Transcript Renaissance Themes in Art

Renaissance Themes in
Art
Characteristics of Medieval Art
 Primarily focused on religious
themes
 Limited artistic technique
 Flat, missing perspective,
disproportionate
 Limited expressions, faces
looked the same
“Madonna di Castelfiorentino” Cimabue, 1280s
Medieval: Religious Themes
Medieval: Limited Technique
Medieval: Limited Expressions
Characteristics of Renaissance Art
 Primarily focused on religious
themes, but more secular
content as well
 Developing artistic technique
 Use of perspective, light &
shadow
 Expressionism – facial
expressions to depict mood
“Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, 1503
Perspective
 Technique of representing what is seen by the eye in real
life on a flat surface
“The Last Supper” by
Leonardo Da Vinci,
1498
Renaissance Themes in
Art
Renaissance Themes
Match the terms to the proper definition.
 Humanism
 Gives high regard for classical
period (Greeks, Romans)
 Secularism
 Non-religious
 Classicalism
 Focused on studying the
classics and human ability to
learn and grow.
 Realism
 Anti-Clericalism
 Individualism
 Movement to portray things
as they were in real life.
 Opposed the political power
of the clergy
 Individuals over the group
“School of Athens” by Raphael, 1509
“David” by
Michelangelo, 1504
Classicalism
 Ancient Rome
 Copy of “The Discus
Thrower” by Myron, Greek
sculptor
Early Renaissance to
High Renaissance
“David” by
Michelangelo, 1504 
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 “David” by
Donatello, 1440
*Commissioned by
the Medici's
“Arnolfini Wedding Portrait” by Jan
Van Eyck, 1434
Northern Renaissance
 Renaissance began in Italy,
but humanist ideas quickly
spread north
 Themes of realism,
individualism, and secularism)
took a stronger hold, while
classicalism was less
prominent.
Above: “The Harvesters”,
Pieter Bruegel, 1565
Left: “Peasant Wedding”,
Pieter Bruegel, 1568
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More Works from the Renaissance by Artist
“Expulsion from the
Garden” by Masaccio, 1427
“Portrait of a Man and Woman at a
Casement” by Friar Filippo Lippi, 1440
“Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard”
by Friar Filippo Lippi, 1486
Santa Maria del Fiore’s Dome,
Filioppo Brunelleschi, 1436
“La Primavera” by Botticelli, 1482
“Birth of Venus” by Botticelli, 1486
Leonardo Da Vinci
 A true “Renaissance Man”
 Painter, sculptor, architect,
musician, scientist,
mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, geologist,
cartographer, botanist, writer
“Pieta” by Michelangelo, 1499
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Michelangelo, 1508-1512
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
Michelangelo, 1508-1512
“Adam and Eve” by Albrecht Durer, 1507