1. Assignment: Renaissance Art
Examine the following slides on the art of the Renaissance.
Copy all notes into your notebook.
Copy and answer all questions that are presented to you in the PPT.
Most of all, take the time to look at the paintings, sculptures, and architecture. They are all examples of Renaissance art.
You do not need to copy the headings of slides if they are just examples of art—example slide 4

2. Characteristics of Renaissance Art
Still used religious topics, but with secular themes
Sculptors produced works celebrating the individual and the “pagan” spirit of the day.
New wealth and materialism led to palaces and private residences beginning to rival the magnificence of churches with collecting Renaissance pieces.

3. Painting Before 1300 most paintings were two dimensional
Giotto (Father of Renaissance painting) made painting more lifelike by varying the brightness of his colors
The Lamentation introduced new contrasts of light and shade and gave a three-dimensional lifelike quality

4. Giotto’s Return of Joachim to the Sheepfold

5. It was through patronage that the Renaissance art was made possible
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, and many others were employed by popes and leaders of the city-states
Anatomical realism through Masaccio and Botticelli

6. Masaccio’s “The Expulsion from Paradise”—anatomical realism
Botticelli’s “Primavera”—view of Platonism love

7. Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1490) shows Italian artists skill with perspective. The down the body view captivates the eye as realistic

8. Leonardo da Vinci ( )
lived Renaissance ideal of the universal person: painter, advisor to kings, engineer, physiologist, botanist,
Scientist and artist; produced The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa
Produced many mechanical designs
Also study human anatomy extensively

11. Leonardo’s Virgin and Child With Saints

12. Michelangelo ( )
Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel over 4 years
Sistine Chapel frescoes—10,000 sq. ft., 343 figures, 4 years to complete
Scenes from the Bible
Perfect example of perspective, anatomy, and motion

14. Michelangelo was a sculptor, an architect, a poet, and a painter.
This could be his best scene ever. What is it?
The Creation of Adam
Where is this found?
Religious focus?

17. Artists’ training
Michelangelo and Leonardo received training in Florence under Titian
Kings and princes of Europe competed for Titian’s service
Many artists served as apprentices to older artists before being commissioned on their own.
Rafael and Donatello were apprentices

18. Raphael ( )
Master of Renaissance grace and style, theory and technique
large Vatican fresco: The School of Athens

20. Sculpture
Renaissance painting owed much of its three-dimensional qualities to the painters’ knowledge of sculpture
Giotto, Leonardo, and Michelangelo were sculptors

21. Donatello (1386-1466) Father of Renaissance sculpture
Donatello’s huge bronze statue of David was the first sculptured male nude in thousand years

22. Donatello’s Mary Magdalen
Made his subject all skin and bone, lank hair, and tattered clothing
Still is considered saintly

23. Michelangelo Considered the greatest sculptor of all time
A universal man
Produced masterpieces in sculpture like an 18 foot David

24. Michelangelo’s Pieta
Mary mourning the limp body of Christ is considered the most perfect marble carving

25. Most statues weren’t meant to fill the church, but some did
Most made it into private collections or into public squares
Cellini’s Perseus

26. Architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Alberti studied ancient Roman buildings and used their principles to design cathedrals
St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is a model of Renaissance symmetry
Designed by Michelangelo who died before completion in 1626
Renaissance architects relied heavily on Plato’s writing on geometry

27. Brunelleschi’s Catherdal of Florence

28. Inside