Art of the Renaissance

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Art of the Renaissance

• Mrs. Loritz
• Humanities

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Renaissance Paintings

• Clarity of Line
• Controlled Space
• Precise perspective
• Real people
• Uncluttered
• Emotion of subjects
• Colors work in harmony

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Masaccio(1401-1428)

• The Expulsion from the Garden
• Sense of movement
• Emotion of Adam and Eve

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Crucifixion
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Trinity
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Baptism of Neophytes
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Ghiberti

• Competition over who could design the doors of
  the Florence Baptistery
• North Doors took about 25 years to complete
• Cast in bronze
• Also did East Doors which Michelangelo called the
  Gates to Paradise

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Gates of Paradise
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Filippo Brunelleschi

• Architecture
• Dome of the Cathedral of Florence
• Classical Order
• Proportion

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Proportion Order
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Brunelleschi

• He did not design the dome but did the
  engineering to make it possible

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Medici Influence

• Great patrons of the arts
• Helped artists like
• Donatello
• Michelangelo
• Sandro Botticelli
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Raphael

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Donatello

• Cared only about his work
• Tremendous range of content and style

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Michelangelo
Pieta

• Wanted to be known as a sculptor

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BotticelliBirth of Venus
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BotticelliVenus and Mars
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Titian

• Called the Father of Modern Art

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Leonardo da Vinci

• A true Renaissance man
• Did not complete many paintings
• Perfectionist
• Great deal of learning
• Notebooks
• Well known Mona Lisa

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Last Supper
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RaphaelSchool of Athens
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Cellinis Perseus with Medusa
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Mannerism

• Abnormal content
• Limited use of space
• Figures are tensely posed or overextended
• Colors are contrasting and surprising

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Impact of Renaissance Art

• Art work is less crowded
• Paintings look three dimensional
• Attention paid to motion of beings as well as
  emotion
• Details of anatomy of the human figure
• Looked to the Greeks and Romans for ideas
• Use of proportion and space