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Art

Art. Florence 1400s = Quattrocento 1500s = Cinquecento Creativity in Painting Architecture Sculpting High Renaissance Main Characteristics of Art Classical balance Harmony restraint. Art and Power. Commissioned art Urban groups Guilds Religious Confraternities

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Art

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  1. Art • Florence • 1400s = Quattrocento • 1500s = Cinquecento • Creativity in • Painting • Architecture • Sculpting • High Renaissance • Main Characteristics of Art • Classical balance • Harmony • restraint

  2. Art and Power • Commissioned art • Urban groups • Guilds • Religious Confraternities • Works that were commissioned demonstrated the power and influence these groups held within society • 1400s

  3. Lorenzo Ghiberti Cloth Merchants commissioned works

  4. 1500s • Commissioned work • Individuals • Oligarchs • Patrician merchants and bankers, Popes and Princess • Supported the art to glorify themselves and their families • Chapels • Frescoes • Religious panels • tombs • Art reinforced the greatness and power

  5. Art Changes Consumption • Medieval Ages • Men of wealth spent money on • Swords • Armor • Horses • Castles • Towers • Family compounds • No longer needed to employ knights or purchase the above weapons, moved to towns • Men of wealth hired mercenaries for defense

  6. Art Changes Consumption • Italian nobles spent money on their homes • To display the grandeur • Palace • 20 rooms that required decorating • Carved wooden beds • Carved chests • Tables • Benches • Chairs • Tapestries for walls (painting, but on cloth) • Paintings • sculptures decorations • Private Chapel

  7. Private Chapels • Largest expense • Ecclesiastical furniture • Tabernacles • Chalices • Thuribles • Religious scenes • Chapels served as the center of households religious life • Rememberence of the dead

  8. Paintings • Art became more secular • Classical (Greco-Roman) text • Deeper understanding of ancient ideas • Painting • Goddesses • Pagan Gods • Religious Topics • Annunciation of the Virgin and the Nativity • Individual Portraits • Their lives are remembered forever • New Genre or category of painting/showed painters individual style • Paint themselves in romantic chivalry or courtly society

  9. Painting • Primary religious in themes • Radically different from medieval art • Invention of • Oil Paints • Illusion of 3 dimensions • Perspective • Art was less symbolic • Not representing something of importance • Representation • depicting an object in a recognizable manner

  10. Stop

  11. Giotto • Painted walls on Florentine buildings • Created illusion of depth and movement

  12. Architecture • Adapted Greco-Roman • Symmetry • Classical Columns • Arch • Dome • Filippo Brunelleschi • Leon Battista Alberti • Studied ancient Roman buildings • Used their principles of design to build Catherdrals

  13. Sculpture • Free standing • Not designed to fit in churches • Showed nude subjects in Greek traditions • Religious representation • Mythological representation • Lorenzo Ghiberti • Bronze Doors of Florentine Baptistry

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