1. The Origins of Renaissance Art

2. Medieval Art Religious themes
Goal was inspiration (not personal expression)
Artists unknown – not important
No attention to anatomy/body proportion
Spatial elements lacking – pictures look flat or distorted

3. Virgin and Child, late 12th century

4. Cimabue

5. Wooden Virgin, 12th century

6. Salisbury Cathedral,
Reims, 1210

7. Eve, 1220 by Gislebertis

8. Last Supper, 1290

9. Giotto di Bondone: Betrayal, 1305

10. Giotto

11. Pause
The plague and famine resulted in a pause in artistic development in the late 1300s.

12. Renaissance -- 1400’s-1550’s Return to Greek and Roman styles
Celebration of human body
Naturalism - accurate depiction of real world
Laws of perspective developed – “spatial realism”
Religious themes, but also secular and classical scenes
Artist as genius

13. Brunelleschi: Laws of Perspective

14. Massacio: Trinity

15. Mantegna: Lamentation, 1490

16. Botticelli

17. Botticelli

18. Botticelli

19. Donatello

20. Donatello

21. Ghiberti

22. Verrocchio
Leonardo
da Vinci
Botticelli

23. da Vinci

24. da Vinci

25. da Vinci

26. da Vinci

27. da Vinci

28. da Vinci

29. da Vinci

30. Michelangelo

31. Michelangelo

32. Michelangelo

33. Michelangelo

34. Michelangelo

35. Michelangelo

36. Cellini

37. C e l i n

38. Michelangelo

39. Michelangelo

40. Michelangelo

41. Brunelleschi’s Dome Santa Maria del Fiore (“il Duomo”), Florence
Brunelleschi’s Interior
San Lorenzo, Florence

42. Raphael