The Renaissance1400-1600 CE

•Cities are growing

• Patronage in the hands of Wealthy Families/ Church

Society

• Humanism – A movement that was concerned with the rediscovering and studying of literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.

• Goal: create the illusion of physical reality.

Linear Perspective

Developed by Brunelleschi (Sculpture and Architect) as a mathematical system

• Vanishing point Dead center (Beginning)

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Perugino - Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

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Famous Four

•Donatello

•Leonardo

•Michelangelo

•Raphael

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Donatello (1386-1466)

• Worked in various mediums (bronze, marble, polychrome wood)

•David is the first male nude since Antiquity (Nudes became acceptable)

•Commemorate the triumph of Florence over Milan David

(c. 1446-1460) Height 5’ 2”

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Mary Magdalen(c.1455. Wood Polychrome)

• Traditionally known for physical Beauty

• Vacant eyes, hermit, clothed in own hair

• Physical deterioration

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Leonardo Da Vinci(1452-1519 CE)

J• Born in Vinci

• Moved to Florence and apprenticed

•Worked for the Sforza family in Milan

The Last Supper (1495-98, tempera and oil on plaster)

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Mona Lisa(c. 1503. Oil on wood panel, 30” X 21”)

• Atmospheric Perspective

•Pyramidal Composition

• New portrait style

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Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) Ink

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Michelangelo (1475-1564)

• Born in poverty (claimed noble lineage)

• Grew up in Florence worked in Rome

• Studied under a pupil of Donatello

• Considered himself a sculpture above all

Pieta(c. 1500. Marble 1.75 m height)

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David (c. 1501-04. Marble, 5.18m height)

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•Symbol of Florence

• Meant to be viewed from bellow

•Muscular ideal of Antiquity

The Sistine Chapel (Vatican City, Rome)Ceiling 1508-1512 End wall 1536-1541

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Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling(1511-1512)

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Raphael (1483-1520)

• Uses Leonardo’s Pyramidal composition

•Worked for the Pope at the same time as Michelangelo

•Died at the young age of 37

The Small Cowper Madonna (1505, Oil on wood panel)

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School of Athens (c. 1510-1511, Vatican, Rome)

Titian ( 1489-1576)

• Official Painter of the Republic of Venice

• Was ennobled

• Ground pigments much finer

• Know for his layers of true colours (10-15)

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Pesaro Madonna

(1519-26, Oil on canvas)

Venus of Urbino

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(c. 1538. Oil on canvas, 3’11” X 5’5”)

Summary• Use of Linear and Atmospheric Perspective

• Nudes are accepted again

• Allegorical and Christian art

• Art imitating reality

• Migration from Tempera to Oil painting