1. Renaissance Art Characteristics Composition: balanced, static forms, often triangular in shape Medium: wall frescoes, egg tempura on wood panels, later used oil paints Sense of depth: linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, sfumato, chiaroscuro Use of light: recognized single light source that casts uniform shadows Subjects: religious figures updated into Renaissance costumes and settings; references to classical mythology Human form: reflected Renaissance humanism; freestanding statues using contrapposto; emphasis on underlying human anatomy

2. Masaccio 1401-1428

3. Donatello 1386-1466

4. Donatello vs. Michelangelo

5. Sandro Botticelli 1444-1510

6. Botticelli’s Annunciation

7. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

10. Michelangelo 1475-1564

14. Raphael 1483-1529

15. Raphael’s portrait of Castiglione

16. Brunelleschi 1377-1446

17. Bramante 1444-1514

18. Andreas Palladio 1508-1580

19. Northern Renaissance Location: Netherlands, Flanders (Belgium), Germany Realistic: detailed, sharp focus on details of daily life Medium: oil paints on stretched canvas Use of Light: subtle variations of light and shade; atmospheric perspective Broke with Gothic past, but rarely used classical themes Religious themes: paintings often reflect religious intensity of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation Secular subjects: middle class Protestant merchants in the Netherlands wanted portraits, still lifes and other secular paintings. In Germany, the lives of peasants were carefully recorded by various artists Graphic arts: woodcuts and engravings appeared with the printing press and made inexpensive art widely available

20. Jan Van Eyck c.1390-1441

21. Van Eyck Arnolfini Wedding,1434

22. Hieronymous Bosch c.1450-1516

23. Pieter Brueghel: c.1525-1569

25. Magpie on the Gallows

26. Hans Holbein 1497-1543

28. Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

29. Albrecht Durer 1471-1528

30. Durer self-portraits

32. Mannerism: 1520-1600 provided the transition between Renaissance and Baroque art styles of the 17th century rejected the symmetrical and realistic style of the Renaissance in favor of emotions, distorted figures, lurid colors and mystical scenes reflected the emotional turmoil of the Reformation, Counter Reformation and Thirty Years’ War techniques: unnatural lighting, diagonal compositions sometimes out of the frame, elongated bodies, swirling smoke or clouds, miraculous subject matter helped the Catholic church fight back against Protestant beliefs

33. Parmigianino c.1503-c.1540

34. Tintoretto: 1518-1594

36. El Greco 1541-1614

39. Contrast of the Annunciation by Giotto with El Greco’s version