1. Art of the Renaissance

2. Objective
Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology.

3. Art in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages saw art focusing on the church and religion
Paintings included people wearing halos
Important people were larger than others
Saints and God’s family
Common for background to be gold (representing heaven)
Attempts at representing space looked “off”

4. Madonna and Child in Glory
Jacopa di Cione
1360/1365

5. Art in the Renaissance
People became more interested in themselves and their surroundings
A Humanist approach to art and science began
The study of human nature
Saints and ordinary people looked more realistic
Halos began to disappear
Landscape in paintings was earth instead of heaven

6. Art in the Renaissance
Math was used to create space and perspective in paintings
Oil paints were created
No longer had to use egg tempera paints

7. Miraculous Mass of St. Martin of Tours
Franconian School
About 1440

8. What Differences Do You See?

9. Madonna and Child with St. John
Guiliano Bugiardini
1523/1525

10. What Differences Do You See?

11. The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait
Jan Van Eyck
Flemish painter
1434
One of the first oil paintings

12. What Differences Do You See?

13. The Adoration of the Magi
Albrecht Durer
1504

14. The Bean Eater
Annibale Carraci
1582/1583

15. What Differences Do You See?

16. Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
1505
Wife of a silk merchant
Leonardo

17. NOW ITS YOUR TURN TO CREATE A MASTERPIECE!!