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Renaissance Art Changing Ideas
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The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein
Look at the painting on your desk with your partner and answer these questions What purpose does this painting serve? What can we learn about the society in which this was painted? How realistic is this painting? What design elements do you notice in the painting? What can this painting tell us about how ideas were changing in Europe? Ambassadors by Hans Holbein/
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In your notebook copy down this chart: LEAVE plenty of room for notes!
Medieval Art Medieval Architecture Medieval Literature
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What do we know about Medieval Art from this painting?
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Medieval Art
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What do we know about Medieval Art from this painting?
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What do we know about Medieval Art from this painting?
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Medieval Art Halo’s Religious Art Larger people mean they are more significant No landscape in the background - Proportions of people are off Medieval Architecture Medieval Literature
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Notre Dame
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Medieval sculpture- Notre Dame
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Medieval Art Halo’s Religious Art Larger people mean they are more significant No landscape in the background - Proportions of people are off Medieval Architecture Flying Buttress Gothic Windows Sculptures were “cookie cutter” all looked the same Medieval Literature
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Beowulf is an Old English epic poem
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. It was written in England some time between the 8th[3][4] and the early 11th century. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet.
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The Canterbury Tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Harry Bailey, the Host, had proposed a scheme in the General Prologue whereby each pilgrim was to narrate two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more while returning.
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Medieval Art Halo’s Religious Art Larger people mean they are more significant No landscape in the background - Proportions of people are off Medieval Architecture Flying Buttress Gothic Windows Sculptures were “cookie cutter” all looked the same Medieval Literature Long epic poems Latin Illuminations Religious
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Renaissance Art, Architecture, and Literature
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Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Mathematics applied to art Proportions Perspective Revival of mythological characters (Greek and Roman Gods) Architecture from Greece and Rome used in the painting Landscape Madonna Of Chancellor rolin - van Eyck (Paris, Louvre) video clip
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Linear perspective
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Linear perspective
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Linear perspective
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Characteristics of Renaissance Architecture
Domes Columns Greek and Roman Sculptures Different stance (fluidity and motion) More human Beautiful human form David – Donatello The dome of Florence Cathedral (the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore) – Brunelleschi
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Characteristics of Renaissance Literature
Less religious Written in common language Printing Press made literature more available
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Writing Assignment Answer the following question:
Which type of European art was more religious, Renaissance or Medieval art? Why? Remember: UNDERLINE YOUR STANCE HIGHLIGHT YOUR 2 PIECES OF EVIDENCE!!!
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