Post on 24-Dec-2015
10/20/14 - Journal- 3 SentencesDescribe the differences between the two
paintings. Which one do you like better? Why?
The Renaissance in
ItalyRenaissance =
“Rebirth”
The Renaissance 1300-1500
The period after the Middle Ages/Dark Ages and before modern history
At the end of the Black Death (plague)
A time of great art and great thinkers
Renaissance Art
Used religious figures, but against classical backgrounds
Artists returned to the realism of classical times using perspective
Humanism Humanism – intellectual movement at
the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects and classical techniques.
Education was important. Emphasis on individual achievement. Emphasis on classical Greek and
Roman texts.
Medieval Portrayals of the Madonna
Renaissance Portrayal of the Madonna
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, all around Renaissance Man.
-The Mona Lisa
-The Last Supper
BTW – He also robbed graves.
The Brilliance of Leonardo Out of 17 half brothers
and sisters, Leonardo was recognized as “unusual” as a child.
Apprenticed to a painter by 15.
The Brilliance of Leonardo Developed interest in
science and technology. Tried to invent rockets,
bridges, flying machines, parachutes, fire trucks with extendable ladders, etc.
May have also invented the telescope?
Was a lefty!
BTW: Leonardo and the next
Renaissance Man absolutely HATED one another!!!
Both are what we call “Renaissance Men” Able to do more than
one thing quite well!
Michelangelo Michelangelo di
Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[
And we wonder why we just call him “Michelangelo”?
Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
Michelangelo
La Pieta in the Sistine Chapel in Rome.
David
The Divine Spark
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
(1483 –1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Christian ideal of human grandeur.
Self-portrait by Raphael, missing since World War II
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (1386 –1466), better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspective illusionism.
Donatello
Statue of David
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles were all named after the famous artists of the Renaissance.
Master Splinter and Super Shredder were not.
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
Raphael