Art in the Renaissance

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Art in the Renaissance

• LSC Western Civilization, PLHS Site
• D. Blanck, MS

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Artists in the Renaissance

• Artist were seen as craftsmen
• Art was created by commission

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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!
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Workshop system

• Collaboration of masters and apprentices
• Family-based
• Run like a business
• Apprentice started in early teens
• Studied under master for several years

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Products of the workshop system

• Michaelangelo
• Master Domenico Ghirlandaio
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Master- Andrea del Verocchio

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Innovations in Materials
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• Frescoes - Paintings created on damp plaster.
• Giotto reintroduces and reinvigorates this
  ancient Roman process.

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Da Vincis Last Supper
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• 2. Oil painting
• Oil painters were the special effects wizards of
  their day

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Innovations in Style
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1. Realistic Human Expression

• Expulsion from the Garden
• Masaccio
• 1427
• First nudes sinceclassical times.

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2. 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.
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Perspective
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3. Classicism

• Greco-Roman influence.
• Secularism.
• Humanism.
• Free standing figures.
• Symmetry/Balance

The Classical PoseMedici Venus (1c)
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4. Emphasis 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. Geometric Arrangement

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

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6. Light Shadowing
Sfumato Smoky atmospheric effects from the
transitions between colors. Chiaroscuro The
contrast of light and shadow.
Chiaroscuro
Sfumato
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Artists
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Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is
considered to be one of the most inspired artists
who ever lived. Died in 1564.
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Michelangelos David
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Sistine Chapel
About a year after creating David, Pope Julius II
summoned Michelangelo to Rome to work on his most
famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel.
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Creation of Adam
Creation of Eve
The Last Judgment
Separation of Light and Darkness
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La Pieta
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Moses
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1452-1519 Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer
Genius!
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Mona Lisa
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The Last Supper
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Notebooks
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RaphaelPainter1483-1520
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The School of Athens
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Pythagoras
Plato and Aristotle
Socrates
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Raphael (back)?
Euclid
Zoroaster Ptolemy
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Jan Van Eyck
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife
(1434) Northern Renaissance
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Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his
Wife (detail)