LSC Western Civilization, PLHS Site D. Blanck, MS Art in the Renaissance LSC Western Civilization, PLHS Site D. Blanck, MS 9/21/2018
Artists in the Renaissance Artist were seen as craftsmen Art was created by commission
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!
Workshop system Collaboration of masters and apprentices Family-based Run like a business Apprentice started in early teens Studied under master for several years
Products of the workshop system: Michaelangelo Master – Domenico Ghirlandaio Leonardo da Vinci Master- Andrea del Verocchio
Innovations in Materials
Frescoes - Paintings created on damp plaster. Giotto reintroduces and reinvigorates this ancient Roman process.
Da Vinci’s Last Supper
2. Oil painting Oil painters were the special effects wizards of their day
Innovations in Style
1. Realistic Human Expression Expulsion from the Garden Masaccio 1427 First nudes since classical times.
2. Perspective The Trinity Masaccio 1427 First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.
Perspective
The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c) 3. Classicism Greco-Roman influence. Secularism. Humanism. Free standing figures. Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c)
4. Emphasis on Individualism Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.
• Isabella d’Este – da Vinci, 1499 1474-1539 “First Lady of the Italian Renaissance.” Great patroness of the arts. Known during her time as “First Lady of the World!”
5. Geometric Arrangement The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate Leonardo da Vinci 1469 The figure as architecture!
6. Light & Shadowing Chiaroscuro Sfumato Sfumato: Smoky atmospheric effects from the transitions between colors. Chiaroscuro: The contrast of light and shadow. Chiaroscuro Sfumato
Artists
Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is considered to be one of the most inspired artists who ever lived. Died in 1564.
Michelangelo’s David
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.
Separation of Light and Darkness Creation of Adam Creation of Eve The Last Judgment Separation of Light and Darkness
La Pieta
Moses
Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer 1452-1519 Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer Genius!
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Notebooks
Raphael Painter 1483-1520
The School of Athens
Pythagoras Plato and Aristotle Socrates
Raphael (back) Euclid Zoroaster & Ptolemy
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434) Jan Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434) Northern Renaissance
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail) Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)