Chapter 16: Renaissance & Baroque Europe

1. Chapter 16: Renaissance & Baroque Europe Miss McAlpine Week 6

2. What are we doing? • Syllabus updated • Head count for Warhol • Review previous material • Introduce Renaissance

4. Comparison • Greeks  focused on idealized physical form • Romans  emphasized physical accuracy • Middle Ages  focused on spiritual concerns rather than physical existence • Renaissance  portrayed Christian subjects in human terms

5. Renaissance • Shift in attitude from religious dedication of the Middle Ages to the new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement – called humanism • Shift from God and the hereafter to humankind and the here and now • Renaissance = rebirth

6. “Lamentation” by Giotto diBondone; Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy

7. The Renaissance in Italy

8. The Renaissance in Italy • Italy was the principle homeland of the Renaissance • Artists sought to integrate Christian spiritual traditions with rational ordering of physical life • Began intense study of anatomy and light • Linear perspective – based on the fact that parallel lines or edges appear to converge and objects appear smaller as the distance between them and the viewer increases

9. “The Holy Trinity” by Masaccio Florence, Italy

10. Donatello • Brought Greek ideal of human into Christian context • Works: • “David” • “Mary Magdalene”

11. “David” by Donatello

13. Medici Family • Dominated the life of Florence and Tuscany with great political skill and certain wealthiness • It is thought that “David” was commissioned for this family • Commissioned “Birth of Venus”

14. “Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli

15. The High Renaissance 10 min break

16. The High Renaissance • 1490-1530 • Reached peak of accomplishments in Florence, Rome and Venice • Developed style of art that was calm, balanced, and idealized • Christian theology + Greek philosophy + science of the day

17. Leonardo da Vinci • Motivated by strong curiosity and belief in the human ability to understand the physical world • Believed art and science came to the same end – knowledge • Kept many journals • “Babe in Womb” • “Mona Lisa” • “The Last Supper”

18. “The Babe in the Womb”

19. “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci; 1503-1506

20. “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci

21. Michelangelo Buonarroti • Works of art: • “David” • “The Sistine Chapel”

22. “David” by Michelangelo Buonarroti

24. “The Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo

25. Raphael • Warmth and gentleness in contrast to Leonardo’s Solitary • Most expressive is the clarity and balance, which marked the art of the period • Paintings present his awareness of the divine in humans

26. “The School of Athens” by Raphael

27. Pope Leo X • Medici ascendant • Wanted to illustrate important events in the “Acts of the Apostles” “Paul Preaching at Athens” by Raphael

28. Renaissance in Northern Europe

29. The Renaissance in Northern Europe • Interest in realism arose in Northern Europe • Artists to look at: • Jan van Eyck • Albrecht Durer • Lindbourg Brothers

30. Jan van eyck • Leading painter in Flanders (present day Belgium) • One of the first to use Oil paints • Painted detail, illusion of depth, directional light, mass, rich textures

31. “The Arnolfini Portrait” by Jan van Eyck

33. “The Knight, Death, and the Devil” by Durer

34. “Les Tres Riches Heues du Duc de Berry” From “The Book of Hours” By The Limbourg Brothers

35. LATE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY

36. Late Renaissance in Italy • Later in 16th cent. Architects made a deliberate effort to rethink and extend classical rules

37. “Villa Rotonda” by Andrea Palladio

38. “Feast in the House of Levi” by Paolo Veronese

39. Baroque 1600-1700

40. Baroque • Dramatic use of light, scale and composition • Art often appeals to emotion first • Foreshortening

41. “The Conversion of St. Paul” by Michelangelo Merisida Caravaggio

42. “David” by Bernini

43. “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa” by Bernini

44. “Maids of Honor” by Diego Valazquez de Silva

45. “Return of the Prodigal Son” by Rembrandt

46. “Happy Accidents of the Swing” by Jean-Honore Fragonard