By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Art of the Italian Renaissance By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Perspective First use of linear perspective! Perspective! The Trinity Masaccio 1427 Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

Perspective

Geometrical Arrangement of Figures The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate Leonardo da Vinci 1469 The figure as architecture!

Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Sfumato Chiaroscuro

The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, 1472 - 1475 Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo, the Artist The Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo da Vinci 1483-1486

Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4 ?

Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie Refractory Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan

The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 vertical horizontal Perspective!

Deterioration Detail of Jesus The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci 1498

A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble

The Popes as Patrons of the Arts The Pieta Michelangelo Buonarroti 1499 marble

The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

The Sistine Chapel Details The Fall from Grace

The Sistine Chapel Details The Last Judgment

Betrothal of the Virgin Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504

Raphael’s Canagiani Madonna, 1507

Raphael’s Madonnas (1) Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna

Raphael’s Madonnas (2) Madonna della Sedia Alba Madonna

Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Northern Renaissance By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434

Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife (details)

Quentin Massys (1465-1530) Belonged to the humanist circle in Antwerp that included Erasmus. Influenced by da Vinci. Thomas More called him “the renovator of the old art.” The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530 

Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

Lucas Cranach the Elder Old Man with a Young Woman Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) The greatest of German artists. A scholar as well as an artist. His patron was the Emperor Maximilian I. Also a scientist Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and human proportions. Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits.  Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.

Durer – The Triumphal Arch, 1515-1517

The Triumphal Arch, details

The Triumphal Arch, details

Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) A pessimistic view of human nature. Had a wild and lurid imagination. Fanciful monsters & apparitions. Untouched by the values of the Italian Quattrocento, like mathematical perspective. His figures are flat. Perspective is ignored. More a landscape painter than a portraitist. Philip II of Spain was an admirer of his work.

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights 1500

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights (details) 1500

Bruegel’s, Tower of Babel, 1563

Bruegel’s, Mad Meg, 1562

Bruegel’s, Winter Scene, 1565