The Renaissance1400-1600 CE
•Cities are growing
• Patronage in the hands of Wealthy Families/ Church
Society
• Humanism – A movement that was concerned with the rediscovering and studying of literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.
• Goal: create the illusion of physical reality.
Linear Perspective
Developed by Brunelleschi (Sculpture and Architect) as a mathematical system
• Vanishing point Dead center (Beginning)
http://poemshape.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/masaccio_trinity.jpg
Perugino - Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Perugino_Keys.jpg
Famous Four
•Donatello
•Leonardo
•Michelangelo
•Raphael
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Donatello (1386-1466)
• Worked in various mediums (bronze, marble, polychrome wood)
•David is the first male nude since Antiquity (Nudes became acceptable)
•Commemorate the triumph of Florence over Milan David
(c. 1446-1460) Height 5’ 2”
http://wshs.wtvl.k12.me.us/~social/w-hist/renaiss/artshow/donatello_david.jpg
Mary Magdalen(c.1455. Wood Polychrome)
• Traditionally known for physical Beauty
• Vacant eyes, hermit, clothed in own hair
• Physical deterioration
http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/magdalene.jpg
Leonardo Da Vinci(1452-1519 CE)
J• Born in Vinci
• Moved to Florence and apprenticed
•Worked for the Sforza family in Milan
The Last Supper (1495-98, tempera and oil on plaster)
http://www.arcadja.com/artmagazine/en/wp-content/gallery/080418-greenaway/leonardo-da-vinci-cenacolo.jpg
Mona Lisa(c. 1503. Oil on wood panel, 30” X 21”)
• Atmospheric Perspective
•Pyramidal Composition
• New portrait style
http://www.historiasiglo20.org/MEC-BC/images/da-vinci-leonardo-mona-lisa.jpg
Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) Ink
http://www.asdfing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/facts_about_leonardo_da_vinci.jpg
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
• Born in poverty (claimed noble lineage)
• Grew up in Florence worked in Rome
• Studied under a pupil of Donatello
• Considered himself a sculpture above all
Pieta(c. 1500. Marble 1.75 m height)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Michelangelo%27s_Pieta_5450_cut_out.png
David (c. 1501-04. Marble, 5.18m height)
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/m/michelangelo/david.jpg
•Symbol of Florence
• Meant to be viewed from bellow
•Muscular ideal of Antiquity
The Sistine Chapel (Vatican City, Rome)Ceiling 1508-1512 End wall 1536-1541
http://www.lib-art.com/imgpainting/2/5/14052-interior-of-the-sistine-chapel-michelangelo-buonarroti.jpg
http://images.travelpod.com/users/judyann/2.1189732080.sistine-chapel---the-last-judgement.jpg
Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling(1511-1512)
http://jesswilson.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/michelangelo-creation-adam.jpg
Raphael (1483-1520)
• Uses Leonardo’s Pyramidal composition
•Worked for the Pope at the same time as Michelangelo
•Died at the young age of 37
The Small Cowper Madonna (1505, Oil on wood panel)
http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/raphael/raphae34.jpg
School of Athens (c. 1510-1511, Vatican, Rome)
Titian ( 1489-1576)
• Official Painter of the Republic of Venice
• Was ennobled
• Ground pigments much finer
• Know for his layers of true colours (10-15)
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Venice%20&%20N%20Italy/Venice/Images/I_Frari/750/Titian-Madonna-B-R640.jpg
Pesaro Madonna
(1519-26, Oil on canvas)
Venus of Urbino
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/110images/sl9images/titian_venus_urbino.jpg
(c. 1538. Oil on canvas, 3’11” X 5’5”)
Summary• Use of Linear and Atmospheric Perspective
• Nudes are accepted again
• Allegorical and Christian art
• Art imitating reality
• Migration from Tempera to Oil painting