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Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
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Early Life
Madonna of the Rocks
Geometricalarrangement of figures
Chiaroscuro
Sfumato
Foreshortening
Backgroundtreatments
Artists live on
commissions
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Milan
Last Supper Used new fresco method
Built into the room's end
Light from the side withthe window
Door cut below
During WWII a bombhit the monastery
Destroyed by erosion
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Among all the studies and reasoning,Light chiefly delights the beholder; and
among the great features of mathematicsthe certainty of its demonstrations is whatpreeminently tends to elevate the mind ofthe investigator. Perspective, thereforemust be preferred to all the discourses
and systems of human learning.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Mona Lisa
The greatness of
the Mona LisaWhat do you see?
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"'Those [artists] who are enamoredof practice without science,'Leonardo explained, 'are like sailorswho board a ship without rudder and
compass, never having any certaintyas to whither they go.'"
Isacoff, Stuart, Temperament, Vintage Books, 2001, p. 85.
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Notebooks
Coded
Read R L with a mirror Scientific illustration
Used science to supportart
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Military
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Aeronautics
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Anatomy
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Technology
Machines
Hydraulics Vehicles on land
Architecture
Scientific method
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Those sciences are vain and filled
with errors which are not borne ofexperiment, the mother of all
certainty.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Legacy
Only 17 paintings
Notebooks Drawings of unfinished works
Diverted rivers to prevent
flooding Principles of turbine
Cartography
Submarine Flying machine
Parachute
And much more.
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Renaissance Man
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Renaissance Man
Ancient:
Plato(daVinci)
Aristotle
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Renaissance Man
Renaissance period
Leonardo daVinciMichelangelo and Raphael
Petrarch, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola
Why were there so many Renaissance
men during the Renaissance?Lack of boundaries between disciplines
Knowledge was just knowledge
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"I don't buy the notion that the world isorganized the way universities and
companies are. Ideas don't know whatdiscipline they're in. We might kidnapthem and say, 'That's a marketing idea' or
'That's an anthropology idea.' But if youwalked up to an idea on the street, itwouldn't know about that."
Gerald Zaltman, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard,personal communication, October 2003.
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Leonardos Environment andMotivation
Earning a living (profit)
Rivalry with other artists
Scientific curiosity
Civic duty
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Early Life
Born outside of Florence
Apprenticed as a sculptor
Master recognized his talents
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Commissions by Medici
Lived in the
Medici palace Studied anatomy
Several pieces forthe Medici tombs,etc.
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Rome
Commissionedto do Piet
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Return to Florence
Commissioned to do
David
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David
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Return to
Rome Worked on tomb
for Julius II Sistine Chapel
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Sistine Chapel
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Sistine Chapel
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Moses
Received fundingfrom Pope Leo X
The Moses
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Legacy Worlds greatest
sculptor
See the figure inside thestone and remove excess
Painter
Mannerism
Poet
Architect Engineer
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Raphael
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Early Life
Born in Urbino
Quick learner and hard worker
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Time in Rome
Borrowed techniques from other
great artists Often sketched women and children
Architect for St. Peters Died at 37 and buried in Pantheon
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School of Athens
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School of Athens
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Madonna of the Meadow
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Legacy of Raphael
Refinement
Exemplar of the Renaissance Expertise:
Artist, archeologist, writer, philosopher,teacher
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Titian and the Venetian School
Characteristics: Vivid colors
Dynamics and dramaticmovement
Sensuality
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Renaissance Music
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Basic structure
Words dominate
Tone painting
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Texture
Middle ages:
Monophonic Renaissance:
Polyphonic Late Renaissance:
Homophonic
Harmonies based upon Pythagoras
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Musical Notation
Invented to publish books of music
Invented instruments
Instrumental arrangements appeared
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Religious Music
Natural
soundingmusic
Mass
Composersmusic had to
be screened
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Giovanni Palestrina
Adult life in Rome Choirmaster, singer,/ director of
music
Reactionary period Church suppressed music that did
not enhance words of the Mass
Polyphony was distracting
Works were conservative
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Giovanni Palestrina
Wrote over 100 masses
Gregorian chantMass in Honor of Pope Marcellus
Influenced later music Buried in St. Peters Basilica
The Prince of Music
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Secular Music
New instruments
Chansons favored in the courtCourtly Love
MadrigalsPoetry and Music
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Dances
As important as music
First considered a separate form ofart
Some courts had dance masters balli
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Thank You
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