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Renaissance Art
Italian and Northern
Renaissance Art
Transition from Byzantine to Renaissance
Old Man-Jesus.
Sortof Man-Jesus.
Baby-Jesus.
Architecture of the Quattrocento
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Brunelleschi’s Duomo
in Florence
Built between 14201436
Utilized principles of
Classical architecture
Solved the issue of
Florence’s wounded
pride
San Lorenzo - Brunelleschi
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Reflects a
return to
Classical
columns
Corinthian
columns
Commissioned
by the Medici
Sculpture of the Quattrocento
Baptistery Doors Competition Panels – Ghiberti and Brunelleschi (1402-3)
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Scultpure
Quattrocento Painting
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Masaccio
painted much
more lifelike
figures
Also, he
included very
human
expressions
GET OUT!
Stupid
stupid
stupid…
Bummer.
Quattrocento Painting
Yo…you’re knocked
up… oh, and God’s
the baby daddy.
WT*?
Fra Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child
(1455) and Fra Angelico’s Annunciation
(1445)
Later Quattrocento Sculpture
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Donatello’s David
(1446-60)
Natural portrayal of
youth
Contrapposto classical
stance
Provocative feather
on boy-thigh. Oh so
naughty!
Late Quattrocento Painting
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Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Mars (1483)
Pagan themes more common
Power of love defeats the warrior
Most likely commissioned for a wedding
I’m
le
tired
And more Botticelli!
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Birth of Venus (1484-1486)
Merger of Classical and Christian themes
And from the
severed gonads of
Uranus, I bring
you…Venus!
High Renaissance Art
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Leonardo, the consumate
L’uomo Universale
Painter, sculptor,
scientist, engineer, etc.
In touch with, but very
detached from humanity
“sacks for food”/”fillers up
of privies”
Perfect triangular
composition - science
and painting?
Leonardo’s Masterpiece
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Judas betrayal
Composition – 3’s
Look dudes…all I have
to give you to eat is my
body and blood…take it
or leave it.
I’ll take mine
with some fava
beans and a
nice chianti.
What? No
cocktail
weenies?
I thought I saw a
White Castle back
there…Anyone?
Michelangelo
I’m not touching
youuuuuuuuuu!
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Truly
suggests a
divine aspect
of man
Glorifies
human form
More Michelangelo
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Reallybighands.
Glorifies human form
Idea of small
overcoming large
Power of the
Florentine
Republic as the
underdog
Jan Van Eyck
Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Ghent)
Albrecht Durer
Bruegel’s Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)