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The Beginning of Modern Painting:
The Renaissance
1420 - 1600
Legacy of the Middle Ages…
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Notions of honor, duty, loyalty, and love
European cities / The middle class
The state system - representative government
English common law -concept of liberty
Equality and the sacred worth of the individual
Universities
Corporations, Bookkeeping & Banking
Preserved Greco-Roman scholarship
Growth of secularism
Humanism:
• A philosophical world view which focused on human potential and
achievement in this world – Secularism.
• Petrarch (1304-1374) and Boccaccio (1313-1375) encouraged the study of
Greek and Roman writings to understand their ideas and values.
• 1453 Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. Byzantine scholars
fled to Italy with collections of manuscripts – many of which were
thought to be lost forever.
• Humanist scholars influenced artists and architects to carry on the
classical tradition.
• A Humanist education (studia humanitatis) grammar; rhetoric; poetry,
moral philosophy and history – create a citizenry able to speak and
write with eloquence and clarity and be ready to participate in the
civic life of the community
Characteristics of Renaissance art
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Oil on stretched canvass
Linear Perspective
Contraposto- showing action
Chiaroscuro- Use of light and shadowSfumato-without lines or borders, in the
manner of smoke
• Pyramid configuration
• Realism and naturalism
• Details, including artist’s name.
The Birth of Venus, 1482 Sandro Bottecelli
Sandro Bottecelli, Prima Vera 1478
A Roman fresco-The Three Graces
The Renaissance: Why In Italy?
Patrons of the Arts…
• Cosimo de
Medeci
Medieval art
Giotto (1266-1337): pre-cursor to the Renaissance
St. Francis Gives His Cloak to the Poor, Giotto
The Last Supper, Giotto
The “Three Friends” in Florence
• Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
• Donatello (1386-1466)
• Masaccio (1401-1428)
Il Duomo, Brunellschi, 1436
David, Donatello , 1430
(David was the patron hero
of Florence)
Masaccio, The Tribute Money, 1426
The High Renaissance: 1500-1550
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Da Vinci (1452-1519)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Raphael (1483-1520)
Titian, (1490-1576)
• DaVinci,
1452-1519
“The ideal
Renassance
Man” or
“The Universal
Man
The Last Supper, 1495
Ginevra de Benci, DaVinci, 1474
• Mona Lisa, 1503-
1506
Pyramid composition
Linear perspective
Light & shadow
Relaxed & natural
Layers of glaze-3D
quality
No solid lines-sfumato
“mirror writing” -13,000 pages
Michelangelo
1475-1564
Sculptor,
painter,
poet &
architect.
Lorenzo,
The Magnificent
• Pieta,
1498-1500,
his first
masterpiece
• Moses
The Sistine Chapel, 1512
Raphael, 1483-1520
• “The most popular”
• most completely
expressed all the
qualities of the High
Renaissance
St. George Fighting the Dragon, Raphael, 1504
Madonna and
Child,
Raphael,
1505
Raphael’s
Three Graces,
1505
School of Athens, 1510-1511
• socrates
Diogenes
Patron of both
Michelangelo and
Raphael:
Pope Julius II, 1511
Baldassare Castiglione (1514-15),
Raphael's portrait of the famous
Humanist philosopher
Lorenzo di Medici,
Raphael’s portrait of
“The Magnificent”
Titian, 1490-1576
Self-portrait
• The Father of
Modern Painting-
no wood panels,
no frescoes; only
oil on canvass.
Madonna with child and saints, Titian
John On The Island Of Atmos, Titian
Adam and Eve Expelled… Titian,
Characteristics of Renaissance art
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Oil on stretched canvass
Linear Perspective
Contraposto- showing action
Chiaroscuro- Use of light and shadowSfumato-without lines or borders, in the
manner of smoke
• Pyramid configuration
• Realism and naturalism
• Details, including artist’s name.
• Post- Renaissance painting
Tintoretto, 1592-1594
"Christ at the Sea of Galilee" -- Tintoretto
El Greco,
1547-1614
“View of
Toledo”
c 1600
Rembrandt, 1606-1669
Fran Hals,
1580-1666
Laughing
Cavalier,
1624
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640
Durer,
1471-1528
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