 Middle Ages -> artists seen as “artisans” = skilled craftsman  In the Renaissance/by the end of the 15 th -> the artists came to be seen as artistic geniuses -> the spark of the divine  Artist as a hero -> “Il Divino” = the divine one = Michelangelo  Rise in social and economic status for the artist MICHELANGELO

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE  Focus on the human form  Technical artistic skills led to realism  Frescos = walls paintings on wet plaster  Illuminated manuscripts  Wooden panel paintings for altarpieces  Focus on rendering details  Oil painting  Focus on religious subjects not pagan THE PROPHET DANIEL – CEILING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL -> FRESCO

“THE VIRGIN OF CHACELLOR ROLIN” THE GHENT ALTARPIECE

 Key artist in artistic center of Flanders  First to use oil paints -> new colors and finer detail  GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE

PORTRAIT OF OSWOLT KREL BY ALBRECHT DURER – NORTHER RENAISSANCE PAINTER

 Northern Renaissance artist from Germany DURER SELF PORTRAIT HARE ADAM AND EVE

 Dufay – most important composer of Renaissance music  Music shifted from being only for the church to royal courts and cities = secular music  The madrigal – a poem set to music