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The Art of the Renaissance

The Art of the Renaissance. 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 by guilds.

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The Art of the Renaissance

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  1. The Art of the Renaissance

  2. 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 by guilds. Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!

  3. Perspective • The Trinity • Masaccio • 1427 Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

  4. Emphasis on Individualism • Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino • Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

  5. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, andArchitects • Giorgio Vasari • 1550

  6. Renaissance Florence

  7. Renaissance Florence Florentine lion:symbol of St. Mark The Wool Factoryby Mirabello Cavalori, 1570 1252 – first gold florins minted

  8. Lorenzo the Magnificent Cosimo de Medici 1478 - 1521 1517 - 1574

  9. Florence Under the Medici Medici Chapel The Medici Palace

  10. Filippo Brunelleschi • Commissioned to build the cathedral dome. • Used unique architectural concepts. • He studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome. • Used ribs for support.

  11. Brunelleschi’s Dome

  12. Dome Comparisons Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

  13. The Ideal CityPiero della Francesca, 1470

  14. Ghiberti – Gates of ParadiseBaptistry Door, Florence – 1425 - 1452 The Winner!

  15. The Renaissance 'Individual'

  16. Vitruvian Man • Leonardo daVinci • 1492 TheL’uomouniversale

  17. The Renaissance “Man” • Broad knowledge about many things in different fields. • Deep knowledge/skill in one area. • Able to link information from different areas/disciplines and create new knowledge. • The Greek ideal of the “well-rounded man” was at the heart of Renaissance education.

  18. Self-Portrait -- da Vinci, 1512 • Artist • Sculptor • Architect • Scientist • Engineer • Inventor 1452 - 1519

  19. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4

  20. Mona LisaOR da Vinci??

  21. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498

  22. A Da Vinci “Code”:St. John or Mary Magdalene?

  23. Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology):Pages from his Notebook • An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.

  24. Leonardo, the Inventor:Pages from his Notebook

  25. Renaissance Rome

  26. Michelangelo Buonorrati • 1475 – 1564 • He represented the body in three dimensions of sculpture.

  27. David • MichelangeloBuonarotti • 1504 • Marble

  28. The Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

  29. The Sistine Chapel’s CeilingMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

  30. The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

  31. Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) Self-Portrait, 1506 Portrait of the Artist with a Friend, 1518

  32. Raphael’s Madonnas Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna

  33. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11 • One point perspective. • All of the important Greek philosophers and thinkers are included  all of the great personalities of the Seven Liberal Arts! • A great variety of poses. • Located in the papal apartments library. • Raphael worked on this commission simultaneously as Michelangelo was doing the Sistine Chapel. • No Christian themes here.

  34. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11 Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo

  35. Pope Leo X with Cardinal Giulio deMedici and Luigi De Rossi by Raphael, 1518-1519 • A Medici Pope. • He went through the Vatican treasury in a year! • His extravagances offended even some cardinals [as well as Martin Luther!]. • Started selling indulgences.

  36. Birth of Venus – Botticelli, 1485 An attempt to depict perfect beauty.

  37. 2002 Euro Coin Botticelli’s Venus Motif. 10¢ Italian Euro coin.

  38. Venice During the Renaissance

  39. The Northern Renaissance

  40. Jan van Eyck (1395 – 1441) • More courtly and aristocratic work. • Court painter to the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good. • The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin, 1435.

  41. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) • The greatest of German artists. • A scholar as well as an artist. • His patron was the Emperor Maximilian I. • Also a scientist • Wrote books on geometry, fortifications, and human proportions. • Self-conscious individualism of the Renaissance is seen in his portraits. •  Self-Portrait at 26, 1498.

  42. Dürer Self-Portrait in Fur-Collared Robe, 1500

  43. Bruegel’s, Niederlandisch Proverbs, 1559

  44. The English Were More Interested in Architecture than Painting Hardwick Hall, designed by Robert Smythson in the 1590s, for the Duchess of Shrewsbury [more medieval in style].

  45. Artist to the Tudors Henry VIII (left), 1540 and the future Edward VI (above), 1543.

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