Transcript Class Schedule 1/29/10

First Thought
• Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
– Steve Jobs
Review Questions
1. How and Why did
the Renaissance
begin?
2. Why Italy?
3. What is Humanism
and what was it’s
influence?
How did Renaissance Art reflect
ideals of the time period?
• Art was to look as real as possible.
• Learned to create perspective to give depth,
studied anatomy, and subtle human gestures
to convey emotions.
• Art still focused on Religion, but had aspects
of Greece, Rome and Secular world included.
• Use of PERPSECTIVE to show 3-D using
a foreground and background and a
vanishing point
• Balance and geometry
• Knowledge of anatomy and biology
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
How did Renaissance Art reflect
ideals of the time period?
• Leonardo often called the ideal
"Renaissance man“
• Mainly painter, but studied many other
fields including anatomy, physics, and
aerodynamics.
• He thought up plans for a helicopter, a
tank, and concentrated solar power.
Mona Lisa by
Leonardo da Vinci
The Vitruvian Man sketch
By Leonardo da Vinci
First Thought
• The ends justify the means.
– Machiavelli
• Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor,
architect, poet and engineer.
• Considered by many to be the best pure
artist of the Renaissance.
La Pieta by
Michelangelo
David by
Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
• Italian painter and architect of the High
Renaissance
• Focused on perfection and grace in his
paintings and drawings.
Madonna in the Meadow
By Raphael
School of Athens by
Raphael
The Trinity of Masters from
the Italian Renaissance
• Brunelleschi most famous for the cathedral
in Florence.
• Michelangelo also influential for dome of
St. Peter’s Church in Rome.
• Was based on Roman and Greek
architecture.
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
St. Peter’s Basilica
Designed
by Michelangelo
Niccolo Machiavelli
• Italian diplomat in 1498
• Focused on Politics and Power.
– One of the first modern Political Thinkers.
• Wrote The Prince to address politics and
power.
Machiavelli
• Read the exert from The
Prince on page 417.
• Answer these
Questions:
– Summarize why
Machiavelli feels it is
better to be feared than
loved
– Do you agree or
disagree? And Explain
why.
Machiavelli Opinion
• Does Machiavelli offer
realistic advice or
rationalize deceit and
oppression?
First Thought
• If you could travel to any place
in the world, where would it be
and why?
The Italian Renaissance
• They were interested in human
achievement (instead of religious
or spiritual achievement)
• The figures in their artwork looked
like Greek or Roman gods, i.e.
perfect or ideal
The Northern Renaissance
• More interested in the early
Christian period.
• The figures in their artwork were
more realistic.
Both Northern & Italian
Renaissance
• Interested in Greek & Roman
culture (“the classics”)
• Use of perspective in paintings
• Believed in humanism