Renaissance Artists

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Renaissance Artists
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Techniques Improvements

• Appearance of the natural world
• Use of space-linear perspective
• Laws of proportion
• Effects of light and color
• Balance

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Specific Techniques

• Contrapposto-weight of body rest on one leg,
  other leg is relaxed, giving S curve appearance
• Fresco-pigments applied to plaster for walls
• Putto-images of winged babies
• Sfumato-hazy effects to soften outlines
• Chiaroscuro-effects of light (chiaro) and dark
  (oscuro)

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Michelangelo

• The Florentine Pieta
• Sculpture is a self portrait(hooded man) trying
  to hold up Christ
• It was supposed to go on his tomb

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Michelangelo

• Sistine Chapel
• Painted on the ceiling
• Picture of God beginning his creation

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MichelangeloThe Creation of Adam
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Michelangelo

• The Pieta
• Most important early work in his career,
  established his reputation
• Located in St. Peters Basilica, Vatican

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Raphael

• School of Athens
• Greek philosophers Plato (left) and Aristotle
  (right)
• Roman architecture
• Harmony and balance

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Raphael

• The Cowper Madonna
• Best known for his depictions of the Madonna

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Raphael

• Angels in the Sistine Chapel

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Self-portrait
• Only existing likeness of the artist

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Da Vinci

• Flying machine
• Da Vinci had a fascination with human flight

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Da Vinci

• The Last Supper
• Done on the side of a monastery wall
• Fresco
• Poor condition due to elements that made the
  painting, has been restored

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Da Vinci

• Mona Lisa
• Extreme contrast of light and darkness
• Most famous portrait probably ever done
• Calm and graceful

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Da Vinci

• Vitruvian man
• Scientific drawing of the study of human body and
  proportions
• Produced more drawings than any other artist
  before his time

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Donatello

• David
• First large freestanding bronze statue since
  classical era
• Focus on beauty of human body
• Donatello created David 3 times

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Filippo Brunelleschi

• Pazzi Chapel
• Notice arch and columns
• Balance and harmony
• All virtues of classical architecture

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Jan van Eyck

• The Madonna and Child with Chancellor Rolin
• One of first Renaissance artist outside of Italy
• Focus on light, perspective and detail

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Albrecht Dürer

• Madonna
• Engraving
• Shows great emotion by the use of lines and
  shadows

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Dürer

• Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
• Engraving
• From the last book of the Bible, Revelations

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Dürer

• Melencolia I
• Engraving
• Shows the learning instruments of the day
• Happiness may not come with learning

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Dürer

• Self-portrait
• Christ like depiction of himself
• Attention to detail done by northern Renaissance
  artist
• Ideal beauty of human form