1. WARM-UP #4
WHY DID RENAIASSANCE ARTS VALUE THE WORK ON THE CLASSICAL ERA (ROMAN AND GREEK ART)?
HOW WAS HUMANISM REFLECTED IN RENAISSANCE ART?

2. REVIEW HOMEWORK * WE’RE GOING TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS.
BE READY TO SHARE.
MAKE CORRECTIONS AS NEEDED.

3. ROUGHTON VIDEO ON ART MINUTES 0-3 ON PERSPECTIVE AND SCALE.

4. How did renaissance artists use math in their art?

5. Classical -People look better than real life.
-Bodies appear active and lifelike, like they could “come alive.”
-Faces are calm and do not show emotion.

6. Medieval -Images are very flat, 2D without much depth.
-Usually religious (Mary and Jesus)
-Important figures are larger than others
-Bright colors
-Solid color backgrounds

7. Renaissance -Uses perspective
-Objects in “back” smaller than those in “front”
-Lifelike, 3D figures
-Lines meet in a single point
-Full, detailed backgrounds.
-Soft, shadowy colors
-Often non-religious

8. Classical Art Medieval Renaissance
*People looked more perfect than in real life
*Paintings didn't have much background detail or perspective
*Bodies looked active, motion was believable
*Faces calm without emotion
*Important figures are larger than others
*Little sense of life or movement
*Single-color backgrounds
*2-Dimensional, flat paintings with bright colors
*Most art was religious (Jesus, Mary, etc.)
*Not all scenes are religious
*Full backgrounds showing perspective
*Soft, shadowy colors
*Bodies looked active and in motion
*Lifelike and 3-dimensional figures

9. Look at the pieces of art on the following slides
and try to determine during which period they were made.

10. 1. Madonna and Child

11. 2. Bathing Venus

12. 3. Primavera

13. 4. Madonna and Child

14. 5. Grave Stele of Hegeso

15. 6. Pieta

16. One point perspective City Scape

17. One point perspective: room

18. http://elementaryartfun. blogspot
Discovery Edu clip “Rebirth in Perspective” and “The Art of the Renaissance”