The Renaissance Talking about the Renaissance Renaissance Rebirth
The Renaissance
Talking about the Renaissance • Renaissance- “Rebirth” • Southern Renaissance- Italy • Northern Renaissance- Europe, excluding Italy • Renaissance: 14 th - 17 th centuries • General Period • High Renaissance: 1500 - c. 1525 in Italy ONLY • Roughly 20 years of intense artistic production in Italy, esp. Rome
Rebirth of What? Laocoön and His Sons Agesander, Athenodoros, Polydoros 1 st C BCE or 1 st C CE Rome Parthenon 447 -432 BCE (Classical) Athens, Greece Iktinos and Callicrates Possible image of Giotto (digital restoration) c. 1267 Peruzzi Chapel, Florence
Humanism Laocoön and His Sons Agesander, Athenodoros, Polydoros 1 st C BCE or 1 st C CE Rome Parthenon 447 -432 BCE (Classical) Athens, Greece Iktinos and Callicrates Possible image of Giotto (digital restoration) c. 1267 Peruzzi Chapel, Florence
Ognissanti Madonna Giotto c. 1310
Cimabue Maesta (Majesty) c. 1280 Ognissanti Madonna Giotto c. 1310
Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck 1434 Oil on Panel
The Mirror
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ Andrea Mantegna c. 1480 Tempera on Canvas FORESHORTENING- technique to create the illusion of an object receding strongly into the distance or background
Sistine Chapel North Wall
Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter Perugino c. 1481 -1482 Fresco 130 x 220 inches Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome
The Keys Perugino Christ Peter
Parts of a Painting Background Middle-ground Foreground
Doryphoros Polykleitos Marble after a bronze Original 1 st century BCE (original c. 440 BCE) Height 6 feet 11 inches
Arch of Constantine 315 CE Rome, Italy
Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter Perugino c. 1481 -1482 Fresco 130 x 220 inches Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome
Linear Perspective
The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli 1484 -1486 Tempera on Canvas
Virgin of Paris early 14 th century Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris, France Medici Venus 2 nd-1 st century BCE (Hellenistic)
Florence Baptistery begun 1059 -1128 (ROMANESQUE) Florence, Italy Baptistery- the part of a church used for baptism, or a separate building next to a church that is used for baptism Baptism- in Christianity, the religious rite of sprinkling water onto a person’s forehead or of immersion in water, symbolizing purification and admission into the Christian Church
Gates of Paradise Lorenzo Ghiberti 1425 -52 Florence Baptistery, Florence
Jacob and Esau From the Gates of Paradise Lorenzo Ghiberti Florence Baptistery
Florence Cathedral Filippo Brunelleschi, and others 1296 -1436 Florence, Italy
The Dome
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