1. The Renaissance CE

3. Society Cities are growing
Patronage in the hands of Wealthy Families/ Church
Humanism – A movement that was concerned with the rediscovering and studying of literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome.
Goal: create the illusion of physical reality.
Cities are growing with influx of people from country.
Patronage in the hands of wealthy families not just the church.

4. Linear Perspective
Developed by Brunelleschi (Sculpture and Architect) as a mathematical system
Vanishing point Dead center (Beginning)
Light source upper left
They are scaled standing on a chest board
Key is line with the vanishing point and framed by white
Also see atmospheric perspective

5. Perugino - Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter
Light source upper left
They are scaled standing on a chest board
Key is line with the vanishing point and framed by white
Also see atmospheric perspective

7. Famous Four Donatello Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael
Leo -

8. Donatello ( )
Worked in various mediums (bronze, marble, polychrome wood)
David is the first male nude since Antiquity (Nudes became acceptable)
Commemorate the triumph of Florence over Milan
David
(c ) Height 5’ 2”

9. Mary Magdalen (c.1455. Wood Polychrome)
Traditionally known for physical Beauty
Vacant eyes, hermit, clothed in own hair
Physical deterioration
Donatello – david
Donatello – mary mag
Michelangelo -

10. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519 CE)
Born in Vinci
Moved to Florence and apprenticed
Worked for the Sforza family in Milan J

11. (1495-98, tempera and oil on plaster)
The Last Supper
( , tempera and oil on plaster)

12. Mona Lisa Atmospheric Perspective Pyramidal Composition
(c Oil on wood panel, 30” X 21”)
Atmospheric Perspective
Pyramidal Composition
New portrait style

13. Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) Ink

14. Michelangelo (1475-1564) Born in poverty (claimed noble lineage)
Grew up in Florence worked in Rome
Studied under a pupil of Donatello
Considered himself a sculpture above all

15. Pieta (c. 1500. Marble 1.75 m height)

16. David (c. 1501-04. Marble, 5.18m height) Symbol of Florence
Meant to be viewed from bellow
Muscular ideal of Antiquity

17. The Sistine Chapel (Vatican City, Rome)
Ceiling
End wall

18. Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel Ceiling
( )

19. Raphael (1483-1520) The Small Cowper Madonna (1505, Oil on wood panel)
Uses Leonardo’s Pyramidal composition
Worked for the Pope at the same time as Michelangelo
Died at the young age of 37
The Small Cowper Madonna (1505, Oil on wood panel)

20. School of Athens (c. 1510-1511, Vatican, Rome)

21. Titian ( 1489-1576) Pesaro Madonna
Official Painter of the Republic of Venice
Was ennobled
Ground pigments much finer
Know for his layers of true colours (10-15)
Pesaro Madonna
( , Oil on canvas)

22. Venus of Urbino (c. 1538. Oil on canvas, 3’11” X 5’5”)

23. Summary Use of Linear and Atmospheric Perspective
Nudes are accepted again
Allegorical and Christian art
Art imitating reality
Migration from Tempera to Oil painting