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LSC Western Civilization, PLHS Site D. Blanck, MS
Art in the Renaissance LSC Western Civilization, PLHS Site D. Blanck, MS 9/21/2018
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Artists in the Renaissance
Artist were seen as craftsmen Art was created by commission
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Art and Patronage Italians were willing to spend a lot of money on art. Art communicated social, political, and spiritual values. Italian banking & international trade interests had the money. Public art in Florence was organized and supported by guilds. Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!
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Workshop system Collaboration of masters and apprentices Family-based
Run like a business Apprentice started in early teens Studied under master for several years
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Products of the workshop system:
Michaelangelo Master – Domenico Ghirlandaio Leonardo da Vinci Master- Andrea del Verocchio
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Innovations in Materials
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Frescoes - Paintings created on damp plaster.
Giotto reintroduces and reinvigorates this ancient Roman process.
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Da Vinci’s Last Supper
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2. Oil painting Oil painters were the special effects wizards of their day
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Innovations in Style
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1. Realistic Human Expression
Expulsion from the Garden Masaccio 1427 First nudes since classical times.
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2. Perspective The Trinity Masaccio 1427
First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.
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Perspective
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The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c)
3. Classicism Greco-Roman influence. Secularism. Humanism. Free standing figures. Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” (1c)
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4. Emphasis on Individualism
Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino Piero della Francesca,
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• Isabella d’Este – da Vinci, 1499
“First Lady of the Italian Renaissance.” Great patroness of the arts. Known during her time as “First Lady of the World!”
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5. Geometric Arrangement
The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate Leonardo da Vinci 1469 The figure as architecture!
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6. Light & Shadowing Chiaroscuro Sfumato
Sfumato: Smoky atmospheric effects from the transitions between colors. Chiaroscuro: The contrast of light and shadow. Chiaroscuro Sfumato
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Artists
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Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is considered to be one of the most inspired artists who ever lived. Died in 1564.
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Michelangelo’s David
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Sistine Chapel About a year after creating David, Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome to work on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Separation of Light and Darkness
Creation of Adam Creation of Eve The Last Judgment Separation of Light and Darkness
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La Pieta
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Moses
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Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer
Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer Genius!
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Mona Lisa
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The Last Supper
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Notebooks
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Raphael Painter
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The School of Athens
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Pythagoras Plato and Aristotle Socrates
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Raphael (back) Euclid Zoroaster & Ptolemy
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Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434)
Jan Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434) Northern Renaissance
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Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
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