Renaissance

Renaissance
Renaissance
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The Renaissance was a period of
significant social, historical and
economic events.
What changed?
Humanism - a system of ideas relating to
human beings, emphasizing their value (and
de-emphasizing belief in God)
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Northern Renaissance
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N. artists subject matter remained religious in
nature while using trompe l’oeil to render
things of this world.
Artists tried to reconcile religious subjects
with scenes and objects from everyday.
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True or False?
Limbourg Brothers
May
from Les Tres Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry
(1416)
August
January
Robert Campin
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What makes his Merode Altarpiece
unique? What aspects of it?
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Discuss the architecture, who is depicted in
the scene, what is occurring in this scene?
Is this a normal Annunciation scene? Think
of ones we’ve seen, think of the Middle
Ages and Early Christian scenes.
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What is the same and what is different?
Merode Altarpiece, Robert Campin, 1425-1428
Symbolism in Art
Jan Van Eyck
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What type if painting is Giovanni
Arnolfini and His Bride considered to
be?
What is the point of this portrait? What
was its purpose? What is it telling us?
Discuss/find the symbolism in this portrait
German Art
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Contains less symbolism and less detail
than Flemish art, but their message is
more powerful. More emotional.
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True or False. Give an example(s).
German Art
The Crucifixion, center panel of The Isenheim Altarpiece,
Matthias Grunewald, 1515
Compare and Contrast
**Symbolism
**Background
**Figures/poses **Colors
**Christ
**Overall mood
Gerard David, 1515
Albrecht Durer
Engraving, 1504
Oil on panel, 1507
Northern Renaissance
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Michelangelo said “Flemish painting will, generally
speaking, please the devout better than any painting
in Italy, which will never cause him to shed a tear,
whereas that of Flanders will cause him to shed
many…In Flanders they paint with a view to
external exactness or such things as may cheer
you and of which you cannot speak ill, as for
example saints and prophets. They paint stuffs
and masonry, the green grass of the fields, the
shadow of trees, and rivers and bridges”
Renaissance Italy
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There were notable differences in the art of
various sections of Italy.
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Florence and Rome – resurgence of Classicism as
ruins where uncovered.
Siena – continued in the International Style
Venice – Byzantine influence remained strong
Cimabue vs Giotto
(Proto-Renaissance)
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In the following images, both of the
Madonna Enthroned, discuss:
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Inspiration. Looking at the smaller details,
what can you find that is evident in earlier
art?
Discuss architecture (the throne)
Compare/contrast the Madonna. Body
shape, mass, weight, etc.
Cimabue,
1280-90
Giotto,
1310
Where else have we seen this similar image?
Donatello
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David is an Italian
peasant boy in the
guide of a Classical
nude figure.
Prior to this (1408),
when was the last nude
sculpture?
Can such a youth have
accomplished such a
forbidding task?
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Brains over brawn?
David, 1408
Masaccio
What is unique and ground
breaking about Masaccio’s Holy
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Trinity?
Discuss the figures and their
placement in the composition.
God / Christ
Mary / Apostle John
Donors
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Discuss the importance of the
skeleton/ inscription: "IO FU[I]
G[I]A QUEL CHE VOI S[I]ETE E
QUEL CH['] I[O] SONO VO[I]
A[N]C[OR] SARETE"
I once was what you are and
what I am you also will be.
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Brunelleschi’s Dome
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The dome is
combination of
Classical and
Medieval
architecture. Why
would he have
combined these
styles?
Duomo, Florence, 1420-36
David vs David
Compare/Contrast
the David’s.
*look at the smaller
details*
Donatello, 1408
Andrea del Verocchio, 1470
This image cannot currently be display ed.
Mathematics & Geometry in Art
Resurrection, Piero della Francesca, 1450’s
The Birth of Venus, 1486
Allegory – communicates a
message
by means of symbolic figures,
actions or
symbolic representation.
Describe/discuss
the images.
La Primavera, 1482
Venus
Medici Venus
Capitoline Venus
Palazzo Rucellai,
Alberti,
Florence, 1446-1451
The High Renaissance
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Who were the leading artists of The
High Renaissance?
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Give their names and what they were
known for.
Who were they considered to be the artist
descendants of?
Why is this period called The High
Renaissance?
Tomb of Julius II
Begun 1505,
Finished 1545
Moses, Michelangelo, 1513-15
Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna of the Rocks (left: Louvre (1483), right: National Gallery, London (before 1508).
Raphael
Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican, Rome
The School of Athens (1509)
Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
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Ceiling is roughly 12,000 sq ft and was completed over a period
of 4 years (1508-1512)
Michelangelo, Raphael, Boticelli and Bernini all worked on it at
one time or another.
In the center are the central stories (9 stories of Genesis);
Sibyls and Prophets are found in between the webs (triangles);
the 4 pendentives relate tales of miraculous salvation; the webs
(triangles) precise identification is still debated but thought to
be ancestors of Christ.
Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can form no
appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1787 in Rome
Michelangelo
Left side
of the
ceiling
1305 vs 1508-1512
The David’s
Bernini, 1623
Donatello,
1408
del Verocchio, 1470
Michelangelo, 1501
Renaissance Venice
Venus of Urbino, Titian, 1538
Sleeping Venus, Giorgione, 1508
Venus of Urbino – Marriage
Contract or Courtesan?
Olympia, Manet,1863
Tintoretto
The Last Supper, 1592
High and Late Renaissance
(Outside Italy)
The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586
El Greco
Pt. 1
Hieronymous Bosch
Pt. 2
The Garden of Early Delights, 1500
Pt. 3
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
The Peasant Wedding, 1568
Mannerism
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Brief period following the Renaissance.
Characteristics:
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Elongated/distorted figure
Flattened space
Lack of focal point
Use of pastel hues
Jacopo Pantormo
The Deposition,
1525
Agnolo Bronzino
Left: 1565
Right: 1545