1. Artists
Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects drew inspiration from the classical Greek and Roman artists rather than their medieval predecessors
Artists used the technique of linear perspective to represent the three dimensions of real life on flat, two dimensional surfaces

2. Difference in Painting
Renaissance (The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by da Vinci, 1510)
Medieval

3. Difference in Painting
Medieval
Renaissance (Pope Julius II by Raphael)

4. I. Self-Portrait -- da Vinci, 1512
Artist
Sculptor
Architect
Scientist
Engineer
Inventor

5. Leonardo, the Artist: From hisNotebooks of over 5000 pages (1508-1519)

6. Leonardo da Vinci ( )
A great artist, but more than any other person of his age, personified the idea of the “Renaissance man”
Someone of broad interests who is accomplished in both the arts and sciences
Shows value of individualism- depicts ppl as they really looked
Mona Lisa uses light and shadow and perspective to make the figures fully human, enigmatic, and mysterious

7. The Last Supper captures the emotions of each of Jesus’ disciples at the exact moment of their learning one will betray Him

8. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 & Geometry

9. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
vertical
horizontal
What is the major difference between the foreground & the background of the painting? What is the effect of this difference?
Gives effect of 3 dimensions, vanishing point, etc
Perspective!

10. Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci’s study of the proportions of the human body
da Vinci’s plans for a helicopter

11. Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology): Pages from his Notebook
An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.

12. Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy): Pages from his Notebook

13. “The Mourning of Christ,” painted c.1305
Giotto di Bondone ( )
Overcame the obstacle of flat forms by skillfully contrasting light and shadow to create an illusion of depth that made human figures look solid and round
“The Mourning of Christ,” painted c.1305

14. Masaccio (Tomassco Guidi) (1401-1428)
Used atmospheric perspective to show objects receding into a background and to make figures appear round and truly three dimensional
Trinity Fresco

15. El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541-1614)
Used severe colors and elongated features to express Spanish religious zeal in powerful and emotional paintings
The Burial of Count Orgaz conveys the Catholic spirit of communion among God, saints, and humans

16. Sculptors
Sculptors depicted their subjects in natural poses that reflected the actual workings of human muscles rather than the awkward and rigid poses often found in earlier sculptures

17. II. Michelangelo Buonorrati
1475 – 1564
He represented the body in three dimensions of sculpture.

18. Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564)
Considered himself a sculptor first and painted with a sculptor’s eye
Made the muscular masculine figure his ideal beauty
Michelangelo’s David and Moses show dramatic and emotional postures and expressions

19. David
Michelangelo Buonarotti
1504
Marble

20. The Popes as Patrons of the Arts
The Pieta
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1499
marble

21. The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo Buonarroti 1508 - 1512

22. Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s frescos covering the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican are perhaps the single greatest achievement in Renaissance art

23. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

24. III. Donatello (Donato di Niccoli di Betto) (1386-1466)
Traveled to Rome to study the classics of antiquity
Employed models and created studies of anatomy and the human body
Donatello’s David was the first nude statue of the Renaissance and is known for its grace, proportionality, and balance

25. IV. Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)
Self-Portrait, 1506
Portrait of the Artist with a Friend, 1518

26. St. George Fighting the Dragon, 1505
Raphael Sanzio ( )
Excelled in composition and use of soft colors
Raphael is famous for his warm, pious, and graceful Madonnas such as The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505
St. George Fighting the Dragon, 1505

27. Raphael’s Madonnas (1)
Sistine Madonna
Cowpepper Madonna

28. The School at Athens by Raphael

29. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
One point perspective.
All of the important Greek philosophers and thinkers are included  all of the great personalities of the Seven Liberal Arts!
A great variety of poses.
Located in the papal apartments library.
Raphael worked on this commission simultaneously as Michelangelo was doing the Sistine Chapel.
No Christian themes here.

30. The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm].
Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now].

31. The School at Athens, with lines to show perspective

32. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Also Socrates in brown robe in back left arguing w/ young men & Pythagoras in pinkish on top & white on bottom is drawing a lesson on a slate on front left & Ptolemy is holding a globe
Michelangelo

33. Portrait of Pope Julius II by Raphael, 1511-1512
More concerned with politics than with theology.
The “Warrior Pope.”
Great patron of Renaissance artists, especially Raphael & Michelangelo.
Died in 1513

34. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.