1. The Good, the bad, and the ugly…
Renaissance Art
The Good, the bad, and the ugly…

2. Analyze the work below on your paper. Label it Art #1

3. Wedding Portrait Painter: Jan van Eyck
◊Flemish Renaissance Painter (Northern Renaissance) c. 1434
◊The startling realism of Jan van Eyck’s Wedding Portrait reveals an increasingly secularized and commercial Europe.
◊Medium: oils
◊Subject: Giovanni Arnolfini, an Italian banker and his wife.
◊Dog- Fidelity/Faithfulness
◊Fruit– Be fruitful (fertility)
◊Candle- All Seeing Christ
◊Removed Shoes- Standing on sacred ground
◊Mirror– See wedding attendees including, likely, van Eyck himself
◊Note his signature– that said he was there!

4. Analyze the work below on your paper. Label it Art # 2

5. Peasant Wedding (1568) oils
□ Artist: Pieter Bruegel (Pieter the Elder)
□ Flemish painter known for painting scenes of everyday life– including the lives of peasants
□ The Bride sits under the paper crown hanging on green cloth
□ The groom is not sitting with her but could be the man pouring the beer
□ Notice the food (porridge or soup?) served on the door!

6. Analyze the work below. Label it Art #3

7. Children’s Games Pieter Bruegel 1560 (oils)
*Flemish (Northern) Renaissance Painting
*Bruegel depicts over 200 children engaged in over 80 play activities, some which are still played today.
*The painting illustrates why the artist is known for showing the common people at work and at play.
*Note how Bruegel focuses on the games rather than the individual children, thus giving the games universal meaning.

8. Analyze the work below. Label it Art #4

9. The Last Supper *Italian Renaissance Painting
*Leonardo da Vinci, c
*Painted in a church in Milan on a gesso surface, using a mixture of plaster of Paris and glue
*The humidity caused by the spring running under the wall caused severe damage to the painting, which has been somewhat restored.
*The painting depicts Christ and his 12 disciples seated around a table after he has just told them that one of them will betray them.
*Jesus remains quiet and still while his disciples react with fear, doubt, protestation, rage, and love.
*They are painted in four groups of three. Judas is placed to the right of Christ. His right hand is clutching something, perhaps a money bag.

10. Analyze the work below. Label it Art #5

11. Mona Lisa *Italian Renaissance painting, c. 1503-1505
*Leonardo da Vinci
*Possibly the world’s most famous painting
*Subject is La Gioconda, the wife of the banker, Zanobi del Giocondo
*The painting was originally set on a loggia, an open-sided upper level gallery or the front side of a building
*She is looking directly at the people observing her and painted in half- length with her hands folded.
*Many art historians contend the genius of this painting is with da Vinci’s treatment of light and dark and the beautiful hands.
*It is housed in the Louvre in Paris.

12. Analyze the work below. Label it Art #6

13. David Marble Statue Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti c. 1501-1504
Marble is not a forgiving medium so the detail in the veins and locks of hair are extraordinary
Made of carrara marble– 17 ft. tall
Note the slingshot and rock

14. Analyze the work below. Label it Art #7.

15. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo. 1508-1512
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo Vatican City, Italy.
The Sistine Chapel actually has numerous works of art by various Renaissance painters. Michelangelo was commissioned to repaint the ceiling by Pope Julius II. He later painted the Last Judgment on the alter wall, commissioned by Pope Clement VII.

16. Analyze this architectural example: Label it #8

17. Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1163-1345
Gothic Cathedrals feature the pointed Gothic arch, flying buttresses, stained glass, and soaring spires.
Initially some of the medieval builders miscalculated and parts of their overly ambitious cathedrals collapsed. But as they gained experience, they found ways to push higher and higher toward heaven!
Strasbourg Cathedral, France, c. 1439
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris