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Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance

Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance . Artistic Renaissance in Italy . Sought to imitate nature; humans became the focus of attention New techniques in painting Frescoes- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints

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Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance

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  1. Artistic & Scientific Achievements of the Renaissance

  2. Artistic Renaissance in Italy • Sought to imitate nature; humans became the focus of attention • New techniques in painting • Frescoes- a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints • Massacio considered the first masterpieces of early Renaissance art • New Renaissance Style Developed • Stressed the technical side of painting • Investigation of human movement & anatomy to realistically portray the person

  3. Sculpture & Architecture

  4. Stunning Advances in Sculpture & Architecture • Donatello spent time in Rome studying & copying the statues of the Greeks & Romans. • Architecture also took on this new style seeking to create architecture that provides comfort and fits human needs. • Like painters and sculptors, architects sought to reflect a human centered world. • By the end of the fifteenth century, Italian painters, sculptors, and architects had created a new artistic world.

  5. Masters of the Italian Renaissance • Final stage of Italian Renaissance painting, the High Renaissance, took place between 1490 and 1520 • Three artistic giants • Leonardo da Vinci • Raphael • Michelangelo

  6. Leonardo da Vinci • 1452 - 1519 • Painter, sculptor, architect, inventor and mathematician • Mastered the art of realistic painting and even dissected human bodies to better see how nature worked • Goal to create idealized forms that would capture the perfection of nature & the individual

  7. Raphael • 1483-1520 • At the age of 25 was known as one of Italy’s best painters. • Known for his madonna’s or pictures of the Virgin Mary • The School of Athens is one of his most famous frescoes, found in the Vatican.

  8. Michelangelo Buonarroti • 1475-1564 • An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect. • Was hired by the Pope to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel • It took him four years to complete • Reveals an ideal type of human being with perfect proportions

  9. David • 1501-1504 • Location: Gallery in Florence

  10. Sistine Chapel. 1508-1512

  11. Creation of Adam

  12. Other Renaissance Artists • Jan Van Eyck- The Arnolfini Marriage • Albrecht Durer – Self Portrait

  13. Johannes Gutenberg • From Germany • Printed the first European book from movable type in approximately 1455 • By 1500 over a thousand printers in Europe. • Almost 40,000 titles had been published- over half of these were religious. • Printing allowed European civilization to compete with China for the first time. • The Chinese had invented printing much earlier.

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