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Italian Renaissance Art
• Michelangelo
– Sculptor
David
• Michelangelo
– Painter
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Creation of Man
• The Last
Judgment
• Michelangelo
– Architect
St. Peter’s Basilica
He designed the
dome and much of
the interior altar
• Leonardo da Vinci
– Ideal Renaissance man
• Definition?
– Had lots of different interests and talents
• Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, poet
• Leonardo da Vinci
– Painter
Is it her or is it
him?
Mona Lisa
• The Last Supper
• Vitruvian Man
– Study of
anatomy and
human
proportion
• Raphael
– Painter
– Use of perspective
• Definition?
• New technique of the
Renaissance
• Raphael was not the
first to use this
technique
Perspective!
The School of Athens
• Donatello
– 1st free standing
bronze statue
since Roman
times
David
• Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
• Brunelleschi
– Architect
– Designed the
dome of the
Florence
Cathedral
• 1st dome built
since Roman
times
• Dome Caparisons
Il Duomo
(Florence)
1296-1436
St. Peter’s
(Rome)
1506-1626
St. Paul’s
(London)
1677-1708
US capital
(Washington DC)
Dome completed
in 1868
• Ghiberti
– Sculptor
– Designed the bronze
doors of the Florence
Cathedral Baptistery
• Gates of Paradise
Northern Renaissance
• By the end of the 15th
century, Italian city-states
no longer had a
monopoly on Asian goods
– Other nations want to get
wealthy through trade
– Explorations by Spain and
Portugal in the late 1400s
opened new trade routes
to Asia
Northern Renaissance
France, England, the
Netherlands (Holland) and
the German States became
leading trading nations
Hanseatic League
 Definition?
◦ Trade organization of
German merchants who
controlled Northern Europe
Northern Renaissance
• Had a
different style
from the
Italian
Renaissance
– Why?
Styles of the Renaissance
• Italian
Renaissance
– Themes
• Religion
• Greek and
Roman
mythology
Styles of the Renaissance
• Italian Renaissance
– Features
• Water-based colors
• Bright, light colors
• Idealistic figures
– Larger than life
– Heroic
– Glamorous
Styles of the Renaissance
• Northern
Renaissance
– Features
• Darker colors
• First to develop
and use oil
paints
– Jan van Eyck
• More realistic
• Hans Holbein
– Painted portraits of
the rich & powerful
Henry VIII
• Albrecht Durer
– Northern “da Vinci”
– Renaissance man
– Painter, engraver,
author
Praying Hands
The Knight,
Death, and the
Devil
• Pieter Brueghel
– Painter
• Ordinary people
and village life
• Jan van Eyck
– Painter
– Developed oil
paints with his
brother
The Arnolfini Wedding