RENAISSANCE AND NORTHERN RENAISSANCE ART

RENAISSANCE AND NORTHERN

RENAISSANCE ART

J. NEWMAN

CHARACTERISTICS High Renaissance

(mainly Italy) 1) Realism and

Expression 2) Linear Perspective 3) Classicism (Roman

and Greco influence) 4) Emphasis

on Individualism 5) Geometrical

Arrangement of Figures

6) Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges

7) Religious

Northern Renaissance (Beyond Italy) 1. Realistic 2. Detailed 3. Symbolism 4. Un-idealized

figures (figures are too thin or pale)

5. Printmaking- use of woodcut, common way to produce images

Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

MonaLisa

Self Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

LaPieta

Self Portrait of Raphael

Cowpepper Madonna

School of Athens

Giovanni Arnolfini and His

Wife(Wedding Portrait)

Jan Van

Eyck

1434

JAN VAN EYCK -

GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI

& HIS WIFE (DETAILS)

ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN (1399-1464)

The Depositio

n

1435

VAN DER WEYDEN’S DEPOSITION (DETAILS)

QUENTIN MASSYS (1465-1530) “the renovator

of the old art.” The Ugly

Dutchess, 1525-1530

MASSYS’ THE MONEYLENDER & HIS WIFE, 1514

LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER

Old Man with a Young Woman

Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man

DÜRER – SELF-PORTRAIT IN FUR-COLLARED ROBE, 1500

DÜRER

FOURHORSEMENOF THEAPOCALYPSE

WOODCUT, 1498

EL GRECO

CHRIST IN AGONY ON THE CROSS

1600’S