Transcript Art of the Renaissance

Art of the Renaissance
Giotto –Mourning of Christ
• Each figure is unique in grief
• Mary holding the Dead Christ
Madonna - Giotto
• Very emotional
• Panel painting
• Mary is very human looking
Sandro Botticelli
• Birth of Venus• Venus is symbolic of the rebirth of artistic
and intellectual ideas of the Renaissance
• Born of the elements to bring the human
eye to a higher level of understanding
• tempera
Primavera
• Flora on the right
• Three graces on the left
• But there is uncertainty: Cupid is flying
blind – the colors seem ambivalent
• tempera
Donatello
• Pioneer of sculpture
• Revived the human form from the medieval
period – everything was covered up
• His art shows freedom and originality
• schiacciato": shallow reliefs etched lightly
in stone.
David -bronze
• first free standing nude since antiquity
• "David" is not captured in the midst of
battle,
nor is he frozen in a
triumphant pose. He stands casually, the
back of his hand resting on his hip, the tip
of his sword in the ground.
• His figure is almost feminine;
• David: nonchalant, graceful, and mild.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A true Renaissance man
Very curious – studied almost everything
Thousands of sketches/notebooks
Tried many different types of paint
Lady with Ermine
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Oil on wood
Wealthy woman
Background redone by later artist – no haze
The curving of the hand – pure Leonardo
Ginevra de’Benci -Leonardo
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A wedding portrait
Very sullen
She looks past us
Taunt forehead/skin with soft ringlets
Notice the sfumato – hazy glaze
background
Mona Lisa - Leonardo
• A small portrait –30” x 20”
• Sfumato
• Kept the paint for 14 yrs – working on and
off
• Lots of speculation about the subject
• Enigmatic expression
The Last Supper - Leonardo
• In the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Milan,
• Fresco
• In poor condition: bad fresco, coal, war,
fires, etc…
• Restored and now very bright
Last Supper cont.
• Christ is in the center
• The arch is like a halo
• Two point perspective- through the
windows and converging lines behind
Christ
• Judas is looking away
Raphael
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Painted Madonnas
Compositions are very harmonious
Soft lines and colors
Lots of paintings in the Vatican
Ranked as one of the three best artists of the
Renaissance
• Died at the height of his fame
Bindo Altoviti =Raphael
• Portrait of a young man
• Some use to think it was Raphael – but now
it is believed to Bindo
Madonna dell Granduca
School of Athens - Raphael
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In the Vatican
The great poets and philosophers of the ages
Plato – in center pointing up
On his side all the philosophers/thinkers
Aristotle – next to him
On his side mathematicians/scientists
Represents reason and logic
Cowper Madonna - Raphael
• Early work – very small
Titian
• Dominated Venetian art
• Lots of paintings – different genres:
religious, erotic mythology, portraits
• Lived a long life
Portrait of a Young Man - Titian
Adonis and Venus
• -relates the story of the goddess Venus
vainly trying to restrain her lover, the mortal
Adonis, from departing for the hunt. The
mood of playful sensuality conceals the
tragic irony that Adonis is destined to be
killed during the hunt by a wild boar
The Vatican
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Ceiling
Creation of Adam
Flood
Fall of Man
Last Judgment
Last Judgment
Pieta
David - Michelangelo
Northern Renaissance Artists
Jan Van Eyck
• Perfected the use of oil paints
• Very detailed works
• Rich color and fabric
The Arnolfini Marriage –Jan Van
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A wedding certificate
Lots of symbolism
Barefoot – holy ground
Dog- fidelity
Pregnant – fertility
Candle – God’s seeing eye
Very detailed
Hans Holbien
• Portrait Painter
• Painted Henry VIII and various wives
Portrait of Derich
Henry VIII
Albrecht Durer
Known as a great graphic artist
Lots of prints were made of his works
Four Horsemen
Print about the four horsemen of the
Apocalypse
Knight Death and Devil
Albrecht Durer
Hieronymus Bosch
Known for fantastic, diabolic scenes
often dealing with sin and folly
Bosch cont.
Themes:
man’s vulnerability to temptation of evil
man’s stupidity
Temptation of St. Anthony
• portrays man’s struggle against temptation,
as well as continual presence of the Devil
• St. Anthony was a hermit but is shown here
struggling against evil
• fantastically bizarre landscape
• Very detailed
Pieter Bruegel
Painted very detail scenes often with
lots of symbolism
Painted everyday scenes and Biblical
scenes
Peasant Wedding
• Lots of detail and humor in the painting
• Look at what the different characters are
doing
• Bride is sitting contentedly while people are
eating and drinking
A Peasant’s Dance
• A companion piece to the Peasant Wedding
• Again more is going on than meets the eye
• Playful and humorous