1. Comparing Medieval Art and Renaissance Art

2. MIDDLE AGES RENAISSANCE
Subject Matter
How are the subjects made to look?
Emotions artist is trying to evoke (remind)

3. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Humanism- philosophy used by Renaissance artists that focuses on human values and concerns and emotions. Features of Humanism -Nude bodies in the perfect form -Balance of subjects in paintings (symmetrical) -Mirror Greek and Roman ideals Perspective- technique used by painters to make objects in a painting that are further away are smaller and lose focus.

4. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Significance
Subject is religious (death of Jesus), but is more about a mother who has lost a child.
“La Pieta”
Created By Michaelangelo

5. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
The Last Supper
Created by Leonardo Da Vinci
Significance
Artist uses balance and perspective to draw your eye to the figure in the middle

6. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Artist Unknown

7. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Significance
First statue of a horse in over 1,000 years
“The Gattamelata”
Created By Donatello funded by the Medici Family

8. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Significance
Subject is an average person. Artist makes you wonder if she is happy or upset.
La Giocando
Created by Leonardo Da Vinci

9. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Sketches of a helicopter
Created by Leonardo Da Vinci

10. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Significance
Subject represents the perfect human form. Similar to Greeks and Romans
“David”
Created By Michaelangelo

11. Middle Ages or Renaissance Art?
Significance
Artist shows an interest in classical Greece.
“School of Athens”
Created By Rafael

12. Take a look at these names!