1. Renaissance Art & Architecture
The Rebirth of Classical Ideas

2. Bellini: Sacra Conversazione
Background & Phases
1050 – 1350
Population growth
Economic development
City – states
1200 – late 1500s
Artistic achievement
Bellini: Sacra Conversazione

3. Intellectual Development
Humanism: Glorify Human Form & Potential
Revival of classical antiquity
Individualism
Secular focus
Titian: Assumption of the Virgin

4. Renaissance Italy City-States Power People Medici (F) Este (Ferrara)
Sforza (M)
Doge (V)
Pope (PS)

5. Florence
Commerce / Trade
Banking: Medici
Textile
Patronage

6. Renaissance Art: Techniques
Religious >> Secular subjects
Realistic
Perspective
Movement
Symmetry
Proportion
Ghirlandiao: Adoration of the Shepherds

7. Medieval v. Renaissance
Flat
Religious
Static
Renaissance
3-D
Secular / Human focus
Movement
Ghirlandaio: Angel Appearing to Zacharias

8. Giotto de Bondone: The Mourning of Christ
Florentine School * Fresco * Individuals

9. Massaccio: Tribute Money
Florentine School * Perspective * Realism

10. Sandro Botticelli: Madonna of the Magnificat
Expression Botticelli Face Emotional
Double focal points: Crown + Book

11. Major Artists: Ninja Turtles!
Raphael – Michelangelo – Donatello – Leonardo

12. Raphael: Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals 1518
Vatican Murals Commissioned by Pope Julius II
Leo X = Julius II successor
Focal Point = Face

13. Raphael: The School of Athens
In the Vatican: Stanza della Signatura
Blending of Greek + Renaissance
Symmetry
Perspective
Depth
Light

14. Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance Man China? Multi-talented
Anatomy, mechanics, art, astronomy, weaponry…
China?

15. Leonardo: The Last Supper
Fresco * Symmetry * Individual Expression

16. Leonardo: Mona Lisa
Symmetry
“Sfumato”
Blur
Blend
Mystery
The Grin

17. Leonardo’s Notebooks Vetruvian Man
Anatomy advances painting & sculpture

18. Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel
M = sculptor, painter, architect
Commissioned by Pope Julius II 1508
Scaffold, personally completed
Old & New Testament reflects the Renaissance Era

19. Renaissance Sculpture
Classical Realism
Free standing
Marble & Bronze
Full body, busts & reliefs

20. Humanism & Individuality
Individuality portrayed in details

21. Ghiberti’s Doors - Florence
1423, Florentine, he was only 23!
Bronze cast + gilding
20 yrs N doors
25 yrs E doors
“Creation”
Realism

22. Donatello’s David Free standing nude Proportion of human form
5’ tall, After beating Goliath

23. Michelangelo’s David Marble 16’ tall Details
As David decides to battle Goliath
Classical style, details

24. Renaissance Architecture
Columns
Arch
Dome
Harmony via proportion
The Circle is key
Math!

25. Church & Architecture RCC builds to draw people
Tells the Biblical narrative
Visual & Symbolic

26. Church Architecture: Florence
Santa Maria del Fiore begun 1294 by Arnolfo di Cambio, died 1302
Began cupola (cup shaped dome)

27. Church Architecture: Florence
Filippo Brunelleschi, 1418 figured out how to complete… ever decreasing circles with ribs to bear weight
Scaffolding upwards

28. Church Architecture: St. Peter’s
Michelangelo hired by Pope Paul III in 1546… worked until death in 1564
Inside St. Peter’s:
High Altar
Nave Ceiling
Roman arches
Under Dome
Single dome with arch support

29. Church Architecture: Bramante’s Tempietto
Renaissance “Greatest Architect”
Commissioned by K+Q of Spain: Ferdinand & Isabella
St. Peter’s death site
Doric columns + Roman dome, 15’ diameter

30. Renaissance Writers Voice of Humanism
Dante Alighieri – Petrarch – Boccaccio - Castiglione

31. Renaissance Writers Dante 1265-1321 Petrarch 1304-1374
Divine Comedy Allegory
Vernacular
Petrarch
Sonnets in Italian
Boccaccio
Decameron = Plague
Castiglione
The Courtier = model

32. A. Dűrer – Hans Holbein (Young) – van Eyck
Northern Renaissance
Began in Flanders >> Holland
Erasmus : reconcile Christian character w/ Humanism… Colloquies, Adages, new Bible
A. Dűrer – Hans Holbein (Young) – van Eyck

33. Northern Renaissance Dűrer (G) 1471-1528 Woodcuts Mass Marketing
Holbein the Younger (G)
Portraits, Henry VIII
Expressions
Van Eyck (Flem)
Oil Paint developer
Realism possible

34. English Renaissance: Elizabethan Era
G. Chaucer
Canterbury Tales: Vernacular
Sir Th. More
Utopia: Ideal place of virtue
Spenser
Faerie Queen: Ode
Marlowe = plays
Shakespeare
Comedy, tragedy, morality

35. Renaissance Impact Genius of humanity all at once… why?
Changed art & architecture forever
Individualism drives future thought