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Madonna and Infant Jesus
Duccio di Buoninsegna
1308
Raphael
1505
Renaissance
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“Hence the painter will produce pictures of
small merit if he takes for his standard the
pictures of others, but if he will study those
from natural objects he will bear good fruit.”
 Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance
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“Rebirth” in Italy, 1350 to
1550 AD
Rebirth of Greco-Roman
civilization
Art in the Renaissance
Imitation of nature
 Focus on the human
 Realistic proportions
 Laws of perspective
What they saw in paintings was a continuation of
what they saw in the real world
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Classicism in Renaissance Art
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More popular theme in Southern European art
Realism in Renaissance Art
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More popular theme in
Northern Europe
Everyday scenes
The Arnolfini Portrait
Renaissance and Scientific
Revolution
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Prior to Renaissance, everything was “God’s
handiwork”
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Theological explanations
Renaissance Men looked to nature
Human Anatomy
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More interest in human
proportions in art
Surgery
Astronomy
Geocentric
Heliocentric
Ptolemy, ca. 200 CE
 Earth was center of
universe
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Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543)
 The sun was center
of universe
Astronomy
Galileo Galilei
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Backed Copernicus’
heliocentric view
Celestial bodies made
of material substances
instead of "magic”
Physics
Sir Isaac Newton
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Three Laws of Motion
1.
2.
3.
An object at rest stays a
rest unless acted on
The greater the mass, the
greater the force needed
to stop
To every action, there is
an equal and opposite
reaction
Astronomy
Johann Kepler
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Three Laws of Planetary
Motion
1.
2.
3.
Orbits of planets were
elliptical, not circular
Speed of planet is
greater closer to the sun
Planets with larger orbits
revolve more slowly