Renaissance Art

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Renaissance Art
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Perspective

• Three dimensions on flat surface
• Classical artists had used it, but abandoned
  during Middle Ages

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Vanishing Point

• Parallel lines stretch away from viewer, they
  seem to draw together, until they meet at a spot
  on the horizon.

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Foreground/Background

• Art had dimension
• Leonardos Mona Lisa
• Questions to Ponder

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Donatello

• Made sculpture more realistic by carving natural
  postures and expressions which reveal personity.

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist
• Renaissance Man
• Dissected corpses to understand muscle movements
  and how veins were arranged.
• Keep notebooks of findings (wrote backwards)
• Get drawings helicopter, body, Last Supper

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Michelangelo

• Most famous Reaissance Man
• Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, poet
• Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel
• Depicts biblical history of world from Creation
  to the Flood.,
• Four years he laied on his back on a platform
  just a few inches below the chapel ceiling.

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Raphael

• Studied Leonardo and Michelangelo
• Paintings blended Christian and classical styles
• Madonna, School of Athens

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Sofonisba Anguissola

• First woman artist to gain an international
  reputation.

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Architecture
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Renaissance Architecture

• Did not maintain Gothic style of the Middle Ages
• Embraced columns, arches and domes favored by the
  Greeks and Romans.
• Filippo Brunelleschi

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Renaissance WriterMachiavelli

• The Prince (1513)- Basically- How to rule your
  country for dummies.
• Wrote in vernacular writing- own language rather
  than Latin