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Defining An Era
Compare Renaissance and Middle Age
art and architecture
• Which era demonstrates more Greek and Roman
techniques or motifs?
– (arches, columns, etc…)
• Which era demonstrates more artistic beauty?
– (which is more realistic or shows the talent of the artist better?)
• Which era demonstrates more emphasis on the
individual and expression?
• Which era is more secular in its themes and content?
Middle Age Art
Adam and Eve Reproached [punished] by the Lord from the Bronze Doors of
Bishop Bernward for St. Michael’s. 1015.
Middle Age Art
Master Honore. David and Goliath, from the Prayer Book of Philip the Fair. 1295.
Middle Age Art
an illustration from the Book
of Kells written by Celtic
Christian monks during the
8th century. This picture
depicts Saint Columba.
Middle Age architecture
the medieval Gravensteen castle, in Flanders, built in 1180
Middle Age architecture
Hever Castle, Kent, UK, c. 1270.
Middle Age architecture
Cathedral of Milan, Italy, c. 1300.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian
Man shows clearly the effect
writers of Greece and Rome had
on Renaissance thinkers. Based
on the specifications in
Vitruvius's (a Roman Author) De
architectura around 1500 years
before, Da Vinci tried to draw
the perfectly proportioned man
Renaissance Art
View of a Skull, c. 1489
Leondardo di Vinci. Embryo in the Womb. c. 1510.
Renaissance art
Holy Trinity and it was
painted by Masaccio
between 1425 – 1427.
Masaccio was an early
renaissance painter
Renaissance art
Self-Portrait at 26. 1498.
Albrecht Durer
Renaissance architecture
Brunelleschi, Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo), Florence. c. 1420-36.
Renaissance architecture
Bramante, "Tempietto" (San Pietro in Montorio) in
Rome. c.1508
Compare to: Temple of Venus, Rome. c. 200 AD.
Renaissance architecture
Andrea Palladio. Villa Rotonda, Vincenza. c. 1567-70.