Art of the Middle Ages vs Art of the Renaissance

Art of the Middle Ages

Comparing Middle Ages and Renaissance Art

Flat

Hierarchical Structure – Important people made to seem larger

Religious themes

Simple

Less choice of / blending of colors

Italian Renaissance Art

Notice the use of perspective

Italian Renaissance Art

Use of perspective (3D)

Still often religious, but w/ characters seeming more human

Realistic

More choice of / blending of colors

Pieter Bruegel

Northern Renaissance Art

Use of perspective (3D)

More about daily life. Less about religion

Realistic

More choice of / blending of colors

Some Renaissance Masters

                                                  

Leonardo da Vinci

Note the use of color, texture

and shading

Brunelleschi's Dome on the Florence Cathedral

Quick Quiz

For each of the paintings below, write down whether it is from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance

A Portrait of Sir

Thomas More,

By

Hans Holbein