2. Renaissance Art

3. Renaissance = rebirth
Johannes Guttenburg- perfected the printing press
easy access to books = more people could be educated & read
frescos & mosaics on walls
Fresco = painting done
with pigment and water
on wet plaster

4. Masaccio 1401-1427 Worked mainly in frescos
Started using linear perspective
Never seen this realism in paintings before - people were stunned
The Tribute Money” 1427, Florence, Italy
Faint background to make figures look closer

5. The Tribute Money
Masaccio, fresco, 1427

6. Donatello 1386-1466 Great sculptor used perspective in sculptures
Sculptures became famous for life like qualities

7. Donatello, 1415-17, Mable 6’10” tall
St. George
Donatello, , Mable 6’10” tall
figures that were to be placed high-made upper part of body larger so when viewed from below,
looked more naturalistic

8. Leonardo da Vinci
Studied the arts & sciences; great inventor
The Last Supper on a dining hall wall in a monastery in Italy
Uses 1-pt. perspective; all architectural lines lead to Jesus.

9. Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa 1479-1528 Most recognizable painting
Had it with him at time of death
Worked on it 16 years and still considered it unfinished

10. Michelangelo
Gifted sculptor and painter (thought of himself as more of a sculptor); lonely and tragic person
Sistine Chapel – ceiling painting, in Vatican that explains story from creation to flood
Took 4 years, painted on his back 68 ft in air on a scaffold

11. Michelangelo, 1500,marble, St. Peters, Rome, IT
David
Michelangelo, ,
marble, Florence, IT
Pieta
Michelangelo, 1500,marble, St. Peters, Rome, IT

12. Raphael
Learned shading and the illusion of depth from Leonardo;
learned how to add life in his figures from Michelangelo

13. School of Athens Raphael,
, fresco, Vatican