Early 15th Century Renaissance

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Early 15th Century Renaissance

• In the early 15th century, the spirit of the
  Italian Renaissance was strongest in Florence.
• One Italian family, the Medici, bankers to all
  Europe, were such generous patrons of the arts
  that it has been said they "financed" the
  Renaissance.

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Early 15th Century Renaissance Innovation
Perspective
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Late Middle Ages Treatment ofSpace It
Encompasses Viewer

• Artists have always portrayed space in ways that
  suit their worldview.
• In the religious painting of the late Middle
  Ages, space seems to open out from the picture
  plane. It encompasses the viewer to make him part
  of the sacred events taking place.

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Early Renaissance Treatment of Space It Recedes
from Viewer

• During the early Renaissance, as humanism focused
  attention on man, the viewer assumes the active
  role.
• Space recedes from the viewer's eye into the
  picture plane.
• The viewer himself is the point of reference.

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Late Middle Ages
Early Renaissance
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Early 15th Century Renaissance Architecture
Brunelleschi

• Filippo Brunelleschi (1421 to 1440) was the
  first architect to employ mathematical
  perspective to redefine Gothic and Romanesque
  space and to establish new rules of proportion
  and symmetry.

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Gothic
Early 15th Century
Romanesque
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Early 15th Century Renaissance Sculpture
Donatallo

• Donatello (1386-1466) created the first
  free-standing statues of the Renaissance,
  independent of architecture or decoration.

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Early 15th Century Renaissance Artist Masaccio

• Masaccio (1401-1428) took up the inheritance of
  Giotto, developing his art according to the new
  techniques and methods of perspective.