Italy

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Italy

• Birthplace of the Renaissance

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Introduction

• Describe ways that people show their own
  creativity. Why is creativity so important?

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Pre-Renaissance

• The Hundred Years War 1337-1453
• War between England and France for the throne of
  France
• Black Plague 1300s
• Kills 25 million Europeans
• Results (3 Ds)
• Desire to celebrate life and humanity
• Doubts about the Church
• Desire for new ways of expression

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Renaissance (1300-1600 C.E.)

• Rebirth
• Revival of art learning
• Return to classical heritage of Greece Rome
• Starts in northern Italy spreads to Europe

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Why Italy?

• City-States grow urban due to Crusade trade
• Merchant class rises to dominate politics, art,
  business
• Medici Family 15th Century in Florence
• Classical Heritage
• From Roman Empire
• Refugees from Byzantine Empire

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Classical Worldly Values

• Individualism Fate not such a factor celebrate
  uniqueness
• Humanism Human potential achievement
• Secularism Worldly vs. Spiritual
• Patronage Financial Support
• Renaissance Man (Ex The Courtier by Castiglione)
• Renaissance Woman (Ex Isabella DEste)

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Renaissance Art

• Realism vs. Spiritualism
• Perspective 3D on a flat
• Examples
• Michelangelo Realistic human body
• Donatello Natural postures and expressions
  revealing personality
• Leonardo Da Vinci Renaissance Man (painter,
  sculptor, inventor, scientist)
• Raphael Sanzio Use of perspective

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Marriage of the Virgin - Raphael

• An exercise in perspective
• Where is the vanishing point?
• Where does the horizon begin?
• What is the difference between the people in the
  front versus back?

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• Da Vinci

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Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo
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Maestro vs. Michelangelo Video

• Clip 1
• Create a Venn Diagram comparing Leonardo Da Vinci
  Michelangelo
• Clip 2
• Make a list of Leonardo Da Vincis
  ideas/inventions and the dates they actually
  materialized

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Jacopa di CioneMadonna and Child in Glory

• Most important figures?
• How can you tell?
• Halo
• Hieratic scale

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Guiliano BugiardiniMadonna and Child with St.
John

• Landscape
• Oil paint

Giovanni Agostino da LodiAdoration of the
Shepherds
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Annibale Carracci the Bean Eater

• Non-religious art using commoners