Chapter 13 The High Renaissance in Italy

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Chapter 13The High Renaissance in Italy

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Popes and Patronage

• Vatican as center of wealth, stability
• Pope Sixtus IV
• Botticelli
• Pope Julius II
• Beginnings of High Renaissance (1503)
• Raphael, Michelangelo

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Popes and PatronageRaphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

• Madonna of the Meadow (1508)
• Pyramidal configuration
• Rationally ordered
• Modeling of human forms
• Human quality of the divine figure

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Popes and PatronageRaphael Sanzio (1483-1520)

• From Florence to Vatican (1508)
• School of Athens (1509-1511)
• Symbolic homage to philosophy
• Renaissance ideal
• The Transfiguration (1527)
• Balance of philosophy and theology

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Popes and PatronageMichelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)

• Tomb for Pope Julius II
• Moses (1513-1515)
• Divine fury, divine light
• Terribilità
• Boboli Captives (1527-1528)
• Neo-Platonic notion of form and matter
• Insight into methods

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Popes and PatronageMichelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)

• The Sistine Chapel
• Michelangelo, Sculptor
• Architectural and thematic motifs
• Interpretation
• Neo-Platonism
• Old Testament and pagan prophets
• Complex tree symbolism
• Human wisdom Gods revelation

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Popes and PatronageMichelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)

• Michelangelesque
• Masculine anatomy, musculature
• Physical bulk, linear grace, emotionality
• Creation of Adam (1508-1511)
• The Last Judgment (1534-1541)
• Medici Chapel
• Architectural and sculptural design
• Life, death, resurrection

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Popes and PatronageMichelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)

• The New Saint Peters
• Donato Bramante (1444-1514)
• Tempietto
• Michelangelo as architect (1546)
• Bramantes plan
• Ribbed, arched dome
• Drum to support dome

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The High Renaissance in Venice

• Tradition of easel painting
• Use of oil paints
• Brilliance of color
• Subtlety of light
• Eye for close detail
• Love of landscape

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The High Renaissance in Venice

• Giorgione (c.1477-1510)
• Venetian Renaissance Style
• Enthroned Madonna with Saints (1500-1505)
• Le Concert Champêtre (c. 1510)
• Titian (c. 1488-1576)
• Assumption of the Virgin (1516-1518)
• Venus of Urbino (1538)
• Tintoretto (1518-1594)
• The drawing of Michelangelo and the color of
  Titian.

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Mannerism

• Artistic mood
• Frederick Hartts schema
• Michelangelos mannerist style
• Night, Day, Dawn, and Dusk
• Laurentian Library
• The Last Judgment

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Mannerism

• Parmigianino (1503-1540)
• Madonna of the Long Neck (c. 1535)
• Implied eroticism
• Inventiveness, restlessness

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Renaissance Voices

• Castigliones Courtier
• Chivalry, classical virtues, Platonic love
• Uomo universale
• Sprezzatura
• Overly refined, idealized worldview
• Elite aristocracy