1. The Five Themes of the Age in “Living Color”
Renaissance Art
The Five Themes of the Age in “Living Color”

2. Medieval Art

3. Painting…altar pieces

4. Madonna Enthroned
Cimabue, 1280s

5. Madonna Enthroned Duccio, 1308-1311

6. Renaissance will emphasize NEW themes
Ad fontes
Humanism
Individualism
New Spirit of Inquiry
Secularism

8. Doryphorus
Mid-fifth century BCE

9. Augustus of Primaporta
20 BCE

11. Michelangelo’s David 1501-1504
Ad Fontes for style- check out that contraposto!
But also humanism, individualism and spirit of inquiry

12. Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1480
Ad fontes for subjects
Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1480

14. Discovery of Honey Piero di Cosimo, 1498

15. Ad fontes in architecture as well

18. Humanism and Individualism The Creation of Adam: The Sistine Chapel Michelangelo, 1508-1512

19. Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, 1502
“the highest and most difficult aim is to depict the intention of man’s soul through gesture and movement.”

20. Spirit of Inquiry

21. Linear Perspective

23. Foreshortening

24. Atmospheric via chiaroscuro

25. Harmony and Proportion

27. Sheer accomplishments in engineering

30. Secularism Arnolfini Marriage Portrait Jan Van Eyck, 1434

33. All of these… School of Athens Raphael, 1510