Art of the Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

Jan van Eyck Used oil paints Realistic detail Work shows personality Developed new techniques Realistic detail Work shows personality Influenced later artists

Arnolfini Wedding Portrait full of symbolic imagery: dog (fidelity), mirror (eye of God), fertility symbols record of a real event artist is shown in the mirror on the back wall great deal of detail

Donatello the first unsupported standing work in bronze cast during the Renaissance period the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity

Perspective Appearance of three dimensions Vanishing point

Frescos done on plaster on walls or ceilings.

Leonardo da Vinci Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist Renaissance man Began as an apprentice Often didn’t finish his work

Mona Lisa Da Vinci’s masterpiece Interpreted in many ways Most famous painting in the world In Paris

Vitruvian Man Combines art and science Proportionate Symmetry

The Last Supper

Writing Invented his own version of shorthand Usual used “mirror writing”

King Francis I invited da Vinci to move to France He died there in 1519

Michelangelo Raised in Florence, Italy Worked closely with the Medici family

Pieta

St. Peter’s Basilica

David Most recognizable statue in history Biblical King David when he decides to battle with Goliath 13 feet high In Florence

Sistine Chapel

Raphael Studied works of Leonardo and Michelangelo Madonna and child theme

The Triumph of Galatea

                                               Diotalevi Madonna

Cherubs