Transcript Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art
Middle Ages
• lacked
– depth
– perspective
– realism – looked flat
– color
– individualism
• people were viewed in terms of their place in society
– an excitement about life
• life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or
hell rather than an experience worth having
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Sacred
Symbolic
Simplified
Stylized
Background is flat and stage-like
Giotto
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a Renaissance Man
transitional piece
Mary and baby are the focus
not intended to show everyday
life, but life in Heaven
Mary and Christ are large than
others
background covered with gold –
showing this is God’s kingdom
gold halos
baby Jesus is small man
facial features are the same
only god can create
Madonna and Child
Adding Math and Science
• Leonardo da Vinci has
circles and squares to
find the mathematical
proportions of man
• “aim of science and art
are one”
• artists study geometry,
anatomy, botany, physics
• subjects provide the
information needed to
better represent
artistically what they
were drawing
Proportions of Man
Masaccio
• rediscovered the
technique of linear
perspective
• a technique that creates
the appearance of three
dimensions
• creating the illusion of
“real space”
• established an imaginary
line on the viewer’s eye
level called the horizon
line
• center of this line called
the vanishing point
– the point at which lines
leading into the distance
seem to meet
Trinity with the Virgin and St. John
New things Renaissance Artists
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• Single light source
– putting together science and nature
• Sfumate “up in smoke”
– aerial perspective for showing distance outdoors
– figures closest to viewer – clean and bright
– figures far away – light, hazy, fade into the distance
• Chiaroscuro
– blending
• Proportion
– haze
– eliminate contrast in background
Da Vinci
• Mona Lisa
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Single light source
Sfumato
Chiaroscuro
Proportion
Michelangelo
• The Ceiling of
the Sistine
Chapel at the
Vatican
Coming face to face with God
The famous hands of
Adam and God
the Delphic Sibyl
• A perspective device
called foreshortening
The School of Athens
Raphael
Michelangelo
Euclid
Archimedes
Raphael
Raphael
Leonardo
Birth of Venus
Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi
Botticelli
Arnolfini Wedding
Jan Van Eyck
• Oil Painting
• Symbolism
Compare/Contrast
Middle Ages
Renaissance