1. Renaissance Art & Architecture Humanism– Interest in Greek and Roman Classics Secularism– Interest in the Material World more than the Afterlife Individualism– Portraits, Signed Artwork, and new Inventions like oil paints and perspective

2. Early Renaissance Architecture Copied Greek Columns and Roman Domes such as Florence Cathedral by Brunelleschi

3. Oil Paints were Invented by the Flemish Painters of Flanders The Arnolfini Wedding Descent from By Jan Van Eyck the Cross by » Van der Weyden

4. Both Show Individualism in Novel Ways Can you tell which 4 men in the background paid for this painting?

5. Look Closely at the Mirror in the Arnolfini Wedding

6. The Concept of Perspective Was invented by Giotto and perfected by his student Masacchio It makes 2-dimensional art look 3-D Things get smaller the farther into the background they are All straight lines point to the “vanishing point”

7. Raphael’s School of Athens shows perspective and Humanism

8. Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of a business man’s wife-- secularism Notice the background and perspective The realism of her face has always made people wonder what she was thinking

9. Another Famous Portrait is in the National Gallery in Washington DC Ginevra de Benci

10. Leonardo was also Famous for Religious Works of Art like the Last Supper

11. He also Made Many Anatomical Drawings and Inventions –A baby in the womb

12. Greeks and Romans did Free- standing Sculptures This is a Roman statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius It was meant to be looked at from all sides

13. Donatello copied Roman Styles Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata Statue of David Statue of Mary Magdalene

14. Many Artists of Florence made Statues of David Donatello Michelangelo and later on Bernini

15. Raphael is Most Famous for his Madonna Paintings

16. Da Vinci Painted Madonnas Too

17. Michelangelo Was Known as a Painter and Sculptor The Sistine Chapel Pieta and Moses

18. He was also an Architect St Peter’s Cathedral

19. Sofonisba Anguissola

20. Women artists often painted other women or children Lavinia Fontana painted in late Renaissance Italy

21. The Venetian School of Renaissance Art centered in Venice after the fall of Florence to the French Titian Giorgione

22. Late Renaissance Art is called Mannerist Style– weird colors and elongated bodies are typical –Tintoretto El Greco

23. El Greco was Court Painter for the King of Spain

24. El Escorial Philip II’s palace was centered around a monastery

25. Hans Holbein was Court Painter to Henry VIII of England Henry and his 3 rd Wife, Jane Seymour

26. He also Painted Sir Thomas More and Erasmus

27. The Ambassadors

28. Jean Clouet Painted Francois I of France

29. Francois I was Famous for Building Chateaux such as Chambord

30. Da Vinci Designed a Double-helix Stairway inside Chambord

31. In Germany Religion Stayed Much More Central Grunewald’s Issenheim Altarpiece

32. Woodcuts were used to Illustrate Books for the new Printing Press Albrecht Durer was an incredible painter and Illustrator

33. Durer’s Self Portraits

34. Bruegel painted scenes of everyday life in the Low Countries

35. Hunters in the Snow shows evidence of the mini-ice-age that occurred in the 16 th C.

36. Bruegel’s works are often used on the AP Exam-- The Peasant Wedding