By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Perspective Perspective Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! Perspective! Perspective! The Trinity Masaccio 1427 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 Chiaroscuro Sfumato
The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo, the Artist The Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa – da Vinci,
Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry
Refractory Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie Milan
horizontal vertical Perspective! The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
Detail of Jesus The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci 1498 Deterioration
A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?
David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble
The Pieta Michelangelo Buonarroti 1499 marble The Popes as Patrons of the Arts
The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
Perspective!Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael1504
Raphael’s Canagiani Madonna, 1507
Raphael’s Madonnas (1) Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna
Madonna della Sedia Alba Madonna Raphael’s Madonnas (2)
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
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434
Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife (details)
Quentin Massys ( ) 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,
Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514
Lucas Cranach the Elder Old Man with a Young Woman Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man
Albrecht D ü rer ( ) 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,
The Triumphal Arch, details
Hieronymus Bosch ( ) 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