1. The Renaissance in Italy

2. Linear perspective – system for creating illusions of depth.
Masaccio – the first major painter of the Italian Renaissance.

3. THE HOLY TRINITY. Masaccio. 1425.

4. God the father, Christ the son, and Holy Spirit (white dove)
Mary, St. John
Donors who paid for the painting
Moves from spiritual reality to temporal reality
First use of linear perspective

5. Nude became a major subject for art (Greece and Rome)
Donatello – first life size freestanding nude since Roman times; included personal expression.

6. DAVID. Donatello – 1430.

7. Less idealized and more naturalistic that ancient Greece.
Donatello’s MARY MAGDALEN – expressive of old age and repentance.

9. BIRTH OF VENUS First life size nude painting since Greece and Rome.
Roman goddess of love after birth from the sea, wind blows her to shore to spring
Background is flat
Combines idealized human figure with concern for thought and feeling.
“pagan” goddess in center

10. BIRTH OF VENUS. Sandro Botticelli. 1480.