Renaissance vs. medieval art lesson ppt
Let’s Review! Renaissance = REBIRTH Time period: 1300 – 1500 Humanism: focused on worldly subjects instead of religious subjects Influenced by.
Italian Renaissance Art. Patronage Florence was the leader in Renaissance art especially in the quattrocento (1400s) Giorgio Vasari (1511-74): The Lives.
The Renaissance period spans the years from 1400 to 1600.
Europe’s Cultural Emergence from the Middle Ages.
Early Byzantine
Art and Power Powerful groups commissioned works of art –Represented merchants’ dominant influence in community i.e. Florentine gov’t hires Michelangelo.
The Renaissance
The Renaissance What do we mean by Humanism? This is the belief that it was just as important for Man to develop his artistic, literary and philosophical.
Early Byzantine Tile Icon of St. Nicholas Constantinople 10th-11th century Characteristics: No background Flat faced.
Medieval Art v. Italian Renaissance Art. Medieval Art Earliest was sculpture Very religious- oriented Showed fate of sinners Righteous went to Heaven.
The Art of the Italian Renaissance
