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
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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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