ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART P. 307-309, + other sources
Middle Ages Art Halos on saints Franconian School Miraculous Mass of St. Martin of Tours about 1440 Halos on saints Gold background to show holiness of heaven Hieratic scale: more important seen much larger than other people Tempura paint Jacopa di Cione Madonna and Child in Glory
Renaissance Art Less halos Landscape background Oil paint The Kress Monnogrammist The Adoration of the Magi Guiliano Bugiardini Madonna and Child with St. John 1523/1525 Oil on panel
Painted with Perspective -- show 3-D realistically on flat surface Rafael The school of Athens
Human body studied Drawn more realistically Copies of Greek, so often look like Greek gods
Later Renaissance Common people more realistic. Worthy of being painted Annibale Carracci The Bean Eater 1582/83
Italian Artists:
Botticelli From Florence Scenes from Roman myth All people drawn in fine detail
Titian Colorful scenes of Christian teachings
Renaissance Men
Michelangelo Designed buildings Wrote poetry Carved sculptures Painted pictures ie. Sistine Chapel
Leonardo da Vinci Painter – ie. Mona Lisa Sculptor Architect Inventor Engineer Town planner mapmaker
Composer Studied botany Studied anatomy- dissected corpses