The Origins of Renaissance Art

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The Origins of Renaissance Art
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Medieval Art

• Religious themes
• Goal was inspiration (not personal expression)
• Artists unknown not important
• No attention to anatomy/body proportion
• Spatial elements lacking pictures look flat or
  distorted

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Virgin and Child, late 12th century
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Cimabue
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Wooden Virgin, 12th century
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Salisbury Cathedral, 1220-1330
Reims, 1210
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Eve, 1220 by Gislebertis
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Last Supper, 1290
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Giotto di Bondone Betrayal, 1305
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Giotto
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Pause

• The plague and famine resulted in a pause in
  artistic development in the late 1300s.

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Renaissance -- 1400s-1550s

• Return to Greek and Roman styles
• Celebration of human body
• Naturalism - accurate depiction of real world
• Laws of perspective developed spatial
  realism
• Religious themes, but also secular and classical
  scenes
• Artist as genius

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Brunelleschi Laws of Perspective
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Massacio Trinity 1425-1428
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Mantegna Lamentation, 1490
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Botticelli
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Botticelli
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Botticelli
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Donatello
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Donatello
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Ghiberti
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Verrocchio Leonardo da Vinci Botticelli
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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da Vinci
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Cellini
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C e l l i n i
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Michelangelo
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Brunelleschis DomeSanta Maria del Fiore (il
Duomo), Florence
Brunelleschis Interior San Lorenzo, Florence
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Raphael