1. Renaissance Art

2. `` Renaissance''--meaning ``rebirth''--is given to a period of broad cultural achievement spanning three centuries, the fourteenth through to the sixteenth centuries.

3. Some of the main features of art during the Renaissance were.

4. Humanism - A person who studied the classics was called a humanist. Humanists recreated classical styles in art, literature, and architecture.

5. The Acropolis

6. Foreshortening –portraying an object with the apparent shortening due to visual perspective.

7. Foreshortening

8. Symmetry – correct proportion of body parts, grouping of figures so that they are the same on both sides.

10. Contrapposto – (counterpoise)To model the human form in a non-symmetrical, relaxed stance that appears realistic

12. Sfumato -The technique of effecting a gradual transition from one colour to another.

13. Sfumato

14. Chiaroscuro - A term describing the handling of light and dark particularly in painting.

15. Life and times of Botticelli

16. Fra Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin Fra Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin

18. Lorenzo Medici

19. Medici Palace

20. Santa Maria

21. The last supper The last supper

22. Sandro Botticelli

23. The Birth of Venus. By Botticelli

26. VENUS

28. Another Botticelli art work

29. Khufu Menkaure Khafre

30. THE END BY TOM BROWN