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The Art of the Italian Renaissance

The Art of the Italian Renaissance. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. 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.

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The Art of the Italian Renaissance

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  1. The Art of the Italian Renaissance By: Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. 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. Characteristics of Renaissance Art

  4. 1. Realism & Expression • Expulsion fromthe Garden • Masaccio • 1427 • First nudes sinceclassical times.

  5. 2. Perspective • The Trinity • Masaccio • 1427 Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! Perspective! First use of linear perspective! What you are, I once was; what I am, you will become.

  6. Perspective

  7. 3. Classicism • Greco-Roman influence. • Secularism. • Humanism. • Individualism  free standing figures. • Symmetry/Balance The “Classical Pose”Medici “Venus” (1c)

  8. 4. Emphasis on Individualism • Batista Sforza & Federico de Montefeltre: The Duke & Dutchess of Urbino • Piero della Francesca, 1465-1466.

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

  10. 6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges Sfumato Chiaroscuro

  11. 7. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, andArchitects • Giorgio Vasari • 1550

  12. Renaissance Florence

  13. Lorenzo the Magnificent Cosimo de Medici 1478 - 1521 1517 - 1574

  14. Filippo Brunelleschi1377 - 1436 • Architect • Cuppolo of St. Mariadel Fiore

  15. Filippo Brunelleschi • Commissioned to build the cathedral dome. • Used unique architectural concepts. • He studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome. • Used ribs for support.

  16. Brunelleschi’s Dome

  17. The Liberation of Sculpture • David by Donatello • 1430 • First free-form bronze since Roman times!

  18. DavidVerrocchio1473 - 1475

  19. The Baptism of ChristVerrocchio, 1472 - 1475 Leonardo da Vinci

  20. The Renaissance 'Individual'

  21. Vitruvian Man • Leonardo daVinci • 1492 TheL’uomouniversale

  22. 1. Self-Portrait -- da Vinci, 1512 • Artist • Sculptor • Architect • Scientist • Engineer • Inventor 1452 - 1519

  23. Leonardo, the Artist • The Virgin of the Rocks • Leonardo daVinci • 1483-1486

  24. Leonardo, the Artist:From hisNotebooks of over 5000 pages (1508-1519)

  25. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4 ?

  26. ParodyThe Best Form of Flattery? A Macaroni Mona

  27. A Picasso Mona

  28. An Andy Warhol Mona

  29. A “Mona”ca Lewinsky

  30. Mona LisaOR da Vinci??

  31. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498& Geometry

  32. The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 vertical horizontal Perspective!

  33. Deterioration • Detail of Jesus • The Last Supper • Leonardo da Vinci • 1498

  34. A Da Vinci “Code”:St. John or Mary Magdalene?

  35. Leonardo, the Sculptor • An Equestrian Statue • 1516-1518

  36. Leonardo, the Architect:Pages from his Notebook • Study of a central church. • 1488

  37. Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology):Pages from his Notebook • An example of the humanist desire to unlock the secrets of nature.

  38. Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy): Pages from his Notebook

  39. Leonardo, the Inventor:Pages from his Notebook

  40. Man Can Fly?

  41. Leonardo, the Engineer: Pages from his Notebook Studies of water-lifting devices. A study of siege defenses.

  42. Renaissance Rome

  43. 2. Michelangelo Buonorrati • 1475 – 1564 • He represented the body in three dimensions of sculpture.

  44. David • MichelangeloBuonarotti • 1504 • Marble

  45.  15c Whatadifferenceacenturymakes! 16c 

  46. The Popes as Patrons of the Arts • The Pieta • MichelangeloBuonarroti • 1499 • marble

  47. The Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

  48. The Sistine Chapel’s CeilingMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

  49. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

  50. The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

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