Transcript Renaissance Art - Ralph Robinson: Westfield High School

• Historical Background: In Old Testament in versions of the Bible
based on the Greek Septuagint, the Book of Judith is included with
the Apocrypha in the Authorized and Revised Standard versions; it
does not appear at all in the Hebrew Bible. This book, the work of
an unknown author, is a fictitious account of the deliverance of
Israel from a foreign army by Judith, the devout and beautiful
heroine who first beguiled and then beheaded the Assyrian
commander Holofernes. The book is dated to the Maccabean
period in the 2d century BC. According to the story, Judith, and
many of the daughters of Israel, where captured by the Assyrian
King Holofernes who used them for his own pleasure. After being
abused by Holofernes, Judith took matters into her own hands and
while the king rested, she severed his head. Judith came to
symbolize the defiance of the People of Israel in their quest for
freedom in the ancient world. Artists of the 15th and 16th centuries
often turned to Bible for themes for their artistic creations. The title
of both paintings is Judith and Holofernes.
Renaissance Art
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Italian
Northern
The Big Boys
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Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Donatello
Sandro Botticelli
Titian
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El Greco (both)
Jan Van Eyck*
Bosch
Peter Brueghel the Elder
Albrecht Dürer
Hans Holbein the
Younger
Italian
Northern
Specialty:
Ideal Beauty
Style:
Simplified
Forms;
Measured
Proportions
Religious and
mythical
Intense
Realism
Lifelike
features;
Unflattering
honesty
Religious and
domestic
Subjects:
Italian
Northern
Figures:
Heroic males
Prosperous
citizens
Portraits:
Formal;
Reserved
Reveal
individual
personality
Basis of Art: Theory
Emphasis:
Anatomical
structure
Observation
Appearance
Van Eyck
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Botticelli: The Birth of Venus
Botticelli: Primavera
Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper
Leonardo da
Vinci:
Mona Lisa
Da Vinci:
Virgin of
the Rocks
Michelangelo:
Pieta
Michelangelo: The Creation
Titian: Venus of Urbino
Titian: The Three Ages of Man
The Rare female Artist:
Sofonisba Anguissola
Born and
raised in the
Lombardy
region:
predominantly
a portrait
painter:
lived at the
court in
Spain.
The Chess Game
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NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Bruegel: Peasant Wedding
Bruegel:
Adoration of
the Kings
Holbein:
Ambassadors
Holbein: The Body of the Dead
Christ in the Tomb
Holbein:
Henry VIII
Van Eyck:
Crucifixion
and the Last
Judgement
Van Eyck: The
Virgin of
Chancellor
Rolin