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Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art
Mr. Redelsheimer
World History
Three ErasThree Eras
Part 1: Early Renaissance -- Florence
Part 2: High Renaissance -- Rome
Part 3: Northern Renaissance
Part 1:
The Early Renaissance
Florence
1300s and 1400s
Giotto
Painted frescoes on wet plaster walls.
Human figures look more lifelike:
• Rounded forms
• People interact
• Faces show emotion
• Tried to create an illusion of depth.
GhibertiBaptistry Doors
Cathedral in Florence
1401-1451
Bronze panels.
Each panel shows a different scene from the Bible.
Illusion of depth, background scenery in each panel.
BrunelleschiDome of Cathedral
Florence, 1420-1436
First such large dome built in Europe since Roman Era.
Required technological innovation and new engineering skills.
DonatelloDavid
First European since the Classical Era (Greeks and Romans) to make a large, free-standing human figure in the nude.
Masaccio (1401-1428)
Christ Descending from the Cross
Used the technique of perspective, which had been developed by Brunelleschi, to give the appearance of distance.
Renaissance Terms
Quattrocento:
Century beginning in 1400
Humanist:
scholars who studied classical texts
Vernacular:
common, everyday language
Part 2:
The High Renaissance
Rome
Early 1500s
MichelangeloSistine Chapel
In the Vatican, Rome
1508-1511
Restoration of the Sistine Chapel
Before
After
Michelangelo
“My stomach is thrust toward my chin,
My beard curls up, toward the sky,
My head leans right over into my back,
My chest is like that of an old shrew,
The brush endlessly dripping onto my face,
Has coated it with a multi-colored paving.”
Raphael
(1483-1520)
Raphael was a favorite painter of Pope Leo X.
Notice realistic forms and expressions even in a painting with a religious theme.
Raphael
Notice realistic facial features and expressions in this portrait.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The Last Supper (fresco, Milan)
Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
The model for this painting is thought to be the wife of a Florentine merchant.
Note realistic form, facial expression, and natural background with a sense of depth and distance.
You Tube Mona Lisa
Part 3:
The Northern Renaissance
Northern Europe
1500-1600
Albrecht Durer(Germany)
Artists like Durer helped spread Renaissance ideas to Northern Europe. Durer traveled France to work for Francis I. When he returned to his home in Germany, he brought with him Renaissance techniques and ideas.
Hans Holbein
(Germany)
Known for painting portraits, including Henry VIII of England.
Jan van Eyck
(Flanders)
Italian merchant and his wife living in Flanders
Symbolism in the painting:
•Candle in the chandelier represents Jesus
•Fruit on the windowsill represents the innocence of humanity
The End
Sources:
• DC Heath, World History: Perspectives on the Past
• Saint Paul Academy and Summit School: www.spa.edu