RENAISSANCE ART

1. Realism & Expression

• Expulsion fromthe Garden

• Masaccio

• 1427

• First nudes sinceclassical times.

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2. Perspective

Perspective!Perspective!Perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!

First use of linear

perspective!

Perspective!Perspective!

• The Trinity

• Masaccio

• 1427

What you are, I once was; what I am, you will

become.

Perspective

3. Classicism

• Greco-Roman influence.

• Secularism.

• Humanism.

• Individualism free standing figures.

• Symmetry/BalanceThe “Classical Pose”

Medici “Venus” (1c)

4. Emphasis on Individualism• Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre:

The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino

• Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

5. Geometrical Arrangement of figures

The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate

Leonardo da Vinci

1469

The figure as architecture!

Donatello1386-1466

St. John

RAPHAEL SANZIO 1483-1520JOANNA OF ARAGON

• 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.

Pope Leo X with Cardinal Giulio de Medici and Luigi de Rossi

Raphael, 1518-1519

RAPHAELTHE ANNUNCIATION

RAPHAELTHE GRANDUCA MADONNA

Michelangelo’s Pieta1499

The Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling

Michelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

MICHELANGELOTHE CREATION OF ADAM

DAVINCI 1452-1519VITRUVIAN MAN

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DAVINCILAST SUPPER FRESCOE

DAVINCITHAT LADY

Mona Lisa – da Vinci 1503-4

Ummmm….

SANDRO BOTTICELLI 1445-1510

BIRTH OF VENUS

ALBRECHT DUERER1471-1528SELF PORTRAIT AGE 26

DUERER ENGRAVING

DUERER WOODCUT

DUERER’S FATHER

JAN VAN EYCK1390-1441

DETAIL FROM CHAPEL OF GHENT

VAN EYCK

VAN EYCKMAN WITH CARNATION

HEIRONYMOUS BOSCH 1450-1560

BOSCHDETAIL FROM HELL PANEL

G.E.D.

BOSCHGARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHT

BRUEGHEL THE ELDER 1568-1625

BRUEGHEL THE ELDER

Charles V and FamilyGoya

• Filippo Brunelleschi1377 - 1436

• Architect

• Cuppolo of St. Mariadel Fiore

Filippo Brunelleschi

Commissioned to build the cathedral dome. Used unique

architectural concepts.

He studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome.

Used ribs for support.

Brunelleschi’s “Secret”

Brunelleschi’s Dome