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Title: Renaissance Art


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Renaissance Art
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Compare Contrast These Paintings
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PURPOSE OF ART
  • Provided escape from
  • 1) The drudgery of Medieval life
  • 2) The control of the Catholic Church
  • Art often depicted religious scenes, but posed
    new, SECULAR perspectives
  • (Evidence of the attitudes at the time!)
  • SECULAR
  • Worldly, rather than religious focus

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Renaissance Art
  • Art represented HUMANISM and applied concepts of
    MATH and SCIENCE
  • People viewed the consumption of art as a form of
    competition for
  • social political status!

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IN OTHER WORDS

POPULARITY POWER
OWNING
ART
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Renaissance Art
  • Buyers of art who commissioned (financed)
    projects were known as _______________.
  • The biggest patron was the Roman Catholic Church

Patrons
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PATRONS
  • The most famous individual patrons were the
    Medici Family of Florence

Lorenzo the Magnificent
Cosimo de Medici
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
  • Geometric Figures
  • (MATH)
  • Emphasis on Individualism
  • (HUMANISM)

1.
2.
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
vertical
horizontal
3.
PERSPECTIVE (3 Dimensional)
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FAMOUS ARTISTS OF THE RENAISSANCE
  • The Ninja
  • Turtle artists

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Key Players in Renaissance Art
Leonardo da Vinci
  • 1) _______________________

Mona Lisa
Last Supper
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Mona Lisa OR Leonardo?
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Key Players in Renaissance Art
Donatello
  • ____________________
  • Did THIS David REALLY
  • slay Goliath?

DAVID
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Key Players in Renaissance Art
Michelangelo
  • 1) _______________________

Pieta
David
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MICHELANGELO
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
1508 - 1512
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MICHELANGELO
Last Judgment
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Key Players in Renaissance Art
Raphael
School of Athens
  • 1) _______________

Plato
Aristotle
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