1. New Techniques Fresco Perspective Human anatomy and movement Sculpture
Architecture
Painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints
3-D
Organization through geometry
Realistic
Free Standing!
Domes again! Symmetry!

2. Characteristics of
Renaissance Art

3. 1. Realism & Expression Expulsion from the Garden Masaccio 1427
First nudes since Classical times.

4. 2. Perspective First use of linear perspective! Perspective!
The Trinity
Masaccio
1427
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
First use of linear perspective!
What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

5. 3. Classicism Raphael, School of Athens (1509) Greco-Roman influence.
Secularism.
Humanism.
Symmetry/Balance
Raphael, School of Athens (1509)

6. 4. Emphasis on Individualism
Batista Sforza & Federica de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino
Piero della Francesca,

7. 5. Geometric Arrangement of Figures
Madonna with the Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as architecture!

8. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Light and shade to create a 3D quality –Chiaroscuro
Sfumato—fine shading… smoky quality between transitions

9. The “Modest Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c)
7. Free-Standing
Sculpture
Individualism  free standing figures, first since Classical era
Contraposto posture
The “Modest Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c) 9

10. 8. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
1550

11. Massacio – The Expulsion

12. Donatello  David, first free-standing sculpture since circa 500

13. Raphael – the Bethrothal

14. Roof of the Duomo (cathedral) in Florence by Brunaleschi  first DOME since classical period/bigger even than the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
Kids must know:
Symmetry
Domes
Rounded (Romanesque) arches & arcades
Simple, elegant

15. Da Vince, Last Supper  note triangular arrangement

16. Michelangelo The Pieta  Mary holding dead Jesus; known for sculpture & also ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

17. Titian  Later Ren. , worked in Venice. Known for ladies with Red Hair
Titian  Later Ren., worked in Venice. Known for ladies with Red Hair. Venus portrait. There are two types: Venus pudica (modest) or aphrodesia (this one)

18. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

19. Titian  Bacchus and Ariadne