1. Quiz 1. What does “Renaissance” literally translate to?
2. During what centuries did the Renaissance take place?
3. With what cultures did people of the renaissance compare their cultures?
4. What were Italy's three advantages? 1

2. Renaissance Art 2

3. 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! 3

4. Characteristics of Renaissance Art4

5. Realism & Expression
Michelangelo’s knowledge of anatomy is used to show the details of the human form. Naked people = humanism. 5

6. Perspective The first use of linear perspective! The Trinity Masaccio
1427 6

7. Classicism Grecco-Roman Influence Secularism
Individualism-Free Standing Figures
Symmetry/Balance
The “Classical Pose” Medici “Venus” 7

8. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as architecture! 8

9. “Pieta” What makes this a renaissance painting?
What renaissance values are embodied in this painting? 9

10. “The Last Supper”
What details or elements of this painting make it a renaissance painting? 10

11. “The Creation of Adam”
What makes this a renaissance painting? 11

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13. The sculpture on the left is an ancient Greek statue of Neptune.
The one on the right is from the Middle Ages. 13

14. Now compare the same ancient Greek statue to Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses from the Renaissance. What do you notice?