1. Renaissance Art Italian Early and High Renaissance Art

2. The Renaissance: 14 th through Mid- 17 th Centuries Renaissance means “Rebirth”

3. The most important Italian city-state was Florence; In this wealthy trade city, the Renaissance began Florence was home to the Medici family, the wealthiest & most powerful bankers in Europe The Medici used their wealth to commission art for themselves & to beautify Florence

4. 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!

5. Characteristics of Renaissance Art

6. Realism & Expression  Expulsion from the Garden  Masaccio  1427  First nudes since classical times.

7. 2. Perspective First use of linear perspective! The Trinity Masaccio 1427

8. 3. Classicism  Greco-Roman influence.(having both)  Secularism-separation of church and state  Humanism- a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God.human  Individualism  free standing figures.  Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus”

9. 4. Emphasis on Individualism  Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino  Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

10. 5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures  The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate  Leonardo da Vinci  1469  The figure as architecture!

11. 6. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects-book about the life of artists Giorgio Vasari(first art historian) 1550

12. Early Renaissance The First Three Hall-of-Famers

13. Masaccio 1401-1428 Founder of early Renaissance Painting Painted human figure as a real human being (3D) Used perspective Consistent source of light (accurate shadows)

14. The Tribute Money

15. #2 Donatello 1386-1466 The sculptor’s Masaccio David (1430-32) –First free standing, life-size nude since Classical period –Contrapposto –Sense of Underlying skeletal structure

16. The Penitent Magdalen (Donatello) real gaunt “Speak, speak or the plague take you!”

17. #3 Boticelli 1445-1510 Rebirth of Classical mythology Fully Pagan THE BIRTH OF VENUS

18. The Italian Renaissance Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Titian

19. Da Vinci Mona Lisa (1503- 06) Perspective, Anatomy, Composition 1452-1519

20. Cultural icon

22. The Last Supper

23. Michelangelo 1475-1564 David Michelangelo Buonarotti 1504 Marble

24. Raphael 1483-1520 School of Athens 1510

25. Raphael Da Vinci Michelangelo

26. Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now]. Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm].

27. Pythagoras

28. Ptolemy Euclid

29. Titian-1488-1576 Dazzling contrasting colors Ample female forms Asymmetric compositions Bacchanal of the Adrians 1518

30. Venus of Urbino – Titian, 1558