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1. What does “Renaissance”
literally translate to?
2. During what centuries did the
Renaissance take place?
3. With what cultures did people
of the renaissance compare their
cultures?
4. What were Italy's three
advantages?
Renaissance Art
Art and Patronage
Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art.
Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values.
Italian banking & international trade interests had the
money.
Public art in Florence was organized and supported by
guilds.
Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a
form of competition for social & political status!
Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Realism & Expression
Michelangelo’s
knowledge of anatomy
is used to show the
details of the human
form. Naked people =
humanism.
Perspective
The first use of
linear perspective!
The Trinity
Masaccio
1427
Classicism
Grecco-Roman
Influence
Secularism
Individualism-Free
Standing Figures
Symmetry/Balance
The “Classical Pose”
Medici “Venus”
Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
The Dreyfus Madonna
with the Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as
architecture!
“Pieta”
What makes this a
renaissance painting?
What renaissance
values are embodied in
this painting?
“The Last Supper”
What details or elements of this painting make it a
renaissance painting?
“The Creation of Adam”
What makes this a renaissance painting?
The sculpture on the left is an ancient Greek statue of Neptune.
The one on the right is from the Middle Ages.
Now compare the same ancient Greek statue to Michelangelo’s sculpture
of Moses from the Renaissance. What do you notice?