The Five Themes of the Age in “Living Color” Renaissance Art The Five Themes of the Age in “Living Color”
Medieval Art
Painting…altar pieces
Madonna Enthroned Cimabue, 1280s
Madonna Enthroned Duccio, 1308-1311
Renaissance will emphasize NEW themes Ad fontes Humanism Individualism New Spirit of Inquiry Secularism
Doryphorus Mid-fifth century BCE
Augustus of Primaporta 20 BCE
Michelangelo’s David 1501-1504 Ad Fontes for style- check out that contraposto! But also humanism, individualism and spirit of inquiry
Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1480 Ad fontes for subjects Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1480
Discovery of Honey Piero di Cosimo, 1498
Ad fontes in architecture as well
Humanism and Individualism The Creation of Adam: The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo, 1508-1512
Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, 1502 “the highest and most difficult aim is to depict the intention of man’s soul through gesture and movement.”
Spirit of Inquiry
Linear Perspective
Foreshortening
Atmospheric via chiaroscuro
Harmony and Proportion
Sheer accomplishments in engineering
Secularism Arnolfini Marriage Portrait Jan Van Eyck, 1434
All of these… School of Athens Raphael, 1510
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