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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. Charateristics of Renaissance Art

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

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

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

  8. The Renaissance 'Individual'

  9. The Renaissance “Man” • Broad knowledge about many things in different fields. • Deep knowledge/skill in one area. • Able to link information from different areas/disciplines and create new knowledge. • The Greek ideal of the “well-rounded man” was at the heart of Renaissance education.

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

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

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

  13. Mona Lisa – da Vinci, 1503-4 ?

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

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

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

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

  18. Leonardo, the Inventor:Pages from his Notebook

  19. Renaissance Rome

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

  21. David • MichelangeloBuonarotti • 1504 • Marble

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

  23. The Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti1508 - 1512

  24. The Sistine Chapel Details The Creation of the Heavens

  25. The Sistine Chapel Details Creation of Man

  26. Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael,1514-1515 • Castiglione represented the humanist “gentleman” as a man of refinement and self-control.

  27. Raphael’s Madonnas (1) Sistine Madonna Cowpepper Madonna

  28. Raphael’s Madonnas (2) Madonna della Sedia Alba Madonna

  29. The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11 Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo

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