1. A Rebirth of Artistic Appreciation
The Renaissance
A Rebirth of Artistic Appreciation

2. Medieval vs. Renaissance

3. Renaissance Art: characteristics
1. Individualism:
Used ancient works as models & subject matter
Emphasized uniqueness of everyone’s face & facial expressions; individual character & personality

4. Renaissance Art: characteristics
Balance & Proportion:
Aimed to make art more realistic
Showed all things in their proper size

5. Renaissance Art: characteristics
Perspective:
Showed depth & realism.
Medieval art had been flat & 2D
Movement & Lively Colors

6. Renaissance Art: characteristics
New Materials:
Oil Paint: dried slower and came in greater color variety
Could work slower & obtain more lifelike effects
Fresco: when paint was combined w/ wet plaster

7. Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1485

8. Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1475

9. Botticelli, Venus and Mars c. 1485

10. Donatello David c

11. Leonardo da Vinci Study of proportions, 1487

12. Leonardo da Vinci study of the porportions of the head and body, 1487

13. Leonardo da Vinci Study of Grotesque Heads c. 1490

14. Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper 1498

15. Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa 1503-1506

16. Leonardo da Vinci Self-Portrait c. 1512

17. Leonardo da Vinci Muscles of the neck and shoulders c. 1515

18. Portrait of a Man, ca. 1515
Titian

19. Titian, The Concert, c. 1510

20. Titian Woman with a Mirror c. 1513-15

23. Michelangelo Pieta c

25. Michelangelo David c

26. Michelangelo Interior of The Sistine Chapel

27. Michelangelo The Creation of Adam

28. Raphael The School of Athens 1510-11

29. School of Athens Detail of Plato and Aristotle

31. The Northern Renaissance

32. Van Eyck, Jan The betrothal of the Arnolfini 1434

33. The Betrothal of the Arnolfini Detail of back wall

34. Van Eyck, Jan Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini c. 1435

35. Bruegel, Pieter, The Harvesters, 1565

36. Bruegel, Pieter, The Peasant Dance, 1568

37. Bruegel, Pieter, Peasant wedding, c. 1568

38. Holbein, Hans Georg Gisze, a German merchant in London 1532

39. Holbein, Hans The Artist's Wife, Elsbeth Binzenstock, and her Two Children, Philip and Catherine 1528

40. Holbein, Hans Henry VIII c. 1536