Transcript The High Renaissance

The High Renaissance
The Rise of Rome
1500-1525
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Savonarola
S Medici Dynasty ends in 1492
S End of “Golden Age”
S Medici Family survives in
Church
Florence controlled by Savonarola
Renaissance Rome
S Center of the “High
Renaissance”(1500-1525)
S Break from antiquity
S Peak of skill
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Art to reproduce the natural world
S Strong secular Popes
S Ambitious members of powerful
families
S Outspend previous Pope
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PATRONAGE
S Convergence of extreme talent
S Leonardo, Michelangelo,
Raphael, Bramante, Titian
Vatican Museum and Sistine
Chapel
Julius II – The Warrior Pope
S Aggressive foreign policy
S Reinstate control over Papal
States
S Large scale building projects
S St. Peter’s Basilica
S Great patron of the arts
S Sistine Chapel ceiling
S Raphael Rooms in Vatican
St. Peter’s Basilica - Rome
S Largest church in the
world
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668 ft long nave
S 137 ft wide dome
S 430 ft tall
S Site of remains of Saint
Peter
S One of the most holy
sites in Western
Christendom
S Construction begun by
Pope Julius II, 1506
Comparing Domes
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Saint Peter’s Interior Cathedra
Pope Leo X
S A Medici Pope.
S Giovanni de Medici
(1513-1521)
S Son of Lorenzo
S Spends the entire Papal
bank account in one
year
S Started selling
Indulgences to pay for
St. Peters
Leonardo da Vinci –
THE Renaissance Man
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Artist, Sculptor, Engineer, Architect,
Scientist, Inventor  The “L’uomo
Universale”
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Dissected human corpses
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Worked largely in Florence and
Milan
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Spent later years in France with
Francis I as a patron
Virtruvian Man
Drawing of
Womb
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Da Vinci’s Flying Machines
Da Vinci’s Flying Machines
The Last Supper – Convent of Santa
Maria, Milan
The Last Supper - Deterioration
The Last Supper – Perspective
Mona Lisa or da Vinci?
Raphael Sanzio
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1483-1520
S Died at age 37
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Most famous works are frescoes in
the Vatican Palace
S Raphael Rooms
S Fresco: A type of painting which
is painted onto wet plaster
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Portraits and Madonnas
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St. Peter’s architect after Bramate
School of Athens
Michelangelo Buronatti
S Sculptor
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La Pieta
David
Tomb of Pope Julius II
S Painter
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Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Last Judgement
S Architect
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St. Peter’s Basilica
Medici Chapel
S Rival of da Vinci
S "His nature was so rough and
uncouth that his domestic habits
were incredibly squalid, and
deprived posterity of any pupils
who might have followed him."
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Cappella Sistina
S Pope Sixtus IV
S Pope Julius II
S Michelangelo
S Ceiling, 1508-1512
S L.J., 1537-1541
Sistine Chapel Today
"After four
tortured years,
more than 400
over life-size
figures, I felt as
old and as weary
as Jeremiah. I
was only 37, yet
friends did not
recognize the old
man I had
become."
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
S Commissioned by Julius II
S 40 Sculpture Tomb
S Painted between 1508-1512
S 12,000 square feet
S 9 Scenes from the Book of
Genesis: 3 Creation, 3
Adam/Eve, 3 Noah
Creation of Man
Sistine Chapel Restoration
S The Last Judgment
S Covers entire wall behind
altar in Sistine Chapel
S 1537-1541
S Post Reformation view
of Christianity
S Nudity and Social Status
S “Fig Leaf Campaign”
S Departure from
traditional last judgment
scenes
 Minos – Judge of Hades
 Donkey ears
 Serpent
Cesena: “He painted me in Hell. You
have to get me out of Hell!”
Pope: “I can get people out of
purgatory, but only God can get you
out of Hell!”
S “It was mostly disgraceful that
in so sacred a place there should
have been depicted all those
nude figures, exposing
themselves so
shamefully…more appropriate
for the public baths and
taverns."
-Biagio da Cesena