Classical Art Medieval Art Renaissance Art Classical Art
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Classical Art Medieval Art Renaissance Art
Classical Art ~ 500 BCE - ~ 500 CE • Covered the height of Greek culture and the Roman Empire from rise to fall • People of Classical Era developed many ideas that make up mathematics, science, literature, and art today • Forms of Art: sculpture, painted pottery, murals, mosaics • Purposes: show the importance of people and leaders as well as the gods and goddesses
Characteristics of Classical Art • Figures look idealized, perfect • Bodies look active, move convincingly • Bodies are often nude, sometimes draped in togas • Faces are bland calm without emotion • Scenes show heroic figures or real people doing real tasks of daily life • Little background or sense of perspective (when distant objects look smaller and far away)
Discobolus marble sculpture replica of Roman statue
Greek Pottery ~ 450 BCE
Floor Mosaic Roman ~ 300 CE
Medieval Art 500 CE – 1400 CE • Medieval Europe was characterized by the rise of feudalism and the controlling power of the Catholic Church in people’s lives. • Forms of Art: stained-glass windows, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, tapestries • Purposes: to teach religion to people who cannot read or write
• • Characteristics of Medieval Art Subjects mostly religious Figures look flat and stiff with little real movement Important figures are large Fully clothed, draped in deeply carved, stiff-looking clothes Faces are solemn with little emotion Paintings use vibrant colors Flat, two-dimensional painted figures Backgrounds are single color, often gold, no interest in creating a realistic space
Empress Theodora Byzantine Mosaic 547 CE
Narthex Tympanum 1120 CD scuplture
Cathedral of Notre Dame Stained Glass 1345
Madonna and Child Giotto
Illuminated Manuscript
Renaissance Art 1400 – 1650 CE • Rebirth of classical culture • Rediscovered writings of Greeks and Romans • Borrowed ancients ideas and combined them in new ways • Forms of Art: sculptures, murals, drawings, paintings • Purposes: show the importance of people (humanism) and nature, not just religion
Characteristics • • • Both religious and non-religious scenes Figures look idealized, perfect Bodies may look active, moving Bodies may be nude or clothed Real people doing real tasks of daily life Faces express what people are thinking Colors respond to the light that falls on them Interest in nature, lots of natural detail Full, deep backgrounds with perspective Paintings are symmetrical (balanced on both sides)
Renaissance Era Artist: Italian painter; Filipps Lippi. 1406
Classical Period Roman artist
Renaissance Era
Medieval Period
Classical Period
Medieval Period
Renaissance Michelangelo Pieta
School of Athens Raphael 1510 CE Paintin
Madonna Raphael
David by Michelangelo
Mona Lisa by Leonardo
Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
Last Supper by Leonardo
- (intitle:classical art) "reasons"
- Renaissance art vs medieval art
- Renaissance art vs medieval art
- Italian renaissance vs northern renaissance
- (intitle:classical art) "reasons"
- Medieval and renaissance differences
- Middle ages
- Renaissance vs medieval
- Motet medieval renaissance
- The renaissance outcome the renaissance in italy
- Italian renaissance vs northern renaissance venn diagram
- The renaissance outcome renaissance painters/sculptors
- Renaissance vs high renaissance
- The renaissance introduction to the renaissance answer key
- Italian renaissance vs english renaissance
- The renaissance outcome the renaissance in italy
- (intitle:modern art vs classical art) "reasons"
- (intitle:modern art vs classical art) "ideas"
- Characteristic of medieval art
- Medieval period mosaic
- Shikabu
- Medieval art byzantine, romanesque gothic characteristics
- Renaissance paintings
- Early and high renaissance
- Northern renaissance art characteristics
- What's a vanishing point
- Characteristics of early renaissance art
- Lesson 1 the renaissance 1485
- Northern renaissance literature