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Title: Italy


1
Italy
  • Birthplace of the Renaissance

2
Introduction
  • Describe ways that people show their own
    creativity. Why is creativity so important?

3
Pre-Renaissance
  • The Hundred Years War 1337-1453
  • War between England and France for the throne of
    France
  • Black Plague 1300s
  • Kills 25 million Europeans
  • Results (3 Ds)
  • Desire to celebrate life and humanity
  • Doubts about the Church
  • Desire for new ways of expression

4
Renaissance (1300-1600 C.E.)
  • Rebirth
  • Revival of art learning
  • Return to classical heritage of Greece Rome
  • Starts in northern Italy spreads to Europe

5
Why Italy?
  • City-States grow urban due to Crusade trade
  • Merchant class rises to dominate politics, art,
    business
  • Medici Family 15th Century in Florence
  • Classical Heritage
  • From Roman Empire
  • Refugees from Byzantine Empire

6
Classical Worldly Values
  • Individualism Fate not such a factor celebrate
    uniqueness
  • Humanism Human potential achievement
  • Secularism Worldly vs. Spiritual
  • Patronage Financial Support
  • Renaissance Man (Ex The Courtier by Castiglione)
  • Renaissance Woman (Ex Isabella DEste)

7
Renaissance Art
  • Realism vs. Spiritualism
  • Perspective 3D on a flat
  • Examples
  • Michelangelo Realistic human body
  • Donatello Natural postures and expressions
    revealing personality
  • Leonardo Da Vinci Renaissance Man (painter,
    sculptor, inventor, scientist)
  • Raphael Sanzio Use of perspective

8
Marriage of the Virgin - Raphael
  • An exercise in perspective
  • Where is the vanishing point?
  • Where does the horizon begin?
  • What is the difference between the people in the
    front versus back?

9
  • Da Vinci

10
Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
11
Maestro vs. Michelangelo Video
  • Clip 1
  • Create a Venn Diagram comparing Leonardo Da Vinci
    Michelangelo
  • Clip 2
  • Make a list of Leonardo Da Vincis
    ideas/inventions and the dates they actually
    materialized

12
Jacopa di CioneMadonna and Child in Glory
  • Most important figures?
  • How can you tell?
  • Halo
  • Hieratic scale

13
Guiliano BugiardiniMadonna and Child with St.
John
  • Landscape
  • Oil paint

Giovanni Agostino da LodiAdoration of the
Shepherds
14
Annibale Carracci the Bean Eater
  • Non-religious art using commoners
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