Renaissance Art Italian Early and High Renaissance Art

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 by 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 Masaccio 1427

3. Classicism Greco-Roman influence. Secularism. Humanism. Individualism free standing figures. The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” Symmetry/Balance

4. Emphasis on Individualism Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 14651466.

5. 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

Masaccio 1401 -1428 Founder of early Renaissance Painting n Painted human figure as a real human being (3 D) n Used perspective n Consistent source of light (accurate shadows) n

The Tribute Money

#2 Donatello 1386 -1466 The sculptor’s Masaccio n David (1430 -32) n – First free standing, life-size nude since Classical period – Contrapposto – Sense of Underlying skeletal structure

The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello) real gaunt “Speak, speak or the plague take you!”

#3 Boticelli 1482 n Rebirth of Classical mythology n Fully Pagan n THE BIRTH OF VENUS n

The Italian Renaissance n Leonardo n Michelangelo n Raphael n Titian

Da Vinci Mona Lisa (1503 -06) Perspective, Anatomy, Composition

The Last Supper Emotions n Response n

Michelangelo David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble

Raphael School of Athens 1510

Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo

Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm]. Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now].

Pythagoras

Ptolemy Euclid

Titian Dazzling contrasting colors n Ample female forms n Asymmetric compositions n Bacchanal of the Adrians 1518 n

Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558

Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is considered to be one of the most inspired men who ever lived

David Michelangelo created his masterpiece David in 1504.

Sistine Chapel About a year after creating David, Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome to work on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Creation of Eve Separation of Light and Darkness Creation of Adam The Last Judgment

La Pieta 1499 Marble Sculpture

Moses