Italian Renaissance Art

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Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1485
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Michelangelos Pieta
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Raphaels Madonnas
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The School of Athens Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
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The School of Athens Raphael, details
Platolooks to theheavens or the IDEALrealm.
Aristotlelooks to thisearth thehere andnow.
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Averroes
Hypatia
Pythagoras
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Zoroaster
Ptolemy
Euclid
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• David
• MichelangeloBuonarotti
• 1504
• Marble

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Charateristics of Renaissance Art
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1. Realism Expression

• Expulsion fromthe Garden
• Masaccio
• 1427
• First nudes sinceclassical times.

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2. Perspective

• The Trinity
• Masaccio
• 1427

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First use of linear perspective!
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3. Classicism

• Greco-Roman influence.
• Secularism.
• Humanism.
• Individualism ? free standing figures.
• Symmetry/Balance

The Classical Pose Venus
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Peruginos Delivery of the Keys
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4. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures

• The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
• Leonardo da Vinci
• 1469
• The figure as architecture!

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5. Light Shadowing/Softening Edges
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
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The Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti1508
- 1512
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The Sistine Chapels CeilingMichelangelo
Buonarroti1508 - 1512
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Creation of the Heavens
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The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man
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A Modern Adaptation
Joe Gallo in the New York Daily News, 2004
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Fall from Grace
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment
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Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)
Self-Portrait, 1506
Portrait of the Artist with a Friend, 1518
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Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael,1514-1515

• Castiglione represented the humanist gentleman
  as a man of refinement and self-control.

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Perspective!
Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504
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Raphaels Canagiani Madonna, 1507
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Raphaels Madonnas (2)
Madonna della Sedia
Alba Madonna
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Primavera Botticelli, 1482
Depicted classical gods as almost naked and
life-size.