1. Take out your yellow Renaissance Packet
January 8th
TO DO:
Take out your yellow Renaissance Packet

2. Features of Medieval European art
Halo
Hierarchy of Scale
Artist Unknown
Religious Symbolism
Church patronage
Halos faded during renaissance.
Size and intensity of halo also showed greater divinity

3. Features of Medieval European art
Halo:
Ring or circle of light around heads of figures
Shows divinity (holiness)
Religious Symbolism:
Church patronage= representations from the bible
LOTS of Mary and Child and Christ images
Halos faded during renaissance.
Size and intensity of halo also showed greater divinity
Hierarchy of Scale:
The most important figures are the largest to illustrate their superiority
Jesus and Mary are larger than all others
NOT realistic
Artist Unknown:
Authors of artistic works were often not credited
Focus not on the individual
Features of Medieval European art

4. Halo Ring or circle of light around heads of figures
Halos were popular in Middle Ages art
Halos became fainter and then disappeared in Renaissance Art
Halo

5. Hieratic Scale or Hierarchy of Scale
More important people are represented as larger to show their importance
During the Middle Age, The making of saints or members of the family of God larger in scale than ordinary or less important figures.
During the Renaissance, ordinary people grew to be the same size as saints in paintings and saints began to look more like ordinary people  Realism and a human focus
A technique from the Ancient World

6. Common features of Renaissance art
Realism
Perspective
Anatomy
Depth
Nature
Secularism
Individualism
Classicism
Artistic notoriety

7. Common features of Renaissance art
Realism: photo realistic
Perspective – drawing style that gives the impression of height, width, depth, and position
Depth – image looks almost 3 dimensional (foreground v. Background)
Anatomy- bodies are accurate in proportion and musculature.
Bacchus and Ariadne
By Titian
Classicism: Greek and Roman
-Myth in art
Individualism: belief and emphasis of the moral worth of the individual seen in charters represented and in author notoriety (author is known)
Secularism: non religious (non Christian typically) images and figures
Nature: You see animals and plants being repented and sometimes featured
Common features of Renaissance art

8. Perspective How to represent “space” in paintings.
During the Renaissance, the use of mathematical perspective to represent space was invented.
Middle Ages: Earlier attempts at representing space often resulted in furniture or buildings that look just a little "off."
Renaissance: Using mathematical formulas, instead of just the human eye, gave artists new ways to paint in a convincing way.

9. Identify the artistic features in this image

10. Identify the artistic features in this image

11. Identify the artistic features in this image
Author: Guiliano Bugiardini Madonna and Child with St. John
Identify the artistic features in this image
NOTE:
*Madonna – mother of Jesus Christ (Christian god)
*”Child” – Jesus Christ
*St. John – Christian saint (holy person)

12. Identify the artistic features in this image
Author: Leonardo di Vinci Mona Lisa

13. The Kress Monogrammist The Adoration of the Magi
NOTE:
*Adoration of the Magi is story about when Jesus Christ was born he was visited by 3 wise men from the East.

14. Author:
Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio
Proverbi fiamminghi

15. Author: Giotto Lamentation NOTE:
*Lamentation: is the story following Jesus Christ’s death where his followers and his mother had to bury him

16. Author: Botticelli The Birth of Venus NOTE:
*Venus – Roman goddess of love from Greek/Roman mythology

17. Author: Michelangelo The Creation of Adam NOTE:
*Adam – according to Christian belief, Adam is the 1st person created by god

18. Author: Michelangelo Pietà NOTE:
*Pietà is the Christian depiction of the dead Jesus Christ in his mother’s arm