1. Renaissance Art

2. Middle Ages lacked –depth –perspective –realism – looked flat –color –individualism people were viewed in terms of their place in society –an excitement about life life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or hell rather than an experience worth having

3. It was.... Sacred Symbolic Simplified Stylized Background is flat and stage-like

4. Giotto a Renaissance Man transitional piece Mary and baby are the focus not intended to show everyday life, but life in Heaven Mary and Christ are large than others background covered with gold – showing this is God’s kingdom gold halos baby Jesus is small man facial features are the same only god can create Madonna and Child

5. Adding Math and Science Leonardo da Vinci has circles and squares to find the mathematical proportions of man “aim of science and art are one” artists study geometry, anatomy, botany, physics subjects provide the information needed to better represent artistically what they were drawing Proportions of Man

6. Masaccio rediscovered the technique of linear perspective a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions creating the illusion of “real space” established an imaginary line on the viewer’s eye level called the horizon line center of this line called the vanishing point –the point at which lines leading into the distance seem to meet Trinity with the Virgin and St. John

7. New things Renaissance Artists added.... Single light source –putting together science and nature Sfumate “up in smoke” –aerial perspective for showing distance outdoors –figures closest to viewer – clean and bright –figures far away – light, hazy, fade into the distance Chiaroscuro –blending Proportion –haze –eliminate contrast in background

8. Da Vinci Mona Lisa –Single light source –Sfumato –Chiaroscuro –Proportion

9. Michelangelo The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

10. Coming face to face with God

11. The famous hands of Adam and God

12. the Delphic Sibyl A perspective device called foreshortening

13. The School of Athens Raphael

14. Michelangelo

15. Archimedes Euclid

16. Raphael

17. Leonardo

18. Birth of Venus Botticelli

19. Adoration of the Magi Botticelli

20. Arnolfini Wedding Jan Van Eyck Oil Painting Symbolism

21. Compare/Contrast Middle AgesRenaissance