto XI) • Michelangelo Buonarroti’s Last Judgement • Salvadore Dali
Influenced by Dante • Authors • Shelley • Byron • Yeats • T.S. Eliot
Francesco Petrarca • Born in Arezzo in 1304 • Son of a Ser Petracco • 1341 crowned poet laureate in Rome • Created works in Latin • Most popular are those written in Italian • Trionfi—allegorical and moral • Written in terza rima
Canzoniere • “Song Book” • Considered Petrarch’s masterpiece • Contains mostly sonnets • To a lesser degree canzoni, sestine, ballate, and madrigals
Canzoniere • Inspired by the lady, Laura • Deals with Love, political and patriotic feeling, and issues of morality • Unrequited Love • Seeing her brings him joy • Creates unfulfilled desires
Laura • First saw his “muse”, Laura, April 6, 1327 (Good Friday) in the church of Sainte-Claire d’ Avignon • Some doubt her existance • Others believe she may have been the wife of Hugues de Sade
The Petrarchian Sonnet • Now known also as the Italian Sonnet • 14 lines • Consists of 2 divisions • First eight lines (octet) • Second six lines (sestet) • Rhyme Scheme • Abbaabbacdecde
Sonnet 140 Amor, che nel penser mio vive et regna (a) e 'l suo seggio maggior nel mio cor tene, (b) talor armato ne la fronte vene; (b) ivi si loca et ivi pon sua insegna. (a) Quella ch' amare et sofferir ne 'nsegna (a) e vol che 'l gran desio, l'accesa spene (b) ragion, vergogna, et reverenza affrene, (b) di nostro ardir fra se stessa si sdegna. (a) Onde Amor paventoso fugge al core, (c) lasciando ogni sua impresa, et piange et trema; (d) ivi s'asconde et non appar più fore. (e) Che poss' io far, temendo il mio signore, (c) se non star seco infin a l'ora estrema? (d) ché bel fin fa chi ben amando more. (e)