Tell me about these paintings. Can you find similarities and/or differences?

Medieval Art

Characteristics of Medieval Art

• Disproportionate figures• Little or no perspective• All faces the same, unrealistic• 2D, flat, and dull• Religious themes

Madonna EnthronedGiovanni Cimabue 1280-90

Transition

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto_di_Bondone

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

Madonna Enthroned Giotto, 1311

Art of the Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance

• Revival of Greek/Roman styles• Humanism – faith in the nobility of man

• More common themes – not religion• Linear perspective• Realism of its faces and figures• New paints / techniquesNew paints / techniques

New Focus of Art

Dead ChristAndrea Mantegna, 1501

Medieval Art (things to notice)• Look at the people, they all look the

same. Close to stick figures.• Their faces are all the same.• The depth perception, there is none.

Some of the people and objects look like the are floating.

• Linear Perspective, Focus point or vanishing point, there is none. It looks like a bunch of randomly placed objects.

• Religion, most medieval art has some sort of religious aspect to it.

• The artists normally sign their work to know who’s work it is. In this painting we do not find this.

Renaissance Art (things to notice)

How easy is perspective?

• Now it’s your turn…

• In your notebooks… Draw something in this room using the idea of perspective…

Raphael

School of Athens

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Mona Lisa

Michelangelo