Transcript Renaissance – Art Portfolio

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Highlight the following names on your study
guide and define.
Leonardo da Vinci - Italian master and genius
who was a: painter, sculptor, architect,
inventor, engineer.
Michelangelo - Italian master who sculpted,
painted, wrote poetry and designed buildings
Dante - Italian politician and poet who wrote
in Italian, not Latin, which was the common
language. He wrote the Divine Comedy
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Food! Clothes!
In the Renaissance,
money could buy you all that plus something
really important:
RESPECT.
 How?
Create a work of art that proclaims your devotion
to:
Yourself, Your City, your God.
Then you'll get the respect you truly deserve as a
Patron of the Arts.
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Toys!
Glorify God
(That's the way to get a rich rascal like
yourself into heaven)
 Glorify your city
(That's the way to get ahead in politics
and power)
 Glorify yourself and your family
(That's the way to real immortality)
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Masters!
People who are or become completely
proficient or skilled in an area.
 People who dominate: have dominance
or the power to defeat over something.
 A person who has an authority;
qualified to teach apprentices.
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All artists spent their
youth as humble
apprentices, learning
their craft in their
master's workshop.
An apprentice's first
tasks were humble:
sweeping, running
errands, preparing
the wooden panels
for painting, and
grinding and mixing
pigments.
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the apprentice's skills grew, he
would begin to learn from his
master: drawing sketches, copying
paintings, casting sculptures, and
assisting in the simpler aspects of
creating art works.
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The best students
would assist the
master with important
commissions, often
painting background
and minor figures
while the Master
painted the main
subjects.
The few apprentices
who showed amazing
skill could eventually
become masters
themselves. A very few
became greater artists
than their masters.
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legend tells of the young
Leonardo da Vinci painting an
angel so perfectly that his master
Verrocchio broke his brushes in
two and gave up painting forever
in recognition of his pupil's
superior abilities.
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Once an artist became a master, he
could open his own workshop and
hire apprentices of his own.
Many workshops were versatile and
could tackle many kinds of work:
painting, sculpting, goldsmithing,
architecture, and engineering.
Artists were called to homes to paint
portraits, decorate furniture, make
silverware, paint banners, create sets
for plays, make book covers or even
design military machinery for war.
In a brochure to patrons, Leonardo da
Vinci listed thirty-six services that he
could perform for his patrons.
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Without a patron, artists would
not be able to make a living.
Wealthy and powerful patrons
would pay a master artist (and
his workshop of assistants) to
paint portraits, landscapes,
altarpieces, or wall murals for
their church or home.
These rich families would
sponsor public works of art as
well, commissioning paintings,
sculptures and even
architecture.
Patrons most often paid for the
creation of art to glorify God,
glorify their city and to
commemorate themselves—that
is, to make themselves look
good and be remembered
forever.
Tomb
Lorenzo D’Medici
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By the late Renaissance,
artists were no longer thought
of as tradesmen. A master
artist could become a highly
respected member of the
community. He could dictate
his own terms in his work and
enjoy a much higher social
status than a mere craftsman.
And superstar artists like
Michelangelo and Leonardo
Da Vinci became famous
throughout Europe, helping
create the modern image of
the artist as an independent
creative genius
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Leonardo da Vinci is best known as an artist.
However, Leonardo was also a great thinker and
inventor who made many scientific
accomplishments.
He began his artistic career when he was just 12
years old, working as an apprentice in an artist’s
workshop in Florence.
While there, Leonardo learned painting,
sculpting, and technical drawing.
Although only 17 of his paintings remain, many
of Leonardo’s works are considered
masterpieces today.
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His best-known works include The Virgin of the
Rocks, The Last Supper, and the Mona Lisa.
Da Vinci also drew many accurate sketches of
the human body and the way that it moves.
In addition to his art, Leonardo da Vinci also
drew designs for hundreds of inventive
machines.
Although he never created working versions of
his designs, many people believe that his
sketches are early versions of armored tanks,
airplanes, and helicopters.
In addition to his artwork and inventions,
Leonardo also worked as an architect and
engineer.
Michelangelo
 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni (1475–1564) was one of the
most influential artists of the
Renaissance and was widely recognized
as the greatest artist of his time, even
during his lifetime.
 Many of his works were done under
the patronage of the powerful Medici
family of Florence and of the Catholic
Church
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Michelangelo’s work is celebrated for the
realistic depiction of its human subjects.
This can be seen in his paintings such as
The Holy Family
the scenes on the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel.
 However, this realism is best displayed
in his sculptures
 the Pietà
 the David.
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Dante
Dante's Inferno is the
first part of his epic
poem Divine
Comedy.
It tells of Dante
following the Roman
poet Virgil through
the nine circles of
Hell.
It shows the suffering
a person's soul goes
through on his
journey towards God
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Apprentices, you will design a blueprint or rough draft of a
product for a patron of the Renaissance. Determine which field
you will become a master in. Also, determine which patron you
wish to attract.
Once your masterpiece in the Renaissance style is created, write a
letter to seek a Patron. Provide three reasons why you should be
chosen as their master worker.
Sculpture
Painting
Poetry
Play write
Architecture
Engineering
Inventor
Scientist
Medici Family of Florence
Sforza Family of Milan
Pope in Rome
The Doge of Venice
King Henry VIII of England
Queen Elizabeth I of England
King Henry of France