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The Renaissance
1350-1550
Renaissance
• Means “Rebirth”
• Renewed interest in art and learning
• Rebirth of interest in the same subjects
as the Greeks and Romans
Medieval
Art
Renaissance Art
What’s Different?
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from Italian chiaro,
“light”; scuro, “dark”
chiaroscuro --using
shading and
lighting to make the
scene seem more
natural and three
dimensional.
Examples of
chiaroscuro
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Renaissance art introduced the horizon line, a line drawn
across the canvas at the viewer's eye level which represents
the line in nature where the sky appears to meet the ground.
Along with this method was the vanishing point, or the
middle of the horizon line, where parallel lines would meet
and spread out from there
Get a New Perspective
How have Renaissance Artist
impacted art through out history?
Watch the following video, as it plays
write down what you see and feel.
Jean Van Eyke
Jan van Eyck, a Flemish artist of the
Renaissance, achieved realism by mere
detail. He would draw every curve, every
wrinkle, and every speck with the result of an
almost mirror reflection of a scene. Jan, like
many other of his contemporaries, not only
paid a lot of attention to detail in the
foreground of the picture, but also in the
background. Backgrounds were complex with
lots of colors and usually a grand landscape.
Medieval art, on the other hand, did not have
much detail at all in the background. Usually
there would be a drape-effect behind the
foreground, a curtain of gold or black. This
contributed to making art of the Middle Ages
even less realistic.
The Arnolfini
Marriage
Michelangelo
Sistine
Chapel
Chapel Dimensions
Height = appx 68 feet
Length = appx 130 feet
Width = appx 40 feet
Click on the picture to see a panoramic view or go to
www.vatican.va/various/capelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Chapel Ceiling
Painted between
1508-1512
God Giving “Life” to Adam
Sistine
Chapel
“The Last
Judgment”
Painted between
1537-1541
Wall Dimensions: 48’ x 44’
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Renaissance art often turned back to studies of
the classics. Many artist embellished mythology.
Classic Greece and Rome were subjects that
artists were fond of depicting.
Fall of Icarus by Pieter the Elder
Birth of Venus by Botticelli
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Machiavelli wrote the prince. In
it, he introduced ideas that
humans were self-centered and
greedy, and that rulers should
not try to be good, but do
whatever they need to do to
protect their people. He
introduced the idea of the
Renaissance man. A good
example of a Renaissance man
is Leonardo De Vinci.
Leonardo De Vinci was a scientist, mathematician,
engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor,
architect, botanist, musician, poet and writer.
The last supper
Leonardo de Vinci dissected corpses to learn
about anatomy, as did Michelangelo. Medieval
bodies, were usually very stiff and awkward,
in mundane positions. Renaissance bodies
had dynamism, or movement.
Inventions of Leonardo
Talk about a beautiful mind! Leonardo came up with countless creations,
including helicopters life preservers, bicycles, scissors--even high heels!
Inventions of
Leonardo: flight
Madonna and Christ
Architecture
Renaissance
Architecture
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Notre Dame
Giotto’s Arena
Chapel