Transcript Renaissance 102

Welcome to the Renaissance
The Rebirth of Art
Renaissance
• Renaissance means rebirth.
• It began in Italy around 1350.
• Why: England and France still fighting 100
years war
• Italy had 2 major seaports, Venice and
Genoa and 2 other important cities,
Florence and Rome
• 1348 Bubonic Plague hit Italy hard but they
recovered quickly.
• New Values:
• Desire for Fame. Signed their artwork.
• 2 new artforms, Portraits and
Autobiographies
• Love of classical learning. Despised
anything from the Middle Ages.
• Humanists – scholars who studies Greek
and Roman texts.
• Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures
• It was OK to enjoy life here on earth and
not wait for rewards in heaven.
• New Ideals
• Renaissance Man – can do everything well
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1. Learned
2. Athletic
3. Musical
4. Artistic
An example is Leonardo da Vinci.
Humanism
• Francisco Petrarch – father of Humanism
• Felt mastery of Latin was the mark of a
learned man
• Believed the Romans were the best example
of ethical behavior
• Most famous Italian Renaissance writer was
Machiavelli. He wrote The Prince – power
counts more than ideals - a guidebook for
rulers.
Art
• Masaccio developed perspective which
gives the appearance of distance
• Donatello’s statue of David showed man as
he really was – scientific naturalism.
The Bust of Hadrian
created during the Roman Empire
Madonna
with Child
by Giotto
Medieval
Transitional Artist
Giotto’s
Madonna
With Child
The Last Supper
by Giotto
Adoration of the Magi
by Masaccio
David
by Donatello
David by
Michelangelo
David
The Altar of the Sistine Chapel
by Michelangelo
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
by Michelangelo
The Pieta
by Michelangelo
Vatican Guards
Costumes designed by Michelangelo
Painters of the High Renaissance
• Period of time when the art that was created
was of such quality it has never been
surpassed.
• Michelangelo – David, the Pieta, Ceiling of
the Sistine Chapel
• Leonardo da Vinci – The Last Supper,
Mona Lisa
• Raphael – The School of Athens, noted for
his madonnas
• Titian – The Assumption of the Virgin
The Assumption of the Virgin
The School of Athens
by Raphael Sanzio
By Raphael Sanzio
Portrait of
Cardinal
Alidosi
by Raphael
Sanzio
Madonna with
Child
by Raphael Sanzio
Baldassare
Castiglione
by Raphael
Madonna
with Child
by Leonardo
di Vinci
Self Portrait and La Gioconda
Mona Lisa
at the
Louvre
Last Supper
by Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin on
the Rocks by
da Vinci
(Da Vinci
Code Scene)
St. Peter’s Bascillica
Florence
The Duomo in Florence
by Brunelleschi
Giotto’s
Bell Tower
Ghiberti
Doors
Pisa - Romanesque
Northern Renaissance
• Late 1400s spread to England, France,
Germany & Flanders
• 1450 population on the rise after the plague
• After 100 Years War ended cities grew
rapidly
• Happened in Flanders first because of long
distance trade and the cloth industry
• Mingled with northern traditions
Albrecht
Durer
studied in Italy
then went back
to Germany
Noted for
realism
Durer’s Hare
Arnolfini
Marriage
by Jan van Eyck
The Ambassadors by Holbein
Anne of Cleves & Erasmus
by Holbein
• Johann Gutenburg – movable type. First
book he printed was the Bible
• Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
• Giovannie Boccaccio – The Decameron
• Erasmus – In Praise of Folly – very critical
of the Church
• Thomas More – Utopia “perfect society”
criticizes English society of the day
• William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Julius
Caesar, Romeo and Juliet
• Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote