1. Art Through the Times

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

4. 2. Perspective Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! Perspective! Perspective! The Trinity Masaccio 1427 What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

5. 3. Classicism  Greco-Roman influence.  Secularism.  Humanism.  Individualism  free standing figures.  Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c)

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

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

8. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Chiaroscuro Sfumato

9. 7. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Giorgio Vasari 1550

11. Filippo Brunelleschi 1377 - 1436 Architect Cuppolo of St. Maria del Fiore

12. Other Famous Domes Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

13. Characteristics of Northern Renaissance Art 1.The continuation of late medieval attention to details. 2.Tendency toward realism & naturalism [less emphasis on the “classical ideal”]. 3.Interest in landscapes. 4.More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life. 5.Details of domestic interiors. 6.Great skill in portraiture.

15. Jan van Eyck (1395 – 1441) More courtly and aristocratic work. – Court painter to the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good.  The Virgin and Chancellor Rolin, 1435.

16. Van Eyck -Adoration of the Lamb, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

17. Van Eyck:  The Crucifixion & The Last Judgment  1420-1425

18. Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Wedding Portrait) Jan Van Eyck 1434

19. Jan van Eyck - Giovanni Arnolfini & His Wife (details)

20. Rogier van der Weyden (1399-1464) The Deposition 1435

21. van der Weyden’s Deposition (details)

22. Quentin Massys (1465-1530) Belonged to the humanist circle in Antwerp that included Erasmus. Influenced by da Vinci. Thomas More called him “the renovator of the old art.” The Ugly Dutchess, 1525-1530 

23. Massys’ The Moneylender & His Wife, 1514

26. Baroque ► 1600 – 1750. ► From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.” ► Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance. ► The more dramatic, the better!

27. Baroque Style of Art & Architecture 1. Dramatic, emotional. 2. Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark. 3. Counter-Reformation art. 4. Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed. 5. Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions. 6. Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.

29. St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Gialorenzo Bernini

30. “The Assumption of the Virgin Mary” Egid Quirim Asam, 1692-1750

31. “Salome with the Head of the Baptist” by Caravaggio

32. “The Cardsharps” Caravaggio, 1595

33. “A Bust of Louis XIV” by Bernini

34. “Louis XVI” Hyacinthe Rigauld

35. “Cardinal Richelieu” Philippe de Champaigne [1602- 1674]

37. Baroque Furniture

39. RococoRococo ► 1715 – 1774. ► Centered in France --> associated with Louis XV. [also Germany and Italy] ► Light, elaborate, decorative style. ► Pastels. ► A backlash to the darkness of the Baroque --> less formal & grandiose. ► Eventually replaced by Neo-Classicism, the artistic style of the American & French Revolutions.

40. RococoRococo rocaille 1. Derived from the French word, rocaille, or pebbles, referring to the stones & shells used to decorate the interior of caves. 2. Complex compositions. 3. Ornateness and fussy details. 4. Gaiety, lightness, and airyness --> the Rococo style “dances.” 5. Portrays the carefree life of the aristocracy -- landscapes like fairy tales.

41. “The Marriage Contract” Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1713

42. “The Swing” Jean Honoré Fragonard 1766

43. “The Stolen Kiss” Jean Honoré Fragonard Late 1780s

44. “Winter” Etienne- Maurice Falconet 1771

45. “The Rape of Europa” Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, 1720-40

46. “Mr. & Mrs. Andrews” Thomas Gainsborough, 1750

47. “Portrait of a Lady in Blue” Thomas Gainsboroug h Late 1770s

48. A Rococo Room

49. Neo-Classicism & Romanticism Neo Classicism of the Enlightenment – Worldly view of man Conformity over individuality Order and geometry – Emphasis on progress and perfection Ancient Greece Romanticism – Reaction to Neo-classicism – Overly sentimental and unrealistic