Renaissance Art

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Renaissance Art

• An overview of early to late Renaissance Artists
  and their works
• Put together by Deborah Burk

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Characteristics of Renaissance art

• More realistic v. stylistic than medieval art
  seen on the right
• Artists studied anatomy from cadavers and
  celebrated the beauty of the human form
• Often landscapes and classical themes in the
  background
• More secular subjects

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Artists of the Renaissance

• Italian Artists
• Donatello
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raphael

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Michelangelo

• Sculptor
• Painter
• Architect
• Known for realistic, muscular portrayals

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Michelangelo

David
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The Pieta
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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Adam after creation part of the Sistine Chapel
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A detail of Adam and God from the Sistine Chapel,
Vatican
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St. Peters Dome in Rome
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Leonardo da Vinci

• Also a Renaissance man of many talents.
• A sculptor, painter, and inventor
• Best known for works like the Mona Lisa and
  The Last Supper, with realistic portrayals
  gained by his knowledge of anatomy.

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The Mona Lisa
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The Last Supper
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Flying machine
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Ana-tomical sketches
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Ginevra de' Benci
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Self-portrait
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Artists of the Northern Renaissance

• Jan and Hubert van Eyck
• Peter Bruegel
• Peter Paul Rubens

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Jan van Eyck(some think he is the same as Hubert)

• Portrayal of townspeople
• Used rich colors
• Many secular themes

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Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride (Green was the
color of fertility, and the bride is slouching to
imitate pregnancy to show her willingness to bear
children)
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Portrait of a man (Self-portrait?)
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Hubert van Eyck

• Some think Jan and Hubert were the same man

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The Crucifixion
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The Three Marys at the Tomb
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Portrait of Jan de Leeuw
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Pieter Brugel

• Best known for his village scenes peasant life
• Great detail

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January
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the dance
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The tower of Babel
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Peter Paul Rubens

• Portrayed pagan figures
• Blended realism of Flemish painters with
  classical themes on large canvasses.

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The judgment of Paris
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A representation of the manger scene
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William Shakespeare

• Writer
• From England
• Wrote in vernacular (English), not Latin
• Invented over 1700 words (bedroom, zany, etc.)

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Miguel Cervantes

• Writer from Spain
• Wrote Don Quixote
• 1st modern novel that was read for fun!!