Renaissance Museum By: Lia Taylor Erin Shupe Phillip Gurecki Christopher Rock

Overview Theme: Religion’s reform in art and the new religious image of the Renaissance Purpose: To show how Renaissance art portrays religion/ views on the Church, and how the Church’s influence decreased during the Renaissance. Also, it is to show how Renaissance art differed from Medieval art. Design Approach: The art in our museum reflected on our purpose for the following reasons: The artist applied new techniques to traditional biblical images, as well as making the scenes appear that they occurred during the Renaissance.

Examples of Art and Sculptures in the Museum

David By Michelangelo This shows the Greco- Roman roots of the Renaissance as well as an example of a classical Renaissance artist. This fits the theme because the art shows religion, yet the picture is of an individual, and it has realistic physique, unlike Byzantine paintings

Virgin and Child With Two Angels Playing Music by Memling Hans This picture shows the Madonna and child, yet their clothing is that of the Renaissance. She is also holding a book, which is the education part of the Renaissance. This painting thus shows a combination of the old religious ideas as well as new Renaissance ideas.

The Virgin and Child by Masaccio The baby Christ in this appears very babyish, not like a grown man like Byzantine paintings. This indicates that perhaps the painter cared more about the realism of the painting versus the religious value of it, because Christ as a baby does not indicate a divine presence as much as a Byzantine painting would. This painting also uses proportions and light. This art piece adds the skill of Renaissance paintings into the religious vibe of the Renaissance.

The Annunciation with Saint Emidus by Crivelli Carlo This painting shows the annunciation of saint Gabriel. This painting is highly in the Renaissance style. In this painting there is Renaissance detail, realism, clothing, architecture, and a Renaissance city. There are also many symbols. Apple=Adam, fault of man Gourd=Resurrection of Christ This integrates the Renaissance style, ideas, and architecture into a deeply religious picture. This integration is common for Renaissance paintings, where a biblical scene is depicted as very modern.

Virgin of The Rocks By Leonardo Da Vinci This painting does what most paintings of the Renaissance did: it applies Renaissance style and painting skill to painting of biblical figures. This painting does not, however, show a biblical scene. Instead it shows a scene that never happened in the bible. This painting also shows individualism, because each of the figures has a unique face. Also applied is perspective, which adds a photographic quality to the painting that was not found in Middle Age paintings.

Saint Mark By Donatello This sculpture has an amazing amount of detail. This in a natural pose and even his veins are visible. His clothing is draped and he looks as if he could walk out of the sculpture. This offers great contrast to Medieval sculptures, which contrast to the symmetry and unrealistic nature of art from the Middle Ages. A Middle Age sculpture also would not have clothing fall realistically over the body of a figure.

Scene on the Moment of Man’s Creation By Michelangelo This painting shows the new view of man’s relation to God and religion in the Renaissance, and that he was close to God. Also the painting shows an idealized human, which was something that was typical of Greek sculptures. This would differ from the typical art of medieval man, which would depict God as a light, or at least with a halo. This picture depicts God as a human. Typically Medieval art would not show God and just any man in the same painting. Instead a Medieval painting would probably depict a holy figure in the proximity to God, not just man. Another topic of interest is the proportions and skill of the painting, which contrast to the medieval paintings, which were not made with the same skill as this painting was.

School of Athens By Raphael This painting does not focus on religion at all, which is why it fits into the theme. Instead of glorifying God this painting glorifies man and his past achievements without God. It shows thinkers of the past without God: Socrates, Diogenes, and Aristotle. Medieval people forgot this past conveniently, and focused on God and thus their paintings for the most part were about God