1. The Art of the Italian Renaissance
Global History and Geography – 9
Sachem North High School

2. Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art.
Art communicated social, political and spiritual values.
Wealthy merchants had the money to support the arts-patrons.
Renaissance art reflected the new ideas of the time.

3. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Renaissance art focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.
Medieval art focused on the Church and salvation

4. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
embraced some of the ideals of Greece and Rome
subjects realistic and focused on humanity and emotion

5. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Perspective
By making distant objects smaller than those close to the viewer, artists could paint scenes that appeared three dimensional.

6. Ideas reflected in Renaissance Art
Secularism-focus on the earthly, the non-religious
Humanism-the intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues
Individualism-the importance of the individual.