1. Bellringer Download today’s notes: Renaissance Art Notes
Answer the following question:
View the painting below, and create a list of words that describes it.

2. Essential Question
How can ideas be reflected in art, sculpture, and architecture?

3. Italian Renaissance Art Focus
Imitate nature
Reality of subjects
New, human-focused worldview – accurate portrayal of the human body

4. New Techniques in Painting
Began with Masaccio’s frescos and the laws of perspective
Space and light
Movement and human anatomy

5. Sculpture and Architecture
Realistic statues inspired by the Greeks and Romans
Classical columns and rounded arches in architecture

7. High Renaissance Masters
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Sanzio, Michelangelo

8. Leonardo da Vinci Model “Renaissance Man” Dissected human bodies
Idealized forms to capture perfection
Painted the Mona Lisa

9. Raphael Admired for numerous paintings of madonnas
Many frescos in the Vatican Palace
Balance, harmony, and order

10. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel in Rome
Figures depict ideal human-type with perfect proportions
Also a sculptor and architect

12. Northern Artistic Renaissance
Sought realism, but in different way
Smaller scales with smaller details
Portrayed subjects among everyday objects
Reality through observation and details, not through perspective like Italian painters
Perfected oil painting

13. Merode Altarpiece by Robert Campin

14. The Giving of the Keys to St. Peter by Pietro Perugino

15. Review!
1. What one word might describe the style of many Italian artists of the Renaissance?
2. What were some new techniques in painting?
3. Who were the 3 masters of the High Renaissance?
4. How did Northern Renaissance art differ from Italian Renaissance art?
5. How was humanism reflected in Renaissance art?

16. Homework!
Ch. 2 Test Thursday!