Italian Renaissance Art

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The Art and Artists of the Italian Renaissance
Originally by Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS
Chappaqua, NY
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1. Realism Expression

• Expulsion fromthe Garden, Masaccio, 1427
• First nudes sinceclassical times.

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2. Perspective

• The Trinity
• Masaccio
• 1427

Perspective!
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Perspective!
First use of linear perspective!
What you are, I once was what I am, you will
become.
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3. Classicism

• Greco-Roman influence.
• Secularism.
• Humanism.
• Individualism ? free standing figures.
• Symmetry/Balance

The Classical PoseMedici Venus (1c)
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4. Empasis on Individualism

• Batista Sforza Federico de Montefeltre The
  Duke Dutchess of Urbino, Piero della Francesca,
  1465-1466.

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Isabella dEste da Vinci, 1499

• 1474-1539
• First Lady of the Italian Renaissance.
• Great patroness of the arts.
• Known during her time as First Lady of the
  World!

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5. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures

• The Dreyfus Madonna with the Pomegranate
• Leonardo da Vinci
• 1469
• The figure as architecture!

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6. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities

• Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
  Sculptors, andArchitects, Giorgio Vasari, 1550

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Renaissance Florence
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Lorenzo de Medici, the Magnificent
Cosimo I de Medici
1449-1492
1519 - 1574
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• Filippo Brunelleschi1377 - 1436
• Architect
• Il Duoma (Cathedral of St. Mariadel Fiore)

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Brunelleschis Secret
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Brunelleschis Dome
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Dome Comparisons
Il Duomo St. Peters St. Pauls
US capital (Florence) (Rome)
(London) (Washington)
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The Liberation of Sculpture

• David by Donatello
• 1430
• First free-form bronze since Roman times!

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• Vitruvian Man, Leonardo daVinci, 1492

TheLuomouniversale
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I. Self-Portrait -- da Vinci, 1512

• Artist
• Sculptor
• Architect
• Scientist
• Engineer
• Inventor

1452 - 1519
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Leonardo, the Artist

• The Virgin of the Rocks
• Leonardo daVinci
• 1483-1486

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Leonardo, the ArtistFrom hisNotebooks of over
5000 pages (1508-1519)
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Mona Lisa da Vinci, 1503-4
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A Macaroni Mona
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A Picasso Mona
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An Andy Warhol Mona
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A Monaca Lewinsky
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Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??
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The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 Geometry
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Refractory Convent of Santa Maria delle
Grazie Milan
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The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
vertical
horizontal
Perspective!
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Deterioration

• Detail of Jesus
• The Last Supper
• Leonardo da Vinci
• 1498

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A Da Vinci CodeSt. John or Mary Magdalene?
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Leonardo, the Sculptor

• An Equestrian Statue
• 1516-1518

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Leonardo, the ArchitectPages from his Notebook

• Study of a central church.
• 1488

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Leonardo, the ArchitectPages from his Notebook

• Plan of the city of Imola, 1502.

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Leonardo, the Scientist (Biology)Pages from his
Notebook

• An example of the humanist desire to unlock the
  secrets of nature.

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Leonardo, the Scientist (Anatomy)
Pages from his Notebook
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Leonardo, the Inventor
Pages from his Notebook
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Leonardo, the Engineer
Pages from his Notebook
Studies of water-lifting devices.
A study of siege defenses.
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Renaissance Rome
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Comparing Domes
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II. Michelangelo Buonorrati

• 1475 1564
• He represented the body in three dimensions of
  sculpture.

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• David
• MichelangeloBuonarotti
• 1504
• Marble

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The Popes as Patrons of the Arts

• The Pieta
• MichelangeloBuonarroti
• 1499
• marble

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The Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti1508
- 1512
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The Sistine Chapels CeilingMichelangelo
Buonarroti1508 - 1512
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Creation of the Heavens
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The Sistine Chapel Details
Creation of Man
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Fall from Grace
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The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment
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III. Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520)
Self-Portrait, 1506
Portrait of the Artist with a Friend, 1518
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Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael,1514-1515

• Castiglione represented the humanist gentleman
  as a man of refinement and self-control.

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Perspective!
Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504
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Raphaels Canagiani Madonna, 1507
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Raphaels Madonnas (1)
Sistine Madonna
Cowpepper Madonna
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Raphaels Madonnas (2)
Madonna della Sedia
Alba Madonna
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The School of Athens Raphael, 1510 -11

• One point perspective.
• All of the important Greek philosophers and
  thinkers are included ? all of the great
  personalities of the Seven Liberal Arts!
• A great variety of poses.
• Located in the papal apartments library.
• Raphael worked on this commission simultaneously
  as Michelangelo was doing the Sistine Chapel.
• No Christian themes here.

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The School of Athens Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
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The School of Athens Raphael, details
Platolooks to theheavens or the IDEALrealm.
Aristotlelooks to thisearth thehere andnow.
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Averroes
Hypatia
Pythagoras
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Zoroaster
Ptolemy
Euclid
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The Liberation of St. Peter by Raphael, 1514
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Portrait of Pope Julius II by Raphael, 1511-1512

• More concerned with politics than with theology.
• The Warrior Pope.
• Great patron of Renaissance artists, especially
  Raphael Michelangelo.
• Died in 1513

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Pope Leo X with Cardinal Giulio deMedici and
Luigi De Rossi by Raphael, 1518-1519

• A Medici Pope.
• He went through the Vatican treasury in a year!
• His extravagances offended even some cardinals
  as well as Martin Luther!.
• Started selling indulgences.

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Birth of Venus Botticelli, 1485
An attempt to depict perfect beauty.
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2002 Euro Coin
Botticellis Venus Motif. 10 Italian Euro coin.
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Primavera Botticelli, 1482
Depicted classical gods as almost naked and
life-size.
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A Portrait of Savonarola

• By Fra Bartolomeo, 1498.
• Dominican friar who decried money and power.
• Anti-humanist ? he saw humanism as too secular,
  hedonistic, and corrupting.
• The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1497.
• Burned books, artwork, jewelry, and other luxury
  goods in public.
• Even Botticelli put some of his paintings on the
  fire!!

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The Execution of Savonarola
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Venice During the Renaissance
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The Doge, Leonardo LoredonBerlini, 1501
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Venus of Urbino Titian, 1558
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The Penitent Mary Magdalene by Titian, 1533

• By the mid-16c, High Renaissance art was
  declining.
• Mannerism became more popular.
• This painting is a good example of this new
  artistic style.

Northern Renaissance