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Chapter 7.3 Class Notes
Renaissance Art
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I. Artists in Renaissance Italy
Wealthy Italian families and church leaders
became patrons, paying artists to create art.
2. Artists expressed humanist ideals by following
Greek and Roman models
3. Renaissance artists differentiated their work
from medieval artists by:
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Showing people realistically and with emotions
Perspective to make paintings look 3-D
Chiaroscuro used light and shadows to soften edges
I. Artists in Renaissance Italy
Sandro Botticelli painted frescoes
(watercolors on wet plaster). His works
included Greek mythology, such as Birth of
Venus, and frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.
5. Leonardo da Vinci trained as an artist. His
most famous works were the detailed The
Last Supper and the mysterious Mona Lisa.
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I. Artists in Renaissance Italy
Raphael Sanzio painted many frescoes in the
Vatican Palace. He is known for his
Madonnas and the large School of Athens.
8. Michelangelo Buonarroti painted, sculpted,
and designed buildings. He painted the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and sculpted
the David, a 13 foot tall statue.
9. Venetian artist Titan used rich colors in
portraits, religious, and mythological scenes.
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II. The Renaissance Spreads
1. The
Northern Renaissance refers to the art in
Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
2. Northern Artists developed oil painting.
3. Albrecht Dürer was best known for his
engravings, wood, metal, or stone and covered
in ink and printed on paper.
4. Jan Van Eyck was a great oil painter, known
for “The Marriage” portrait.
Dürer’s “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”
Jan Van Eyck –
The Arnolfini
Portrait