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Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art. Middle Ages. lacked depth perspective realism – looked flat color individualism people were viewed in terms of their place in society an excitement about life life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or hell rather than an experience worth having.

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Renaissance Art

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  1. Renaissance Art

  2. Middle Ages • lacked • depth • perspective • realism – looked flat • color • individualism • people were viewed in terms of their place in society • an excitement about life • life during Middle Ages was a preparation for heaven or hell rather than an experience worth having

  3. It was.... • Sacred • Symbolic • Simplified • Stylized • Background is flat and stage-like

  4. Giotto • a Renaissance Man • transitional piece • Mary and baby are the focus • not intended to show everyday life, but life in Heaven • Mary and Christ are large than others • background covered with gold – showing this is God’s kingdom • gold halos • baby Jesus is small man • facial features are the same • only god can create Madonna and Child

  5. Adding Math and Science • Leonardo da Vinci has circles and squares to find the mathematical proportions of man • “aim of science and art are one” • artists study geometry, anatomy, botany, physics • subjects provide the information needed to better represent artistically what they were drawing Proportions of Man

  6. Masaccio • rediscovered the technique of linear perspective • a technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions • creating the illusion of “real space” • established an imaginary line on the viewer’s eye level called the horizon line • center of this line called the vanishing point • the point at which lines leading into the distance seem to meet Trinity with the Virgin and St. John

  7. New things Renaissance Artists added.... • Single light source • putting together science and nature • Sfumate “up in smoke” • aerial perspective for showing distance outdoors • figures closest to viewer – clean and bright • figures far away – light, hazy, fade into the distance • Chiaroscuro • blending • Proportion • haze • eliminate contrast in background

  8. Da Vinci • Mona Lisa • Single light source • Sfumato • Chiaroscuro • Proportion

  9. Michelangelo • The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

  10. Coming face to face with God

  11. The famous hands of Adam and God

  12. the Delphic Sibyl • A perspective device called foreshortening

  13. The School of AthensRaphael

  14. Michelangelo

  15. Euclid Archimedes

  16. Raphael Raphael

  17. Leonardo

  18. Birth of VenusBotticelli

  19. Adoration of the Magi Botticelli

  20. Arnolfini WeddingJan Van Eyck • Oil Painting • Symbolism

  21. Compare/Contrast Middle Ages Renaissance

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