Art of the Renaissance

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Art of the Renaissance

• (In Europe mostly ITLAY)

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Renaissance Art     The Renaissance was between
1400 A.D. to 1600 A.D.  It began in the city
states of Italy.  The Renaissance means "rebirth"
in French.   This art reflected back to the
classical time of Rome and Greece.  This
reflection back to the Greek and Romans was not
limited to the arts, but all fields like
literature, science, and architecture began to
look back to the ancients for their
inspiration.            One of the major
influences in the Renaissance was the change in
the social structure of Europe at this
time. Before the Renaissance, there were
primarily three different social levels the
nobility, the churchmen, and the peasants. 
During the Renaissance Era a merchant class
developed.  These wealthy merchants would often
hire artists to decorated family chapels in the
local church or cathedral.  Guilds (or groups of
craftworks)  would often compete with other
guilds in the town by sponsoring large art
projects.   Later the arts were supported by rich
patrician families.       In the Renaissance, we
see the first oil painting on canvas.   It was
also a time where the paintings took on three
dimensions by the use of shadow and light.  The
subject matter included mythical subjects and
nature scenes.  Artists tried to show differences
in proportions (meaning size  and location of one
thing compared to another in the painting) of
their subject matter.          Leonardo DaVinici
painted the Mona Lisa during this time.  The
painting is characteristic of Da Vinici in it's
pyramid like setup with a smoky background. 
Michelangelo took over four years to paint over
6000 square feet of the Sistine Chapel  with
scenes from the Old Testament Bible.  Many other
works were also developed during this time. 
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ANNUNCIATION, 1482HANS MEMLINGNetherlandish,a
ctive by 1465d. 1494Oil on wood 32 x 21 5/8
in.Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
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The Annunciation

• The Annunciation
• 26Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was
  sent from God to a city of Galilee, named
  Nazareth, 27to a virgin pledged to be married to
  a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of
  David. The virgins name was Mary. 28Having come
  in, the angel said to her, Rejoice, you highly
  favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are
  you among women! 29But when she saw him, she was
  greatly troubled at the saying, and considered
  what kind of salutation this might be. 30The
  angel said to her, Dont be afraid, Mary, for
  you have found favor with God. 31Behold, you will
  conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and
  will call his name Jesus. 32He will be great,
  and will be called the Son of the Most High. The
  Lord God will give him the throne of his father,
  David, 33and he will reign over the house of
  Jacob forever. There will be no end to his
  Kingdom. 34Mary said to the angel, How can this
  be, seeing I am a virgin? 35The angel answered
  her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the
  power of the Most High will overshadow you.
  Therefore also the holy one who is born from you
  will be called the Son of God. 36 Behold,
  Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a
  son in her old age and this is the sixth month
  with her who was called barren. 37For everything
  spoken by God is possible. 38Mary said, Behold,
  the handmaid of the Lord be it to me according
  to your word. The angel departed from her.

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MARCO DEL BUONO GIAMBERTI Florentine,
14021489 APOLLONIO DI GIOVANNI DI
TOMASO, Florentine, 1415/171465 Tempera and gold
on wood 17 1/2 x 55 3/8 in. Rogers Fund 1918
(18.117.2)
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• The Story of Queen Esther
• Esther belonged to God's special people, the
  Jews. Esther and many other Jews lived in the
  land called Persia. Persia was a long way from
  their own land.
• The king of Persia was angry with Queen Vashti
  and he sent her away. Then he searched for
  another wife who would be the new queen. He chose
  Esther.
• King Ahasuerus loved Esther more than all the
  women, and she found grace and favor in his
  sightso that he set the royal crown on her head
  and made her queenThen the king gave a great
  banquet to all his princes and servants.
  Through this marriage, Esther would be able to
  save the Jews.
• One of the king's chief officials, called Haman,
  hated the Jews and he plotted to destroy them.
  But Esther's uncle Mordecai asked Esther to speak
  to the king to save the Jews. Although Esther was
  the queen, Mordecai was asking her to do a
  dangerous thing. People could not go to see the
  king if he had not invited them. But Esther did
  what Mordecai asked. The king was pleased with
  her and listened to her. The king gave to the
  evil Haman the punishment that Haman had wanted
  to give to the Jews.

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THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES,
154550 TINTORETTO (JACOPO ROBUSTI) Venetian,
1518-1594 Oil on canvas 61 x 160 1/2 in. Francis
L. Leland Fund, 1913
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• Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
•  1Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far
  shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of
  Tiberias), 2and a great crowd of people followed
  him because they saw the miraculous signs he had
  performed on the sick. 3Then Jesus went up on a
  mountainside and sat down with his disciples.
  4The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
•  5When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd
  coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where
  shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" 6He
  asked this only to test him, for he already had
  in mind what he was going to do.
•  7Philip answered him, "Eight months' wagesa
  would not buy enough bread for each one to have a
  bite!"
•  8Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's
  brother, spoke up, 9"Here is a boy with five
  small barley loaves and two small fish, but how
  far will they go among so many?"
•  10Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There
  was plenty of grass in that place, and the men
  sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Jesus
  then took the loaves, gave thanks, and
  distributed to those who were seated as much as
  they wanted. He did the same with the fish.
•  12When they had all had enough to eat, he said
  to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are
  left over. Let nothing be wasted." 13So they
  gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the
  pieces of the five barley loaves left over by
  those who had eaten.
•  14After the people saw the miraculous sign that
  Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the
  Prophet who is to come into the world." 15Jesus,
  knowing that they intended to come and make him
  king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by
  himself.

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Vasari writes that the convent of SantAntonio da
Padova at Perugia commissioned the young Raphael
to paint this altarpiece and asked him to clothe
the Christ Child. He also states that Raphael
worked on this altarpiece in two stages, painting
the female figures before he left for Florence in
1504, and the male figures when he returned the
following year. In Florence, he was influenced by
many painters, including Michelangelo and
Leonardo. Thus, the bodies of the male saints are
rendered with greater volume, and the facial
features show more individual expression than
those of the female saints. Vasari also describes
the three scenes of the predella. The
Metropolitan Museum owns one of the panels, The
Agony in the Garden.
MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS,
15045 RAPHAEL (RAFFAELLO SANZIO OR
SANTI) Marchigian, 14831520 Tempera and oil on
wood main panel 66 7/8 x 67 7/8 in.
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VIEW OF TOLEDO, CA. 1597 DOMENICO
THEOTOCOPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (THE
GREEK) Greek (Crete), 15411614 Oil on canvas
47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.
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STUDY OF A BEAR WALKING, CA. 148590LEONARDO DA
VINCIFlorentine, 14521519Sliverpoint on light
buff prepared paper
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The Last Supper, 1498 (post-restoration)Leonardo
da Vinci (Italian, 14521519)Scala/Art Resource,
NY
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David with the Head of Goliath, 15th century
(147080)Bartolomeo Bellano (Donatello )
(Italian, Paduan, 1437/381496/97)Gilt bronze,
oil gilding of later date H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
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Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1444-1510), Birth of
Venus, c. 1485-86, painted for the villa of
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici at Castello,
tempera on canvas, 67 7/8 x 109 5/8 inches
(172.5x 278.5 cm), now in the Uffizi, Florence.
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Sistine Chapel Michelangelo

• http//arthistory.about.com/od/famous_paintings/a/
  sischap_ceiling.htm

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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Painted by
Michelangelo
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Mona Lisa - Leonardo Da Vinci
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Creation of Adam Sistine Chapel Ceiling -
Michelangelo
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Adoration of the Magi - Botticelli
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Primavera - Botticelli
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Renaissance Women
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Renaissance Men
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National Gallery Of Art links

• http//www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/itacer/itace
  r-main1.html
• http//www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/itacer/itace
  r-main2.html

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Renaissance Architecture
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Renaissance Fashion
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Women's Clothing
                                              
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Men's Clothing
                                  
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