1. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Art
of the
Italian Renaissance
By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Perspective First use of linear perspective! Perspective! The Trinity
Masaccio
1427
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
First use of linear perspective!
What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

3. Perspective

4. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as architecture!

5. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro

6. The Baptism of Christ Verrocchio, 1472 - 1475
Leonardo da Vinci

7. Leonardo, the Artist The Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo da Vinci

8. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, ?

9. Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

10. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

11. Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Refractory
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
Milan

12. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
vertical
horizontal
Perspective!

13. Deterioration
Detail of Jesus
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci
1498

14. A Da Vinci “Code”: St. John or Mary Magdalene?

15. David
Michelangelo Buonarotti
1504
Marble

16. The Popes as Patrons of the Arts
The Pieta
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1499
marble

17. The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

18. The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

19. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

20. The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man

21. The Sistine Chapel Details
The Fall from Grace

24. The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment

25. Betrothal of the Virgin
Perspective!
Betrothal of the Virgin
Raphael
1504

26. Raphael’s Canagiani Madonna, 1507

27. Raphael’s Madonnas (1)
Sistine Madonna
Cowpepper Madonna

28. Raphael’s Madonnas (2)
Madonna della Sedia
Alba Madonna

29. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

30. Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

31. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The
Northern
Renaissance
By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

32. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434

33. Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife (details)

34. 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, 

35. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

38. Lucas Cranach the Elder
Old Man with a Young Woman
Amorous Old Woman with a Young Man

39. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) 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.

40. Durer – The Triumphal Arch, 1515-1517

41. The Triumphal Arch, details

42. The Triumphal Arch, details

43. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) 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.

44. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights 1500

45. Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthy Delights (details) 1500

46. Bruegel’s, Tower of Babel, 1563

47. Bruegel’s, Mad Meg, 1562

48. Bruegel’s, Winter Scene, 1565