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Early Renaissance
introduction
Giotto’s Lamentation
(1306)
- Why is this fresco a big deal?
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- How is it different from earlier art?
- What do the aesthetics of the time
tell us about the spirit of the times?
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http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giottos-lamentation.html
Prayer book decoration
ca. 1250
-How does this differ?
Cimabue (chee-muh-BOO-ay)
Madonna Enthroned
ca. 1280
Giotto
Madonna Enthroned
ca. 1310
International Gothic Style
Simone Martini
The Annunciation 1333
[multiple styles may exist simultaneously]
Renaissance
“rebirth”
• Rebirth of what?
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• Early Renaissance centered in Florence.
– Banking Center (gold florin a standard coin in Europe)
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– Bank from Italian word (banco)
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– important to trade
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– Florentine banking offices throughout Europe help spread ideas of
Renaissance.
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– important patrons of the arts
Humanism
• belief in human perfectibility
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• renewed study of ancient Roman and Greek
literature and philosophy
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• emerges from the Italian Renaissance
Writers of note
• Pico della Mirandola
– See C&V 7th, pp. 287-8
– On the Dignity of Man,
read the introduction for
next class (email)
– Used many sources
– Was to be his introduction
to a debate with church
figures (did not take
place)
• Machiavelli
– See pp. 289-290
– The Prince, read excerpt
for next class (email)
– How to be a ruler.
– “ends justify the means”
– pragmatic
Renaissance Art
• New “realism” in art
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• Three dimensions in painting
– “Renaissance Space”
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• Traits in Renaissance art (C&V 7th Edition, p 270)
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Perspective
Observation of real people
Representation of psychological states
Uncluttered
Roman and Greek motifs
International Gothic Style vs. Early Renaissance Style
(see pg. 269 of C&V 7th Edition)
GENTILE DA FABRIANO, Adoration of the Magi, altarpiece
from Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy, 1423. Tempera on wood
approx. 9’ 11” x 9’ 3”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
MASACCIO, Holy Trinity,
Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, ca. 1428.
Fresco, 21’ x 10’ 5”.
Renaissance art traits
(see C&V 7th edition, p. 270)
Attention to perspective
Fra Angelico Annunciation ca. 1445
Emotional states
Masaccio Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden ca.
1425
links for more information
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Masaccio’s Holy Trinity
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Masaccio’s Expulsion of Adam and Eve from
Eden
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http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/holy-trinity-santa-maria-novella-florence.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/masaccios-expulsion.html
Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation
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http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/fra-angelico-the-annunciation.html
SANDRO BOTTICELLI, Birth of Venus,
ca. 1482. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5’ 8” x 9’ 1”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
-Theme of Roman gods
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-Venus here shows a synthesis of
-idealized beauty (Neo-Platonism)
-Christian mysticism (like the Virgin)
-Classical ideal of the female figure of Venus
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- C&V 7th edition, p. 283
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-Medici Family
-Important banking family
-Arts patronage
-Funded Ficion’s
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-Neo-Platonism
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-ideal beauty
-Ficino (fee-CHEE-noh) translated much of
Plato’s work into Latin
-Ficino’s Academy funded by Medici family
-http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Botticelli.html
Botticelli’s Primavera
(Springtime), ca. 1478
Who is in the center? Mary? Venus?
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Zephyr pursues a nymph who transforms
into Flora
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Mercury and the three Graces on left
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Cupid overhead
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http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/botticelli-primavera.html