1. Early Renaissance Hall of Fame: Masaccio Botticelli Ghiberti Donatello Rejected art of the Middle Ages

2. Masaccio 1401-1428 First since Giotto to paint the human figure as a real human being. He made figures stand upon their feet. Brought shadows into paintings.

3. First use of linear perspective! The Trinity Masaccio1427 What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

4. Masaccio Trinty Notable use of Perspective

5. Masaccio: The Tribute Money

6. Masaccio St. Peter Baptizing the Neophytes. Note reality of “Trembling Naked Man”

7. Donatello 1386 - 1466 First free standing sculpture since the Classical Era (Greek & Roman) Normally figure has all his weight on one leg (S form).

8. Donatello: David

9. Donatello: The Penitent Magdalene

10. Botticelli 1444 - 1510 Brings back Classical mythology as acceptable themes in painting.

11. Botticelli: Birth of Venus

12. Botticelli: Birth of Venus, Detail

13. Botticelli: Primavera

14. Botticelli: Primavera, Detail

15. Ghiberti, Competition Panel

16. Ghiberti, The Doors of Paradise

17. Heroes of the High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Titian Centered in Rome and Venice Focused on composition, ideal proportions, and perspective

18. Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Renaissance Man Less than 20 of his paintings survive His most famous are the Mona Lisa and Last Supper

19. Mona Lisa Used chiarascuro to model figures – use of light and dark Three dimensional features No obvious starting and stopping points Perfect blending The smile

20. The Last Supper First to try to show in art the character of each apostle. Used geometric perspective Used oil/tempera for fresco – not a good idea During WWII wet sandbags sat in front of it leading to massive mildew Is being restored

21. horizontal vertical Perspective! The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

22. Michelangelo: Pieta (1499) He was only 24 years old

24. Michelangelo: David

25. The sling across David’s back

26. Michelangelo’s David

27. How did Michelangelo paint his frescoes? Let's See!

28. Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel Ceiling

29. Michelangelo: Sistine Chapel Ceiling, The Creation of Adam

30. Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel The Last Judgment

31. Hidden Portrait, Sistine Chapel Ceiling

32. Don’t you wish you could see all of it up close? Let’s take a little field trip!

33. Raphael 1483- 1520 The School of Athens Themes of Greek, Rome, and Renaissance Used pyramidal composition and chiaroscuro

34. Raphael: School of Athens

36. Raphael Da Vinci Michelangelo

37. Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now]. Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm]. The School of Athens – Raphael, details

38. Raphael: School of Athens, linklink

39. Raphael: The Sistine Madonna

40. Titian 1490 – 1576 Venetian Used strong colors with oil on canvas

41. Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

42. Titian: Bacchanal of the Adrians

43. Titian: The Emperor Charles V on Horseback

44. The Northern Renaissance Centered in the Netherlands Were not inspired by the Classics Looked to nature for inspiration Very detailed, realistic paintings Produced numerous portraits

45. Jan Van Eyck 1390 – 1441 The Arnolfini Wedding

47. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

50. Bosch 1450 – 1516 Focused on the punishment of sinners Fantasy images (hybrid monsters, half- humans, half-animals) Weird landscapes Corrupt mankind should suffer

51. Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525-1569 Peasant life The Peasant Wedding

52. The German Renaissance German artists began to lead the Northern Renaissance

53. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543 Portraits The Ambassadors

54. Albrecht Durer 1471 – 1528 Best known for wood cuts

55. Dürer The Last Supper woodcut, 1510

56. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore Florence, Italy Roman Architecture Reborn

57. VS.

58. The Renaissance cathedral is more down to earth & more human in scale Appropriate for the focus on man & life in the secular world

59. Italian Renaissance art clearly reflects Humanism in its emphasis on: 1. I II INDIVIDUALISM: glorifying potential, talents and accomplishments of individual human beings. 2. C CC CLASSICISM: Re-discovery and appreciation of ancient Greek & Roman culture 3. S SS SECULARISM: emphasis on this world (the “here & now”) and its material pleasures rather than the afterlife (“hereafter”) or spiritual world.