1、Renaissance Art,Italian Early and High Renaissance Art,Art and Patronage,Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art. Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values. Italian banking & international trade interests had the money. Public art in Florence was organized and supported b
2、y guilds.,Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!,Characteristics of Renaissance Art,Realism & Expression,Expulsion from the Garden Masaccio 1427 First nudes since classical times.,2. Perspective,First use of linear perspective!,The Trinity
3、Masaccio 1427,3. Classicism,Greco-Roman influence. Secularism. Humanism. Individualism free standing figures. Symmetry/Balance,The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus”,4. Emphasis on Individualism,Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.,5.
4、 Geometrical Arrangement of Figures,The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate Leonardo da Vinci 1469 The figure as architecture!,6. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities,Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Giorgio Vasari 1550,Early Renaissance,The First Three Hall-of-Famers
5、,Masaccio 1401-1428,Founder of early Renaissance Painting Painted human figure as a real human being(3D) Used perspective Consistent source of light (accurate shadows),The Tribute Money,#2 Donatello 1386-1466,The sculptors Masaccio David (1430-32) First free standing, life-size nude since Classical
6、period Contrapposto Sense of Underlying skeletal structure,The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello) real gaunt“Speak, speak or the plague take you!”,#3 Boticelli,1482 Rebirth of Classical mythology Fully Pagan THE BIRTH OF VENUS,The Italian Renaissance,Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Titian,Da Vinci Mona Lis
7、a (1503-06) Perspective, Anatomy, Composition,Cultural icon,The Last Supper,Emotions Response,Michelangelo,David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble,Raphael School of Athens 1510,Raphael,Da Vinci,Michelangelo,Aristotle: looks to this earth the here and now.,Plato: looks to the heavens or the IDEAL r
8、ealm.,Pythagoras,Ptolemy,Euclid,Titian,Dazzling contrasting colors Ample female forms Asymmetric compositions Bacchanal of the Adrians 1518,Venus of Urbino Titian, 1558,A Portrait of Savonarola,By Fra Bartolomeo, 1498. Dominican friar who decried money and power. Anti-humanist he saw humanism as too secular, hedonistic, and corrupting. The “Bonfire of the Vanities,” 1497. Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other luxury goods in public. Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the fire!,
