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Renaissance Art
and Architecture
Characteristics of
Renaissance Art
Change of Subject Matter-continued religious
paintings but branched out to other subjects such
as portraits, historical subjects, and everyday life
Realism-make paintings look realistic, especially
with more emotional qualities
New Techniques and Styles- use of perspective,
balance and proportion, and use of light and dark
Leonardo da Vinci
True Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci was…
A painter
An architect
An inventor
A student of all things
scientific (nature,
mechanics, anatomy,
physics, architecture,
weaponry and more)
What Did He Invent?
A bicycle
A helicopter
An Airplane based on the physiology and flying
capability of a bat.
(At least on paper)
Michelangelo
Painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sculpted David
Designed buildings
Wrote poetry
Sculpted the Pieta
Engineered St. Peter’s Basilica
Workshop System
- Collaboration of masters and apprentices
- Family based
- Run like a business
- Apprenticeship started in early years
- Studied under a master for several years
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were both
products of the workshop system and worked under
masters.
Architecture
Weighing 37,000 tons and using more than
4,000,000 bricks, Brunelleschi's dome was the
greatest architectural feat in the Western world.