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Renaissance Art
Italian Early and High Renaissance Art
Art and PatronageArt and PatronageItalians were willing to spend a lot of
money on art.
/Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values.
/Italian banking & international trade interests had the money.
Public art in Florence was organized and supported by guilds.
Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!
Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Realism & ExpressionRealism & Expression
Expulsion fromExpulsion fromthe Gardenthe Garden
MasaccioMasaccio
14271427
First nudes sinceFirst nudes sinceclassical timesclassical times..
2. Perspective2. Perspective
First use First use of linear of linear
perspectivperspective!e!
The TrinityThe Trinity
MasaccioMasaccio
14271427
3. Classicism3. Classicism
Greco-Roman influence.
Secularism.
Humanism.
Individualism free standing figures.
Symmetry/BalanceThe The “Classical Pose”“Classical Pose”Medici “Venus”Medici “Venus”
4. Emphasis on 4. Emphasis on IndividualismIndividualism Batista Sforza &
Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino
Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.
5. Geometrical 5. Geometrical Arrangement of Arrangement of FiguresFigures
The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as architecture!
6. Artists as 6. Artists as Personalities/CelebritiePersonalities/Celebritiess
Lives of the Lives of the Most Most Excellent Excellent Painters, Painters, Sculptors, andSculptors, andArchitectsArchitects
Giorgio VasariGiorgio Vasari
15501550
Early Renaissance
The First Three
Hall-of-Famers
Masaccio1401-1428
Founder of early Renaissance Painting
Painted human figure as a real human being
(3D) Used perspective Consistent source of
light (accurate shadows)
The Tribute Money
#2 Donatello 1386-1466
The sculptor’s Masaccio
David (1430-32)– First free standing,
life-size nude since Classical period
– Contrapposto– Sense of Underlying
skeletal structure
The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello)
realgaunt
“Speak, speak or the plague take you!”
#3 Boticelli
1482 Rebirth of Classical
mythology Fully Pagan THE BIRTH OF
VENUS
The Italian Renaissance
Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Titian
Da VinciMona Lisa (1503-06)Perspective,Anatomy, Composition
Cultural icon
The Last Supper
Emotions Response
Michelangelo
DavidDavid
MichelangeloMichelangeloBuonarottiBuonarotti
15041504
MarbleMarble
Raphael School of Athens 1510
Raphael
Da Vinci
Michelangelo
AristotleAristotle::looks to thislooks to thisearth [theearth [thehere andhere and
now].now].
PlatoPlato::looks to thelooks to theheavens [or heavens [or
the IDEALthe IDEALrealm].realm].
Pythagoras
Ptolemy
Euclid
Titian
Dazzling contrasting colors
Ample female forms Asymmetric
compositions Bacchanal of the
Adrians 1518
Venus of Urbino Venus of Urbino – Titian, – Titian, 15581558
A Portrait of SavonarolaA Portrait of Savonarola By Fra Bartolomeo,
1498.
Dominican friar who decried money and power.
Anti-humanist he saw humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and corrupting.
The “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 1497.
/ Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other luxury goods in public.
/ Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the fire!!