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Art of the Early Renaissance 3/30/2016 1 OBJECTIVES • focus on the visual arts of the Early Renaissance period. • What the Renaissance was? • How it started? • Where it started? • How Early Renaissance art was created • The Workshop system • Innovations of Early Renaissance art • Early Renaissance artists and sculpture 3/30/2016 2 Renaissance • A period from the early 1300’s to roughly 1600 when there was a renewed interest in history literature and art. • Renaissance = “Rebirth” • Europe’s economic recovery • Renewed study of ancient Greece and Rome 3/30/2016 3 Humanism o The birth of humanism o Humanism was an ideal that focused on the world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter. o Rejected medieval view of humanity and focused on the goodness of mankind 3/30/2016 4 Humanism (cont.) • Began in Florence, Italy • Ideal setting • Wealthy patrons • 1400 3/30/2016 5 Early Renaissance • Period from 1300 to 1500 • Artist as a craftsmen • Art created by commission • Art through imitation 3/30/2016 6 Workshop system • Collaboration of masters and apprentices • Family-based • Run like a business 3/30/2016 7 Workshop • Art was commissioned • Apprentice started in early teens • Studied under master for several years 3/30/2016 8 Products of the workshop system • Michaelangelo • Master – Domenico Ghirlandaio • Leonardo da Vinci • Master- Andrea del Verocchio 3/30/2016 9 slide 3/30/2016 10 Filippo Bruneleschi (1377-1446) • Florentine architect and engineer • First to carry out a series of optical experiments that led to a mathematical theory of perspective. • His method of perspective had a dramatic impact on the depiction of 3-dimensional space in the arts 3/30/2016 11 One point linear perspective Pierro della Francesca “View of an Ideal City” 3/30/2016 12 Masaccio (1401-1428) • One of first artists to apply the new method of linear perspective in his fresco of the Holy Trinity • Used a barrel vaulted ceiling to imitate with precision the true appearance of architectural space • Figures depict accurate human anatomy 3/30/2016 13 The Holy Trinity 3/30/2016 14 Pierro della Francesca (1416-1492) • Expressed an obsession with perspective • His works are characterized by carefully analyzed architectural spaces and sensitivity to geometric purity of shapes. • Wrote several books on perspective and geometry 3/30/2016 15 Carefully analyzed perspective and geometry • The Discovery and Proving of the True Cross 3/30/2016 16 Donatello (1386-1466) • New sense of naturalism in sculpture • Use of classical contrapposto stance (relaxed not rigid) • Statue of David considered first full scale nude since ancient times 3/30/2016 17 3/30/2016 18 Andrea Mantegna (1430-1506) • Created unusual vantage points • Looking at figures from below • Lamentation of the Dead Christ the viewer is looking from the feet of the subject. • Deep foreshortening • Effectively placed the viewer at the scene, adding to the sense of empathy 3/30/2016 19 Lamentation of the Dead Christ • Use of unusual vantage points 3/30/2016 20 Sandra Boticelli (1445-1510) • First artist to paint a full-length female nude • In Birth of Venus the figure occupies the center of the work which was traditionally reserved for the Virgin. This work is possibly the most pagan image of the entire Renaissance. 3/30/2016 21 3/30/2016 22