Post on 29-Dec-2015
Changes in Art and Architecture in the Renaissance
The Renaissance
• Renewed interest in Greece and Rome
The Renaissance
• Renewed interest in Greece and Rome
• Humanism
The Renaissance
• Renewed interest in Greece and Rome
• Humanism
• Spirit of enquiry/invention
The Renaissance
• This brought about changes in art and architecture
The Renaissance
• This brought about changes in art and architecture
• Reflected the new thinking of the Renaissance
The Renaissance
• This brought about changes in art and architecture
• Reflected the new thinking of the Renaissance …Greece and Rome, Spirit of Enquiry, Humanism
The Renaissance
Realism
• Paintings and sculpture tried to be more realistic
The Renaissance
Started to use Perspective
Medieval
Medieval
What do you notice about this?
Cimabue, Madonna Enthrone (1280)
Renaissance
Uses perspective
Renaissance
Uses perspective
Raphael, Marriage of a Virgin
Medieval
Religious
Themes
Cimabue, Madonna Enthrone (1280)
Renaissance Themes
Not just religion, also …
• Greek and Roman Myths
• Ordinary People
• Leaders
• Nature
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus Greek Myth
Renaissance People
• More “real”
• Lifelike
• Studied muscles, bone structure
Renaissance
New techniques…
sfumoto
• blurring the edges
• added shading
• Da Vinci the master of it
Da Vinci, Virgin on the Rocks
Renaissance
New Materials• Oil instead of egg yolks
– dried slower
• Canvas instead of wood panelling– Could vary colours, paint layers
Helped to make paintings more realistic
Renaissance
Continued to use Frescoes -
Renaissance
Sculpture
• More realistic
Renaissance Architecture
• Replaced Gothic
Renaissance Architecture
• Replaced Gothic
Renaissance Architecture
• Copied Greece and Rome
Renaissance Architecture
• Copied Greece and Rome
• Used Columns, Domes and Rounded Arches
Bramante
Recap: Change in art and architecture
• Perspective• Wider themes• People more “real”• New Materials, oil, canvas• Painted Frescoes• Architecture: domes, columns, rounded
arches• Sculpture: more life-like, more themes
Is it from the Renaissance?
Jan van Eyck.
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride. 1434