1. EARLY RENAISSANCE

2. Giotto signaled a change that was about to shake art history for all time. The 14th century was the labor pain prior to the birth of a new and wondrous offspring named the Renaissance.
12th-13th Paris was the midwife to the Gothic
14th Siena
15th Florence was the midwife to the Renaissance. Florence was democratic and a banking center. It was the Wall Street of banking for Europe. (Banco = table for exchanging money)

3. Renaissance vs. Gothic--
The Renaissance viewed itself as cultured and the Gothic as barbaric. (Renaissance had it all but lacked humility.)

4. Humanism and the Renaissance
Middle Ages wanted to move from “vale of tears” to the world beyond. This parallels much of Eastern thought—Buddhism and Hinduism.
Humanism is this worldly—being all that we can be? Sounds a lot like the Greeks.
Humanism got new ideas from the Crusades of old and Byzantine refugees from Constantinople due to the Ottomans conquest in 1453
Individualism influenced entire culture from art to economics.
Tech revolution

5. Italy’s city-state system paralleled that of the Greeks:
the Duchy of Milan
Republic of Venice
Republic of Florence
Kingdom of Naples
Papal States
plus lesser states of Savoy, Urbino, Modena, Genoa, etc.

6. If you truly wish to understand the feeling of the Renaissance, this movie is necessary.
                     

7. Gentile’s Adoration of the Magi

8. Gentile (International style or Late Gothic)
Filled up all available space
Bright colors and halos
Golden frame
Proportion not important
Masaccio
Space is present
Proportion in the buildings and people
Greco-Roman style
Pyramid
S-shaped curve

9. Masaccio’s Holy Trinity ca. 1426

11. Masaccio’s Tribute Money

12. Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam and Eve

13. Fra Angelico’s Annunciation

15. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

16. Botticelli’s Birth of Mars

17. Botticelli’s Primavera

18. Renaissance art Space is present
Proportion in the buildings and people
Greco-Roman style
Pyramid
S-shaped curve
Chiaroscuro

19. Donatello’s David ca. 1430

22. Ghiberti and Brunelleschi’s competition in 1401 was the Super Bowl of Art. They worked on the baptistery doors of the Romanesque cathedral of Florence.
East doors contained 10 panels—Michelangelo called them the Gates of Paradise

23. Ghiberti’s Creation of Adam

24. Ghiberti’s Cain Killing Abel

25. Ghiberti’s Sacrifice of Isaac

26. Brunelleschi’s Sacrifice of Isaac

28. Ghiberti’s East Doors Gates of Paradise

29. Brunelleschi’s Dome

30. A Moment of Renaissance Zen
Brunelleschi’s strength lay in his understanding of the past. It hurt him with the doors, but it worked for him with the dome. He mixed the Gothic and the classical Roman vaulting.
My grandmother always said when teaching me to play bridge, “Allen, you always lead from your longest and strongest suit.”

32. Della Robbia

36. Ghirlandaio’s Adoration

38. Ghirlandaio’s A Man with His Grandchild

39. Bellini

40. Bellini

41. Unicorn Tapestry