1. Renaissance Recap

2. Action, Feeling Setting for both
Warm Up
Action, Feeling Setting for both
Giovanni Agostino da Lodi
Adoration of the Shepherds 1510
Which of these paintings looks the more realistic to you?
Jacopa di Cione
Madonna and Child in Glory 1360/65

3. The general characteristics of Medieval art:
Religious subject matter
Important figures are shown as
larger than others around them
Figures look stiff with little sense
of movement
Fully clothed
Faces were serious and
showed little emotion.
Flat and two-dimensional
Backgrounds were one color.

4. The general characteristics of Renaissance art:
Subject matter was varied, not always religious.
The human body was studied
in order to paint figures more
realistically.
Shading used to make
objects look round and real.
Perspective used to make
paintings look three-dimensional.
Shadows and light were used to
draw the viewer’s eye to a
particular point in the painting.

5. Italians earned large profits by supplying the ships that went to the Crusades in the Middle East. The wealthy had money to invest into the arts and learning which is different than the time of the Middle Ages.
Wealthy cities: Florence and Venice

6. Led to the Renaissance- a time of renewed interest in learning and the arts that lasted from the 14th-16th centuries.
During this time there was a new interest in the Ancient Romans and Greeks.

7. Renaissance Art Conversation
Since the Greeks and the Romans glorified the human body how do you think that will manifest itself in the Renaissance art?