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Renaissance Art
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perspective
light & motion
study of human form
emotion & drama
new subject matter>secularism
science & mathematics
composition & balance
changing perspective of man & his role in the
world
• unique vision of each artist
Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
& Geometry
Deterioration
6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Leonardo, the Artist
 The Virgin of
the Rocks
 Leonardo da
Vinci
 1483-1486
Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1508 - 1512
The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man
Raphael
Raphael’s Canagiani Madonna, 1507
Raphael’s Madonnas (1)
Sistine Madonna
Cowpepper Madonna
Raphael’s Madonnas (2)
Madonna della Sedia
Alba Madonna
The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Massy’s Moneylender
& his Wife
Northern Renaissance
Jan Van Eyck
Pieter Brueghel
Robert Campin
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
• The greatest of German
artists.
• A scholar as well as an
artist.
• His patron was the
Emperor Maximilian I.
• Also a scientist
• Self-conscious
individualism of the
Renaissance is seen in his
portraits.
•  Self-Portrait at 26,
1498.
Dürer – Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe,
1500
Dürer
The Last Supper
woodcut, 1510
Durer – The Triumphal Arch, 1515-1517
The Triumphal Arch, details
The Triumphal Arch, details
Dürer
Four
Horsemen
of the
Apocalypse
woodcut, 1498
Effects of the Renaissance
• Advances in Science & Technology led to the
European Exploration of the World
• Secularism led to the Protestant Reformation
• Humanism encouraged the growth of
Democracy & the Fight for Human Rights
• Role of Women in Society Improved
• Renaissance Art led to the Age of Classical
Music and Art in Europe