Download Hans Holbein the Younger, “The French Ambassadors” (1533)

Medieval Art
Renaissance Art
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Oil on Stretched Canvas
Perspective
The Use of Light and Shadow
Pyramid Configuration
Hans Holbein the Younger,
“The French Ambassadors” (1533)
Massassio
•Founder of Early Renaissance
•Nickname “Sloppy Tom”
•Used constant source of light casting
shadows
Massassio
“The Tribute Money” (1427)
Massassio
Adoration of the Magi (1426)
Massassio
The Expulsion
from Paradise
(1427)
Massassio
The Holy Trinity
with the Virgin,
St. John and
Two Donors
(1426-28)
Donatello (1386-1466)
•Contrapposto-weight concentrated
on one leg
•Draped sense with underlying
skeletal structure
•Mary Magdalen so lifelike he
shouted “Speak, speak, or the plague
take you!”
Donatello
David (1430-1432)
Botticelli (1444-1510)
•Decorative linear style golden hair
maidens throw back to Byzantine art
Botticelli
“Birth of Venus” (1482)
Botticelli
Mystical
Nativity
(1500-01)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
•Sketched fluttering wings in notebook
–Invented various flying contraptions
•Transformed status of artists
•Curiosity lured him from one incomplete project
to the next
•Less than 20 completed works survive
•Died in court of Francis I at 67
–Sole duty was to converse with king
•Leonardo on death bed
–“he had offended God ad mankind by not working at
his art as he should have.”
Da Vinci
“Mona Lisa” (1503-1506)
Da Vinci
“Last Supper” (1495)
Da Vinci
“In the Womb” 1510)
Da Vinci
The Virgin of the
Rocks (1483-86)
Da Vinci
Vitruvian Man (1487)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
• Cared for by a wet nurse who’s husband
was a stonecutter
• Family beat him trying to convince him into
a respectable profession
• Medici prince Lorenzo the Magnificent took
him in at age 15
• Never took on apprentices nor allowed
other to watch him work
Michelangelo
Pieta (1499)
Michelangelo
“The Creation of Adam” (1508)
Michelangelo
The Last Judgment
(1537-41)
Michelangelo
David
(1501-04)
Michelangelo
Crouching Boy (1530-34)
Raphael (1483-1520)
• Most popular of the High Renaissance
Artist
• By 17 he was an independent master
• Called by pope at 26 to decorate Vatican
• Devoted Ladies man
• Died at 37
Raphael
“School of Athens” (1510-11)
The School of Athens
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Plato:
looks to the
heavens [or
the IDEAL
realm].
Aristotle:
looks to this
earth [the
here and
now].
Averroes
Hypatia
Pythagoras
Zoroaster
Ptolemy
Euclid
Raphael
Madonna and Child (1504)
Raphael
The Sistine
Madonna
(1513-14)
Raphael
Titian (1490-1576)
• Used strong colors
– reds for warmth
– used 30-40 layers of glaze for texture
• Wife died in 1530
– paintings became muted almost monochromatic
• Lost his eye sight towards the end
Titian
Bacchanal of the Adrians (1518)
Titian
Venus Urbino (1538)
Northern Renaissance Art
• Many artist traveled to Italy bring back
humanist ideas
• Help to centralize power
• Church not a patron
• Netherlands port town economically similar
to Italian city-states
Jan Van Eyck (1395-1441)
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Flemish painter
Received patronage from Valois prince
Named the leading painter of his day
Renaissance in Low Countries
Van Eyck
“Arnolfini
Wedding”
(1434)
Van Eyck
“Arnolfini
Wedding”
(1434)
Van Eyck
The Lucca
Madonna
(1436)
Van Eyck
The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin
(1435)
Bosch (1450-1516)
• Netherlandish painter
• Left no letter or writings to give details of
life
• Believed that his father or uncle taught him
to paint
Bosch
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” (1500)
Bosch
The Last
Judgment
(1482)
Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569)
• Netherlandish painter mainly lived in
Antwerp
• Concentrated on peasant life scenes
– Not a peasant himself
Bruegel
“Hunters in the Snow” (1565)
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
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German painter, printmaker, theorist
Greatest artist of Northern Renaissance
Had between 14 and 18 children
Roman Catholic possible sympathetic
towards Luther in his writings
Durer
“Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (1497-98)
Pieter Aertsen (1508-1575)
• Very tall
• Historical Dutch painter
• Much of his work destroyed in Netherlands
Religious wars
• Know for placing still life in front and
narrative in background
Pieter Aertsen
Market Scene (1550)
Pieter Aertsen
Butcher’s Stall (1551)
Tintoretto
The Last Supper 1594
El Greco
Resurrection 1597-1604
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
• Architect of Renaissance
• From goldsmith to builder
• Traveled with Donatello to study Roman
works
• Most of life’s work spent on Dome
Filippo Brunelleschi (1446-61)
Comparing
Domes