1. NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Get out pencil, highlighter, and notebook
Renaissance Notes
Test Corrections until Friday
HW: Vocab & Textbook notes due Nov. 16

2. Renaissance Art Video

3. Middle Ages  Renaissance
Before
After
Focus on Afterlife
Focus on this life
The Individual not important
The Individual is important (Humanism)
Little focus on learning and
the arts
Focus on learning the “Classics” (Greek/Roman) to inspire learning and the arts
“Dark” Ages
“Rebirth”
Age of “Faith”
Age of Reason

4. Medieval Characteristics
2 Dimensional and Flat
Religious subjects

6. Shows depth and realism
PERSPECTIVE
Shows depth and realism

7. Perspective

8. Progression of the Use of Perspective

9. Classicism and Realism
Greco-Roman influence.
Secularism: non-religious
Humanism: focus on the human form
Individualism: free standing figures, uniqueness of each person
Symmetry/Balance/ Proportion
The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus”

10. Examples of Humanism and Realism in Renaissance Art
Mostly Southern Europe
Mostly Northern Europe

11. Famous works by Italian
Renaissance Artists
Michelangelo
Leonardo
Raphael
Donatello

12. The Renaissance “Man”
Broad knowledge about many things in different fields.
Deep knowledge/skill in one area.
Able to link information from different areas/disciplines and create new knowledge.
The Greek ideal of the “well-rounded man” was at the heart of Renaissance education.
Artist
Sculptor
Architect
Scientist
Engineer
Inventor

14. “Last Supper” Perspective

15. Video on David

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

17. 3D Tour of Sistine Chapel

18. Fresco (water color on plaster)
Raphel Sanzio
The School of Athens
Fresco (water color on plaster)

19. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
One point perspective.
All of the important Greek philosophers and thinkers are included
No Christian themes here.

20. The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Plato: Points to the heavens
(the ideal realm)
Aristotle: looks to this earth (the here and now)

21. Medieval vs. Renaissance Architecture
Gothic (Medieval)
Gothic architecture was very large, “pointy”
Flying buttresses supported large walls
Stained glass told stories
Renaissance
Revival of Arch and Dome
Qualities of Greek and Roman architecture
Used columns for support
Intricate design

22. Comparing Domes

23. Other Famous Domes
Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

24. Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
Machiavelli was from Florence ( )
Written in Italian (not Latin)
Vernacular – Native language
Observations and commentary on political rule and power
“…it is safer to be feared than to be loved…”
“The ends justify the means”
Stressed the practical (pragmatic) over the ethical or moral, more secular and humanistic

25. Crash Course: Renaissance Video

26. Characteristics of Northern Renaissance Art
Contained great detail
More landscape and nature paintings - usually darker and colder
Oil painting on Canvas – allowed for vivid color
Paintings are more secular. More religious questioning.
More scenes of daily life.

27. Jan Van Eyck - Flanders
The Wedding of
Arnolfini
Oil on canvas