Renaissance Art

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Renaissance Art Architecture

• The Rebirth of Classical Ideas

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Background Phases

• 1050 1350
• Population growth
• Economic development
• City states
• 1200 late 1500s
• Artistic achievement

Bellini Sacra Conversazione
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Intellectual Development

• Humanism Glorify Human Form Potential
• Revival of classical antiquity
• Individualism
• Secular focus

Titian Assumption of the Virgin
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Renaissance Italy

• City-States
• Power People
• Medici (F)
• Este (Ferrara)
• Sforza (M)
• Doge (V)
• Pope (PS)

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Florence

• Commerce / Trade
• Banking Medici
• Textile
• Patronage

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Renaissance Art Techniques

• Religious gtgt Secular subjects
• Realistic
• Perspective
• Movement
• Symmetry
• Proportion

Ghirlandiao Adoration of the Shepherds
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Medieval v. Renaissance

• Medieval
• Flat
• Religious
• Static

• Renaissance
• 3-D
• Secular / Human focus
• Movement

Ghirlandaio Angel Appearing to Zacharias
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Giotto de Bondone The Mourning of Christ

• Florentine School Fresco Individuals

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Massaccio Tribute Money

• Florentine School Perspective Realism

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Sandro Botticelli Madonna of the Magnificat

• Expression Botticelli Face Emotional
• Double focal points Crown Book

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Major Artists Ninja Turtles!

• Raphael Michelangelo Donatello Leonardo

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Raphael Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals 1518

• Vatican Murals Commissioned by Pope Julius II
• Leo X Julius II successor
• Focal Point Face

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Raphael The School of Athens

• In the Vatican Stanza della Signatura
• Blending of Greek Renaissance
• Symmetry
• Perspective
• Depth
• Light

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Renaissance Man
• Multi-talented
• Anatomy, mechanics, art, astronomy, weaponry
• China?

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Leonardo The Last Supper

• Fresco Symmetry Individual Expression

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Leonardo Mona Lisa

• Symmetry
• Sfumato
• Blur
• Blend
• Mystery
• The Grin

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Leonardos Notebooks

• Vetruvian Man
• Anatomy advances painting sculpture

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Michelangelo Sistine Chapel

• M sculptor, painter, architect
• Commissioned by Pope Julius II 1508
• Scaffold, personally completed
• Old New Testament reflects the Renaissance Era

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Renaissance Sculpture

• Classical Realism
• Free standing
• Marble Bronze
• Full body, busts reliefs

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Humanism Individuality

• Individuality portrayed in details

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Ghibertis Doors - Florence

• 1423, Florentine, he was only 23!
• Bronze cast gilding
• 20 yrs N doors
• 25 yrs E doors
• Creation
• Realism

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Donatellos David

• Free standing nude
• Proportion of human form
• 5 tall, After beating Goliath

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Michelangelos David

• Marble
• 16 tall
• Details
• As David decides to battle Goliath
• Classical style, details

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Renaissance Architecture

• Columns
• Arch
• Dome
• Harmony via proportion
• The Circle is key
• Math!

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Church Architecture

• RCC builds to draw people
• Tells the Biblical narrative
• Visual Symbolic

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Church Architecture Florence

• Santa Maria del Fiore begun 1294 by Arnolfo di
  Cambio, died 1302
• Began cupola (cup shaped dome)

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Church Architecture Florence

• Filippo Brunelleschi, 1418 figured out how to
  complete ever decreasing circles with ribs to
  bear weight
• Scaffolding upwards

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Church Architecture St. Peters

• Michelangelo hired by Pope Paul III in 1546
  worked until death in 1564

• Inside St. Peters
• High Altar
• Nave Ceiling
• Roman arches
• Under Dome
• Single dome with arch support

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Church Architecture Bramantes Tempietto

• Renaissance Greatest Architect
• Commissioned by KQ of Spain Ferdinand
  Isabella
• St. Peters death site
• Doric columns Roman dome, 15 diameter

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Renaissance Writers

• Voice of Humanism
• Dante Alighieri Petrarch Boccaccio -
  Castiglione

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Renaissance Writers

• Dante 1265-1321
• Divine Comedy Allegory
• Vernacular
• Petrarch 1304-1374
• Sonnets in Italian
• Boccaccio 1313-1375
• Decameron Plague
• Castiglione 1478-1529
• The Courtier model

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Northern Renaissance

• Began in Flanders gtgt Holland
• Erasmus 1466-1536 reconcile Christian character
  w/ Humanism Colloquies, Adages, new Bible
• A. Durer Hans Holbein (Young) van Eyck

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Northern Renaissance

• Durer (G) 1471-1528
• Woodcuts
• Mass Marketing
• Holbein the Younger (G) 1497-1543
• Portraits, Henry VIII
• Expressions
• Van Eyck (Flem) 1390-1441
• Oil Paint developer
• Realism possible

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English Renaissance Elizabethan Era

• G. Chaucer
• Canterbury Tales Vernacular
• Sir Th. More
• Utopia Ideal place of virtue
• Spenser
• Faerie Queen Ode
• Marlowe plays
• Shakespeare
• Comedy, tragedy, morality

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Renaissance Impact

• Genius of humanity all at once why?
• Changed art architecture forever
• Individualism drives future thought