Renaissance Art
Perspective Three dimensions on flat surface – Classical artists had used it, but abandoned during Middle Ages
Vanishing Point Parallel lines stretch away from viewer, they seem to draw together, until they meet at a spot on the horizon.
Foreground/Background Art had dimension Leonardo’s Mona Lisa – Questions to Ponder
Donatello Made sculpture more realistic by carving natural postures and expressions which reveal personity.
Leonardo da Vinci Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist Renaissance Man Dissected corpses to understand muscle movements and how veins were arranged. Keep notebooks of findings (wrote backwards) Get drawings – helicopter, body, Last Supper
Michelangelo Most famous Reaissance Man Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, poet Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel Depicts biblical history of world from Creation to the Flood., – Four years he laied on his back on a platform just a few inches below the chapel ceiling.
Raphael Studied Leonardo and Michelangelo Paintings blended Christian and classical styles Madonna, School of Athens
Sofonisba Anguissola First woman artist to gain an international reputation.
Architecture
Renaissance Architecture Did not maintain Gothic style of the Middle Ages Embraced columns, arches and domes favored by the Greeks and Romans. Filippo Brunelleschi
Renaissance Writer Machiavelli The Prince (1513)- Basically- How to rule your country for dummies. Wrote in vernacular writing- own language rather than Latin