THE ARTIST AND SOCIAL STATUS

1. THE ARTIST AND SOCIAL STATUS • Middle Ages -> artists seen as “artisans” = skilled craftsman • In the Renaissance/by the end of the 15th -> the artists came to be seen as artistic geniuses -> the spark of the divine • Artist as a hero -> “Il Divino” = the divine one = Michelangelo • Rise in social and economic status for the artist MICHELANGELO

2. THE NORTHERN ARTISTIC RENAISSANCE Italian renaissance Northern renaissance • Focus on the human form • Technical artistic skills led to realism • Frescos = walls paintings on wet plaster • Illuminated manuscripts • Wooden panel paintings for altarpieces • Focus on rendering details • Oil painting • Focus on religious subjects not pagan THE PROPHET DANIEL – CEILING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL -> FRESCO

3. THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE – ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF ITALY THE GHENT ALTARPIECE “THE VIRGIN OF CHACELLOR ROLIN”

4. JAN VAN EYCK – northern renaissance artist • Key artist in artistic center of Flanders • First to use oil paints -> new colors and finer detail • GIOVANNI ARNOLFINI AND HIS BRIDE

5. N PORTRAIT OF OSWOLT KREL BY ALBRECHT DURER – NORTHER RENAISSANCE PAINTER

6. ALBRECHT DURER • Northern Renaissance artist from Germany HARE DURER SELF PORTRAIT ADAM AND EVE

7. MUSIC IN THE RENAISSANCE • Dufay – most important composer of Renaissance music • Music shifted from being only for the church to royal courts and cities = secular music • The madrigal – a poem set to music