1. Early Renaissance Painting

2. A few words before we begin Fresco: mural painting on wet plaster Trompe l’oeil: “trickery of the eye,” illusion.

3. Painters covered Masaccio – short career >decade Fra Angelico – Dominican monk meets painter Andrea del Castagno: from Venice to Florence Andrea Mantegna: influenced by Donatello Perugino: from Umbria to Florence Botticelli: commissioned by Medici family

4. Masaccio Painter’s guild in 1422 Rome in 1427 Understood Brunelleschi’s theory of ______?

6. Trinity by Masaccio Painted fresco in Church of Santa Maria Novella Donors red garb suggests member of Florentine council. Trompe l’oeil with barrel vault in linear perspective Demonstrates Masaccio’s knowledge of Brunelleschi’s perspective What different columns do you recognize?

7. Interior of Brancacci Chapel, fresco Differs from Flemish Painters, how? Created a new realism with focus on mass of bodies. Cast Shadows

8. Expulsion from Paradise Fresco from Brancacci Chapel Instead of focusing on anatomy, focused energy to depicting the sheer mourning and emotion.

9. Tribute Money - Masaccio ArtAcademy

10. Continuous Narrative Jesus and Peter in middle, Peter on left with coin and fish (shown here), and Peter paying on right.

11. Tribute Money is known for it’s integration of figures, landscape, and architecture Linear perspective + intuitive perspective Look again at Tribute Money, and can you tell what parts show linear perspective and what parts show intuitive?

12. Tribute Money

13. Fra Angelico

14. Annunciation, 1438-45 Fresco in Monastery of San Marco Building style used by Brunelleschi during that exact time of painting. Inspire meditation for monks Located at top of stairs in Monastery, where monks pause before heading to their individual cells.

15. Linear perspective opens the room Slender figures assume modest poses Natural light Fra Angelico finished last few painting years painting the Pope’s private chapel in Vatican.

16. Andrea del Castagno Last Supper Fresco, 1445-50, refectory of Convent of Sant’ Apollonia The convent for Benedictine nuns Refectory is dining hall

17. Andrea Mantegna Mantegna, Frescoes in the Camera Picta Ducal Palace, Mantua Entered painters’ guild at 15, highly influenced by Donatello Painted mostly entire like for Ludovico Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua Excelled in perspective, integrating the figures into the setting, and naturalistic detail.

18. Putti, or winged baby angels, play around the balustrade. This is a dome in the chapel. Tromp l’oeil For-shortened perspective

19. Dead Christ

20. Perugino Resolution of Great Schism 1417 Rome was chosen for Papal residency Perugino came to Rome to paint in Sistine Chapel Painted Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter Teacher of Raphael

21. Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter Fresco right wall of Sistine Chapel, Vatican Grid-like composition: vertical and horizontal Primary color usage Perspectival recession Atmospheric perspective

22. Botticelli Studied in studio of Verrochio (Equestrian Statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni) Painted for Sistine Chapel Also painted for Medici family (bankers) Used tempera, not oil

23. Botticelli, La Primavera (Spring), 1478 Flora Three Graces Cupid Mercury Zephyr Aura Medici Wedding

24. SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus, ca. 1482. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5' 8" x 9' 1". Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles, Late Classical

25. Take 2 minutes to review over your notes You have 15 minutes to write, in your opinion, who was the most talented fresco painter or tempera painter we have covered so far. Convince me with facts from your notes and your opinion. Work is individual, write in complete sentences, and I will be collecting these at the end of the period.