Transcript The Italian Renaissance 16

* The Italian Renaissance
Chapter 16
*Renaissance: An Overview
*New self-awareness;
awakening
*Rebirth of ideas in Italy
after centuries of
stagnation
*Periods: Early, High, and
Late
* Renaissance: An Overview
*Humanism: Interest in art and
learning of Ancient Greece &
Rome
*Each individual has dignity &
worth
*Search for more realism in arts
*Science & math influence
aesthetics
* Renaissance: An Overview
*Johannes Gutenberg perfected
the printing press = mass
production of works (Gutenberg
Bible)
*Sculpture: Free standing,
interest in anatomy & function
of the body (nude and clothed
figures)
*Renaissance: An Overview
*Medici family
*Supporters of the arts
and education for
several generations
*Bankers in Rome,
Naples, and Venice
*Emergence of art in the Early
Renaissance
*Filippo Brunelleschi
*Discovered linear
perspective: graphic
system that showed
artists how to create the
illusion of depth and
volume on a flat surface
* Linear Perspective (cont.)
*Vanishing point: point at
which parallel lines meet
at the horizon line.
*Slanting horizontal lines
of buildings & other
objects in the picture
make them appear to
extend back into space.
*Masaccio
*First important artist of the Italian
Renaissance.
*Expanded on Giotto’s techniques
*Use of deep space,
foreshortening and linear
perspective
*Overlapping of figures;
*Size: smaller = farther away
*The Holy Trinity
*Christ is central figure set in a
chapel
*Full-frontal, single vanishing point
perspective
*Modeled figures in light & shadow
*John the Baptist and Virgin Mary
*Two additional life-size figures
appear in the foreground
*The Tribute Money
*Aerial Perspective
*Use of hue, value and
intensity to show distance in
a painting (outdoors).
*Natural and lifelike gestures
and poses.
*Fra Angelico: The Angelic Painter
*Guido di Pietro--Dominican
Friar
*Early Renaissance + Late
Gothic style
*Figures barely 3-dimensional
and set apart from each other
instead of overlap
*The Annunciation
*Altarpiece for San Domenico -canvas divided into thirds
*Elaborate symbolism:
*Garden: Mary's virginity &
Garden of Eden
*Christ = "new Adam"
*Mary = "second Eve"
*Lorenzo Ghiberti
*Early Renaissance + Late
Gothic style
*Won contest for the Baptistry
of Florence Cathedral vs.
Filippo Brunelleschi and others
*21 years to complete the
twenty-eight bronze
sculptured panels for the door
*Lorenzo Ghiberti
*Depicts sacrifice of Isaac
*Gothic flatness
*Overlapping of Renaissance
*Harmony and balance
reflected in panels: some can
be divided into 2 scenes that
each tell a part of the story.
*Gates of Paradise
*Second set of doors for Baptistry
*Scenes from the Old Testament
*Individual reliefs without Gothic
frames used on other doors
*Use of linear perspective;
modeled figures to stand out from
surface of panel and seem almost
fully rounded.
Creation of Adam and Eve
David and Goliath