Looking at ArtClassical, Medieval, and Renaissance Art

• Light• Perspective• Movement• Color• Proportion• Symbolism

The Peasant Dance, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Looking @ Art

• Light• Perspective• Color• Form• Proportion• Symbolism

Looking @ Art

Giovanni Arnolfini and His BrideJan Van Eyck, 1434

Renaissance ArtComparing Renaissance Art to

Medieval Art

Art of Ancient Greece and Rome

Zeus or Poseidonc. 460-450 B.C.

Julius Caesar Caesar Augustus

Medieval Art

Characteristics of Medieval Art

• Disproportionate figures• Little or no perspective• All faces the same, unrealistic• Two-dimensional, flat, and dull• Religious themes• 180 degree relief statues• Storytelling, either about religion or

warfare• Artists as craftsmen, work for guilds

Madonna EnthronedGiovanni Cimabue 1280-90

AnnunciationSimon Martini, 1333

Transition

• "He converted the art of painting from Greek to Latin and brought in the modern era”

• First since the Greeks to understand the concept of space - 3D on a 2D surface

• Influenced western art and all the Renaissance artists

Giotto

Saint Francis Saint Francis and Saint Claireand Saint Claire

The The Presentation Presentation of the Virgin, of the Virgin, 13051305

Madonna Enthroned Giotto, 1311

Art of the Renaissance

Madonna and Child Fra Filippo Lippi, 1406-1469

Adoration of the MagiSandro Botticelli

Dead ChristAndrea Mantegna, 1501

Raphael

School of Athens

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Madonna of the Rocks

Mona Lisa

Michelangelo

Pieta, 1498-99