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Art History III
Early Renaissance
VYPRACOVAL: Mgr, Vladislav, Kravec
Marec 2015
„Moderné vzdelávanie pre vedomostnú spoločnosť/Projekt je spolufinancovaný zo zdrojov EÚ“
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The Renaissance Art
 Early Renaissance
o Architecture
o Sculpture
o Painting
The Renaissance Art
 Start of the 14th Century in Italy
 The time of rising middle-class whose growing wealth and
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ambition encouraged a culture with a humanist emphasis and
gradually replaced medieval culture of feudal aristocracy
Re-discovery of Antique Classic art and literature
Developed an interest in man and realities of the world
Beauty of humanity was stressed
Nature was explored
Overall emphasis on harmony and balance
Early Renaissance
(ca. 1400 – 1500)
 The Italian city-states (like Florence) with their middle-class
aristocracies grew in wealth and power
 Power was put into the hands of local rulers (like the Medici
family in Florence) because of the lack of a strong central
government
 They wanted to strengthen their position with public
monuments and sculptures
Early Renaissance
Arcitecture
 Drawn from Antique Roman ruins
 Buildings (churches, chapels, palaces, hospitals,
etc.)mirrored Antiquity
 Mathematical clarity achived through logical design and
spatial organisation based on human proportions
 Architects :
o Brunelleschi
o Alberti
o MIchelozzo
Brunelleschi
Dome in Florence (Duomo)
Alberti
Santa Maria Novella in Florence
Early Renaissance Sculpture
 The most significant in Italy
 Fugures (often life-size)became popular
 Nudes of both sexes
 Portraiture, relegious and mythological themes
 Materials: bronze, marble, terra-cotta, polychrome-gilded wood
 Sculptors:
o Ghiberti
o Donatello
o The Robbia family
o Verrochio
Early Renaissance
Painting - Italy
 In Italy fresco and panel painting continued
o Popular religious scenes, portraiture and pagan mythology
o Interest in linear and arerial perspective
o Anatomy
o landscape backgrounds
o Triangle-oriented compositions
o Figures revealed volume and plasticity
 Painters: Masaccio,
Fra Angelico, Piero della
Francesca, the Bellinis, Botticelli, Perugino etc.
Early Renaissance
Painting - Flemish
 Inspiartion not from Classical art, but from illuminated
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manuscripts
Interest in accurate, almost microscopic realism
Developed the oil technique with use of transparent glazes placed
over an underpainting of tempera
No fresco art existed in the North
Famous painters:
o Hubert and Jan van Eycks,
o Roger van derWeyden,
o Hieronymus Bosch
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